Saghlers and Lacounte's neck, (now Davenport's neck) contained, according to the survey, two hundred acres.

Upon the 20ih of November, 1700, Sir John Pell^ and Rachel his wife, granted to Daniel Sampson and Isaac Cantin, one hundred acres, " provided that the purchasers aiid their assignees* shall do suit and service, now or at any lime hereafter, from time to lime in the manor court, and pay their proportion to the minister of the place.c

The Huguenots, f^ or French Protestants of New Rochelle, came

» Town Rec. 20. Jacob Leisler was executed on the 16th May, 1G91*

t So styled in the Town Records.

* Town Rec. p. 10.

d The epithet Huguenot (which has been a subject of much discussion,) is traced to the word Eignot, derived froiu the German Eide-genossen -- federati or allied. -- Mr. G. P. Disosway.

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directly from England, and were a part of the 50,000 persecuted who fled into that country four years before tlie revocation of the edict of Nantz. This is confirmed by the charier of Trinity Church in New Rochelle, wherein ttiey specify that ^'- they fled from France in 168 1.^

" The cruelties which they suffered in France are beyond anything of the kind on record, and in no age was there ever such a violation of all that is sacred, either with relation to God or man ; and when we consider the exalted virtues of that glorious band of brothers, w^e are amazed, while we are delighted with their fortitude and courage. Rather than renounce their Christian principles they endured outrages shocking to humanity, persecutions of unheard of enormity, and death in all its horrors. The complaint of Justin Martyr to the Roman Emperor, that the Christians were pimished wiih torture and death upon the bare profession of their being such, might have been made by the French Protestants.