Marie Cothonnean, and Guilliaume Cothonnean her son, Jean Neufuille, Eslensie Lavinge, and Jean Constant, of foreign birth, and a writ of "didimus potestatem," directed to Col. Caleb Heathcote, for administering the oaths nnto thetn."*

Most of these Huguenots purchased under Jacob Leisler,'^ in 1690.

They continued to arrive from England, as far as can be ascertained, till the year 1700; for there is still preserved in the Bonnett family (of this town) the following passport (from the mayor of Bristol, in England, of this date,) to their ancestor, Duniel Bonnett :

CiviTAs Bristol. -- These are to certify that the bearer hereof, Daniel Bonnett, weaver, (as we are very well assured by persons of credit and repute of the French refugees here,) is a French Protestant of good repute, and hath here lived ten years. But in hopes of better maintaining himself and family, is intending to settle himself, with his wife and four children, in some of his Majestie's plantations in America. In testimony whereof, we have hereto subscribed our names, and caused the seal of the mayoralty of this city to be hereto affixed this sixteenth day of November, one thousand and seven hundred.

Thos. Gary, Clerk. William Daines, Mayor,

Richard Lane, Samuel Wallis, William Jackson, Thomas Day.

On Daniel Bonnett's arrival in New Rochelle, he purchased land of Bartholomew le Roax, one of the first settlers. f'-

For some time, all the exertions the Huguenots conld make men, women and children united, were necessary to prepare the land for cultivation, and enable them to pay for its purchase, which their perseverance at last accomplished. Yet amid all the hardships and suffering incident to a laborious life, in an uncnltivated and strange country, they wrote to their friends in France,