And as for my corpse, to be buried after the custom and manner of my religion and discipline, till the accomplishment of times, and untill the ressurrection when our Lord shall come for to judge the quick and the dead, &c. &c. The above will is dated New Rochelle, 17th of April, 1694.*

Among the Lespinard papers, (at Upper New Rochelle) is preserved a diary kept by a member of that family, prior to their leaving France, from which we make the following extracts (the originals are in the French language.)

" September 20ih, 1671. I have been married to Abel de Forge. I beg the good God, that he gives us the grace to live a long lime in His holy fear, and that it will please Him to give us a good paradise at the end.

" October 2d, 11)72. My wife has been confined of a girl Margaret, at about ten o'clock of the day, on a AVednesday. Marga-

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ret died, and has given her spirit to God, between 6 and 7 o'clock of the afternoon. a

" Between the French Hnguenots, who settled at Oxford in Massachusetts, and those who came to New York, it appears by the Bernon papers, there was some correspondence."^

The freeholders of New Rochelle in 170S were as follows :

Daniel Lambert, Elie Badeau, Daniel Giraud, Gregoire Gougeon, Daniel Bornnett, Elie de Bonrepos^ Jean Magnon,

Besly,

Isaac Meroier, Bartholonnew Le Rous, Pierre Valleau,

Jacob Scurman, Annbroise Sycart, Benjaaiin Faneuil, Alexander Allaire, Jean Pemeau, J. Levillain,