"The village of New Roclielle is agreeably situated on the Boston turnpike, extending to Long Island Sound on the south, where there is a convenient steamboat lauding, distant eigliteeu miles from the city of New York. It contains about 900 inhabitants, 130 dwelling houses, 1 Episcopal, 1 Presbyterian, 1 Methodist, and I Roman Catholic church ; a post office, a bank, 3 hotels, and several extensive boarding houses, 1 boarding schoo:! f jr males, and two for females, 9 stores, 2 grist mills, 1 manuflictory of printer's ink, and two carriage factories."^

The settlement of this place was commenced by the Huguenots in 1691, (two years after the purchase of the town,) who gave it the name it now bears, in remembrance of their native residence. La Rochelle, in France.^ This favorite asylum of the French Protestants was, at a very early period, a place of some resort not only for the acquirement of the French language, but on account of the hospitality and polit&ness of its inhabitvnE^s^ Here some of the most distinguished men in the country have received the elemen-ts of their education (under the charge of the French clergy ;) among them may be enumerated the Hon. John Jay, (the grandson of a Huguenot,) " who made the celebrated treaty of Paris, for the independence of oiu' country, and exerted a powerful in§uence in extending the limits of the United States to the Mississippi !"« Also General Philip Schuyler, so

» Spafford's N. Y. Gazetteer.

b La Rochelle, the capital of the department of Lower Charente, called Rupella by the ancient Romans.