William Scott, George Case, Samuel Trowbridge,

James T. Eells, Monmouth Lyon, Caleb Rorcoe,

William H. Bowne, Horace B. Smith, Thos. O'Farrington,

Albert Badeau, D. R. Carpenter, Daniel Mapes,

Alexander Banks, Alsop H. Lockwood, Sam'l W. Canfield,

' OFFICERS.

Nathaniel Bayles, President and General Agent. James T. Eells, Secretary and Treasurer. George Case, Attorney and Coimsellor.

On the opposite side of the street is situated the town Iiouse, a neat wooden building surmounted by a cupola. This is used for

» Formerly kept by Capt. George Pelor and known as The Cross Keys, b Directions to agents.

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holding the justices' courts, and town elections in, and other public purposes. The main street is wide, straight, and very pleasant, and runs the entire length of the village. Upon the whole, New Rochelle is a place of considerable wealth and enterprise, and from its fine location it must eventually arrive to some importance. On tli« north side of the old Boston post road (formerly the high street of the village,) is situated the Episcopal church, a chaste Gothic structure of wood surmounted by a neat tower and spire of the sane materials.

The first church edifice, of which any thing is known, was built by the Huguenots about 1692-3, upon the site of the present Episcopal church. a In 1693, " The elders of the church in New Rochelle have accorded to Ambroise Sicard, jr., and Daniel Sicard, to convert into a rent at 6 per cent, the 40 shillings which they owe for 10 acres of land sold them by the inhabitants and begin to pay the rent May, 1694.^