Given under my hand and seal at New York, this 20th day of March, 170D, and of her majesties reign ye ninth year. a

Richard Ingoldsby.

This new church erected in 1710-1 J, stood a little east of the present Episcopal church, (at the entrance of the lane leading to Mr. Elias Guion's residence.) The building which was constructed of stone, formed nearly a square, being perfectly plain within and without. b The foundafluguenot Church, New Rochelle, erected A. D. 1710. tion StOUCWaS laid bv GoV-

crnor Hunter; and, so anxious were all to contribute something towards its completion, that even females carried stones in their hands, and mortar in their aprons to complete the sacred work.c The new church may have been re-modelled after the ancient Huguenot church of old La Rochelle, which appears to have been destroyed by fire in 1687'. On Corpus Christi day, just two years before, the Huguenots themselves, purchased the present township. Jurieu, a minister of the Reformed church, in one of his pastoral letters, addressed to the " Protestants of France groaning under the Babylonish captivity, refers to this event, which he evidently considers a remarkable interposition of God

a I Co. Rec. Lib. D. 72.

b The first child baptised in this cliurch was Sovereign Belts.

c Upon the departure from France, t!ie Huguenot ladies concealed their small bibles beneath their high dressed hair. One o.'" these bibles is still in tlie possession of IMrs. Sevooss, New Rochelle.

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