This is caused by removals, and enlisting in the King's service."

Dr. Barclay in a letter dated Sept. 3, 1760, encloses an address to the Propagation Society, from the Church of New Rochelle,ij wherein they acquaint -that body with the death of the Rev. Pierre Stouppe, who for 37 years had been the society's missionary. He was a simple minded conscientious man, (says Dr. Hawkins in his Early Colonial Missions) who continued for seven and thirty years, faithfully to discharge the duties of his mission. During this long incumbency, the number of communicants had been raised from thirty-three to eighty. ^

His remains are deposited with those of Magdalene Stouppe, (his wife) under the site of the old French Church. Here also repose the mortal remains of the Rev. Daniel Bondet. The same year in which Mr Stouppe died, (1760) the Rev. Michael Houdin, of Trenton, N. J. was, at the request of the congregation, and his own desire, appointed their minister. This gentleman had " formerly been the superior of a convent in Canada," and wa^ " received into communion with the Church of England, in

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*> The address appears to have been drawn up on tlie 30lh of Oct. 1760.

« Hist. Not. of the Miss, of the Ch., by Ernest Hawkins, D. D. 282.

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1749," being well testified of by various clergymen. He was appointed missionary of Trenton, in 1753. ^^

During the incumbency of the Rev. Michael Houdin, Trinity Church received her first charter from King George the third, under which the present corporation of this church, still enjoys its trust and exercises its powers.