Mr. Bayard's ancestors, both on the paternal and mateinal line, were Huguenots.

• Matthew H. Henderson, rector of Trinity Cjuirch, Newark ; centennial discouree.

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

Henry Ashurst, of London, to the French Church du St. Esprit of New York,!^ inscribed

"SAMUEL NEWTON MADE ME 1706."

The communion plate consists of a large chalice and paten, the gift of Queen Anne ;b also two smaller chalices presented by a member of the Davenport family.

In the rear of the church is situated the old burying-ground, where lie, awaiting the resurrection of the just, many of the persecuted and exiled Huguenots.

The inscriptions on the earliest tombstones are wliolly illegible.

The Queen's Chalice and Paten, presented A.D. 1705.

t Here lies

VOJJIE The body of ^BG

GOIPID Andre Ranoud, EG

Deer. 1750. who departed this life

on Friday, the 2d

day of Deer ,

A.D. 1753, aged 25 years.

There are also monuments in the yard to members of the Guion, Allaire and Secor families, &c.

The cemetery on the west side of the church contains a neat

a In 1823 it was ordered by the vestry of the Church du St. Esprit, that this bell, then iu the care of St. Stephen's Church, New York, be presented for the use of the French Church, New Rochelle.

b The Queen also presented a Church bible, book of homilies, cloth for the pulpit and communion table.

422 HISTORY OF THE

marble monument, consisting of a base and pyramid, with the following inscription (surmounted by a medallion likeness of the deceased) : --