In this view they must represent some minority of the Huguenots, for in 1709 the majority conformed to the Church of England, according to the charter of Trinity Church which specifies, "That on the 12th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and nine, all the then inhabitants of the said township who were members of the said French church, excepting two, unanimously agreed and consented to conform themselves and the religious worship of their said church to the liturgy and rites of the Church of England as established by law,

» See letters of denization and pedigree. A branch of this family appears to have settled upon Staten Island at a very early period, for on the 13th of October, 1664, we find Ciovernor Nicolls granting to Jacques Guion 200 acres, situated on that i«land. Of this family was John Guion, deputy mayor of New York in 1677.

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and by a solemn act or aofieement did submit to and put themselves under the protection of the same^ that fourteen years before," (1695,) "and ever since such conformity their respective ministers and pastors have been invested with episcopal ordination, and had received their principal support from the Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts," cfcc.^

Fourteen years after this conformity, we find Alexander Allaire conveying a certain lot of land lying in the town of New Rochelle unto the members of the French Protestant congregation^ in the following manner :