From this time (1764) no record appears to have been made of the state or progress of the French Protestant congregation in New Rochelle, as a distinct body ; probably about this period, such of its members as had not conformed to the Church oT England, allied themselves to the Presbyterian form of worship, for in 1770, the Rev. ichabod Lewis was ordained pastor of White Plains and Neio Rochelle^ by the presbytery of Dutchess county.

Upon the 23d of February, 1808, the Presbyterian church was incorporated under the title of the "French Church in New Rochelle," Matson Smith, John Reed, Thomas Carpenter, Robert Givan, Gideon Coggleshall, and James Somerville, trustees.^ A re-organization appears to have taken place '• on the 30th of May, 1812, under the direction of a committee appointed by the presbytery of New York, consisting of the Rev. Walter

a Smith the historian, writing iii 1757, observes, the present minister in the French Church in New York is Mr. Carle, a native of France, who succeeded Mr. Rou, in 1754. *•' He bears an irreproachable character, is very intent upon his studies, preaches moderate Galvanism, and speaks with propriety, both of pronunciation and gesture." Smith's Hist. N. Y. 19-L

b Translated from the original manuscript by the Rev. Gorham D. Abbott, in 1837.

^ Religious Soc. Co. Rec. Lib. A. 96. . -

428 HISTORY OF THE

King. Philip Milledolar, D. D., and Henry Rutgers, elder."* The church edifice was raised in 1S15 and dedicated the same year. The land on which it stands was the gift of Mr. George Pelor, 12th of May, 1814. In 1827 Samuel Bayard of the borough of Princeton, in the state of New Jersey, and the Rev. Lewis P. Bayard, b of the town of New Rochelle, trustees of Lewis Pintard deceased, conveyed to the "trustees of the Presbyterian church of the town of New RocheWe, formerly known by the name of the French Church,^^ a certain piece of land lying in the town of New Rochelle, beginning at a corner formed by the intersection of the lot of ground on which the Presbyterian church aforesaid is erected, and the old Boston road,