The ancestors of the Allaires were of honorable descent, and possessed a iixu inheritance in France at a very early period.*^ The more immediate ancestor of the family however, was Pierre Allaire, Ecuyer, living in 1465. Prior to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, Alexander Allaire, the Huguenot, fled from La Rochelle to England, and soon after cam^e thence to America. This individual was the great grand- father of the present James Allaire, proprietor of the Allaire iron works in New York. Alexander Allaire also owned the property now occupied by James P. Huntingdon, Esq., and

1 It was formerly attached to the Bedford Presbytery, b A native of Lyme, Conn., and a graduate of Yale college in 1787* c The Allaire family claim descent from the famous Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, who died in 1118, and was buried in a church upon Mount Calvary.

erected ihe dwelling house soon after the settlement of New Rochelle.

R -iden^e (f James I' Huntingdon, E-q.

Near the western extremity of the village, ou a commanding situation stands the residence of Thomas A. Ronalds, formerly the property of Mr. Gideon Coggeshall.a an old inhabitant of the place.

There is a large and respectable Methodist Episcopal society in the village, which was organized August 22d, 1791, and incorporated the same year, Peter Bonnett, Sen., Benjamin Morgan, Thomas Shute, Gilbert Shute, John Bonnett and Ramson Burtis, first trustees. b

There is also a Roman Catholic church erected in 1845.

The property adjoining it (on the south) belonged to the late William Leggett, Esq., for many years the able conductor of the ^'Evening Post." Mr. Leggett died in 1839 soon after his appointment to the Guatemala mission, and has a handsome monu-