In the following year he conveyed these lands to them, when his connection with the settlement ceased.

Some of the Huguenots came here by way of the West Indies, but the greater portion came from England. The main company landed at what is known as Bonnefoy's Point, in Echo Bay, adjoining Davenport's Neck. Numbers continued to arrive until the year 1700. Their new home was named in honor of that from which many of them had been driven, -- the city of La Rochelle, in France.

Bound together by the memories of bitter sufferings, endured in common by their religious interests and by warm friendships, and separated from their neighbors by a different language, the Huguenots long remained a compact body in New Rochelle. In afteryears numbers settled in the northern portions of the county, where many of their names are still found.

The influence of the Huguenots upon the people of Westchester County has been important. Their earnest religious faith, their sterling integrity, their energy of character and their intelligence, refinement and courtesy have left most valuable impressions that still remain.

The Quaker Settlement. -- The Society of Friends, called Quakers, was the outcome of the religious awakening that followed the Reformation in England. The changes from the Roman Catholic Church were variously graduated by different Protestant believers. The Quakers carried the principles of the Reformation to their logical conclusion. Claiming the complete spirituality of the gospel dis- ' pensation, they denied all outward rites and ceremonies, and insisted that the types' of the Jewish ritual were fulfilled and ended in Christ. They acknowledged no order of priesthood but the universal priesthood of believers. They held that Christ as the head of His church chose and commissioned whom He would to preach His gospel, and that no human ordination was of any avail ; and they taught the doctrine of the immediate and perceptible influence of the Holy Spirit upon the individual soul of man.