Lewis Pintard, of New Rochelle, and some of the papers are in his own handwriting. There were also found a pointed shoe, of ancient make, and a small vial of olive oil, a few drops of which still adhered to the sides and bottom of ihe glass. One of these papers is a bill against John Pintard for " 7 Reemes of paper, and 1 p'* Bukrom ; " dated " July 14th 1738 | £6:12: 2."

Another is a bill dated New York, January, 1774. --

" Mr. Louis Pintard to Peter Goelet, Dr.

" To nails, hinges and other hardware, £8 9«. 8d.

statement is in no respect exaggerated. I am here sponking advisedly, and from my own jwrsonal knowleilge of the state of things at that time." -- I'njml'lighed Maiiiincripl of Huguenot, Seic Ilockelk.

This is signed, "Paid: Peter Goelet." All the bills are in English currency and are dated before the Revolutionary War. They had remained there undisturbed behind the ceiling, where they had accidentally fallen, for the greater part, if not the whole, of a century. The i)enmanship of some of these documents is of a superior kind. The writing of all of them is quite legible, and, while the paper is somewhat discolored by time, the ink is entirely unchanged.

It was not at first my purpose to print any of these old letters; but, upon further consideration, I have decided to give a translation of the letter addressed to the French Church in New York, as a specimen of the very polite style of a French commercial correspondent of the last century, and also as showingt he communication which was kept up between the old French Huguenot Church in New York, and its sister churches abroad. A copy of this letter may be found among the records of the French Church in New York (so Dr.