The church fronted directly upon the old Boston post-road, -- then the main street of the village, and was only a few yards distant from the triangular piece of ground which forms the site of the present Presbyterian Church. This church was burned in the year 1723, and afterwards rebuilt. This first church edifice was used by the Huguenots for many years as a place of worship, and continued to be occupied as such by a number of them, who protested against the transfer of their church and church property to Episcopacy, as without authority of law, and contrary to the wishes of the people. Such is the view still held by many of their descendants, large numbers of whom are now members of other enurches. The views of the Rev. Dr. Baird upon this subject, who is one of the highest authorities in this country upon all matters pertain-

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injr to Huguenot History, may be found, supported by documentary evidence (in the third vohime of) his new work, (two volumes of which have just been issued from the press), " The Huguenots in America." Those of the Rev. L. J. Coutant, a descendant of the original settlers of Xew Rochelle, and who was personally acquaitjted with some of the non-conformists are as follows : ' It is reasonable to suppose, that a people so warmly and conscientiously attached to the principles and forms of a religion for which they had suffered exile, confiscation and almost every imaginable form of persecution, would not willingly submit to be transferred by lair, and to be swallowed u]) within the pale of a church, whose rites, ceremonies, form of government and mode of worship, were entirely dissimilar to their own. We are disposed to think, therefore, that the statement, * " All but two individuals of Mr.