" But now, while occupying the old church-yard as a retrospective view-point, it seems noteworthy that the fii-st advent of death into the household, and this first funeral that shadowed the path of my young life, cannot be desoriliod without the Joining of two olil town names, French and Kiiglish, New Koi hollo and Pelham. Thus, too, looking upon the head-stones that memorialize the many graves in this ' (<od'8 Acres,' as the old lOnglisli called the consecrated burial-ground, we notice the alterations or intermingling of Knglish and French surnames, denoting the quick fusion of Fnglish and French blood in the homes of the early settlei's nearly two centuries ago. On the tomb-stones of the dead and on the door-signs of the living, the same old names present themselves, -- Polls, Bayleys, Bartows, Pincknoys, Sands, Hunts, (iuions, Le Counts, Allaires, Leroys, Coulants, Seooi-s, Badoaus, Flandreaiis, Do Peysters, Do Lanceys and uthei*s, signalizing the si»ont,'\ne<!Us union of Saxon and Celtic elements in the historic home-life ami church-life of the colonial days.

"These first exiles from France, seeking permanent homes and religious liberty, though, to a great extent, 'spoiled of their goods,' realized actually the sentiment so well- emphasized by Daniel Webster in addressing the young Americans, namely, 'character is capital,' being in the best sense, ' well to do,' free and inclined to contract family alliances from choice, taste anil personal qualities rather than from considerations of mere e.vpediency or goading necessity. Few and weak though they seeniod, their place in history is as clearly defined as that of the 'ten thousand ' retreating Creeks whom Xenophon luis immortalized, having been long ago distinguished as a p.art of that heroic 'fifty thousand ' who lied from France to ICngland about four years before the annulling of the edict of Nantes, signed by Henry IV. in l.")!*, for the protection of Protestants, and revoked by Louis XIV. in 1085 ; having been in force, nominally, though not really, nearly fonr-fiftlis of a century.