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. Having emigrated from England to New York, some of them by way of the West Indies, particularly St. Christopher's and Martiniciue, they found the most beautiful lands of the vicinity chartered under English manorial proprietorship, whereby it was made easy for them to establish themselves in new and permanent homes. All antipathies of blood or race melted away in the presence of a common ('luistianity. An area of six thousand acres, a part of the M.anor of I'elhain, was conveyed to their friend and agent, .lacob Loislcr, nicri:hant of New York, on acceiitjiblo terms, in 1G8'J, surveyed and divided into lots or fanns by Alexander Allaire and Captiiin Bond, in lG!)'.i ; named New Kochelle in memory of the old fortress of Protestantism in France, and then the family life of the two people, by its own interior law of development, grew into a civil and social unity, 'compact together,' under the sway of a cominon sentiment, as if all gloried in the same genealogical origin.