As hero we repeat this marvellous testimony, we are tempted to wish that the experiment king who gave to Pelham, as well as to Rhode Island, a charter of self-government, could have lived long enough to hear from the whole area of the old manor, after embracing within its limits tlie town of New Rochelle, the experimental response of a thriving jiopulatiou with all its diversities of age, taste and traditions, a live civil unity ; their homes all vocal with the ancient song of the Hebrews, ' the borderlines have fallen to us iu pleasant places ; we have a goodly heritage.'

"In his retrospective monograph, I have had occasion to refer by name to women of the Hugenot family. Now last of all, our thoughts are ilrawn to a late suggestive event in the annals of New Rochelle, attracting the attention of the nation at large to one funeral scene : namely, the death of a lady in whose veins flowed the blood of an Auglican aud a French ancestry.

"The quiet departure of Mrs. Caroline Leroy Webster, on Sunday, February 2Cth, at the Leroy Blansion, was announced generally by the pres.s, and awakened many slumberiug memories of her life, as.sociated with New York, Boston and \\'ashington, as well as with Pelham and New Rochelle. Born at the house of her father, Jacob Leroy, Esij., New York, 1797, a considerable proportiou of her early remembrances were associated with scenes of rural life pertaining both to the manor and the town.