He was a highly esteemed and influential man, and held, through all his life, honorable appointments in the councils of the city, as well as in the Representative Assembly of the Province. He was elected Alderman of the west ward of the city, live years after his arrival, in 1691. He was representative from the city and county ol' New York, in the Provincial Assembly, from 1702 to 1715, with the exception of 1701t ; and in 1725, on the decease of Mr. Provoost, he was elected again to that body. The following year he was re-elected, and continued in olEce until 1737; a service of twenty -six years in all. In 1716, being a vestryman of Trinity church, he contributed £50, the amount of his salary as Representative to the General Assembly, to buy a city clock for that church, the first ever erected in New York. To him and Mr. John Moore, his partner, the city is also indebted for the introduction ol' fire engines, in 1731. ' He wa.s one of the principal benefactors of the French church, Du St. Esprit, established in New York by the refugees who fled upon the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and a warm friend of the French Huguenot* at New Rochelle. The following letter addressed by him, 1591, to hitfriend Alexander Allaire, is still preserved among the public records at New Rochelle.

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Monsieur Notri* Amy 3Ions. Boithciler, avant de partir nie <loonem ordre qu'en ras (juSl viii-sc a iiiourir il Kiit fair duiiuation de ses tern*»» k sa filleule votre fillc, Sy vous iwuvoz faire qnelque IJenefice tlw dit« terres. Soit a Couper dcs arbres ou a faire des foiiis sur les prairieE vous le (wiires a rexcltisioii de qui quese lioit, Jc siiiit.