The most notable event of John Pell's administration of his manor was the conveyance by him through the celebrated Jacob Leisler of six thousand acres as a place of settlement for the Huguenots-- a transaction out of which resulted the erection of the Town of New Rochelle. The Edict of Nantes, a decree granting a measure of liberty to the Protestants of France, promulgated in 1598 by King Henry IV., was on the 22d of October, 1685, revoked by Louis XIV., and by that act of state policy the conditions of life in the French kingdom were made quite intolerable to most persons of steadfast Protestant faith. ProtFor some years previously to the revocation numerous French estants had begun to seek homes in foreign lands, especially America; and after 1685 the emigration grew to large proportions. A great City. Several of the leadmany of the Huguenots came to NewintoYork correspondence with Leisler ers of the sect abroad entered (known to them as a responsible merchant and influential citizen of New York and, moreover, a man of strong liberal principles), with land for the estaba view to the purchase by him as agent of eligible lishment of a Huguenot colony. It happened that a number of the Huguenot immigrants in New York City, looking about them for suitable places of residence, had in 1686 and 1687 chosen and secured from John Pell parcels of land in that portion of Pelham Manor now . From this circumoccupied by the present City of New Rochelle stance Leisler, as the constituted agent of the Huguenots, was led to ns locate the settlement at that place. He entered into negotiatio and Pell John " 1689, , September of 20th with Pell, and on the Rachel his wife " conveyed to him, " in consideration of the sum of sixteen hundred and seventy-five pounds sterling, current silver money of this province," " all that tract of land lying and being within said Manor of Pelham, containing six thousand acres of land, and also one hundred acres of land more, which the said John Pell and Rachel his wife do freely give and grant for the French church of erected, or to be erected, by the inhabitants of the said tract is herein as bounded and butted being land, or by their assignees, oak after expressed, beginning at the west side of a certain white tree, marked on all four sides, standing at high water mark at the