XX BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. 



In a " list of Huguenots of the colony at New Rochelle," however, which Dr. 

 LeConte had in his possession, and the exact origin of which is unknown, we find 

 the following names : Fran9ois LeConte, Isaac LeConte, Jaques LeCompte, Jacques 

 LeConnet, Guillaume LeConte, Pierre LeConte and Henri LeConte, seven names. 

 As the list includes 371 names of males alone, and the name of Etienne Delancy 

 among others enters it, while the census of 1710 gives only 67 "male Christians" 

 at New Rochelle, it is evident that the list includes all the Huguenots of the region 

 about New York. 



In any case we have here to deal with six LeContes, provided we look upon 

 Jaques LeCompte and Jacques LeConnet as the same, as we perhaps may. But 

 in truth we have a record of two more in this region before 1700 : Thomas, who, 

 like Henri mentioned in the list, is the reputed nephew of Guillaume, and came 

 over with DeLancy in 1686, and John or Johannes, to whom letters of denization 

 were granted in New York July 29, 1686 [7], and who was probably the son of 

 Pierre. That John is not mentioned in the list indicates, it appears to me, that 

 the list is ancient and independent, for repeated records of John are to be found 

 which would not have escaped a search among documents ; and he was not a mere 

 stripling, for his house in New Rochelle went by his name in papers written eight 

 and twelve years after his death [11, 12], and at his death in 1701 or 1702 he left 

 a child under seven [7]. 



We have then (I) Jacques, of New Rochelle, whose birth-place is unknown, who 

 was perhaps the brother of II, and the first record of whorn we find in 1691, but 

 in a document which makes it apjjear probable that he was in New York or the West 

 Indies in 1689. (II) Fran9ois, of New Rochelle, formerly of Port L'Eveque, per- 

 haps brother of I, whose marriage is on record as taking place in New York in 

 1693 [2]. (Ill) Pierre, of Staten Island, born in Dieppe, possibly the brother of 

 VII, and naturalized in New York Sept. 27, 1687 [2], with his son Johannes, natu- 

 ralized in 1686 [7J. (IV) Isaac, mentioned above, of whom nothing more has been 

 discovered. (V) Thomas of New York, originally from some place in Normandy, 

 brother of VI and nephew of VII, who is supposed to have arrived with DeLancey 

 in 1686. (VI'l Henri, of New York, from Normandy, brother of V and nephew of 

 VII, who is supposed to have come over with DeLancey, and of whom we have 

 record as a lieutenant of a foot company in New York before 1691 [7]. (VII) 

 Guillaume, of New York, formerly of Rouen, possibly the brotlier of III and the 

 uncle of V and VI, whose name we first find on documents in 1702. The descend- 

 ants of these are recorded in order further on. 



In the above I have distinguished between I and VII by calling one Jacques and 

 the other Guillaume, as in the list of Huguenots. Heretofore they have been taken 

 for the same person, and called indifferently Jacques, Guillaume and William. 

 That they are two personages seems highly probable, and as it is from one of them 

 that the family we are interested in has descended, I liave spared no pains to de- 

 termine the point. The evidence is as follows: 



I a. In the State Archives at Albany, among the historical documents, vol. 

 xxxvii, f. 247, we find a petition with the signature — 





