132 THE FRENCH BLOOD IN AMERICA 



other French Protestants within its scope as follows : ' ' Or- 

 dered, That upon the taking the oath of allegiance before 

 the president, and under his hand and seal of his Majtys 

 Territory and Dominion, they be allowed to reside and 

 dwell in his Majtys sd dominion, and to proceed from 

 hence and return hither as freely as anj' other of his 

 Majtys subjects, and this to be an order for all such 

 French Protestants that shall or may come into this his 

 Majtys Territory and Dominion." By this generous 

 action of the council, Massachusetts put herself on record 

 as being ready and eager to furnish a home for all those who 

 truly desired to dwell in liberty of conscience. And we 

 can only add that she was amply repaid for her liberality 

 by the high character and loyalty of the French refugees 

 whom she sheltered. Bowdoin, Faneuil and Revere, are 

 names that she could ill afford to have stricken from her 

 annals. 

 Christian lu August the sccoud party of emigrants arrived. They 



had suffered much from the long voyage and had lost 

 their doctor and twelve of their fellows through sickness 

 on the way over. The survivors who landed in Boston 

 were wasted by sickness and were almost wholly destitute 

 of property. Their sad plight did not escape the vigilance 

 of the ever watchful and solicitous council, which pre- 

 pared a statement of the needs of the Huguenots and 

 caused it to be read in all the churches of the colony. 

 This paper represented them as "objects of a true Chris- 

 tian charity," exhorted the people to give liberally in so 

 good a cause, and asked the ministers to "put forward 

 the people in their charity." Captain Elisha Ilutchin- 

 ' son and Captain Samuel Sewall, two of the leading citi- 

 zens of Boston, took charge of receiving and distributing 

 the relief fund, and everything was done to provide for 

 the fugitives' comfort and welfare. "We are told in the' 

 brief prepared by the council that this stricken company 

 consisted of "fifteen French familyes with a religious 



Charity 



