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Islaud, Shiten Ishiiul, New Rocliellc, and otlicr points, 

 for public worship. Every street near was tilled with 

 wagons as early as Saturday evening, and in tliem many 

 passed the night and ate their frugal Sunday repast, pre- 

 senting a touching spectacle of purity and zeal." 



This house proved too small, and they were allowed to 

 buy land for a second and larger, a plain stone edifice 

 nearly square, which was built in 1704, directly opposite Pine street 

 the Custom House on Pine Street. This was the same 

 year in which the French in Boston bought the land for 

 their chiu'ch, but were not permitted by the Congrega- 

 tional authorities to build. The church in New York 

 was named "L'Eglise du St. Esprit" (The Church of the 

 Holy Spirit ), and still bears the name. The congrega- 

 tion worshipped in Pine Street until 1831, and then re- 

 moved to what was the upper part of the city at the time, 

 the corner of Church and Franklin Streets, where a white church street 

 marble edifice, noted in its day, was erected. Mean- 

 while, in 1804, the church had become Episcopalian in 

 affiliation, and as such still exists in the present Church 

 du St. Esprit, which has its fourth home in a fine stone 

 edifice in Twenty-seventh Street, near Madison Avenue, Twenty- 



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where the French service is maintained. Slow m its or- site 

 ganization, the church reached its highest point of devel- 

 opment in the sixty years from 1690 to 1750, declining in 

 the next half century, largely because of the Revolution- 

 ary War. After 1804 there was a new lease of life. 



Among the names of the members are such fam- 

 ilies as Quintard, Pintard, Maynard, LeConte, Lorillard, 

 Lamoureaux, Iselin, Guion, Girard, Galaudet, Dupuy 

 (Depew), Anne Bm-eau, Basset, Bayard, Badeau and 

 Allaire, which have figui'ed in the professional, com- 

 mercial and social life of the metropolis. 



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For over forty years Rev. Louis Rou was pastor of the pastor rou 

 French Church. In this period trouble arose over the 



