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94. 1695. Meeting house in use. — A Description of the Province 



and City of New York with Plans of the City and Several Forts 

 as they existed in the Year 1695, by the Rev. John Miller, con- 

 tains a list of the churches, ministers, etc ; throughout the Prov- 

 ince, On p. 37 of the edition of 1862, and on page 55 of the 

 Cleveland edition of 1903 we find : 



" Countyes Churches Ministers Familyes 



Richmond A Meeting House Dr. Bonrepos English 40 



Dutch 44 

 French 36 " 



According to Bolton's History of Westchester County, Rev. 

 David de Bonrepos was a French Protestant minister, who ac- 

 companied the first Huguenot emigrants from France. He was 

 the first minister of New Rochelle. 



95. 1696. 17th of July, 1696, James Hanse Dey conveyed to James 

 Fetchett, a plot described as " Beginning at a flat rock below the 

 (foorlezers) house." Other and later deeds have the same de- 

 scription; the word foorlezer, illegible in this, is supplied from 

 later deeds. (Voorlezer in Dutch, is an ecclesiastical term signi- 

 fying one who reads in church services.) (Liber B of Deeds p. 

 262.) 



96. Register Boek van de K-K[?] Namen 

 der Kinderen Dewelck Gedoopt Bennen 

 op Staten Eylandt van d- 



Beginne van het jaer anno 1696. 



(The Baptismal register of the Dutch church of Staten Island 

 commencing 1696), Printed in Still well's Historical and Genea- 

 logical Miscellany i : 57. (See also Bayles 370.) 



97. 1697. " James hanson dye and James f ettchette have freely 

 given unto ye Dutch Congregation for the space and term of fifty 

 years for their use and benefit for y® s*^ term mentioned and that 

 he w'^^ lives on y® s*^ Land shall have y® privilege of firewood for 

 his necessity and also that y^ said Land shall be inhabited by no 

 other as by y^ persons that serves y^ said congregation during y® 

 said term. 6th day of March, 1696-7." (Liber B of Deeds p. 

 340.) 



