THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE. 587 



The annexed receipt is taken from the town records : 



New Yoke, 8th Sept. 1690. 

 a Item : received of Mr. John Bouteillier, the sum of nine and twenty pounds 

 seven shillings and two pence, being in full for the last payment of his lands. 



Received by me, 



RACHEL PELL. 



The township of New Rochelle was first surveyed and divided into 

 lots or farms on the 20th of November, 1693, by Alexander Allaire and 

 Captain Bond, the latter being a surveyor. This division -was made by 

 running a straight line directly north from the old Boston road to Hutch- 

 inson's river, and laying out lots on each side of it. The land south of 

 the Boston road, was divided into twenty-six lots. Leisler's and La- 

 counte's neck (now Davenport's neck) contained, according to the sur- 

 vey, two hundred acres. 



Upon the 20th of November, 1700, Sir John PelU and Rachel, his 

 wife, granted to Daniel Sampson and Isaac Cantin, one hundred acres, 

 "provided that the purchasers and their assignees, shall do suit and 

 service, now or at any time hereafter, from time to time in the manor 

 court, and pay their proportion to the minister of the placed 



The Hugnenots,^or French Protestants of New Rochelle, were a part 

 of the vast multitude who were driven from France by persecution for 

 conscience sake, and sought a refuge in lands where they might enjoy 

 religious freedom. Some of them, it is said, came directly from the 

 West Indies, where they had lived for some years after leaving France, 

 while others came no doubt from England, and were a part of the 

 50,000 persecuted who fled into that country four years before the re- 

 vocation of the edict of Nantz. This is confirmed by the charter of 

 Trinity Church in New Rochelle, wherein they specify that " they fled 

 from France in 1681." 



They were, no doubt, aided in their escape from France by the Eng- 

 lish vessels that lay for some time off the Island of Rhe, opposite La 

 Rochelle, in which they were conveyed to England. Tradition says, 

 that they were subsequently transported to this place in one of the 

 King's ships, and landed on Davenport's Neck, at a place afterwards 

 called Bauffet's or Bonnefoy's Point. Soon after their arrival we find 

 them thus addressing Governor Fletcher : 



a Town Bee. 20. 



3 So styled in the Town Records. 



c Town Eec. p. 10. 



d The epithet Huguenot (which has been a subject of much discussion) is traced to the 

 word Eignot, derived from the German Eide-genossen— federati or allied.— Mr. G. P. Disos- 

 Tvay. 



