598 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



of the sick, as formerly practised in the French Reformed church of this 

 place in 1697. One of the prayers is thus entitled : 



" Oraison aufidcle detenu en captivite." 



The catechism of the French church is also added, and the psalms 

 in metre with their appropriate tunes. On a blank leaf occurs the fol- 

 lowing memoranda : 



Cette Bible appartient 



a moy Valther Humbert 



du Locke & do la 



de fond Bourgeois 



Mangin Lau- 



le Sept cent 



et un 



FI. 



Au nom de Dieu 

 Isaac Gieon a Marie ma fille Marie 

 le 25 d'aoust 1710 par Monsieur Le roux ministre 

 de l'eglise Francoise de la nouvelle York X 

 en presence de monsieur Paul Drouillet ancien 

 & pour temoins abraham Girard et sa femme M 



For some time, all the exertions the Huguenots could make — men, 

 women and children united — were necessary to prepare the land for cul- 

 tivation, and enable them to pay for its purchase ; which perseverance at 

 last accomplished. Yet, amid all the hardships and suffering incident 

 to a laborious life, in an uncultivated and strange country, they wrote to 

 their friends in France, expressing their gratitude to Heaven for the ad- 

 vantages they enjoyed in this land of liberty. 



That heart must be hard indeed that cannot appreciate the following 

 pious ejaculations set forth in the last will of John Machet, one of these 

 sufferers for conscience sake : 



Our help be in the name of God, which made the heavens and earth, Amen. 



I, John Machet, a ship carpenter, born and bred in ye town of Tremblade, in 

 France, and dwelling in Bordeaux, and being fugitive by the persecution, with 

 my family, viz : Jeanne Thomas my wife, and Peter, John, Jeanne and Mary 

 Anne Machet, my children, sons and daughters, and having all abandoned and 

 forsaken all my goods for my religion's sake, which I profess in the purity of a 

 Christian commonly called Protestant, and being now established in these places, 

 lands and dependencies of New York, in the town called New Rochelle, under 

 the dominion of the high and mightv monarch, our king, William of plaine 

 memory, to which God preserve his sceptre and crowne, and that under his reign 

 we might live in God's fear, and being sick of body with a fever, notwithstand- 

 ing sound of mind and memory, and willing to provide my business for the 



