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per annum, from the funds of the Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel 

 among the savages. I performed that duty during nine years with a success ap- 

 proved and attested, by those who presided over the afiairs of that Province. 



The murders which the Indians committed in those countries caused the dis- 

 persion of our company, some of whom fell by the hands of the barbarians. I 

 remained after that, two years in that province — expecting a favorable season for 

 the re-establishment of affairs ; but after waiting two years, seeing no appearance, 

 and being invited to remove to this province of New York, by Colonel Heath- 

 cote, who always evinces an affection for the public good, and distinguishes him- 

 self: by a special application for the advancement of religion and good order, by 

 the establishment of churches and schools, the fittest means to strengthen and 

 encourage the people, I complied with his request and that of the company of 

 New Rochelle, in this province, where I passed five years on a small allowance 

 promised me by New Rochelle, of one hundred pieces and lodging, with that of 

 one hundred and five pieces which the corporation continued to me until the arrival 

 of Milord Belamont who, after indicating his willingness to take charge of me 

 and our Canton, ordered me thirty pieces in the Council of York, and did me 

 the favor to promise me that at his journey to Boston he would procure me the 

 continuation of that stipend that I had in times past. But having learned at 

 Boston, through Mr. Nanfan, his lieutenant, that I annexed my signature to an 

 ecclesiastical certificate which the churches and pastors of this province had 

 given to Sieur Delius, Minister of Albany, who had not the good fortune to 

 please his late Lordship, his defunct Excellency cut off his thirty pieces which 

 he had ordered me in his Council at York, deprived me of the Boston pension of 

 twenty-five pieces, writing to London to have that deduction approved, and left 

 me, during three years last past in an extreme destitution of the means of sub- 

 sistence. 



I believed, my Lord, that in so important a service as that in which I am em- 

 ployed, I ought not to discourage myself ; and that the Province of God, which 

 does not abandon those who have recourse to His aid by well doing, would pro- 

 vide in its time for my relief. 



Your Excellency's equity ; the affection you have evinced to us for the en- 

 couragement of those who employ themselves constantly and faithfully in God's 

 service induce me to hope that I shall have a share in the dispensation of your 

 justice to relieve me from my suffering, so that I may be aided and encouraged to 

 continue my service, in which, by duty and gratitude, I shall continue with my 

 flock to pray God for the preservation of your person, of your illustrious family 

 and the prosperity of your government. Remaining your Excellency's most 

 humble and most respectful servant. Daniel Bondet. « 



" Order and report on the above. 



At a Council held at ffort Wm. Henry, tnis 29th day of June, 1702. 



Garfard S? } Esqrs. Caleb Heathcote, Esq., John Bridges, 



Rip Van Dam, J Doctor of Laws. 



Upon the motion of Coll: Heathcote that the Minister of New 

 Rochelle had formerly a salary allowed him out of the Revenue which 



a Doc. Hist, of N. Y.j vol. iii. ' 



