6lO HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



the late Earl of Bellamont deprived him of, it is hereby ordered that the 

 petition of the said minister formerly D d to his Excellency, be referred 

 to the s d Coll : Heathcote, who is to examine into the allegations and 

 and report the same. 



By order of his Excellency and Council, 



B. Cosens, CPk Council" 



' ' May it please yr Excell : 



In obedience to yr Excell commands : I have examined into the allegations of 

 the within Petition, and do find that the Petitioner was employed about fifteen 

 years ago by the corporation for propagating the Xtian ffaith amongst the Indi- 

 ans at a place called New Oxford, near Boston, with the allowance of a salary of 

 £25 a year, where he consumed the little he brought with him from ff ranee in 

 settling himself for that service, and being afterwards by reason of the War 

 compelled to fly from thence, his improvements were wholly lost. During the 

 time of his stay there, which was about eight years, it appears by a certificate 

 under the hands of the late Lieut. Governor Stoughton, of Boston, Wait Win- 

 thrope, Increase Mather, and Charles Morton, that he with great faithfullnesse, 

 care and industry, discharged his duty, both in reference to Xians and Indians, 

 and was of an unblemished life and conversation. After his being called to 

 New Rochelle the Corporation afore-mentioned, in consideration of his past 

 services and sufferings, were pleased to still continue him his salary, which he 

 enjoyed until the arrival of the late Earl of Bellamont, who having settled £30 

 a year upon him out of the Revenue, used afterwards his interest with the said 

 Corporation to take off the salary, they had all along allowed him, which no 

 sooner was effected but he immediately suspended him also from the £30 a year 

 he had settled upon him, by which means the Petitioner is left with a very de- 

 plorable condition, not being able with the salary that is allowed him at New 

 Rochelle, which is only £20 a year to support himself and family. All which is 

 humbly submitted by 



Yr Excell's obedient humble servant, 



Caleb Heathcote."* 



It is a singular fact that the first settled Episcopal minister in this 

 country should have been a French Protestant refugee, and that New 

 Rochelle, the favorite asylum of the Huguenots, should claim the honor 

 of having called him. 



Upon the 20th of November, A. D. 1700, "Sir John Pell/ 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 place." 6 



"In consideration of ^100 — 150 acres, beginning at the end of 25 

 rods westward from the marked tree, said to be marked for the division 



a Doc. ITist. of New York, vol. iii, pp. 929, 930, 931, 932. 

 b So styled in the Town Records. 

 c Town Records, p. 10. 



