THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE. 6ll 



lines of the French, in New Rochelle purchase, being between the land 

 of the said Pell and the aforesaid purchase." 



"July the 22nd, 1700. In a General Assembly of the inhabitants of 

 this place, according to Justice Mott's warrant, it has been agreed by 

 the plurality of votes, that above the hundred acres of land given by 

 Sir John Pell for the church of this place, the said one hundred acres 

 shall be taken on the undivided land, according to the choice of the 

 elders of the church, as they will find the more profitable for the church 

 and people."** 



At a meeting of the Justices and Vestry, held in the town of West- 

 chester, on the 5th day of May, 1704, appeared Mr. Peter Hulse, (con- 

 stable for the town of New Rochelle in 1702,) who produced two re- 

 ceipts for ^5, the minister's rate for that year." 6 



The clergy of New York, addressing the Society on the 17th of Oc- 

 tober, 1704, says: "Mr. Daniel Bondet has gone further and done 

 more in that good work (converting the heathen,) than any Protestant 

 minister that we know ; we commend him to your pious consideration 

 as a person industrious in ye service of the Church and his own nation, 

 ye French, at New Rochelle." 



The following is Dr. Bondet's first letter to the Secretary of the Vener- 

 able Society. 



MR BONDET TO THE SECRETAEY. 



New Rochelle, July 2Uh, 1707. 

 Sir : — Col. Heathcote has done me the favor to communicate to me the extract 

 of a letter, where you make mention to him of me, and the part the Honorable 

 Society is pleased to take in what concerns my life and service. If it had pleased 

 God that the ships had come hither, which he expected, I doubt not but accord- 

 ing to your opinion, I had had proofs of their good will and approbation, as also 

 directions from my Lord Bishop of London, concerning those things whereof I 

 did myself the honour to inform his Lordship, with the testimony of several emi- 

 nent and creditable persons. 'Twould be needless, Sir, to repeat things whereof 

 my Lord of London and the Honourable Society are fully informed. I'll only 

 say for my comfort and the honour of my service, that amongst the many mis- 

 fortunes that have happened to me, never any one opened his lips to reproach 

 me of my life and doctrine, and God has supported me ha all those cases in which 

 men have abandoned me. I immediately looked upon that which his Excel- 

 lency, my Lord Cornbury, ordered me out of Her Majesty's revenue as a sure 

 fund ; but the payments thereof is so remote from one another that I am ready to 

 perish in the mean time, insomuch, that 'tis very surprising to all them that hear 

 it. My Lord is so kind as to give me some warrants ; but to this hour I have 

 some by me of four years' standing, whereof Mr. Neau is soliciting one with Mr. 



a T own Records, Lib. A, p. 5. 

 £ Westchester Vestry Book. 



