THE TOWN OF KEW ROCHELLE. 623 



May it Therefore please your Excellency to grant them a patent for the said 

 Church, and the ground whereon it stands, that it may be secured for the use of 

 the Church of England to them and their posterity for ever, against all attempts, 

 claims and pretensions that hereafter may be made, and your petitioners as in 

 duty bound, shall ever pray, &c. Daniel Bondet, 



F. Alleau, 

 New Rochelle, the 11th of November. Besley, 



P. V alleau, 

 Elie De Boneepos." 

 REPORT THEREON. 

 Mat it please Your Excellency : — "In obedience to your Excellencie's order 

 in Council, of ye nineteenth day of November last, made on ye petition of Daniel 

 Bondet and others, for a Patent for a church, lately erected in the Street of New 

 Rochelle, and for the ground whereon it stands, wee have fully Examined into 

 ye matter of the said petition, and are humbly of opinion that her Majesty may 

 Grant such Patent for the said church and ground, according to ye prayer of the 

 said petition. All which is nevertheless submitted to your Excellency, by 

 Your Excellencie's most obedient, humble Servants, 



A. D. Peystee, 

 S. Staats, 

 Head 31 July, 1711-12. Rip Yan Dam, 



Caleb Heathcote, 

 T. Byeeley." 



For his commendable zeal in Church affairs, Colonel Hunter was re- 

 viled and misrepresented by those from whom a different course might 

 have been reasonably expected. The two following extracts speak for 

 themselves : — h 



COLONEL HEATHCOTE TO THE SECRETARY. 



[exteact.] 



" New Yoek, January 30th, 1711. 

 " The more I consider of Colonel Hunter's being represented as an enemy to the 

 Church, the more I am amazed at it ; because no Governor in this Province, that 

 I ever knew, besides Col. Fletcher, did ever as heartily espouse her interest, if 

 we are to judge of men by their actions. I think Mr. Bondet and I was about 

 seven years endeavoring to settle the Church at New Rochelle, but never could 

 thoroughly effect it until he was our Governor ; who, without giving us the least 

 stop or delay, did every thing we desired of him." 



COL. LEWIS MORRIS TO THE SECRETARY. 



" New Yoek, 20th Februaey, 1711. 

 ' ' Because the Governor (Col. Hunter) would not go all the length the}' desired, 

 he was industriously represented to the people as no Churchman. I can't see 



a Documentary Hist, of N. T., vol. iii. p. 948. 



h " Governor Hunter was as devoted a member of the Church of England as any of the 

 early Governors.'' — Macdonald's Hist, of the Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Long Island, 

 p. 51. 



c New York MSS. from archives at Fulham, vol. i. p. 356. (Hawks.) 



