636 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



A. There is but indifferent care taken to preserve the parish house in good 

 repair, and as for the expenses, they are taken upon the members of the church 

 each one. 



Q. Have you any more cures than one, if you have, what are they, and in 

 what manner served ? 



A. I have no other cure than the aforesaid. 



Q. Have you in your parish any public school for the instruction of youth ? 



A. There is no public school within the precinct of New Rochelle — the parents 

 take care to instruct their own children. 



Q. Have you a parochial library ; if you have, are the books preserved, and 

 kept in good condition ; have you any particular rules and orders for the pre- 

 serving of them ; are these rules and orders duly observed ? 



A. My predecessor, Mr. Bondet, has left four hundred volumes for the use of 

 the church for ever ; they are kept in pretty good condition, but I know no par- 

 ticular rules of preserving them. My Lord, &c, 



Peter Stouppe."** 



At the date of Mr. Stouppe's arrival, the elders or ancients (as they 

 are sometimes styled,) of this church, were Isaac Quantein and Isaac 

 Guion. The following extract is taken from Mr. Stouppe's first letter to 

 the Society: 



MR. STOTJPPE TO THE SECRETARY. 



[extract.] 

 "New Roohelle, Province of New York, May 12th, 1725. 

 Sir : — " But there are yet thirty families unconformed within New Rochelle 

 bounds, and were it not for fear of the eager censures of Mr. Moulinars, one of 

 the . French ministers of New York, who comes quarterly amongst them, and 

 some of the most creditable members of his congregation, who jointly with him 

 do support their separation from the Church, all those yet dissentiDg families, 

 without exception, would have been come over to it already. The proceeding is 

 so unjust that I cannot forbear to complain of, and set down to the consideration 

 of the Honorable Society, some of the arguments they make use of to keep the 

 Dissenting inhabitants of New Rochelle in their division, from the Church — and 

 even to pervert, if possible, its truest defenders. They not only at all occasions 

 inspire them with a disadvantageous opinion of the Church of England, but they 

 raile in a plain manner at its Liturgy and Ceremonies. The said Mr. Moulinars 

 has declared (as can be proved) that he finds our Church and that of Rome as 

 like one another as two fishes can be ; besides, the said minister and his party have 

 threatened the yet dissenting French inhabitants of New Rochelle of breaking 

 with them all commerce, and of suspending all acts of charity and support 

 towards them, if ever they should dare to join themselves at any time to the 

 Church ; nay, for instance, the said Moulinars and his party convinced long ago 

 of Mr. Roux, the other minister of the French in New York, and his inclination 

 and good affection to the Church, and of his always openly blaming and disap- 

 proving Mr. Moulinars, his colleagues irregular practices against the Church in 



a New York, MSS. from archives at Fulham, vol. i., p. 67:s. (Hawks.) 



