638 HISTROY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Supper, to which they have been accordingly admitted ; and that the 

 number of his communicants at Easter last, was thirty- three." a 



MR. STOUPPE TO THE SECRETARY. 



"New Rochelle, Bee. 11th, 1727. 



Reverend Sie : — According to the Honorable Society's order, signified unto 

 me by your last of the 16th June. 1717, here you have the best accounts I could 

 get upon the several heads and matters intimated unto me in the aforesaid years. 



1st. As to the church. It was built in the year 1708, upon the public or king's 

 road, of strong materials, joined together with mortar, the inside plastered and 

 whitewashed, of 40 feet length and 30 breadth. Partly by its own members, the 

 inhabitants of New Rochelle, who gave a number of days work towards it, 

 partly by the contributions of the following charitable persons, members of the 

 Church of England or well-wishers to it, settled in divers parts of this province, 

 as you will see by the list here set down and recorded in our church book. 



Fifty paces from the said church there is a glebe of three and a half acres of 

 land, upon part of which stands the parish house or the minister's dwelling place, 

 built of wooden materials, the inside plastered, consisting of two rooms on a 

 floor, a garret and a small kitchen-house ; the other part of said glebe serves for 

 a dwelling place. 



The salary subscribed for the minister by the members of New Rochelle church 

 amounts at present to £10 19s., money of this province, of which, through negli- 

 gence or pretended poverty of the subscribers, there is little more than half 

 part of it actually paid ; so that the provisions of firewood which they make to 

 their minister for the time being, is by much the better part of his salary — though 

 little in itself. 



There is no other endowment belonging to the church that I know of. This 

 is all what I can say upon that head. 



2nd. I come now to the second. The number of people that first settled New 

 Rochelle was about a dozen families ; the most part of them were in Europe, 

 trading-merchants ; being French refugees, they were all at first addicted to the 

 Confession of Faith of the formerly Reformed Protestant Church of France. 

 These few families, I say, have conjointly bought of the Lord Pell, 6000 acres 

 of land and divided it into lots and parcels, from 20 to 30, 40, 50, 60, 100, 200 and 

 300 acres a piece ; have sold afterwards the said lots and parcels to any who had 

 a mind to buy them, English, French or Dutch ; but so it happened that more of 

 the French than of the other two nations proved desirous to settle among them. 

 To this, if you add the increase and settlement of their children since that time, 

 each of which have their particular houses, or dwelling places, being settled npon 

 so many respective lots and parcels of ground, the present number of inhabitants, 

 comprehending young and old of both sexes, amounts to very near 400 persons. 

 There is a dozen of houses near the church, standing pretty close to one another, 

 which makes that place a sort of town ; the remainder of the houses and settle- 

 ments are dispersed up and down as far as the above said 6000 acres of land could 

 bear. Nay, besides those, there were several other French families members of 



a New York MSS. from archives at Fulham, vol. i, pp. 665-6-7-8. cHawks.) 



