THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE. 639 



New Rochelle settled without its bounds. They are little, or not at all, improved 

 in their fortunes ; and, a few tailors and shoemakers excepted, they live upon the 

 produce of their own land. 



There is no church near or about New Rochelle, save one which from the one 

 side of its bounds is three miles distant, and from the other side seven miles dis- 

 tant ; and divine service is no oftener performed in it than once in a month, or 

 twelve times in a year. Travelling is in all seasons difficult in this country, it 

 being very rough and uneven — full of rocks and stones, hills, valleys, creeks, 

 loose and bad bridges. The Fall is attended with great showers, and the Winter 

 with ice, snow, and exceeding sharp winds. 



3rd. As to the 3rd head. There is two Quaker families, three Dutch ones, 

 four Lutherans, and several of the French. The first never assist our assemblies; 

 the Dutch and Lutheran, on the contrary, constantly assist when divine service 

 is performed in English — so that they may understand it — and their children like- 

 wise have all been baptized by ministers of the Church. Only the French Dis- 

 senters have deserted it upon Mr. Moulinars, formerly one of the French minis- 

 ters of New York, coming and settling, now a year ago, among us ; and 'tis also 

 by his means and inducement, that while he yet was minister of New York, that 

 they have buiit a wooden meeting-house within the time they was unprovided 

 for — that is, from my predecessor's death to my arrival here. The said Mouli- 

 nars and followers, to the number of about one hundred persons, and the said 

 meeting-house built by his persuasion, are the pole dissenting teacher, people, and 

 meeting-house within New Rochelle bounds. The said Moulinars is supported 

 partly by the contributions of his hearers, partly by the assistance of some of the 

 French Dissenters of New York, who, in my predecessor's time, as well as now, 

 have done much harm to our poor church, and always obstructed their recon- 

 ciliation thereto. 



4th. There is no school nor schoolmaster as yet in New Rochelle ; the parents 

 take care to instruct their own children, and that they do generally pretty well, 

 besides what instructions are given to them in the church during Summer by the 

 minister. 



5th. As to the fifth article. I don't question but the Honorable Society knows 

 that the Lord Pell when he sold the 6,000 acres of New Rochelle ground to the 

 aforesaid families of refugees who first settled it, gave in the same time 100 acres 

 of land for the encouragement and benefit of any minister that would serve them ; 

 which land being laid out by the buyers in one of the worst places, upon a very 

 rocky ground, and distant a mile and one half from the parish house, has been 

 let by my predecessor and by me for four pence sterling an acre, yearly rent, 

 bating 20 acres holden by a distracted woman, not supported by the parish be- 

 fore last year, &c. 



There is no other library but that which Mr. Bondet has left to the church, 

 consisting of about 400 volumes. 



6th. The number of slaves within New Rochelle is 78 ; part of them con- 

 stantly attend Divine service, and have had some instructions in the Christian 

 Faith by the care and assistance of their respective masters and mistresses—so 

 that my predecessors did not scruple to baptize some, and even to admit to the 

 Communion of the Lord's Supper ; and I myself have, for the same considera_ 

 Mon, baptized fifteen of them within these three years— some children and some 



