646 HISTROY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



by enlistings in the King's service and by death; nevertheless, the 

 number of his communicants is seventy-four, and he had baptized within 

 the present half year, fifteen white and five black children."* 



The ministry of this zealous a.nd successful missionary was brought to 

 a close by his death in July, 1760. The Rev. Henry Barclay, D.D., 

 rector of Trinity church, New York, in a letter dated September 3d, 

 1760, encloses the following address to the Society from the church at 

 New Rochelle, wherein they acquaint that body with the death of the 

 Rev. Pierre Stouppe, who for thirty-seven years had been their mis- 

 sionary : 



VESTRY OF NEW ROCHELLE TO THE SECRETARY. 



"New Roohelle, July ye 30^, 1760. 



Rev. Sir. — We, the members of the Church of New Rochelle, in the Province 

 of New York, in communion with the Church of England, beg leave to acquaint 

 the Venerable Society, that it hath pleased Almighty God to call home to Him- 

 self their late worthy missionary, and our faithful pastor, the Rev. Mr. Stouppe, 

 by whose death we are bereaved of the inestimable blessing of the regular dispen- 

 sation of the divine ordinances. This loss will be irreparable, unless we may be 

 allowed to hope for the continuance of ye bounty, which has hitherto been dis- 

 persed for the support of the gospel amongst us, wherein if it shall please the 

 Honourable Society to indulge us, we beg leave humbly to request that a suc- 

 cessor may be sent to Mr. Stouppe who is competently versed in the French lan- 

 guage, that he may sometimes officiate therein for the benefit of some of our 

 ancient people ; but if this be not practicable, we shall be content to have the ser- 

 vice wholly in the English tongue, which is by most the best understood by the 

 greatest part of the congregation. 



We have a parsonage house and glebe of 90 acres of land, which if properly 

 improved may become valuable ; and we shall always, we trust, exert ourselves 

 to the utmost of our abilities to make a missionary living as comfortable as pos- 

 sible. Rev. Sir, be pleased to represent this to the Venerable Board, with our 

 most dutiful respects and grateful acknowledgements of their former bounty, 

 which will greatly oblige, Rev. Sirs, &c, 



James De Blez, 

 Barnard Rynlander, 

 Church-wardens. "* 

 and others. 



" Mr. Stouppe (says Mr. Hawkins) was a simple-minded, conscien- 

 tious man, who continued for seven and thirty years faithfully to dis- 

 charge the duties of his mission. During this long incumbency, the 

 number of his communicants had been raised from thirty-three to 

 eighty" 



a Printed abstracts of Ven. Prop. Soc, from 24th Feb., 1758, to 23d Feb., 1859. 

 6 New York MSs. from archives at Fulham, vol. ii. p. 273. (Hawks.) 

 o Missions of the Church of England, by Ernest Hawkins, B. D. 



