THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE. 66 1 



Stouppe, (sole executrix and heir of the last will and testament of ye Rev- 

 erend Peter Stouppe of New Rochelle, in the County of Westchester and 

 province of New York, late deceased,) also gave releases to the Church 

 in 1767. " a 



The old church glebe was sold during the years 1800 and 1804, and 

 the purchase money subsequently loaned on the late parsonage lands, 

 &c , which fell to the church by a foreclosure of the mortgage in Chan- 

 cery, A. D., 1821. 



The Rev. Michael Houdin continued his labors here until October, 

 1766, when he departed this life. He was esteemed a worthy mission- 

 ary, of considerable learning and irreproachable morals. His remains 

 were interred by the side of his predecessors, Bondet and Stouppe, be- 

 neath the chancel of the old French church ; but since the removal of 

 this edifice, the ashes of these worthy and laborious missionaries repose 

 in the highway, without a stone to mark the spot or commemorate their 

 worth. 



Mr. Houdin's funeral sermon was preached by his old friend and 

 companion in arms, the Rev. Harry Munro, A. M., of Yonkers, from 

 Hosea, iv. chap, and part of 12th verse, " Prepare to meet thy God." 



The following extract is from a letter of the Rev. Mr. Auchmuty to 

 the Secretary of the Venerable Society, written a few days after Houdin's 

 death : — 



" I beg the Society will not think of appointing another missionary to 

 New Rochelle at present, the people really do not deserve one; not one 

 farthing did they contribute towards the support of the two last, besides 

 they are too small a number to be indulged with a minister to them- 

 selves — and are distant from Eastch ester church only four miles, from 

 Westchester five, from Rye church five, and from Phillipsburgh church 

 nine miles." 6 



From the death of Mr. Houdin until the period of the Revolutionary 

 War, services were performed here by the Rev. Samuel Seabury, rector 

 of the parish. The following extract, relating to New Rochelle, occurs 

 in Mr. Seabury's first report to the Secretary on the 25th of June, 1767 : — 



" By the death of Mr. Houdin, New Rochelle has fallen under my 

 care for the present ; I have preached there several times, and once ad- 

 ministered the communion to fifteen commnnicants. The consrearation 



public highway leading from the said creek and which divides the aforesaid 100 acres of land 

 from the lands of Benjamin Browne,) and of, in and to all, &c." County Records, Lib. H. p. 

 350. " 1763. affidavit of Jonathan Fowler, Charles Vincent, Thomas Butler and Lewis Guion, 

 all of the County of Westchester in the suit of Trinity church at New Kochelle against Peter 

 Flaudreau, Samuel Gelliottand Elizabeth Rylander." Land Papers, Vol. i,-1643, 1803, p. 30. 

 "Dec. 23, affidavit of Jacobus Bleecker in an action of the minister &c . of the Church of New 

 Rochelle against Peter Flandreau and otners.' : Land Fapers, Vol. 1.-1643, 1803, p. 30: 



a Co. Rec. Lib. G. pp. 554, 556. See also Lib. H. 349. 



b New York MSS. from archives at Fulham, vol. ii. (Hawks.) 



