THE TOWN OF NEW ROCHELLE. 673 



According to information derived from the Allaire family the above 

 lot embraces the site of the present Presbyterian parsonage, the northern 

 part of which lot was formerly used as a grave yard. On this spot the 

 " Reformed Protestant Congregation of New Rochelle " erected a church 

 about 1723-4; this edifice having fallen into decay was afterwards re- 

 moved in 1783 by John Guerrineau, carpenter. We have already seen 

 that the first edifice erected by the Huguenots on March 19, 1697, stood 

 a little east of the last mentioned structure and was destroyed by fire 

 about 1723. 



The first pastor of the Reformed Protestant church at New Rochelle, 

 after the conformity, was the " Reverend Jean Brumeau de Moulinars, 

 who was undoubtedly a son of Jean Brumaud, Sieur de Moulinars, pas- 

 tor of Champagne Mouton, Poitou, France, and afterwards of Chatel- 

 lerault, who fled to Holland after the Revocation. Jean Joseph was 

 ordained by the Walloon Synod in Holland, and came to New York in 

 17 18 to be colleague of the Rev. Louis Rou. He seems to have been 

 highly esteemed by the people ; but disagreeing with Rou, he retired to 

 New Rochelle where he had previously officiated at stated times from 

 the period of his coining to America."* Moulinars treatment of his 

 superior, Monsieur Rou, is very much censured by many members of 

 the New York congregation in 1724. In a petition to Governor Bur- 

 net, Roux's friends say, " that they are too sensibly touched with the dis- 

 advantages they lye under from the misfortunes of their want of his 

 Pastoral care over them, whose exemplary Piety and Instruction for up- 

 wards of fourteen years have rendered him exceedingly estimable to 

 all who know him, and which can't but be acknowledged even by those 

 who are now the occasion of your Pet'rs, giving your Excellency this 

 trouble and who side with his assistant, Mr. Moulinar, from whom both 

 as a Brother and a Christian better offices might have been expected 

 than to have found him the penman of such Instrument which are the 

 present motive of all our troubles, &c." b 



In Mr. Louis Rou's third memorial in answer to gentlemen of the 

 French Consistory in a petition to the Governor in 1724-25, speaking of 

 the Dissenters from the Church of England as by law established, he 

 says: 



" In opposition to this National Church they have entertained and 

 fomented for several years a scandalous schism at New Rochel, where 



a From Rev. Charles Baird's forth-coming Hist, of the Huguenots in America. 



b Doc. Hist., N. Y.. vol. iii., p. 466. See Moulinar's answer, ditto, p. 470. At a meeting of 

 t&e committee of the Council, March 4th, 1724-5, to report to the Governor, they assert that 

 the congregation of the French Protestant church had no authority to suspend their minister, 

 p. 470. 



