674 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



the incapacity for providing for a minister obliged the inhabitants 

 to establish an Episcopal Church through the Bounty and Protection 

 of the Society in England ; and they would still support this schism, 



if their M was not taken up in the custody of our Church of 



which he keeps the keys to keep me out unjustly. In short they have 

 always looked upon my inclination, esteem, and respect for the Church 

 of England as a crime in me." Mr. Rou adds, " They have always been 

 enemies of the Church of England as bylaw established; they have al- 

 ways railed at her liturgy, her services and ceremonies" 0. About one 

 year after these disgraceful proceedings in New York, Moulinars re- 

 tired to New Rochelle to annoy Monsieur Stouppe, the lawful minister 

 of that place. " The will of John Joseph Moulinar in the County of 

 Westchester and Province of New York, minister of the Holy Evangille 

 in New Rochelle," bears date istof October, 1741, and was proved 13th 

 October, 1741,^ so that he must have died somewhere between the first 

 and thirteenth of October of the same year. His wife was Judith Marie. 

 On the 17th of October, 1726, John Parcot of New Rochelle, sold to 

 Judith Marie Moulinars, gentle woman of the same place, his farm of 

 forty-seven acres in New Rochelle. Moulinars had a daughter, Susanne 

 Helene, born Feb. 8, 17 19; and a son Jean, born Feb. 13, 1722; both 

 of whom were baptized by Monsieur Rou, in New York. This son, 

 Jean, I conjecture, was the John Moulinars who 'entered the service as 

 first lieutenant, June 15, 1746."° 



It deserves to be mentioned here that the French Reformed church 

 at New Rochelle had been for some time annexed to the French Re- 

 formed church of New York ; maintaining, however, their own Con- 

 sistory, a state of things that continued until the Revolutionary war. 



From the following document it appears that Monsieur Jean Carle 

 had succeeded Moulinars in the pastorate at New Rochelle : 



Certificate of Dismission given to Mr. Jean Carle, pastor of the Reformed 

 French church, New Rcchelle, April 13, 1764, 



In the name of God, amen. 



Certificate given to Mr. Jean Carle, our pastor. We the undersigned elders and 

 deacons who now compose the consistory of the Reformed French church at New 

 Rochelle, in the government of New York, in America, certify and declare that 

 Mr. Jean Carle, minister of the holy Gospel, has been our pastor during about 

 ten years, that he had resided in this government ; that we have been edified by 

 his Christian and worthy walk as a minister of Jesus Christ the great Shepherd 



a Doc Hist. N. Y. vol. iii. p 1169. 

 £> Surrogates Rec. N. Y. Lib., xiv. p. 150. 



c Kev. Chas. Baird's llugenots in America. See English MSS. in Sec. of State's office, vol. 

 lxxv. p. 64. 



