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1706, the following sentence: “Dec. 13, 1702, I preached at 
Staten Island in the Town House on Titus 2:11, 12.” 
Stony Brook was in 1702 the seat of the County Government 
and there if anywhere must have been the “Town House” in 
which Keith preached. That it was not regarded as sufficient in 
1704 1s shown by Col. Laws N. Y. 1: 573-4: “and whereas there 
is wanting in the said County of Richmond a County Jail and 
County House.” It may have been the same building as Morris 
describes, erected during the ministry of Tesschenmacker and 
used for both civil and ecclesiastical purposes for some years after. 
From the end of Tesschenmacker’s ministry the tendency of 
the church to divide along lines based on nationality, first shown in 
the dispute over Rev. Morgan Jones, assumes such proportions 
as to make it most convenient to consider the French, English, 
and Dutch separately. 
The French congregation as a separate organization dates, ac- 
cording to Corwin’s Manual, from 1687, when Laurentius Van 
den Bosch “organized the French on Staten Island into a con- 
gregation independent of the congregation in New York ” (Corwin, 
p. 811). This congregation in 1693 subscribed £3 for the relief 
of slaves in Salle (E. C. 1064). Van den Bosch had trouble with 
Henricus Selyns, Dutch pastor in New York, was suspended, and 
went to Maryland. Rev. Pierre Daillé, pastor of French Churen 
in New York and a leader among the Huguenots, preached occa- 
sionally on Staten Island (Corwin, p. 401). In 1693 the French 
congregation secured the services of Rev. David de Bonrepos, 
of New Rochelle, who preached for them until 1717 and lived until 
1734. His congregation in 1695 was French 36, English 4o, 
Dutch 44, he being at that time the only resident pastor bringing 
all the nationalities together. In 1698 the congregation re- 
canjed 2 Gee incom lod Itehyealle Sir, Of lemG ar Green 
Ridge, the earliest ecclesiastical deed Mr. Delavan has found, 
and for some years thereafter the preacher and his congrega- 
tion prospered. De Bonrepos’ name appears frequently in the 
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William LeCounte; in 1703 he is a witness; in 1711 he married 
