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Martha, widow of Thomas Stillwell, and thereafter if not before, 
by several indications seems to have been possessed of wealth. 
His will and that of his wife were proved in 1734 (Abs. of Wills 
3:148, 213). The Church records have disappeared but Mr. 
Vosburgh has found in the Samuel Jones papers, sworn copies of 
records of 1696, 1710, and 1714, executed by Henry Latourette in 
1758. 
Mr. Lockman has also found a reference to these records in 
the transfer of membership of Pieter Lockman from French 
church, Staten Island, to Dutch church, New York, on Aug. 31, 
1697. 
The congregation to which de Bonrepos ministered lost its Eng- 
lish members with the establishment of St. Andrew’s and many 
of its Dutch members with the establishment of the Dutch Re- 
- formed Church. In 1865 Gabriel F. Disosway wrote: “I have 
often visited the venerable spot, and all that remains to mark the 
sacred place is a single broken gravestone.” In 1876 Rockwell 
wrote that “only a few stones in the little graveyard are left.” 
Clute in 1877 makes substantially the same statement, while Bayles 
in 1887 gives as the only inscriptions remaining: “ Teunis Van Pelt, 
died 1765, aged 65 years; Mary, his wife, died 1762, aged 59 
years ; and two others, dated 1784 without names ” (Bayles, p. 94). 
Considerable effort has been made by Mr. W. T. Davis, aided by 
Miss Katherine Trench and Mr. George W. White, to find these 
stones or other relics of the church, but unsuccessfully. The 
site, from the investigations of Messrs. Delavan and Vosburgh, 
seems certainly to have been near the long barn on Mr. White’s 
farm, described on Bromley’s Atlas as Blocks 1519 and 1520, 
plate 38, vol. 2. 
After the death of de Bonrepos, or even before it, the French 
congregation became merged with that of the Church of St. An- 
drew. 
The history of the Church of St. Andrew has been so recently 
written by Bishop Burch (Grafton Magazine 1: no. 3, 1908) that 
I will treat it briefly. In 1693 Gov. Fletcher appears to have taken 
a lively interest in church matters and by his urging there was 
