The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3
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Excerpt from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3: Devoted to Literature and National Policy; January, 1863 The grantor, heirs, and assigns, as an acknowledgment, were to pay Mr. Pell ´one fatted calf on every fourth and twentieth day of June, yearly, and every year, forever, if demanded.´ It is a well known fact that every. Huguenot, on the festival of St. John, pays his proportion toward the purchase of the fat calf whenever claimed. During the year 1690, Leisler leased to the banished Huguenots these lands, purchased for them, as they came directly here from England, and were a portion of the 50,000 who found safety in that glorious Protestant kingdom four years before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. At the revocation itself, not less than half a million escaped from bigoted France to Holland, Germany, and England; and to those in the latter country, Charles II., then on the British throne, granted letters of denization under the great seal, and Parliament relieved them from ´importation duties and passport fees.´ During this same year, many, flying from France, were aided in their escape by English vessels off the island of Rhe, opposite brave La Rochelle. According to tradition, some of these were transported to this region, naming their new settlement in honor of their ´Own Rochelle, the fair Rochelle, Proud city of the waters.´ In the Documentary History of New York, vol. iii., p. 926, we find a petition to Colonel Fletcher, Governor of the colony, signed by Thanet, and Elei Cothouneau, in behalf of above twenty of these French refugees. ´Your petitioners,´ they state, ´having been forced, by the late persecutions in France, to forsake their country and estates, and fiye to ye Protestant princes wherefore they were invited to come and buy lands in this province, and they might by their labour help the necessityes of their families, and did spend all their small store with the aid of their friends, whereof they did borrow great sums of money [Ms. torn.] They had lost their country and their estates, but saved their good principles and a pure faith; and, in a strange land, petitioned his Excellency ´to take their case in serious consideration, and out of charity and pity to grant them for some years what help and privileges your Excellency shall think convenient.´ This is one of the earliest authentic records (1681) we have met with concerning the New Rochelle French refugees. Pell, the lord of the manor, besides the 6,000 acres already obtained, also granted 100 additional, ´for the sake of the French church, erected or about to be erected, by the inhabitants of the said tract of land.´ This Huguenot church in New Rochelle was built about 1692-93, of wood, and stood in the rear of the present mansion house. It was destroyed soon after the Revolutionary war. Louis Bougeaud, about the same time, donated a piece of land forty paces square, for a churchyard to bury their dead; and, subsequently, a house with three acres of land was given by the town to the Huguenot church forever. The Rev. David Bourepos was the first minister of the New Rochelle Huguenots; he had likewise served his French brethren on Staten Island. The Governor requesting him to nominate ´some persons for the vacant offices of justices of the peace,´ he replies that ´he could not comply, as none of his colonists at New Rochelle had a knowledge of the English tongue.´ Nothing now is known of Bourepos´ ministry or history. From his title of D.D., he must have been a man of learning; and we can learn something about the time when he died from the date of his will. ´Letters of administration were granted to Martha Bourepos, wife of David Bourepos, 25th of October, 1711´ (New York Surrogates´ Office). He probably resigned his pastoral
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