afterwards received as pastor a refugee minister from France, named Diaille.[H] The Rev. M. Lawrie is also mentioned as one of their pastors.  But from official records we learn more of the Rev. Daniel Boudet, A.M.  He was a native of France, born in 1652, and studied theology at Geneva.  On the revocation, he fled to England, receiving holy orders from the Lord Bishop of London.  In the summer of 1686 he accompanied the Huguenot emigrants to Massachusetts; and Cotton Mather speaks of him as a faithful minister ’to the French congregation at New Oxford, in the Nipmog (Indian) counties.’  This was New Oxford, near Boston.  He labored for eight years, ‘propagating the Christian faith,’ both among the French and the Indians.  He complains, as we do in our day, of the progress of the sale of rum among the savages,’without order or measure’ (July 6, 1691).  We shall learn more of him at New Rochelle, where he removed, probably, in 1695, and could preach to both English and French emigrants.  Soon after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Joseph Dudley, with other proprietors, introduced into Massachusetts thirty French Protestant families, settling them on the easternmost part of the ’Oxford tract.’[I]

Massachusetts, peopled in part by the rigid Protestant Dissenters, naturally favored these new victims, persecuted by a church still more odious to them than that of England.  Their sympathies were deeply excited by the arrival of the French exiles.  The destitute were liberally relieved, the towns of Massachusetts making collections for this purpose, and also furnishing them with large tracts of land to cultivate.  In 1686 the colony at Oxford thus received a noble grant of 11,000 acres; and other provinces followed the liberal example.  Every traveler through New England has seen ‘Faneuil Hall,’ which has been called the ‘Cradle of Liberty,’ and where so many assemblages for the general good have been held.  This noble edifice was presented to Boston, for patriotic purposes, by the son of a Huguenot.

Much of our knowledge concerning the Huguenots of New York has been obtained from the documentary papers at Albany.  Some of the families, before the revocation, as early as the year 1625, reached the spot where the great metropolis now stands, then a Dutch settlement.  The first birth in New Amsterdam, of European parents, was a daughter of George Jansen de Rapelje, of a Huguenot family which fled to Holland after the St. Bartholomew’s massacre, and thence sailed for America.  Her name was Sarah.  Her father was a Walloon from the confines of France and Belgium, and settling on Long Island, at the Waal-bogt, or Walloon’s Bay, became the father of that settlement.  In 1639 his brother, Antonie Jansen de Rapelje, obtained a grant of one hundred ‘morgens,’ or nearly two hundred acres of land, opposite Coney Island, and commenced the settlement of Gravesend.  Here most numerous and respectable descendants of this Walloon