. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ich theGeneral Court of Massachusetts made in 1683 to a company of Englishgentlemen. The gi-ant was made on the condition that the proprietors,within four years from date, should settle thereon thirty families andan able orthodox minister. In compliance with this condition MajorEobert Thompson, one of the proprietors residing in London, contracted THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA. 427 with Gabriel Bernou, a merchant of La liochelle who had fled toEngland after the recall, for the settlement of thirty French familieson the Oxford grant. It wou
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ich theGeneral Court of Massachusetts made in 1683 to a company of Englishgentlemen. The gi-ant was made on the condition that the proprietors,within four years from date, should settle thereon thirty families andan able orthodox minister. In compliance with this condition MajorEobert Thompson, one of the proprietors residing in London, contracted THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA. 427 with Gabriel Bernou, a merchant of La liochelle who had fled toEngland after the recall, for the settlement of thirty French familieson the Oxford grant. It would appear that, according to the terms oftheir agreement, Bernon was to pay, if necessary, for the removal ofthe settlers and their effects ; to build a grist-mill at Now Oxford, andto provide such other means as might be requisite for the pioper culti-vation of the land. In consideration of these services the proprietorsfinally deeded to Bernon seventeen hundred and fifty acres of land;and to his agent, Bertrand du Tufieau, seven hundred and fifty FANEDIL HALL IN 1789. Each family freely received from fifty to one hundred acres, accordingto its size. As already stated the first colonists arrived in the autumn of were accompanied by the Eev. Daniel Bondet, who, after Bernon,was the chief man among them. In 1687 their number had in-creased to fifty-two, and it is probable that by the beginning of thenext year the full quota of thirty families had been furnished. Thecolony now entered upon a brief period of prosperity. In accordancewith the practice of other Huguenot colonies it appears to Jiave gov-erned itself; and the few necessary public buildings and institutionswere gradually called into existence. For better protection againstthe Indians a small fort was constructed ; a saw-mill and a grist-millwere built; a substantial church edifice was erected ; a convenient plotwas laid out for a cemetery ; and, as aAvelcome reward for such worthyeflforts, the wild fo
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