The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ich theGeneral Court of Massachusetts made in 1683 to acompany 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 MajorRobert Thompson, one of the proprietors residing in Loudon, contracted THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA. 427 with Gabriel Bernon, a merchant of La Kochelle who had lied toEngland after the recall, for the settlement of thirty French familieson the Oxford grant. It would a
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . ich theGeneral Court of Massachusetts made in 1683 to acompany 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 MajorRobert Thompson, one of the proprietors residing in Loudon, contracted THE HUGUENOTS IN AMERICA. 427 with Gabriel Bernon, a merchant of La Kochelle who had lied toEngland after the recall, for the settlement of thirty French familieson the Oxford grant. It would appear that, according to the terms oftheir agreement, Ijemon was to pay, if necessary, for the removal ofthe seUlcrs and their ctlects ; to l)iiild a grist-mill at New Oxford, andto provide such other means as might he requisite for tiie proper culli-valion of the land. In consideration of these services the proprietorsfinally deeded to Bernon seventeen hundred and fifty acres of land;and to his agent, Bcrtrand du Tutlcau, seven hundred and fifty FANEUIL H.\LL IK 17 Each family freely received from tifty to one hundred acres, accordingto its size. As already stated the first colonists arrived in the autumn of lOSG,They were accompanied by the Eev. Daniel Bondet, who, after Bernon,was the chief man among them. In 1GS7 their number had in-creased to fifty-two, and it is proba1)lc (liat by the beginning of thenext year the full (|uota of thirty families had I)een furnished. Tiiocolony now entered upon a ))rief period of prosperity. In accordancewith the jjractice of other Huguenot colonics it appears to have gov-erned itself; and the few necessary public i)uildings and instilutionswere gradually called into existence. For better protection againstthe Indians a small fort was ; a .saw-mill and a grist-millwere built; a sid)stantial church edifice was erected ; a convenient plotwas laid out for a cemetery ; and, as a welcome reward for such worthyefforts, the wil
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