discipline; but the minister, with his
friends, appealed from this decision to Governor Burnet and his Council,
when they sustained him. Indignant memorials were published by both
parties, and things went so far, that when De Lancey was elected to the
Colonial Assembly, the Governor refused to administer his oath of
office, alleging that he was not a subject of the British crown. De
Lancey, the Huguenot, contended that he had left France before the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and had received denization in
England, under the great seal of James II. He was right, and the
Assembly sustained his argument and claims against his Excellency the
'Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Provinces of New-York,
New-Jersies, and Territories thereon depending in America.'

For the curious in old families, among the official friends of the
French minister, we find James Gou, John Hastier, Elias Pelletreau, Jr.,
Jean Va Chan, Andrew Foucault, Jacques Bobin, N. Cazalet, Samuel
Bourdet, David Le Febrer, Francois Bourdet, Peter Morgat. They testify
to Mr. Rou's 'exemplary piety and instruction for upwards of fourteen
years,' which 'have rendered him exceedingly estimable to all who knows
him, which can't but be acknowledged even by those who are now the
occasion of this trouble.' We find a more general list of French
families, his friends also, and dated thirty-first December, 1724, and
they speak well of him, 'with edification, always leading an exemplary
life:' James Bergerron, Francis Bosset, Daniel Girand, Daniel Gailliard,
Elias Chardavoine, Paul Pelletreau, James Many, Gamaliel Guyele, Anthony
Pintard, Jeremie La Touche, Samuel Bourdet, Jean Bachan, Elie Mainburt,
Andrew Richard, James Belleveau, Peter Quintard, John Bosset, James
Bobin, Daniel Bossuet, Charles Jardin, Amand Perot, William Huertin,
John Vezier, Peter Dennys Doctr, John Many, Peter Tillou, Peter Ebrard,
Henry Collier, John David, Noe Cazalet, Gabriel Le Boyteix, Jr., Elias
Grosellier, Andrew Girand, Francis Baumier, James Des Brosses, James
Renaudet, Lawrence Cornisleau, Daniel Mesnard, John Ganeau, Peter
Monget, John Hastier, David Le Telier, Jean Le Chevalier, Philip
Gilliot, Abraham Bertrand, Abraham Butler, Daniel Cromelin, John
Pintard, Abraham Pontereau, Peter Burton, Stephen Bourdet, Paul Pinaud,
Peter Fauconnier. As the same old chronicle says: 'Here followeth the
names of the widow women, and others, members of the same church:'
Rachel Ebrard,