Elizabeth Heurtin, Marie Anne Ablin, Magdalene
Fauconnier, Anne Bachan, Mary Perot, Susanne Magle Bosset, Mary
Sergeran, Esther Bouniot, Marquise Boyteul, Martha Brown, Renee Mary
Rou, Judith Morget, Martha Pentereau, Mary Bargeau, Susanne Boutecon,
Susanne Ford, Mary Oaks, Mary Ellison, Martha Perot, Esther Masse,
Elizabeth Tillou.
At this period, a Rey. Mr. Moulinars was the assistant minister of Mr.
Rou, and united with the party who opposed him, and they also have left
records of their views, in which they claim to have paid Mr. Rou in
full, and that then the Consistory could dismiss him when they saw fit.
'We are not indebted unto Mr. Rou one farthing for all the time he hath
served us,' is their language, and to their official act are the
signatures of 'I. I. Moulinars, ministre, John Barheweeld, Louis
Carreansien, Abraham Gouneau, ans., Fran. Cazalz, ans., Rene Het, ans.,
January twenty-eighth, 1724.' Still the Council decided in favor of Mr.
Rou, and were 'of opinion that the said congregation be admonished that
every person in it do all in his power to preserve peace and unanimity
in their congregation.' That body also advised 'that the ministers of
the French congregation who shall officiate next Sunday be ordered to
read publicly the said opinion and admonition, immediately after divine
service in the forenoon.'
All these efforts did not produce harmony in the French congregation.
Moulinars evidently had a restless spirit, and was much opposed to the
Church of England, at that time the established religion of the New-York
Colony, and respected by many of the Huguenots. Through his efforts, a
'meeting-house' was erected for the French refugees at New-Rochelle, and
its members numbered one hundred persons. One old document (May twelfth,
1725) records 'that the said Mr. Moulinars has declared (as can be
proved) that he finds our Church (Episcopal) and that of Rome as like
one another as two fishes can be ... and one of the chiefest reasons of
this violence against Mr. Rou has no other ground than his constant
affection to the Church, and the public approbation he has at all times
given to its ceremonies and doctrines.' The churchmen also complained
that Moulinars caused 'great prejudice in general to the Church of
England, and in particular to that of New-Rochelle, where he would come
quarterly from New-York, and plead among the people.' New-Rochelle was
then a parish, and its rector, of course, considered th
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