[176] Bancroft, final revision, ii. 238.
[177] Report Rec. Com., vii. pp. 224, 228, 230.
[178] The fort had been built there in 1690. After this attack the farms were again occupied, but finally abandoned in 1704. C. W. Baird’s Huguenot Emigration to America, ii. 264, 278.
[179] April 2, 1697; he had died March 27.
[180] Pemberton Square, then elevated considerably higher than now.
[181] John Marshall’s diary, printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., April, 1884, p. 153, describes the parade on Bellomont’s reception, May, 1699.
[182] Haliburton (Rule and Misrule of the English in America, 232) praises him, and calls him “a true specimen of a great liberal governor.”
Cf. Frederic de Peyster’s Life and Administration of Richard, Earl of Bellomont, governor of the provinces of N. Y., Mass., and N. H., from 1697 to 1701. N. Y.: 1879,—an address delivered before the N. Y. Hist. Society.
Bellomont, in his speech to the General Court, advised them to succor the Huguenot clergyman of Boston, his congregation being reduced in numbers. It was five years before that (1695) the Huguenot Oxford settlement had been broken up by the Indian depredations, and nine years earlier (1686) they had first come to Massachusetts with their minister. We have lately had an adequate account of their story in Charles W. Baird’s Huguenot Emigration to America (N. Y., 1885, two vols.), and the “Huguenot Society of America” was established in 1884, when the first part of their Proceedings was published. The earliest treatment of the subject is Dr. Abiel Holmes’s Memoir of the French Protestants, published in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Collections (vol. xxii. p. 1). This was largely about the Oxford settlement, which has since been further illustrated by Geo. T. Daniels in his Huguenots in the Nipmuck Country. Next after Holmes came Hannah F. Lee’s Huguenots in France and America (Cambridge, 1843), but it is scant in matter. Somewhat later (1858, etc.), Mr. Joseph Willard considered them in his paper, “Naturalization in the American Colonies,” printed in the Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc. (iv. 337), showing they were not naturalized till 1731; and Lucius Manlius Sargent recalled many associations with their names in his Dealings with the Dead (vol. ii. pp. 495-549). Cf. further, Ira M. Barton, in Am. Antiq. Soc. Proc., Ap., 1862, Ap., 1864; Mem. Hist. of Boston (chap. by C. C. Smith), ii. p. 249; Blaikie’s Presbyterianism in New England (Boston, 1881), where their church is considered the forerunner of the Presbyterian method of government; Palfrey’s New England, iv. p. 185. The Huguenot society recognizes by their vice-presidents two other settlements of the Huguenots before 1787, in New England, beside those of Oxford and Boston, namely, one in Maine and another in Rhode Island,—the latter being commemorated by Elisha R. Potter’s French Settlements in Rhode Island, being no. 5 of the Rhode Island Historical Tracts, published by S. S. Rider in Providence, R. I.
[183] Trip to New England, with a character of the country and people, both English and Indian, Anonymous, London, 1699; second edition in Writings of the Author of the London Spy, London, 1704; third edition in The London Spy, London, 1706. (The present History, Vol. III. p. 373; Carter-Brown, ii. no. 2,580; Brinley, i. no. 371; Stevens, Bibl. Hist., 1870, no. 2,278; Shurtleff’s Desc. of Boston, p. 53.)