Excerpt from The Hugenots on the Hackensack: A Paper Read Before the Huguenot Society of America in the French Church Du Saint-Esprit, New York, April 13, 1885; Before the New Jersey Historical Society, at Trenton, January 26, 1886; Before the New Brunswick Historical Club, February 18, 1886, and In TO gather up what may be found ofthe true and almost romantic history of this little company of 200 years ago, has been with me a labor of love, and a work of absorbing interest. But little would I have found if the men of that day had not kept public records In Church and State, with some measure of care, and if my only 110-1 source had been the materials preserved by a pious reverence for ancestry. A. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.