1700- Peter Faneuil, builder of Boston's Faneuil Hall, is born in New Rochelle on June 20th.

1704- Madam Sarah Kimble Knight, a New Englander who traveled on horseback from Boston to New York gives this account of her travels through New Rochelle: "We set out for New Rochelle where being come we had good Entertainment and Recruited ourselves very well. This is a very pretty place well compact and good handsome houses, clean, good passable roads, and situated on a Navigable River, abundance of land well fined and cleared (sic) all along we passed, which caused me a Love of the place, which I could have been content to live in it."

1709- The majority of Huguenot settlers (Calvinists) conform to the liturgy of the established Church of England. The present Trinity-St. Paul's Church, corner of Huguenot and Division Streets, is the successor. The dissenters formed what later became the First Presbyterian Church of New Rochelle.

1724- Rev. Pierre Stouppe, pastor of the conforming church, now Trinity-St. Paul's Church, establishes a private school in the parsonage. This school was attended by Philip Schuyler, (a Revolutionary war general), John Jay (the first Supreme Court Justice), and other notables. Instruction was given in both English and French.

Anthony Lispenard acquires Davenport Neck and builds a milldam between Davenport Neck and the mainland. The mill, located at the foot of Water Street operated under various owners until the late 19th century. Remnants of the dam survive today at Titus Mill.

1738- Last recorded entries in French on town records.

1754- Ferry service begins between New Rochelle and Cow Neck (now Manhasset Cove, on Long Island). Much later, the "Huguenot" ferry began service between New Rochelle and Sea Cliff, Long Island.