Jacques Laborie

Education: Theology Degree (To 1688) in Geneva, Switzerland
Occupation: Minister (To Circa 1688) Switzerland
Occupation: Minister From Circa 1688 To Circa 1697 London
Marriage: Marriage to: Jeanne Laborie (born De Resseguier)1692 London, England
Education: Medical Degree To 1697 London, England
Immigration: Came to America 1698
Emigration: 1698
Occupation: Physician
Occupation: Minister & Doctor Circa 1704 New Oxford, Massachusetts
Occupation: Minister & Doctor From Circa 1704 To Circa 1716 New York & Stratford, Conneticut
Marriage: Marriage to: Mary Laborie (born Burr) Sep 30 1704 Fairfield, Stratford, Connecticut
Will: Mar 17 1730/31
Probate: May 4 1731
Death: May 4 1731 Fairfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, British Colonial America

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https://www.cairn.info/revue-francaise-d-etudes-americaines-2014-4-...

"Despite official conformism, some Huguenot ministers considered the Anglican Church to be not only a persecutor of Presbyterians, but also too close to Catholicism (Fontaine 133). In New York, the consistory of the French Reformed Église du Saint Esprit, established in 1688, refused French pastors who had been re-ordained by the Anglican Church, such as Jacques Laborie in the late 1690s and Louis Rou in the 1720s. For the consistory, Rou was an “Anglican sympathiser” (Wheeler Carlo 2006, 111). The consistory insisted that it was necessary to conform to the Church “de nous conformer aux saints canons de l’Église, & aux reglemens particuliers de la Discipline des Églises reformées de France “(NYHS, Consistory Minutes June and July 1774). Still in the 1760s, some French Protestants, if only a minority, supported New York’s French church, the Église du Saint Esprit, so that “the said Church shall continue to be moderated and governed in Peace, conformable to the Discipline of the Reformed Churches of France” (NYHS, Abstracts of Last Wills 4: 418). While the Église du Saint Esprit accepted non-French pastors in some cases, such as the German Reformed minister Blumer, they refused, up to 1802, Anglican pastors and proselytes and vehemently objected Anglican conformity despite growing financial difficulties and a decrease in members (NYHS, Registre des Résolutions 5 Jan. 1757; Lachenicht 309-324). New York’s French church consistory minutes followed the same line

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[%E2%80%A6] non que Nous ne Regardions l’Église anglicane comme une véritable Église de Jesus Christ notre Seigneur, mais par le Respect pour nos predecesseurs qui ont Etably & fondé notre Église, que nous desirons de conserver & Maintenir sur le meme pied qu’elle est établie, ce qui a été le sentiment unanime de tous les Membres du Comité.
(NYHS, Registre des Résolutions, 8 Jan. 1764)
11The fact that French Reformed identity had to be preserved in honor of its persecuted ancestors is illustrated by John Pintard’s letters dating from the early nineteenth century. A Huguenot descendant, married to a Methodist, and trustee (vestryman) of the New York Église du Saint Esprit, he wrote, in 1816, to one of his daughters in Florida: “How can I abandon the Church erected by my pious ancestors!” As a Huguenot descendant of the fourth generation, Pintard felt obliged “to uphold the Church of my Forefathers & to pay my adoration where our pious ancestors poured forth their orisons [sic] to our Heavenly Father” (Pintard I: 3-4). Together with other vestrymen of the formerly French Reformed church of New York, Pintard made sure that from 1802 onward all pastors of the now officially Anglican Église du Saint Esprit were Swiss reformed pastors from French-speaking Geneva, Lausanne or Neuchâtel (NYHS, Procédés des Trustees).

SEE ALSO https://stesprit.org/history/

"A second wave of Huguenots came to the New World after Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. The king made a determined effort to crush all practice of Reformed Christianity in France, and to forcibly convert Protestants to Catholicism. This tragic and misguided action drove hundreds of thousands of France's most able and industrious people from their homeland.

This influx of Huguenots to New York was so great that after a few years, Saint Esprit's congregation became too large for their small building on Petticoat Lane. In 1704 a new and larger church was built at the corner of Pine and Nassau Streets. It was called, for the first time, "Le Temple du Saint-Esprit." It was to serve the parish for the next 130 years.

This church was a simple rectangular building, 50 by 75 feet. Beside it was a graveyard. There was a wooden fence on the sides which bordered the streets. It possessed a small tower which was surmounted by a cupola. By all accounts, it looked like a small country church.

Mr. Peiret died in 1704, before the new church could be completed. His successor, Jacques Laborie, had a brief ministry at Saint-Esprit. Mr Laborie had received teleological training in Zurich before studying medicine in London. He was sent to America by an Anglican missionary society. After assuming his duties as pastor he began to pressure the parish to adhere to the Church of England. When it would not, he resigned two years after his arrival, and moved to Connecticut where, for the rest of his life, he had a rather distinguished career as a physician."