Abram Ambler Senor. a frame fortey foots long & twenty-two foots wide and to set it up fit for clabording & shingling and to rais it up by the last of March to come after the deate thereof & the house above mentioned is to be teen foots & a half between ioynts and the frame above mentioned is to be set up upon the consideration that Mr. Abraham Ambler, Senor. will com up as often as he can conveniantly to cary on the Lord's day amongst us one year yt he may settle with us." May 14th, 1690. seven months after the former vote, at another town meeting we have -the following minute: "The town doth by uote chuse Zachariah Roberts for to cary on the Sabba th day whill they can be othcrwavs provided."

Jannewary, 1694, we have this vote: "The town by vote doth agree that as much land e medow as can be spaired e not predigous to highwavs yt lyeth one the norwest sid of whiping-post brook shall be keept for a ministar e to be disposed to now man els but a minister."

a Hist. Presbvterian Ch. Jamaica, L. I., by Jas. M. Maedouald. b Hist of Presbyterian Ch. Bedford, by Rev. P. B. neroy.

THE TOWN' OF BEDFORD.

October 16th, 1694, the town agreed to buy a house and lot of John Ambler for a parsonage, '"provided his price do not exceed £25." In all probability, the spot on which the Presbyterian church (built in 1872) now stands is a part of this original purchase.