Given in Att a Publick Town Meeting at Bedford upon their Desires of my i Answer [ Aprill ve 2d 1703 J. J.

November 30th, 1703, the town by a maijor vote doth make chois of Jonathan Miller, Na»han Clark John Holmes Jr. and Jonathan Holmes

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to take a list and make Mr. Jones his this year's rate and to gather it for him.

March 5th 1704-5 the town by a maijor vote chuseth Nathan Clark, Colleckter to geather Mr Jones, his half year rate.

John Jones was the eldest son of the Rev. John Jones "a man of some note in the early history of the New England churches," pastor of the Congregational society at Fairfield, Conn. He was born at Concord in 1639 and graduated at Harvard College0 after preaching there a short time finally went to Greenwich.

Very little is known of the history of the Presbyterian Church in Bedford for the next sixteen years; in the meantime the church had changed its form of government, from that of Independent to that of Presbyterian. Who supplied the people with the gospel, we have not been able to find out; but God preserved and fostered the little band of Christian men and women, while they planted their feet upon the good sound scriptural principles of Presbyterianism : Here they stood, fortified by faith and prayer, until God heard and answered, and sent them from far over the sea a man after His own heart, to break unto them the Bread of Life.