From time to time the Trustees have sold the land belonging to the parsonage, which formerly consisted of a large Tract, for the more profitable use of the minister, until there is not more than eight or ten acres left at the present date, May 27, 1874."

After Mr. Tennent, in 1721, there is no certainty as to who preached here until 1740, when the Rev. Robert Sturgeon was minister in Bedford. He was a native of Scotland. He left his native place under some embarrassment and came to New England, and was licensed by a council greatly to the regret of Cotton Mather, by reason of his conduct here and at home. He is said, in President Stile's Papers, to have been settled in Bedford, N. Y., for twelve years. But here seems a discrepancy in the history of those times, for the Presbyter)- of New Brunswick installed here, in 1743, the Rev. Samuel Sacket. This would hardly seem probable if Mr. Sturgeon still sustained any relation to the people ; but, says Mr. Webster, the historian, when so many other ties were sundered rudely, even this unbrotherly act may have been committed. Mr. Sturgeon was present in 1745, at the first meeting of the Synod of New York, as a member of the New York Presbytery. His name is not mentioned after 1750, and where he finally settled and died we have not the means at hand of knowing.

The next minister of the Presbyterian Church was Rev. Samuel Sacket, son of the Rev. Richard Sacket, minister of the Second Society of Greenwich in 17 i7,who was, in all probability, installed pastor here by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. He acted also as a sort of missionary n this part of the country, and in 1747 Crumpond obtained his services for half of his time; he supplied Salem, also, and Peekskill.