The Church Missionary of Hanover, immediately wrote to England that the new light preacher had left them. Mr. Sacket had a great deal of trouble with his brethren in the Presbytery, as he differed widely from them in both the doctrines and government of the Church. He preached for twenty years in Yorktown or Crumpond, and finally died there June 5th, 1784 His tomb in the cemetery bears record that he was judicious, faithful, laborious and successful in his ministry.

On the resignation or Mr. Sacket in 1753, the Rev. Eliphalet Ball was called as pastor, and was installed Dec. 31st, 1754. He created quite

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a division and difficulty in the church, and was finally dismissed Dec. 21st, 1758. He died in Balston in 1797. After one year's vacancy, Dec. 13th, 1769, the Rev. Samuel Mills was installed pastor of Bedford Church, and remained until May 18th, 1786, when the Presbytery of Dutchess County met and dissolved the relation between him and the church, and the same day installed the Rev. John Davenport as pastor of the Church. But Mr. Mills, though nominally pastor of the church from 1769 to 1786, was absent from the charge for several years -- having been driven from Bedford by the distressing circumstances attending the war. In the meantime, their former pastor, Rev. Eliphalet Ball returned and assumed the supply and charge of the church, and remained in this connection till 1784 when he was dismissed. Mr. Ball having spent four years at Amity, in Woodbridge, Conn., removed to Saratoga County New York, 1788, taking with him a part of his Bedford congregation. The settlement for a long time was called Ball Town, now Ballston.