Blatchford; but the result was that they were both retained to supply alternately the congregations of Bedford and Poundridge. At the next meeting of the Presbytery of Hudson, to which the congregations then belonged, Mr. Blatchford, giving assent to the Presbyterian Confession of Faith and form of government, was appointed the sole supply for Bedford, as many Sabbaths as convenient for him. But in 1 796 he received a call to Greenfield, Conn., in the church that was formerly in charge of the Rev. Dr. Dwight. In 1 797, he was invited to the church at Stratford (now Bridgeport), to preach for them six months with reference to a final settlement. He was finally installed here and remained for a number of years both as a preacher and a teacher in an Academy built by his special request. In 1 S04 he was invited to take charge of the Churches of Lansingburgh and Waterford, in the State of New York, where he remained for seven years and died March 17th, 1828, in the sixty-second year of his age and the forty-first year of his ministry. Dr. Nott, president of Union College preached his funeral sermon. He was the father of seventeen children, of these, seven died before him ; two of his sons were ministers, one a physician, and one a lawyer -- all respectable and useful in their professions. After Mr. Blatchford left, the Rev. Josiah Henderson of Martha's Vineyard, was called as pastor and installed over the church by the Presbytery of