The Governor of the State of New York sent him an appointment, previous to his leaving Bedford, to act as chaplain in the State prison at Sing-Sing. Completing his appointment here, his health becoming impaired, he supplied a few churches in Presbytery for a short time; but the time for his departure came and he laid down his commission as a minister of the gospel and resigned his ransomed spirit to God who gave it, in Sing-Sing, September 185 1, and was buried in their beautiful cemetery to await the glorious reward of-the Resurrection Morn. The Venerable Dr. Spring of New York, who has recently gone to meet him, preached an appropriate sermon on his funeral occasion -- his wife still survives him.

May 1, 1848, the Rev. David Inglis was called to take charge of this church ; and was installed here October 26, 1848. He was a young man about twenty years of age, recently from Scotland, of great promise for usefulness, having preached a short time previous to his coming here in the

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lower part of this county. He removed to Montreal in Canada East, in June, 1 85 2, from thence to Hamilton in Canada West. Here he remained sixteen years; and in the summer of 186 1, was elected by the Synod, to a Professorship of Theology in Knox College, Toronto, on Lake Ontario. In August, 1872, he received and accepted a call on the Heights of Brooklyn, New York, succeeding the Rev. Dr. Bethune, where he still remains. December i, 1852, the Rev. David C. Lyon was called and installed as pastor of this church. Mr. Lyon was a native of New York, graduate of Union College in 1S42, studied Theology at Princeton, and graduated in 1845, was ordained as an evangelist by the Presbytery of Ogdensburgh, July, 1846; preached his stated supply at Covington, New York, removed to Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and was thence called to Bedford.