Peter's church Westchester," all that tract of land lying in the township of Bedford, being the farm where John Banks, Junior, formerly lived, containing two hundred and four acres," "also that lot of land bounded North and East by land belonging to Lewis McDonald, South by parsonage land belonging to the Presbyterian Society, and West by the highway, containing about four acres, &c, known by the name of the Court-house lot, in the town or Bedford."0 No further proceedings appear to have been had in this case, probably the lease was never properly executed. Mr. Bartow appears to have been officiating here in 1803. At a vestry meeting held on the 12th November, 1796, it was ordered "that William Miller, Esq., be empowered to commence and carry on a suit against Philip J. Livingston for money left by St. George Talbot to the churches at Bedford and Newcastle." At a meeting of the vestry held on the 3rd of March, 1803, "Mr. Miller informed the board that the money bequeathed to the united churches by the late St. George Talbot, had been recovered by a judgment obtained in the Supreme Court against Philip J. Livingston, and the said money after deducting charges will probably amount to twenty-five hundred dollars." The Vestry at the same meeting resolved to purchase a certain house and forty acres of * land in Bedford, at the price of sixteen hundred and twenty-five dollars, for a glebe and parsonage ; the purchase was subsequently made, and a new parsonage erected thereon in 1822. In 1804 Trinity church, New York, liberally endowed the united churches of Bedford and Newcastle with the sum of one thousand dollars; also in 1808 the further sum of one hundred and fifty dollars.