Nathan Felch was called as minister of the united parishes. The next year he reported to the Diocesan Convention : --

"That the Episcopal Church in Bedford is in a very nourishing state; the congregation is numerous, respectable and devout: an attachment to all the rites and forms of the Church is continually increasing among them ; and as this attachment increases, so veneration for, and delight in sober, rational and scriptural piety and virtue increases."

Mr. Felch resigned his charge in 1813, and was succeeded by the Rev. George Wells, A.M., in 181 6, for whose successors, see list of Rectors.

St. Matthew's church is situated in the northern part of a small scattered hamlet, about half a mile north of the village of Bedford. It is a neat structure of brick, erected in 1807, and consecrated the same year by the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Moore, D.D. It has been recently thoroughly repaired, and the interior somewhat remodelled.

The communion silver was the united gift of Mrs Banyar and Anne Jay, (daughters of the late Hon. John Jay, Chief Justice of the United States) on the 29th of October, 1810. The service books were presented by the late Mrs. Ann Raymond, of Bedford. The bell was purchased by subscription in 1874. To this church is attached a rectory and glebe.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF V/ESTCHESTER.

St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, erected A. D. 1807,

MINISTERS AND RECTORS OF BEDFORD.

ISTST. OE CALL. INCUMBENTS. TAG AT. BY.

1704, Rev. Alexander Stuart, A. M., Clericus. resig. 18th June, 1745, Rev. Joseph Lamson, A. M., Clericus, resig.