In 1875, Number of families, 47.

THE SOCIETY'S SCHOOLMASTERS AT BEDFORD AND NORTH CASTLE.

TIME OF APP'T. SCHOOLMASTERS. SALARY. '

1728, Flint Dwight, £15 per anuni.

1745, William Sturgeon, B. A.

Number of Catechists in 1853, 4; and Catechumens, 30.

1875,-- " 30.

To the parish is attached St. Maiy*s church in the middle patent of North Castle, which was incorporated upon the 29th of December, 1851, Benjamin Smith and Samuel Brown, church wardens. William Henry

THE TOWN OF BEDFORD.

Hobby, William Downs, Samuel Lounsbury, Oliver B. Finch, Henry Hobby, Joseph H. Hobby, David M. Johnson and Henry Downes, vestrymen. The Church edifice, erected in 1853 at a cost of $1600, was consecrated to the service of Almighty God, on the 2 2d of September of that year, by the late Rt. Rev. Jonathan M. Wainwright, D. D., LL.D. At present, services are performed here by the rector of Bedford, every Sunday afternoon. The bell was presented by St. Matthew's church, Bedford.

Within the ajoining Hamlet near the Episcopal church, at the junction of the Sing Sing and Bedford roads stands the Baptist church. The Baptist Society was first organized Sept. 22d, 1798; seven of its members having received legal letters of dismission from the Baptist church in Stamford, to form a new Society under the pastoral charge of Elder Jones. On the 8th of May, 1802, Elder Ezra Fountain was elected pastor of the church, an office which he held with great acceptance for thirty-five years. Mr. Fountain was descended from the Fountains of Stockingham, Devonshire, England. The first member of the family who emigrated to America about 1650, was a merchant of opulence, who lived to the age of a hundred years. In the church of Mysborough in the county of Devon, England, are several monuments to members of this family; among others is one to the memory of Sir John Fountain, of whom there are some fragmentary sketches extant.