Theodosius Bartow appears to have been officiating minister for the united parishes of Bedford and New Castle. From 1804 to 1819 services were performed here by the clergy of Bedford. At a meeting of the vestry, November 12th, 1796, it was ordered "that William Miller, Esq., be empowered to commence and carry on a suit against Philip I. Livingston, for money left by St. George Talbot to the churches of Bedford and North Castle." At a meeting of the same, held on the third 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 I. Livingston ; and the said money, after deducting charges, will probably amount to about twenty-five hundred dollars." In 1804, Trinity church, New York, liberally endowed the united parishes with the

a Religious Soc Co. Rec Lib. A. 183.

b Incorporation of Religious Societies, Lib. A, 12.

c Incorporation ol Religions societies, Lib. A, to.

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sum of one hundred and fifty dollars; also in 1808, the further sum of one hundred and fifty dollars.

St. George's church, which had stood for nearly sixty years, was dismantled in 1819 ; and, by Mr. Godfrey Haines, (acting under authority of the vestry,) sold at public auction for the paltry sum of forty shillings. It deserves, however, to be recorded that Judge Miller, one of the wardens of the united parishes, strenuously opposed its destruction. The principal part of the timber is still preserved in a barn on the property of Mr. Hezekiah Raymond, a short distance only from the old buryingground. From that time, until within a short period, services have been entirely confined to Bedford.