Joseph Morgan, minister as follows, viz : first to give him the use of the parsonage, on condition he stays three years ; secondly, to build him a two story house, twenty-seven feet by twenty, the house to belong to his heirs if he die in the town ; if he removes he shall pay the towfj the expence of building the house ; third, to give him the first year £40, and plant and manure forty acres for him, and after the first year to give him £20, and to raise ten acres of winter grain for him yearly, to cut and cart his fire wood, and transport himself and family to Bedford free of expence. In a summary account of the state of the church in the province of New York, as it was laid before the clergy, convened October 5di, 1704. at New York ; it is therein stated that " there is an independent church at Bedford where the minister designs to leave them ; they are well affected to the church, and it is hoped when he is gone they will be in communion with Iier.''^

The following year Col. Caleb Heathcoate informs the secretary of the Propogation Society, " that sometime prior to his coming into the Province, Rye and Bedford had a minister, one Mr. Denham, and afterwards one Mr. Jones at Bedford. ^

A LIST OF MI.MSTERS OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,

BEDFORD.

Install or call, Ministers. ''' -

1681 ; ..r- Rev. Peter Prudden,