The Presbyterian Society was incorporated by virtue of an act of the legislature of this state " entitled an act to enable all religious denominations in this state to appoint trustees who shall be a body corporate, for the purpose of taking care of the temporalities of their respective congregations, and for other purposes therein mentioned, passed 6th of April, 1784, " to be known by the name of the trustees for the Presbyterian Church and congregation of Bedford, to be governed in discipline and worship according to the Directory of the now established Church of Scotland," first trustees Zebadiah Mills, Israel Lyon and Joseph Owen.b

LIST OF MINISTERS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT

BEDFORD.

Install or call, JMinisters. Vacated by

1721 Rev. ^ViUiam Tennent, resig.

1740 Rev. Robert Sturgeon, do.

1743 Rev. Samuel Sackett, do. 1753

Jan. 1, 1769 Rev. Ehphalet Ball, do. Jan. 1, 1769

Dec. 13, 1769 Rev. Samuel Mills, do. May 18, 1786

May IS, 1786 Rev. John Davenport, do. May 4, 1791

Nov. 15, 1798 Rev. Josiah Henderson, do. Nov. 15, 1803

Sept. 20, 1804 Rev. Ebenezer Grant, ob. Sept. 6, 1821

April 16, 1828 Rev. Jacob Green, present minister.

First elders of the church, Ebenezer Miller, and Jacob Smith, first deacon Ebenezer Miller.

CHURCH MEMORANDA.

A. D. 1826, communicants 141, baptisms 19,

» The Rev. William Tennent was the founder of the Log. College, Penn. See Biographical sketches of the founder by A. Alexander, D. J).-- Assembly Magazine, May, 1805.

t Religious Soc. Incorp. Co. Rec Lib. A. 4.