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.
COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 23
A. D. 1S36 communicants, 191, baptisms, 6, 1846 ditto 194, ditto 7,
Present number of communicants in (1847,) 200.
The Bedford presbytery,^ which was created in 1829 consists of the following churches, Bedford, So lers, South Salem, Poundridge, Rye, K^. Green burg. White Plains, Mt, Pleasant, Yorktown, North Salem and Greenburgh.
About half a mile north of the Presbyterian church, lies a small scattered hamlet consisting of two churches, an academy, two stores and several dwellings; through it the northern road to Cantetoe passes. In the northern part of this hamlet is situated St. Mathews Episcopal Church, a neat structure of brick, erected in 1807, by public subscription.
Bedford originally constituted one of the three districts of Ryo parish, having been annexed thereto by the general acts of assembly, passed in 1693, 1696 and 1700. The first rector of the parish was the Rev. Thomas Pritchard ;b from a letter addressed by this individual to the Venerable Propogation Society, dated November 1st, 1704, we learn that the Rev. Mr. Stewart was laboring as a missionary at Bedford. V '