In consequence of an act passed for the relief of the Protestant Episcopal Church on the 17ih of March, 1795 ; this church was again incorporated under the name and title of " the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United towns of Bedford and New Castle, the church at New Castle to continue by the regular name of St. George's Church." Charles Haight of New Castle, and William Miller, Esq. of Bedford, Churchwardens ; Samuel Raymond, Gabriel Smith, David Haight, James McDonald, Marmaduke Forster, Gilbert Martin. Nicholas Haight and Samuel Smith

* " Which said money is now in possession of Lewis McDonald and others," extracts from will of St. George Talbot, Esq. b Reports of Propogation Society, c Incorp. of lieli^'ious Soc- Lib. A. 12.

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vestrymen." Theodosius Bartow appears to have been minister of the united parishes at the time of election. »•

At a meeting of the vestry November 12th, 1795, it was " ordered that WiUiam 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 New Castle."

At a meeting of the vestry held on the 3rd 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." The vestry at the same meeting resolved to purchase a certain house and forty acres of land in Bedford, at the price of sixteen hundred and twenty-five dollars, for a glebe and parsonage ; the purchase was subsequently made and a new parsonage erected thereon in 1822.