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. In 1804, Trinity Church, New York, liberally endowed the united churches of Bedford and New Castle with the sum of one thousand dollars ; also in 1808 the further sura of one hundred and fifty dollars. ^ - .. -

At a vestry meeting held on the 8th of December, 1805, it was resolved " that the residue of the bequest of St. George Talbot be appropriated towards defraying the cost of building a church in Bedford. c

The communion silver belonging to St. Matthew's Church, was the united gift of Mrs. Banyar and Ann Jay, on the 29th of October, 1810.

The service books were presented by Mrs. Ann Raymond of Bedford. In 1839 the church was repaired and new seated ; the first delegate from this parish to the Diocesan convention in 1787, was Stephen de Lancey, Esq.

^ Incorp. of Relig. Soc. Lib. A. 64.

b Hist, of Trinity Ch. N. Y. by Samuel Berrien, D. D.

c The church at New Castle having been found too much decayed for public worship, was taken down in 1839 ; from that time services have been entirely confined to Bedford.