About $675 were given by them."

The church was consecrated, September 13, by the bishop of the diocese, twelve of the clergy being in attendance. There is an interesting historical fact connected with the church in this town, which it may be well here to record.

Previous to the Revolution, a site was selected for a church edifice, not half a mile from the spot now occupied for this purpose,«and was designated by the letter C, inscribed on a rock.

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This letter is still legible. The present proprietor of the farm has the ancient deed for the lot of gronnd in his possession. For some reasons now unknown, it was determined to erect the church on another site, (then in the same town, now in New Castle,) six miles distant from the former. This was done, and that building, long since taken down, was called " St. George's Church, North Castle.'''^

St. Stephen's Church, North Castle, was incorporated on the 23d of August, 1844. Israel Townsend and Samuel B. Ferris, churchwardens, John Merritt, Reuben M. Green, Leonard B. Tripp, Joseph Close, Zeah Eggleston, Elisha Sutton, Jonathan H. Green, and Samuel Townsend, vestrymen> The Rev. Robert W. Harris, M. A., first and present incumbent.

Noiitia Parochialis. 1844,. crmmunicants^ 11 ; baptisms, 11.

The Methodist Episcopal church of this place was first incorporated on the 2d of February, 1792. Caleb Merritt, Sen., 0thniel Sands, James Hall, Thomas Nash, Charles Green, and John Ferris, trustees.*^

The Friends meeting house was erected about 1798, A little west froii the latter flows Wampus brook, which issues out of the pond of that name. Upon this stream is the grist mill of Mr. Evans, 'i and the woollen manufactory of Job and Wm. Sands and Co. One of the principal proprietors of Bedford New Purchai^e, in 1746, was Olhniel Sands,e whose son Caleb subse-