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-

» Parochial report of the Rev. Robert W. Harris in 1843. See Journal of the 59lh Conventioa of tlie Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of New York MDCCcxLiii. 137. The rock above mentioned is situated on the property of Mr. Job Sands.

b Religious Soc. Co. Rec. Lib. B. 39.

<^ Religious Soc. C'o. Rec. Lib. A. 30. A second incorporation occurs on the 30th of May, 1800, and that of the Wesley Methodist Episcopal chapel on the 3d of April, 1824.

<i Upon the 5lh of April, 1737, John Halleck received permission to erect a mill on Wampus brook, near Abel Wceks's.

« lu 1728, James Sands of Nassau Island, conveyed to his son Othniel Sands, a /aran situated in the township of Oyster Day.

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