66 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



under the title of " The Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 

 the Township of Bedford and Northcastle " a In consequence of an act 

 passed for the relief of the Protestant Episcopal Church, on the 17th of 

 March, 1795, this Church was again incorporated under the name and 

 title of "The Protestant Episcopal Church in the united towns of Bed- 

 ford and Newcastle — the church at Newcastle to continue by the regular 

 name of St. George's church." Charles Haight of Newcastle, and William 

 Miller, Esq., of Bedford, church wardens; Samuel Raymond, Gabriel 

 Smith, David Haight, James McDonald, Marmaduke Forster, Gilbert 

 Martin, Nicholas Haight and Samuel Smith, vestrymen. The Rev. The- 

 odocious Bartow appears to have been rector at the time of election. b 

 Upon the 26th of Sept. 1791, we find James McDonald of Bedford, 

 (a vestry-man of this church) leasing to the trustees of St. Peter's church 

 Westchester," all that tract of land lying in the township of Bedford, be- 

 ing the farm where John Banks, Junior, formerly lived, containing two 

 hundred and four acres," "also that lot of land bounded North and 

 East by land belonging to Lewis McDonald, South by parsonage land 

 belonging to the Presbyterian Society, and West by the highway, con- 

 taining about four acres, &c, known by the name of the Court-house 

 lot, in the town or Bedford."" No further proceedings appear to have 

 been had in this case, probably the lease was never properly executed. 

 Mr. Bartow appears to have been officiating here in 1803. At a vestry 

 meeting held on the 12th November, 1796, it was ordered "that William 

 Miller, Esq., be empowered to commence and carry on a suit against 

 Philip J. Livingston for money left by St. George Talbot to the churches 

 at Bedford and Newcastle." At a meeting of the vestry held on the 3rd 

 of March, 1803, "Mr. Miller informed the board that the money be- 

 queathed to the united churches by the late St. George Talbot, had 

 been recovered by a judgment obtained in the Supreme Court against 

 Philip J. Livingston, and the said money after deducting charges will 

 probably amount to 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 Newcastle 

 with the sum of one thousand dollars; al60 in 1808 the further sum of 

 one hundred and fifty dollars. 



a Incorporation of religious Societies Liber, a., p. 12 

 b '• " " " " a., p. 64. 



c Copied from original document in possession of the Clerk of the vestry of St. Peter's 

 church, Westchester. 



