[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] throughout the year 1728. Tiie Rev. Timothy VVetmore officiated here, and the Rev. Mr. Lampson in 1745; at this date there ap-pear to have been four hundred families within the two precincts of Bedford and North Castle. In 1753, the Rev. Timothy Wet-more informed the Propogation Society, ''that the congregations at Bedford and North Casile were large and flourishing." In the spring of 1762, the precincts of Bedford and North Cas-tle were visited by the Rev. George Dibble and St. George Tal-bot, Esq. The latter gentleman, (says Mr. HuQ)phreys,) willing to know the religious state of the people, desired Mr. Dibble to ac-company him to Bedford, Crumpond and Peekskill, and to return by way of Croton and White Plains, which he did, and preached * The earliest meeting of the Presbytery in America, is supposed to have taken place in 1705., a b See Rye. ' ' ? 24 HISTORY OF THE in each of those places, and baptized ten children; he found no person of any denomination in any of these places except at Bed-