(I Letters of administration was granted to James Brown Isaacs, 2*th nee. 1*1!'. Surrogate s Otllce, White 1M.U1I-, Kol. I>. p. The will of .las. Urowa l>.iac< was proved l.Hh Dec. 1S5T, Klc. of \\ ells Alelgs County, Ohio.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

The old Brown homestead and adjoining property, after remaining in the family over one hundred years, passed by purchase to Aaron Hull who soon after sold to the present proprietor Wakeman Wood the son of Samuel Wood of Weston, Connecticut.

Prior to the Revolutionary war Lewisboro' formed a precinct of the old parish of Salem and at a very early period the parishoners were united with their brethren of the Church at Ridgefield*1 and Ridgebury in the support of religion, enjoying the occasional services of such distinguished men as Samuel Johnson, D.D., of Stratford, Connecticut, in 1725; Henry Caner, of Fairfield, in 1727; John Beach, of Newton, in 1735; James Wetmore, of Rye, in 1744; Richard Caner, of Nonvalk, in 1744; Joseph Lampson; of Fairfield, in 1 745 ; and Jeremiah Learning, of Norwalk, in 1760. At one time Ridgefield, Ridgebury and the Oblong were considered to be, in a certain sense, within the bounds of the parish or mission of Fairfield. The Rev. Ebenezer Dibblee, of Stamford, also considered Salem to be within the bounds of his missionary jurisdiction. " As a missionary of the society of the gospel in foreign parts he entered upon the duties of his sacred office Oct. 26th, 1748," and the first record of his services in the Oblong occurs on the nth of November, 1749, on which occasion he baptized Steven Slauson, son of James and Elizabeth Slauson.6