c Some of the material is said to have been removed toRidgefleidand used in the construction of the second Episcopal church erected in that village in ITss. on the front side of the stone chimney of the old Koeler mansion is this inscription, " A'., ITS." The Keeler family are said to have resided in the old church a short time before its destruction. The late Thaddeus Keeler was the sou of Jeremiah Keeler who was born in Ridgefield, May 6th, 1760, and died Feb 9, 1S53.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

In the possession of the Keeler family is the following deed for the church lot, which is still styled " Chapman's garden and meadow : "

DEED FOR CHURCH LOT.

14th of March, 1796, between John Lewis Moorehouse of Charlton in the County of Saratoga to Jeremiah Keeler all that certain parts, pieces and parcels of land situated and lying in the town of Salem in the County of Westchester and State of New York, on the north side of the road leading from Ridgefield to Bedford, opposite to the road leading from the south part of South Salem to the north part of the same and is bounded as followeth, viz. : Beginning at the said Bedford road at a stake and stones around the same and thence runs northerly six rods to a stake with stones ; thence easterly by said Bedford road so far as that a line of equal length to and parallel with stones, &c."a