Lockwood notified Mr. Dorctiv Keeler that if Episcopal services were continued anv longer in his house he would withdraw his custom. Col. Isaac Hayes then applied for the use of the school

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

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The following inscription is placed over the front door of the building :

"St John's Church Organized 1S52, Erected 1853.

" The Church of the living God, the pdlar and ground of the truth." 1 Tim. iii ; 15.

The following memorials, are from the cemetery opposite ; near the entrance is a beautiful white marble stone mounted by a wheel cross:

Here lyeth the body of

DAVID SCOTT,"

a priest of the Holy Catholic Church who entered into rest January 3, 1861. «

Jesu mercy.

We die to live

AMOS N. RAYMOND,

Died March 2d, i860. In t lie 59th year of his age

My dear children, As you pass by ; Remember you are, Born to die.

Bally wife of Stephen Hoyt,

Died Sept. 1. 18G6, In the 77th year of her age.

house aiul that was refused. The Rev. Alfred n. Partridge thereupon determined to bold services in the street if necessary; at this juncture of affairs Mr. Stephen Hoyt offered the free use of one of his houses and the grove, where the church now stands, in the summer season for the purposes of temporary accouimodatiou. both of which otters were gladly accepted.

a The Rev. David Scott, who offered himself to God sine rely, and whose short life was so