He was born on the site of the present rectory of St. Paul's, Lewisboro, Feb. 4, 1793. His father who entered the Continental service in 1776, (at the early age of nineteen, and served as an aid-de-camp on the staff

a Connty Rcc Lib. 752 of Deeds, p. 430. Upon the 26th of Dec. 1873, the above named Hector, wardens and vestrymen, &c,, quit claimed to St. John's church under Its corporate name und Utle. County Rec. Lib. SG7 of Deeds p. 200.

HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

of a New York General,) was the son of John Lewis,* one of the pioneer settlers of Killingworth, now Clinton, Middlesex County, Conn., the fourth in descent from John Lewis, a native of Rossenden-in-Bleane in the County of Kent, England, who emigrated to Scituate, Mass., in 1635, and died at New London, Conn., on the 8th of Dec, 1676. He seems only to have exhibited a fondness for mercantile pursuits, and first served as a clerk in the store of Capt. Isaac Jones of Darien, Conn., from thence he removed to Danbury, and not long after to New York, and soon became (from his determined energy and close application to business) the foremost clerk in the establishment of Messrs. Hoffman & Sons, then one of the principal auctioneer firms in that city. After serving there for three years with great satisfaction to his employers, he started business for himself in Wall Street, where, by his untiring energy and perseverence, he amassed a large fortune. No man better understood the value of money and the labor spent in acquiring it, therefore he greatly disliked to see negligence and indolence in others ; he had also a great fondness for literary pursuits. In 1852 he published a work upon " The Merits of Protestantism Demonstrated by the Character of Man," embracing in his history various countries from the earliest recorded period to the present century.