he should be buried by the side of his mother in the cemetery at Lewisboro, close to the Rectory where he drew his first breath. The grave stone which marks his resting place, bears the following inscription : --

JOIIN LEWIS, born Feb. 4, 1793, Died Oct. 1, 1871. He was a liberal benefactor to the common schools of Lewisboro, after whom the town is named, also the donor of the adjoining Parsonage property to the Protestant Episcopal church of St. John's.

Also In memory of MARGARET LEWIS, Mother of the above, who died May 31, 1S19, M 56 years.

By his wife Mary, daughter of Samuel Bishop of Darien, who predeceased him, he had no issue. His brother Isaac married Eliza, daughter of Thomas Greenly of New Canaan, and has issue, besides others, William T. Lewis, of Clinton, Middlesex County, Conn., who is the executor of his late uncle John Lewis's will, and who has generously aided the church in her improvements on the glebe. There is a good likeness of John Lewis preserved in the rectory of St. Paul's, presented by his nephew William T. Lewis in 1872.

On the 1 2th of July, 187 1, was celebrated here the "Centennial Anniversary " of the founding of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Lower Salem and Lewisboro. On which occasion the corner stone of St. Paul's church was laid by the Right Rev. the Bishop of the Diocese and an address delivered by the Rev. Alfred H. Partridge a former rector of the Parish."