on the site of the present residence of Samuel Caufield, then owned by Enoch Dan a strong Churchman (son of Abraham Dan). The Rev. Henry Whitlock, rector of St. Paul's church, Norwalk, often officiated here, baptized several children and performed the first interment in the cemetery in 1805 of Isaac Hayes, Esq. Mr. Whitlock was succeeded here by the Rev. Warner Hoyt, rector of St. Stephen's church, Ridgefield, who preached his last sermon in what is now the hall of the Rectory of St. Paul's.

In the spring of 187 1 the present rectory of St Paul's, in the lower part of the parish, was completed at an expense of over $6,000, which sum was principally raised by public subscription. A small portion of this structure was formerly the residence of the late Colonel Isaac Hayes, who was born in the old Hayes mansion, which once stood on the adjoining property, in 1797. His father, Thatcher Hayes, was the son of Isaac Hayes, who removed from Cumpo Point near West Port, Conn., when Thatcher was only nine years old, to this part of Lewisboro during the Revolutionary war and purchased a considerable property of John Thomas,* one of the original owners of the East Patent in 1 73 1 and also one of the so-called proprietors of the lower portion of the "oblong" or "undivided lands." Colonel Hayes was a devoted Churchman, and for twenty years prior to his death a steady communicant. It is said that he was baptized in early infancy through the influence of his grandfather, ' who was also a Churchman. He fell a victim to his untiring zeal and activity in the building of the parochial church of St. John's, at South Salem, in 1855, and died on the day previous to its consecration.