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.

The day before his decease he sent for one of the vestrymen, Mr. Timothy Jones, and in the most solemn and energetic manner bade him " stand by the Church." His faith was firm in Christ to the last, and he looked to God for the increase and welfare of Zion. " The memory of the just is blessed."

The rectory of St. Paul's is well located at the fork of the roads leading from Ridgefield to New Canaan. The bell presented to St. Paul's

a non. John Thomas, first Judge of the County of Westchester, and son. Rev. John Thomas, Rector of St. (Jeorge's church, Hempstead, I.. I., resided near the site of Ihe present edifice now occupied by Mr. Cyrus Bishop. He died in New York, May 1772. and was buried in Trinity churchyard. Mrs. Thomas died Aug. 14th, 17S2. His family, like that of Isaac Hayes, suffered much from the depredations of the British soldiery and found it too precarious to occupy the old homestead located at the Purchase below.