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. Hayi s lost a flue crop of wheat which he had planted at Cumpo Point, besides all his family cloihii.g i.nd a valuable Narrangsett pacer all of which the British had appropriati <\ to theirbwn use. The son of John Thomas, Geu, Thomas Thomas, had a narrow escape from being captured by the British at the Purchase and was compelled to remove lic e for better personal security. Abigail, wire of Hon. John Thomas, was a daughter of John Sand-, of Sands Point, L. I., born January, lToS. The Rev. Solomon Mead, of south Salem, thus records her death "Aug. Hth, lTs-j, w idow of the late Frederick Thomas ;" she was buried at Bedford.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

church in the Centennial year, 187 1, weighs 1243 lbs., and has engraved upon it the following legend : --

"SI DEUS PRO NOBIS QUIS CONTRA NOS."

Upon the glebe lands a little south-east of the rectory is an immense boulder of granite kneiss ; this erratic block, which is truly enormous, may well be termed the " moss-grown rock of the woods." A few rods distant from the rectory is also an upright rock nine feet high.