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.

Within a mile north of the rectory is located the Lewisboro postoffice, which has a daily delivery, via., The New Canaan and New Haven Rail Road, and also one, via., the New York and Harlem Rail Road from Katonah. Directly opposite is the residence and estate of John Walton Esq., which formerly belonged to Col. Cyrus M. Ferris, whose grandfather, Sylvanus Ferris, a removed from North Street, Greenwich, on what is now the estate of Mr. Drake Mead, and purchased the property of Henry Read about one hundred years ago. Mary Mead, the wife of Sylvanus, was, at that early day, in the habit of riding down to New York on horseback for the purpose of selling her home-spun knitting. On one of these occasions she removed a black walnut sapling near Harlem, which served a good purpose on the way home, and was planted near the house on her arrival. This is a towering tree and spreads its branches by the roadside, a living memento of the past. Gideon Ferris, her son, married Lois Bouton, and was the father of the present Col. Cyrus Ferris of Norwalk, Conn. Cross street, leading west from this point, passes the Rippowam or Mill River which drains this portion of the town. The high ridge beyond being the dividing-line between the waters that run into the sound on the south and the North River on the west.