Pickerel and other fresh water fish abound here. A short distance to the south lies Lake Asoquatah, or Trinity Lake, that supplies the town of Stamford with water ; near the Welton angle or monument in the south-east corner of the town, is Vista -- a pretty settlement on the New Canaan road. Here is a post-office, two churches, shoe manufactory of Eleazer Fancher&Co., and several dwellings, and a Methodist Episcopal church was erected on land given by Mr. Michael Ruscoe.

Among the early settlers of this neighborhood may be mentioned Joseph Fayerweather, of Norwalk, who purchased about one hundred acres of land here, and built the house now occupied by Mrs. Cris'sy. His wife, Catharine, was the neice of the Right Rev. Benjamin Jarvis second Bishop of Connecticut ; their son, Stephen Fayerweather was the father of Miss Emilion C. Fayerweather, of Norwalk.* There is also a Protestant Methodist church building close by. The Presbyterians or Independents of Lower Salem, prior to 1747, appear to have been associated

a See Bap, Reg of St. John's church, Stamford.

* Fayerweathers, Favrcweathers, or Fawethcrs, were an ancient English family formerly seated at Brtssct in Suffolk. Arms, gu., six billets or, three, two and one, on a chief of the second a lion passant, vert, or Crest, a lion's head irased in billets, or.

THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO.

with their brethren at Ridgefield ; for at a public town meeting held in the latter place, Dec. 24th, 1746, it was agreed "that what money is or shall be brought by any person living in the Oblong to support Mr. Ingersol in ye ministery shall be delivered to the selectmen and they to deliver it to Mr. Ingersol over and what ye town has voted for his salary."" A meeting house is also spoken of as standing in Ridgefield, December, 1746.