THE TOWN OF LEWISBORO. 



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less. (The second piece.) Beginning at the North- West corner adjoining the 

 Highway leading from New Caanan to Lewisboro' and land of late Daniel 

 Hayes then running Easterly by land of said Hayes to Land of Hiram Bouton, 

 then Southerly by land of said Bouton to the Highway leading from Ridgefield 

 to New Caanan, then South Westerly to the first mentioned Highway. Then 

 Northerly by said Highway to the place of beginning, containing two acres be 

 the same more or less. (The third Piece.) Beginning at the South-East corner 

 adjoining the Highway and land of Joseph S. Fancher then running westerly by 

 land of said Fancher to land late of Jonathan Abbott deceased, then northerly by 

 land of said Abbott to land of Daniel Hayes. Then Easterly, Northerly, and 

 Easterly by land of said Hayes to the Highway, then Southerly by said High- 

 way to the place of Beginning containing fifteen acres, be the same more or 

 less. 



And I John Lewis party of the first p>art hereby declare that the above grant 

 is made and intended as an absolute although conditional grant and gift to the St. 

 John's Episcopal Church of Lewisboro ; but it is conditioned that a Chapel is to 

 be erected and denominated St. Paul's on the premises hereby conveyed near the 

 Southern burying ground in said Lewisboro for worship, in connection with the 

 St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church in said Lewisboro, said donation being 

 intended for the (Mutual) benefit of both Parishes forever. 



Together with all and singular the tenements hereditaments and appurtenances 

 thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, and the reversion and reversions, 

 remainder and remainders, rents issues and profits thereof. 



And also of the estate, right, title, interest, possession, claim and demand 

 whatsoever property, as well in law as in equity of the said party of the first 

 part, of, in, or to the above described premises and every part and parcel thereof 

 with the appurtenances. To have and to hold all and singular the above men- 

 tioned and described premises, together with the appurtenances, and the said 

 parties of the second part and their successors and assigns forever. 



In witness whereof, the said party of the first part, hath hereunto set his hand 

 and seal the day and year first above written. JOHN LEWIS. 



Signed and delivered 

 in the presence of 



William Lookwood.^ 



John Lewis, Esq., the donor of the present glebe lands, and the lib- 

 eral benefactor to the common schools of this town, was the third son 

 of John Lewis, who removed from Clinton, Middlesex Co., Conn., to 

 South Salem, in 1808, by his wife, Margaret, daughter of Isaac Hayes, 

 Esq., a hearty friend and supporter of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

 He was born on the site of the present rectory of St. Paul's, Lewisboro, 

 Feb. 4, 1793. His father who entered the Continental service in 1776, 

 (at the early age of nineteen, and served as an aid-de-camp on the staff 



a County Eec. Lib. 752 of Deeds, p. 430. Upon the 26th of Dec. 1873, the above named 

 Rector, wardens and vestrymen, &c, quit claimed to St. John's church under its corporate 

 name and title. County Rec. Lib. 867 of Deeds p. 265. 



