436 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



on the site of the present residence of Samuel Caufield, then owned by 

 Enoch Dan a strong Churchman (son of Abraham Dan). The Rev. 

 Henry Whitlock, rector of St. Paul's church, Norwalk, often officiated 

 here, baptized several children and performed the first interment in the 

 cemetery in 1805 of Isaac Hayes, Esq. Mr. Whitlock was succeeded 

 here by the Rev. Warner Hoyt, rector of St. Stephen's church, Ridge- 

 field, who preached his last sermon in what is now the hall of the Rec- 

 tory of St. Paul's. 



In the spring of 1871 the present rectory of St Paul's, in the lower 

 part of the parish, was completed at an expense of over $6,000, which 

 sum was principally raised by public subscription. A small portion of 

 this structure was formerly the residence of the late Colonel Isaac 

 Hayes, who was born in the old Hayes mansion, which once stood on 

 the adjoining property, in 1797. 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 Lewis- 

 boro during the Revolutionary war and purchased a considerable prop- 

 erty 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 con- 

 secration. 



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 lead- 

 ing from Ridgefield to New Canaan. The bell presented to St. Paul's 



a Hon. John Thomas, first Judge of the County of Westchester, and son, Rev. John 

 Thomas, Rector of St. George's church, nempstead, L. I., resided near the site of the present 

 edifice now occupied by Mr. Cyrus Bishop. He died in New York, May 2, 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. Hayes lost a line 

 crop of wheat which he had planted at Cumpo Point, besides all his family clothing and a 

 valuable Narrangsett pacer all of which the British had appropriated to theirownuse. The son 

 of John Thomas, Gen, Thomas Thomas, had a narrow escape from being captured by the 

 British at the Purchase and was compelled to remove here for better personal .security. 

 Abigailj.wife Of Hon. John Thomas, was a daughter of John Sands, of Sands Point, L. I., born 

 >., 1708. The Rev. Solomon Mead, of fouth Salem, thus records her death "Aug. 14th, 

 17S2, widow of the. late Frederick Thomas ;" she was buried at Bedford. 



