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church in the Centennial year, 187 1, weighs 1243 lbs., and has en- 

 graved 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 post- 

 office, 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 prop- 

 erty 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 knit- 

 ting. 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. On the western side of the ridge, and close by the 

 road leading to Poundridge, is the ancient cemetery laid out by Jacob 

 Wood/ one of the first settlers in this part of the town. The head- 

 stones have only the initials of the dead inscribed upon them, among 

 others the following— I X R A. G 33. 17 18. I. W. A. G 81. Here 

 are interred the remains of Theophilus Ruscoe^ (whose name is some- 

 times spelt Resecue) a descendant of John Ruscoe of Norwalk, and 

 Abigail Bouton his wife, who once lived near by in a house which for- 

 merly occupied the site of Daniel Bouton's residence. This worthy 

 couple were devout members of the Church of England, and constantly 



a The old gentleman's silver watch, which is still preserved as a family relic, was purchased 

 in London, England, one hundred and forty years ago and bears the mark of John Andrew, 

 maker, No. 7, 351. Tradition says that the Hon. John Thomas sold his property to Van Horn 

 from whom it passed to Read, &c. 



b Jacob Wood married Rachel Dean and left a son, Jeremiah. Mr. Wood subsequently 

 gave the lower burying plot on Cross street. 



c " Theophilus Ruscoe and Abigail Bouton married March 30, 1763." 



