Sunday, August 17, 2014

Rev. Isaac Lewis, D.D. Died 1854. Lewis Family Burying Ground, off Lafayette Place, Greenwich


Reverend Isaac Lewis D.D., 
son of 
Rev Isaac Lewis D.D. and Hannah 
His Wife
He Died in the City of New York 
September 23rd, 1854,
Aged 81 years, 
7 months and 23 days.
He was graduated at Yale College 
in 1794
Licensed to preach the Gospel in 
1797:
And installed Pastor of the 
Congregational Church in this
Place in 1818 
where he continued nearly 10 years.

Grievous in the sight of the Lord
is the death of his saints.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for this, photo much better than mine and appreciate the full epitaph. Lewis took over this Greenwich church after his father died. Before that he was first pastor at Cooperstown, NY where author James Fenimore Cooper grew up. Rev. Lewis performed his sister's wedding.

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