MR. JOHN LEWIS, (TY CARREG), REMSEN, ONEIDA, NEW YORK.

JOHN LEWIS (Ty Carreg), from Wales, took up a farm on the turnpike a little over two miles south of Remsen village in 1801, and in 1804 built the stone house on that place. Before there were churches or even school-houses in this section, Welsh religious services were held therein, and as it was the first house in these parts to be built of stone, it was called "Ty careg" (Stone House), a name that clung long after other houses were constructed here of the same material. The outer walls alone were of masonry, the interior partitions being entirely of boards, an inch or inch and a quarter in thickness, planed but without tongue and groove.

His son William I., was a successful farmer and a man of prominence, especially in religious work. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cuffin, of Steuben, and their children were Elizabeth, wife of Robert H. Hughes, who died December 4th, 1836, aged twenty-two years; Cuffin, who married a daughter of Owen Lewis; Lumla; Mary, wife of David Prichard; Ruth, wife of Rev. David Prichard, who removed to one of the western states; and William I., Jr., who married first a daughter of William Thomas, and second, Jane, daughter of Thomas P. Jones.

History of Remsen