"Thomas Lewis, sixth child and third son of Deacon Joseph Lewis, a wealthy cloth-weaver of Waterbury, Connecticut, and grandson of Joseph and Elizabeth (Case) Lewis, of Windsor and Simsbury, was born in Waterbury, August 6, 1716. His mother was Sarah, fourth daughter of Abraham and Rebecca (Carrington) Andrews, of Waterbury.
During the year after graduation he taught school in Canterbury, Connecticut, at the same time studying theology; and on the 12th of October, 1742, he was licensed to preach by the Windham Association. In the summer of 1743 he was preaching in the new township of Salisbury, Connecticut. In May, 1743, the Fairfield East Association had advised the inhabitants of the northern part of the town of New Fairfield, who had recently been set off as a separate parish, to apply to him as a permanent supply; he went there accordingly on leaving Salisbury, and after due delay was ordained by the Fairfield East Consociation, March 28, 1744,—a church being gathered at the same time. In this parish (now the town of Sherman) he labored for two years, taking an active interest in the revival measures of that period; but becoming discouraged about his support, he was dismissed on the 7th of October, 1746. He then went to West New Jersey, and after supplying the Presbyterian churches in Oxford and Bethlehem, accepted a call (October 14, 1747) to the latter place (now in Alexandria township), on the Delaware River. In the fall of 1752, Kingwood, a settlement seven miles to the northeast, was put under his charge; but dissatisfaction arose from this division of his labors, and in May, 1754, he was released from Bethlehem. Two years later (May 25, 1756) he was dismissed from Kingwood also. The Rev. James Davenport (Y. C. 1732), pastor of the Presbyterian congregation of Hopewell, New Jersey, died in November, 1757; and Mr. Lewis was called by this congregation on June 13, 1758, and dismissed from them on May 20, 1760.
He is next heard of in Smithtown, Long Island, where he served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church from 1763 till his installation in the spring of 1769 over the Presbyterian Church in Mendham, New Jersey. He died in office in Mendham, August 20, 1777, at the age of 61."
