4 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 



Philipse. The last mesne lord was Colonel Frederick Philipse, with 

 whose attainder these lands expired in the Philipse family. 



The subsequent proprietors who purchased under the commissioners 

 of forfeitures, were the Wards, ! » sers, Cranks, Bazelies, Ackers, Purdys, 

 Merritts, McCords, Bishops, Balyeas, Storms, Jones, Millers, Ryders, 

 and others. 



The village of Sing Sing, is remarkable for the beauty of its situation j 

 in which respect, it is hardly surpassed by any of the river towns. 

 Spreading on the delightful banks of the Hudson it rises gradually to a 

 height of one hundred and eighty feet above tide water overlooking the 

 magnificent scenery of the Tappan Bay, near its confluence with the 

 Croton. A beautiful ravine intersects the village, running nearly east 

 and west, through which flows a pretty stream called the Sin Sinck run, 

 or Kill brook. These waters rise among the hills east of the village, 

 and after giving animation to numerous picturesque scenes, empty into 

 the Hudson, near the vincinity of the upper dock. The course of this 

 brook, a mile above the village, is marked by some singular phenomena. 

 Among these are the Devil's stairs, formed in the face of a perpendicular 

 rock 60 feet high, consisting of 16 steps. This extraordinary freak of 

 nature is best seen from the south-west bank of the ravine. Directly 

 beneath the stairs in the rocky bed of the river, are some rude marks 

 closely resembling the prints of horses shoes. These, however, are only 

 visble at low water. Immediately to the south, and almost close to the 

 waters edge, is situated the Indian cave. The rocks of the same region 

 abound in copper ores, such as copper pyrites, black sulphuret of copper, 

 and green carbonate of copper ; likewise iron pyrites ; but they art- not 

 found in such abundance as to warrant any extensive operations. 



North-east of the village is the Dale Cemetery, incoporated January 

 17. 1S51, with about fifty acres improved; it has twelve trustees. The 

 first president, Aaron Ward ; vice-president, Marlborough Churchill ; 

 treasurer, S. Lockwood ; secretary, Geo. E. Stanton. 



The following monuments are to be found there : 



This was the first interment : 



I.v Mf.mokv 



of 



REV. JACOB GREEN, 



for 27 years Pastor of the 



Presbyterian Church of Bedford, 



Westchester County. 



