History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . City, published aquarto Atlas of Westchester County, N. Y. The town of Ossining isrepresented in a map OH a scale of two thousand feet to an inch ; SingSing on a scale of three hundred and thirty feet to an inch. In 1884 L. It. Burleigh, of Troy, N. Y., published a lithographic birds-eye view of Sing Sing, twenty by thirty inches square. As an evidence of the extreme degree to which the speculative spiritof 1830 was carried in the matter of growth in cities
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . City, published aquarto Atlas of Westchester County, N. Y. The town of Ossining isrepresented in a map OH a scale of two thousand feet to an inch ; SingSing on a scale of three hundred and thirty feet to an inch. In 1884 L. It. Burleigh, of Troy, N. Y., published a lithographic birds-eye view of Sing Sing, twenty by thirty inches square. As an evidence of the extreme degree to which the speculative spiritof 1830 was carried in the matter of growth in cities and villages, wefind registered in the county ball of lecords a map of three hundredbuilding-lots, eligibly situated in the village of Sing Sing, August,lSliS, by Samuel S. Doughty, of New York City, surveyor. This mapis of the farm of fifty-two acres, now owned by Mr. John Kane. It waslaid out in plots lying on six parallel streets running north and south,which were crossed by one at right-angles, put down as Hudson A ve-nue. Other sections have been mapped out iu village lots in a similarmanner, and with equally negative 322 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. The town of Ossining was organized May 2, was formerly included in the town of Mount Pleas-ant. The names Ossin-ing : and Sing Sing are ofunquestionable Indian origin. The meaning of theterm Ossining and its derivation were given bjMr. Henry M. Schoolcraft, in 1844, at the request ofGeneral Aaron Ward, member of Congress from thisdistrict at that time. We are told that the word Ossin,in the Chippeway language, signifies astone; thatOesinee, or Ossineen, is the plural for stones. 1 Thisetymology was accepted, and, in May, 1X4>, when ourtown was taken from Mount Pleasant, it received thename of Ossin-sing. In March, 1846, it waschanged (by dropping the third *) and made to read Ossin-ing, and still later the hyphen was omitted. The name of the village has a more ancient originand use. In the early part o
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