History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . F. OSSTNING. 327 very young; the one now living is a daughter,Isabel. She was married in 1871 to Uu llesses M. Helm, alawyer who is now engaged in a very successfulpractice in the city of New York. They have threechildren, David B., Jeanette L and Florence A. Farms occupying Ground where Sing Sim;NOW stands.—The ground upon which the corpora-tion of Sing Sing now stands wits, after the sale of thePhi 11 ipso estate by the Commissioners of Forfeitures,occupi
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . F. OSSTNING. 327 very young; the one now living is a daughter,Isabel. She was married in 1871 to Uu llesses M. Helm, alawyer who is now engaged in a very successfulpractice in the city of New York. They have threechildren, David B., Jeanette L and Florence A. Farms occupying Ground where Sing Sim;NOW stands.—The ground upon which the corpora-tion of Sing Sing now stands wits, after the sale of thePhi 11 ipso estate by the Commissioners of Forfeitures,occupied chiefly by the farms of John Bishop, MosesWard and Elijah Hunter. Moses Wards land con-sisted of two farms, one containing sixty-sevenacres and the other one hundred and fourteen. Thefirst-mentioned farm was a long, narrow strip of land,having the Sing Sing Kill for its northern boundary,and a line which would have been nearly coincidentwith Main Street for its southern boundary. It ex-tended from the Hudson River on the west to a pointsome distance beyond the Highland turnpike on theeast. The second farm of Moses Ward was almost
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