[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] To those who have read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Pro-gress, it will bear strong resemblance to the " Delectable Moun-tains," mentioned in that beautiful similitude. «^ The Close family have long been seated here and descend from Thomas Close of Greenwich, Connecticut, who emigrated from England in 166G. For a further account of this family, see pedigree. 488 HISTORY OF THE O S S I N -I N G. This township is bounded on the east and south by Mount Pleasant, (of which it once formed a part, a) on the west by "the Hudson river, and on the north by New Castle and the Croton river. Like the neighboring townships it was originally includ-ed within the honour and fee of Philipsburgh. Ossi?i-iTig, the proper Indian orthography of the word various-ly written Sin-sing, Sing Sing, Sin Sinck and Sink Sink, is de-rived from ossin (a stone) and ing (a place) or " stone upon stone :"b — a name exceedingly characteristic of this beautiful town, whose coast is guarded by a vast munition of rocks and ancient boulders. At a very early period Ossin-ing constituted a part of the possessions of a powerful Mohegan clan called the Sint Sings. April the 22d, 1643, appeared before the Dutch Director Gen-eral Kieft in Fort Amsterdam, Oratatrim, sachem of Ack-kin-kas-hacky. who declared he was deputed by those of Tappan, Reek-gawanck, Kicktawanc and Sint Sinck, to conclude a peace with the Dutch in the following manner, viz.