[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] the accommodation of all the convicted felons in the state, and an act of the legislature was passed in March, 1824, for the erec-0-Disturnell's Gazetteer, N. Y. Vol. I. 64 506 HISTORY OF THE tion of a new state prison in the first or second senatorial districts, "vvhich the commissioners appointed for the purpose, thought proper to locate in Mount Pleasant, Sing Sing, owing to its exhausiless bo-dies of marble, its healthy situation, and its accessibility by water. On the 14ih of May, 1826, Capt. E. Lynds, former agent of the Auburn prison, with one hundred convicts in obedience to in-structions, proceeded to Sing Sing, and commenced the erection of the state prison there. This was completed in 1S29, and con-tained eight hundred cells. By the addition of several additional counties to this prison district greatly increasing the number of convicts, it was discovered that these accommodations were in^ sufficient, and two hundred more cells were ordered to be added, which result was obtained by adding another, or fifth story to the prison building, which addition was completed in 18!-J1. " In May, 1828. the convicts then in the old state prison in this city were" removed to Sing Sing, and the old prison here was emptied of its inmates and abandoned forever as a prison. The Mount Pleasant prison at Sing Sing is thirty-three miles from this city, on the eastern shore of the Hudson river, and the ground on which it stands is about ten feet above high water mark.