[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] whose father's name was Slidell and whose mother's name was Mackenzie, added her name to that of his father's at the request of a maternal uncle. He will be remembered as commanding the United States brig " Somers," on which a mutinous plot was discov-ered in 1842, while sailing from the coast of Africa, and three of the ringleaders, including a son of the Hon. John ('. Spencer, then Secretary of War under President Tyler, were hanged to the yard-arm at sea, on December 1, 1842. Still farther north, toward the old aqueduct arch over the Sing Sing road, was the home of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, from 1848 until March, 18f)2, when he was appointed to take command of the important expedition to Japan, which resulted in opening that long-secluded nation to the world. Com-modore Perry sold the place to Mr. George Swords, and he, in turn, sold it to Mr. Boker, whose daughter Mary Ann became famous by her elopement and mar-riage to her father's coachman, John Dean. Later, the house was occupied by General Lloyd Aspinwall, who, after his father's decease, came into possession of his former home, and moved into it, where he still resides. The Rev. William Creighton, D.D., formerly rec-tor of Christ Church, Tarry town, lived over the Os-sining line, and the little Church of St. Mary's, Becchwood, which he built in 1850 and long sus-tained, is also over the line in the same township.