[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] broad philanthropy and her remarkable executive ii. — 30 force, has since been carried on by a band of gener-ous-hearted women, who are every way worthy of the honor and the responsibility devolved upon them. CHAPTER IV. OSSINING.1 BY C1EOBGE JACKSON FISHER, M.D., Of Sing Sing, N. Y. The township of Ossining is in tin; form of an irregular rhomb, being about five miles in length (from north to south) and about two miles broad. Its area is not far from ten square miles. It is bounded on the north, and partly on the east, by the town of New Castle; on the east and south by the town of Mount Pleasant; and on the west by the Hudson River and the mouth of the Croton River. It lies thirty miles north of New York City and nearly ten miles east of the City Hall. 1 The only history of the town of Ossining which has been written anil published previous to this, is that by Robert Bolton, Jr., in his " History of the County of Westchester," vol. i. pages 488-512, N<.v York, 1848; and the same, with slight alterations and additions, in vol. ii. of the second and last edition, pages 1 to 2fi, New York, 1881. In both editions;>nly twenty-five octavo pages are devoted to this town, several of which are filled with inscriptions from the tombstones in our cemeteries. There have been published in years pasta number of maps of the town of Ossining and of the village of Sing Sing.