[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In order to inspire increased confi-dence in the minds of investors in the silver-mining stocks, and to show the people that the precious metal had formerly existed in these mines, having been worked successfully, and only abandoned on account of the Revolutionary War, which had terminated so disastrously to the British arms, that English capital-ists would not dare to resume their lucrative opera-tions, the following certificates were published by the American, or, more locally speaking, the Sing Sing Mining Company. l P. 504 of vol. i., 1st ed., 1848; p. 2(1, vol. li.,2d ed., 1881, repeuted oerbtuim. '524 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. "Sino SUM, March.:!, 1H24.. " This is to certify (hat at 1 1 1 • > oommeiioemenl of the opening of the old Milvcr-minc I was occasionally «-m ployi-il at ami about the silver mine, as it was called in Sing Sing, for two or three, years. I never went into the shaft to examine the veins, w hich I was Informed were foor in Bomber, Uld resembled, In their direction, the branches of a tree, the largest of which I understood was alsint twelve inches over. I have seen, at a time, not far from thirty kegs of the ore in the storehouse. One of the miners extracted from what I judged to be about a pound of ore, nine shillings of pure silver.