[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The people to this day speak of the " Albany Post Road," and now and then, between here and New York York City, one of the old brown milestones is to be seen by the road-sid like a lonely tomb-stone, which it much resembles, in mourning for the days of yore. In after-years there was also constructed the " Bed-ford Pike," sometimes called the Croton turnpike, a stage route run by Ilachaliah Bailey, of Somers, from Danbury to New York in winter, and in summer connecting with the steamboat " John Jay," at the Sing Sing landing. Captain Bailey owned and com-manded the "Jay." "The Danbury Stage Road" ended where the First National Bank now stands, which spot was then occupied by the modest residence of Estj u ire Charles Yoe, an upright, sterling man, who for many years was the only justice of the peace in this section of the county. The writer well remem-bers, when a boy, to have paid " toll " at the " toll-gate " then swinging across " the pike," near the en-trance to Mr. John V. Cockcroft's grounds. The earliest statistics of the population of Sing Sing which I have been able to obtain are from the