History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 154
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] were as follows: Samuel C. Mott, Solomon Under-bill, Edward Kemeys, Jeremiah I). Fowler, Richard Austin, Gardner Ackerly, Samuel Trobridge, Robert K. Foster, John Clapp, Andrew Graham, Moses Stan-ton, David Delaney, Edward Priestly, Samuel Rhodes and Thomas Agate. The certificates were written on slips of paper after the following formula : "These are to certify that (name of member) is, pursuant to law, nominated and appointed one of the firemen of the Village of Sing Sing, May 4th, 1812. " Edward Kemeys, Clerk." The company purchased a hand-engine in New York City, which had been used by the firemen there, and was known as No. 11. She is said to have been stationed near the Washington Market. The engine-box was ornamented with a picture of General Wash-ington crossing the Delaware, and it was most prob-ably from this fact that the company took to itself the title of Washington Fire Engine -Company, No. 1. The engine was boused in a little frame shanty that