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History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 156 (part 3)

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[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 5th, Ossining Hose Company, with twenty eight men. 6th, Protection Hose Company, with twenty-eight men. 7th. Sing Sing Fire Patrol, with eighteen men. Total, two hundred and twelve members, In I8ti() Daniel D. Maugam purchased a resilience on Highland Avenue, Sing Sing, and since that time he has been prominently connected with the public atl'airs of the town. For several terms he was trustee and treasurer of the town and chief engineer of the fire department in which he took great interest. He has also been long connected with the National Bank, of Sing Sing, as director, and is one of the trustees of the Savings Hank. Hi* ancestor Daniel Mangam, I OSSINING. who came to this country from Scotland, was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, and present at the battle of White Plains. He left a family of seven children, William, Isaac,.John, Stephen, Daniel, Sarah, wife of Robert Tompkins, and Elizabeth, wife of Pierre Decevier. Of these children, William, who married Elizabeth Leggett, died about 18(55, at the age of eighty-three, leaving eight children, Mary, wife of A. H. Royce; Eliza, wife of William Lewis; Esther, wife of William Colyer; Nancy, wife of Lewis McCord; Rebecca, wile of Andrew L. Purdy; Gertrude, wife of Levi Wilson; William L., who died at the age of twenty-two, and Daniel D. The last named was born, at Sing Sing, May 1, 1828.