[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] and grounds are fairly well kept, and the place is creditable to an enlightened community. BPAKTA. — In the earliest times farmers brought their produce for shipment to a dock which stood in the cove a short distance north of Scarborough station. The road which came down to the dock ran past a store-house not far from the water's edge. A short distance north of the dock, near the mouth of Sparta Brook, on the southern bank of the stream, was a grist-mill, which was run by the water-power furnished by the brook. Of this old dock — the primi-tive dock of the town of Ossining — there remains at present only one large log, which lies on the shore of the cove. The village of Sparta, situated about a mile south of Pleasant Square, in Sing Sing, was settled by an English colony about the year 1700. Janus Drowley, an English merchant of New York and an importer of dry-goods, purchased from the patent of Peter Davids a traet of twenty-nine acres of land, located ' on the northern side of the lower course of the brook now known as Sparta Brook, and divided it into plots of three hundred feet square. Afterwards he brought over in his vessels from County Kent, England, a number of his former neighbors, with whom he be-gan the settlement of his village. Thomas Agate be-came the storekeeper of the littl. community, Edward Agate was the brickmaker, Richard Hillier was the physician and (he Rev. John Burgess was the clergy-man.