[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] There were besides the Rhodes, the Priestlys and others, whose names are perpetuated in Sparta, where some of their descendants still live. Why this j little place should have received so classical a name is not at present known. It now contains only about a score of dwellings, one store and a very nice school-house. Sing Sing has crept quite down to the bor-ders of Sparta, making a continuous village from Mr. Benjamin Moore's residence on the north to Mr. (leorge Arthur's on the south, a distance of over two miles. There was once a time when Sparta threat-ened to be the principal village, and it certainly had some important advantages over its rival, Sing Sing, in being less hilly, and having deeper water near its shores. The Baptist Churc h in Sixg Sixg owes its early establishment largely to the efforts of Captain Elijah Hunter, who was born at this place in the year 1740. He was a Revolutionary soldier and was present at the battle of White Plains. He suffered much on account of his adhesion to the cause of liberty. The British finally burned his home at Bedford. About the year 1783 he came to reside in Sing Sing, and at I once opened his own house for public worship. He invited the Rev. Ebenezer Ferris, pastor of the Baptist Church at Stamford, of which Captain Hunter was a member, to conduct the services. Elder Ferris began his work on the 20th of August, 178(i, at which time he baptized three persons, who became members of the Stamford Church.