History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 171 (part 2)
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Oakley (1823-24), Remington (1825-26), Marvin Rich-ardson (1827-28) and Henry Hatfield (1829-30). The year 1831 marks an epoch in the history of Methodism in Sing Sing. During the almost forty previous years the church had made but little pro-gress; its membership was small — rarely over twen-ty-five or thirty — and sometimes less. To Captain Isaac Smith is particularly due the credit of having i infused new life into the church. He was converted at the age of twenty-four years; he possessed an ardent nature, great energy and an iron will. He was active in business, a ship-builder by trade, having in his time built no less than one hundred vessels, including steamboats, sloops, schooners, etc. He ex-ercised his active, positive and sanguine powers as a church trustee for a full half century. In the year