[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] In addition to the original cost of the church, sub-sequent alterations and the building of a parsonage involved an expenditure of several thousand dol-lars more. The church in January, 1871, reported to the Conference seventeen members and twenty-seven probationers. In April, 1884, there were eighty-seven members. The Sabbath-school connected with this church has one hundred scholars and twenty officers. St. Augistixe's Romax Catholic Church. — During the building of the Croton Aqueduct through Sing Sing religious services were conducted for the laborers, who were mostly Irish Roman Catholics, by a priest. A plot of ground was purchased on the Post road, and a rude frame building, resembling a barn, was hastily erected, and used as a house of worship. It was situated where now is the lawn of Daniel D. Mangam. It was entirely inadequate to contain the large numbers who attended upon the services, and the sight of the brawny laborers kneel-ing on the grass outside of the house was one which some of Sing Sing's old residents still remember. It was the intention of the Catholics to establish a cem-etery on the ground about the church, and a couple of bodies were actually interred there, but the trus-tees of the village refused to allow any further burials inside the corporation limits. The property after-wards passed out of the hands of the Catholics, and for several years thereafter there was no meet-ing place in the town for persons of the Catholic faith.