[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] About the year 1844 Father Cummisky, of Phila-delphia, was in Sing Sing and its neighborhood for about six months and held several services. The next priest to enter the field in Sing Sing was the Rev. John Hackct, the pastor of the Roman Catholic Church at Verplanck's Point. The first place of meeting under his auspices was in the house of John O'Brien, located in the angle formed by the junction of Cedar Lane with the Post road. This was about the year 1K45 or 1846. Removals were then made successively to a little building on the Post road, lo-cated where the foundations of the new Methodist Church have been laid, and formerly used as a Dutch Reformed Church, the Rev. John Alburtes being the minister, to the old Franklin Academy building, lo-cated where the parsonage of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church now stands, to Vance's Hall, on Spring street, near the corner of Main, and to a building on the dock owned by Dr. Benjamin Brand-reth, which is at present used by the Porous Plaster Company as a store-house. In 1853 Father Haeket bought the lot on which the present Catholic Church stands. He was shortly afterwards settled over a Catholic Church in Tarrytown, in which village he died in June. 1S6:{. His bodv was interred on Ver-planck's Point, beside the church which had witnessed so much of his labors. The successor to his work in Sing Sing was the Rev. Patrick Phalen, by whom, in 1856, the front portion of the present church was built.