[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] The writer of this sketch of the history of the town of Ossining occupied this famous old house as a dwelling and office a third of a century ago. The death of one son in this house and the birth of another, not long since deceased, gives him a profoundly melan-choly interest in the old Ward Tavern. The next hotel in Sing Sing was 'known as the Union Hotel, and is still standing on the corner of Highland Avenue and Church Street. It was built about the year 1800 by a man named Holmes. It has had many proprietors in its day. Enoch Crosby, who was the "landlord " in 1836, was the son of the original of J. Fenimore Cooper's character, "The Spy," in his novel of the same name. The " Union Hotel" was for many years the village Stage House, of the New York and Albany Turnpike Stage Company, which was then the grand trunk, rapid-transit passenger transportation line from the metro-polis to the State capital. On extraordinary occasions, when the Legislature was in session, as many as four stage-coaches, each drawn by four horses, fetched up daily at the old hotel, with a grand flourish of trumpets, and here the passengers, being less in number than half a modern car-load, regaled themselves on chicken pot-pie, doughnuts and apple-sauce.