[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] He was a res-ident of this place, and landed his boat in the Kill Brook, as we are told, about as far up as the present location of the gas works. He is said to have carried on his business as far back as the Revolutionary period, and probably even earlier. It may seem strange to most persons at this time that Captain Hagstaff could have landed his vessel so far up the brook, but it does not to the writer and many older residents, who have observed the gradual filling up of our river border within quite recent times. The lower dock was known in the early days of Sing Sing as the Farmers' Dock. Then the river border came up to the present line of Water Street, and in some places still farther inland. Between these lines and the present river margin the ground has been made by filling in, and by the accumulation of fluvial deposits. Captain Hagstafl' has had many successors. One of the earliest was Captain Stephen Lynn, who ran a "passenger packet" between Sing Sing and New York as far back as 1812. He landed at his own,." Lyon's Dock," now the " Middle Dock." James Delaney, in 1817, was sailing the packet "Victory." In 1819 he was succeeded in command by Captain Richard T. Mattocks. In 1X36 or '37, Captain Peter B. Lynch ran a sloop, the " Charles Lynch," named after his son. About the year 1845 he bought the steamboat "Croton," which he ran in place of his sloop. This was a sluggish craft and soon ended its career.