[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] of sinking the " Merrimac." "The ' Monitor' went whack into the ' Merrimac,' And as she went, played 'Yankee Doodle Dandy 0 !' " Worden was born in the house a little below, and to the east, of the Sparta burying-ground. Some per-sons labor under the false impression that this is the place that was afterwards " Zion Hill," of Matthias fame. Some of our villagers take pride in the fact that Sing Sing is the birth-place of Governor John T. Hoffman, who is the son of the late Dr. A. K. Hoff-man, who spent most of his days in this place as a practitioner of medicine. David Ogden Mills, the Californian millionaire, was a resident of Sing Sing when a poor young man, and up to the time of his departure for that Eldorado where he sought and found his fortune. General Robert Anderson, the hero of Fort Sumter, resided in Sing Sing for some length of time after the close of the Civil War. The writer can recall many interesting conversations with him, while the general was riding about with him on his professional rounds, concerning his perilous situation in Fort Sumter. CHAPTER V. CORTLANDT. BY REV. WILLIAM J. COMMING, Secretary of the Westchester County Historical Society, YorktoWD. The town of Cortlaudt is located in the extreme northwestern corner of Westchester County. It is bounded on the north by Putnam County, on the east by Yorktown, on the south by the Croton River and the town of New Castle and on the west by the Hudson River.