[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Louis; Frederick, now living with his par-ents on the Van Cortlandt homestead; Augusta, wife of Arthur Morse, deceased; Albert, who died in New Orleans in 1868; and George W., who mar-ried Ella, daughter of Marine Ruffher, of Cincin-nati. They have two children now living, Carrie and Pearl. Three of their offspring, Susie, Minnie and Ella, died in early childhood, the last two in 1877, and an addition to St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church in Peekskill was erected by Mr. Robertson as a memorial of them. In 1878 Mr. Robertson was the organizer of Vos-burg Post, G. A. R., and for three years its command-er. This Post is a flourishing organization, and numbers more than one hundred members at pres-ent. The River Traffic. — The earliest commerce of the town and vicinity was conducted at a dock located on what is now called the Boland Farm. Later it was transferred to Pemart's dock, at the mouth of the Peekskill Creek, where the blast furnace is now lo-cated. To a certain Captain Swim, w ho sailed a mar-ket-sloop from this dock in the year 1773, is said to belong the honor of having been the first skipper to run a boat between Peekskill and New York. The water at the mouth of Annsville Creek was formerly much deeper than now, and the landing facilities were excellent. The growth of the village at a point fur-ther down the river caused the landing place of ves-sels to he transferred thither, and Pemart's dock lost its importance.