[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Cattle were thus taxed by the score, instead [ of the single head, and parties were also allowed to commute by the quarter or yearly. Mail-stages also passed over the turnpike to and from New York via Sing Sing. The Croton turnpike was the continua-tion of the Southeast turnpike, which had its north-eastern terminus in Danbury, where it connected with the Boston road. The Croton road had its southern terminus in Sing Sing, where it connected with New York by turnpike. Thus there was a constant stream of travel passing through this town, especially through the village. At this point a road branched off to the west, passing through Yorktown to Peekskill, which was also a much traveled route, especially for drovers with cattle. Along this route the old mile-stones are still to be seen, brown, moss-covered, but plainly showing the legend "twelve miles to Peekskill,'' " fourteen miles to Peekskill," etc. Along this western road are scattered the prosperous, highly cultivated farms and handsome residences of the Hallocks, Charles G. Teed, the Greens, Munson E. Frost and Joseph Perry, whose picturesque old mill stands on the Muscoot, near the road, surrounded by the tall elms of nearly a century's growth. The first records of the Croton turnpike are found in a book in which they were entered under date of September 25, 1807, at which meeting of the sub-scribers, held at the house of Nathaniel \Y.