History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 216 (part 3)
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] The first village election of Sing Sing was hold on the first Tues-day of May, 1813, when " seven discreet freeholders " were elected trustees. Their names are not preserved, all the early records of the village having been destroyed by fire. In 1813 the celebrated authorization was made to Robert Macomb, from which resulted the construction of " Macomb's Dam " and the consequent complete obstruction of the navigation of the Harlem River, a condition which was a sore grievance to property owners on the Westchester side. In early times the entire Harlem and Spuyten Duyvil waterway was navigable, at certain stages of the tide, for boats of light draught. " Prior to the Revolution," says a writer1 who has given much attention to this subject, "the island