Every effort of successful art has been made to aid and improve the natural beauty of the surrounding grounds, nor can any things be imagined more beautiful than the views presented from this delightful place. There are also the properties of Mr. James Knowllon, Mr. Rhodes, Mr. Drowley, Mr. Cheetham, Mr. Edward Agate, Mr. Peter Weatherby, Mr. Edward Priestly and Edward Ke 1 eys, Esq., in and around Sparta. Mr. Kemeys^w as for some yja s a judge of the late Court of Common Pleas of this county.

The ancient boundary line of 1684, which divided the two

» Sparks' Life of Benedict Arnold, 206.

b This gentleman is the son of the late William Kemeys, Esq., a native of Scarborough, York, England. " The ancient house of Kemeys, originally De Camois, Camoes and Camys is of Norman extraction, and the name of its patriarch is to be found on tlie roll of Battle Abbey. Large pcssessions were granted to the family in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and so early as the year 1258. Ralph de Camois was a baron by tenure. A branch of the family afterwards removed into Yorkshire." Burke's Hist, of th© Commoners of England, vol. iv. 184^

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

colonies of New York and Connecticut passed a short distance south of Sparta. a

The Bishop rocks, so called from John Bishop, who purchased these lands in 17S5, lie one mile south of this place. They constitute a portion of the southern boundary of Ossin ing. White Point is a celebrated fishing place in the same neighborhood. '• The surface of this town is mostly hilly, soil productive and well cultivated." There is also a good proportion of interval and meadow land. The principal streams are the Sing Sing brook and tfie Mill river or Pocanteco.