We arc told that the word ossin, in the Chippeway language, signifies 'a stone'; that ossinee or ossineen is the plural for 'stones.' This etymology was accepted, and in May, 1845, when our town was taken from Mount Pleasant, it received the name of ' Ossm-sing/ In March, 1846, it was changed (by dropping the third s) and made to read k Ossiii-ing,1 and still later omitted." hyphenin was the Including its limits Sing1 Sing Village, Ossining naturally took a prominent place among the towns of the county from the start. The Town of West Farms was carved out of Westchester by a law passed May F5, 1846. The new township comprehended all of the ancient patents of West Farms, Morrisania Manor, and F 0 r d h a in Manor, Westchester Town retaining only the territory east of the Bronx River. WILLIAM \V. SCRCGHAM. The three component pans of West Farms Township, being much more accessible to New York City than Westchester proper, had increased far more rapidly in population, and as they were separated from the parent town by a broad line of natural division, the Bronx River, it was esteemed very proper to organize them into a distinct political unit. West Farms Village, as has been noticed in the previous chapter, had become a locality of some manufacturing importance, on account of the utilization of the water of the Bronx River to turn mill wheels. Mr. John Copcutt and Mr. Alexander Smith, men Who became conspicuous in founding the manufacturing industries of Yonkers, originally had their mills at 1 Scharf,