Three or four miles east of Sing Sing, is the Chappaqua Spring, which at one time came very nigh getting the better of Ballston, Saratoga and Harrowgate, for it is a fact well authenticated that one or two persons of good fashion came very near to be cured of that incurable disease called I dont know what, by drinking these waters. Upon the strength of this, some public spirited individuals erected a great hotel for the public accommodation.