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The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)

Bolton, Robert Jr. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester, from its First Settlement to the Present Time, Vol. I. New York: Charles F. Roper, 1881. Revised posthumous edition. 279 words

Nicholas Cooper, Esq,, high sheriff of the said county, having, by papers affixed to the church of Eastchester and other public places, given notice of the day and place of election, without mentioning any time of the day when it was to be done, which made the electors on the side of the late judge very suspicious that some fraud was intended -- to prevent which, about fifty of tbem kept watch upon and about the green Eastchester (the place of ele«tion) from 12 o'clock the night before till the morning of that clay. The other electors, beginning to move on Sunday afternoon and evening, so as to be at New Roehelle by midnight, their way lay through Harrison's Purchase, the inhabitants of which provided for their entertainment as"they passed each house in their way, having a table plentifully covered for that purpose. About midnight they all met at the house of William Le Count, at New Roehelle, whose house, not being large enough to entertain so great a number, a large fire was made in the street, by which they sat till daylight, at which time they began to move. They were joined on the hi V at the east end of the town by about seventy horse of the electors of the lower part of the county, and then proceeded towards the place of election in the following order, viz. ; First rode two trumpeters and three violins ; next four of the principal freeholders, one of which carried a banner, on one side of which was affixed, in gold capitals, 'King George,' and on the other, in golden capitals, 'Liberty and Law;' next followed the candidate,