One of these unhappy persons informed me, that when suffering this cruel treatment, the last sensation which he recollects, when suspended by his neck, was a flashing heat over him like that which would be occasioned by boiling water poured over his body ; he was, however, cut down, and how long he remained on the ground insensible, he ki^ows not. A peaceable, unresisting Quaker, of considerable respectability, by the name of Quincy, was visited by several of these vile ruffians ; they first demanded his money, and after it was delivered they suspected he had more concealed, and inflicted on him the most savage cruelties in order to extort it from him. They began with what they call scorching, covering his naked body with hot ashes, and repeating the application till the skin was covered with blisters ; after this they resorted to the halter, and hung the poor man on a tree by his neck, then took him down, and repeated it a second, and even a third time, and finally left him almost lifeless.'**

Westclicsier CoutUy under the late constitution formed the Second Senatorial, and Assembly Districts; under the present,

• Thacher'd Military Journal, 232.

INTRODUCTION.

she constitutes the Seventh Senatorial with Rockland, and is divided into two Assembly Districts.

JUDGES OF THE COUNTY.

John Pell

John Waters

Caleb Heathcote

Caleb Tompkins .

William Wiliett

William Jay

Frederick Phillips .

Isaac Requa

Isaac Honeywell

Jonathan Ferris .

John Thomas

William Miller .

Lewis Morris, Juu.

Edward Kemeys