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

Samuel Purdy

St. John Constant

William Leggett

Ezra Lockwood .

Nathaniel Underbill

Henry White

John Thomas .

John Townsend .

Robert Graham

Nehemiah Brown, Jun

Stephen Ward

Aaron Vark

Gilbert Drake .

Joseph A. Constant

Ebenezer Lockwood

George Case

Jonathan G. Tompkins

Albert Lockwood

Ebenezer Pardy

Robert J. Hart .

Albert Lockwood . 1847.

CLERKS OF THE COUNTY.

Edward Collier .

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1688 to 1691

Joseph Lee ....

1691 to 1698

Benjamin Collier

1698 to 1707

John Clapp

1707 to 1711

Daniel Clark

1711 to 1722

William Forster

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1722 to 1732

Benjamin Nicoll

1745 to 1746

John Bartow

1760 to 1764

Richard Hatfield

1777 to 1800

Thomas Ferris .

1807 to 1815