In 16S6, John Pinckney appears as supervisor ; Richard Shute, clerk of the town court ; Joseph Drake, constable ; William Haiden, Samuel Drake and Philip Pinckney, town commissioners ; William Haiden and John Pinckney, representatives.

In 1691, John Pinckney, supervisor.

The following election took place in 1776-7.

Stephen Ward, supervisor; Samuel Sneden, town clerk; Charles Guion, collector ; Solomon Drake and Moses Drake, assessors ; Thomas Farrington, Joshua Ferris, Joseph Gedney, overseers of roads ; Thomas Pinckney and William Fowler, overseers of fences ; Edmund Ward and John Sneden, viewers of fences ; Stephen Ward and William Fowler, pounders.

The first independent election for town officers took place on the 22d of December, 1783, under the superintendence of Stephen Ward and Ebenezer S. Burling Esq. <fcc., (in accordance with an

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act of the legislature passed October 23, 1779,} when the following persons were elected.

Ebenezer Burling, Esq., supervisor; Charles Ward, town clerk; William Crawford, jun., constable and collector; Thomas Pinckney, Jacob Hunt, Daniel Learing and John Wright, assessors; Charles Guion, EUsha Shute and James Morgan, overseers of roads ; William Crawford and James Morgan, pounders ; AVilliam Crawford and Charles Guion, to take care of public edifices.^

The public lands of Eastchester are now managed by a board of trustees, according to an act of the legislature passed May 1 Ith, 1846.b

The village of Eastchester is situated in the south east angle of the town, at the head of the Eastchester bay, fifteen miles from the city of New York ; it contains about three hundred and fifty inhabitants, fifty dwelling houses, one Episcopal and one Methodist church, post office, three taverns, four stores, and one grist mill. There is also a convenient landing,^ from whence sail several sloops trading with the New York market. .