Witness our trusty and well beloved Benjamin Fletcher our capn geni and govenr in chief of our sd province of New York and the territories and tracts of land depending thereon in America, and vice admiral of the same, our lieutent and commander in chief of the melitia and of all the fforsses by sea and land within our collony of Connecticut, and of all the fforts and places of strength within the same, Alt our fort at New York, this sixteenth day of April, in the eighth year of our reign.*

"\'ivANT Rex et Regina."

Another entry relates to the swearing in of the first aldermen and common council of the borough.

From a certified copy of the original, in the possession of Ogden Hammond, Esq.

ISC- -• HISTORY OF THE

" Be it remembered that upon the sixth day of June in the 8th year of his Majestie's reign, 1096, appeared before me Caleb Heathcote, mayor of the t)orough town of Westchester, William Barnes, John Hunt and John Bayley, gentlemen, aldermen of the said corporation, and Robert Huestis, Samuel Huestis, Samuel Ferris, Miles Oakley and Daniel Turner, gentlemen, common council of said corporation, and did take the oaths appointed by act of Parliamentj entitled '• of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy." Recorded, coram me,

Caleb Heathcote, Mayor.^

Upon the 11th of June, 1G96, at a meeting of the mayor, aldermen and common council, "it was ordered, that a seal shall be devised and made for the use of the corporation, and that in the mean time the seal^ formerly used by the trustees shall be made use of. It was further ordered, that Mr. James Emott shall be recorder and Edward Collier his deputy; also that Joseph Hunt, jun., should be scrjeant of the mace, if he would accept of it, and if not John Williams should be serjeant of the mace.'^