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.'^

"At a court held in the borough town of Westchester by the mayor and aldermen of said town on the 6th of October, 1696, Colonel Heathcote brought the seal for the corporation, and did give it gratis to the town, and left it in the hands of the recorder."

Tlie Seal of the Borough of Westchester.

a Town Rec.

b Several impressions of this seal are attached to papers in the town clerk's office.

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At a meeting of the trustees of this town, held on the 8lli of June, 1700, it was resolved,

"That whereas at a former meeting held by the inhabitants of the borough town and precincts, on the 3d day of May, 1697, it was voted and agreed upon that there should be a town hall built to hold courts in and for the public worship of God, &c., but it being then neglected, the mayor, aldermen and justices at this meeting, did order with a joynt consent to build a house for the uses qf a court and prisoji.^ The dimensions of the house is to be twentysix feet square, sixteen feet joynts, a square roof, six window cases five feet square, &c. The trustees agreed with Richard Ward to build said house for jC33, and with Erasmus Orton to build the prison for £5.