As the people upon the manors were Iree of general jury duty the fact threw upon the rest of the county an increased burden. The ' Burgess ' (or Representative) of the "Borough of Westchester" in the Assembly in 17G9, was John de Lancey of Rosehill, Westfarms, of the second, or Westfarms, branch of that family, being the second son of Peter de Lancey of Rosehill, Westfarms, and his wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Governor Cadwallader Golden. He attempted the relief of the non-manorial inhabitants of the county and brought this matter before the Assembly in this speech, from which we learn the fact above-mentioned, --

'■ Mr. Speaker, -- As the qualification required by the act for returning able and sufficient jurors in the several counties of this colony, entirely disqualifies all the tenants settled upon the Manor of Philipsburgh, and great part of those settled upon the Manor of Cortlandt, in the county of Westchester, from serving upon juries ; which makes that service extremely hard upon the other parts of the county (the Manore of Phili])sburgh and Cortlandt, containing at least onethird of all the inhabitants of the said county); I therefore move for leave to bring in a bill, to enable and qualify the tenants holding lands improved of the value of sixty pounds (S150), either for years, or at will, within the Manors aforesaid to serve upon juries within the aaid county of Westchester." Leave was given, and

the next day ^Ir. de Lancey introduced the bill. 'The jury act referred to required all jurors to be possessed either in their own rights and names, or that of Trustees, or in that of their wives, of "a freehold in lands, messuages, or tenements, or rents, in fee, feetail, or for life, of the value of sixty pounds New York currency (S150) free of all incumbrances." In the City of New York alone personalty of sixty pounds value was permitted as a qualification.