The two members for the County had the tenants of Philipsburgh, and of the four smaller manors of Scarsdale, Pelham, Morrisania and Fordham among their constituents, and " The Manor of Cortlandt had its own representative. One of the county members was Frederick Pliilipse, the third, and the then, LordofPliilijiseburgh (the other being John Thomas of Harrison), and the member for the Manor of Coi'tlandt, was Pierre van Cortlandt, of Croton, of the second branch of that family, and subsequently the first Lieutenant-Governor of the State of New York. Both the count}' members had a majority of Manor tenants in their constituency.

The next year, 177<i, Mr. Thomas, one of the County members, tried a little different measure, apparently punitive. He introduced a bill relating to the Manor of Philipsburgh alone, entitled " a bill to enable and qualifS' tenants holding lands improved to the value of sixty pounds, either for years, or at will, within the Manor of Philipsburgh, in the County of Westchester, to serve as jurors in the justices courts held in said Manor, where the parties concerned in the cause to be tried, are tenants as aforesaid."- This was practically to invest Justices' courts in the Manor, with the jurisdiction of the Courts-baron of the manor, only with a justice instead of the Lord or his Steward as its presiding head, and thus imposed double jury duty on the tenants. This measure also failed to pass. These facts, and the proposed legislative action, first mentioned, occurring as it did, only five years before the beginning of the American Revolution, show how widely-extended was the manorial system of New York, in Westchester County, how numerous and