In the Governor's Council at the time of this first A.ssembly as Members by Royal appointment, and as such, members of the Upper House which passed this Act, were Stephanas Van Cortlandt and Frederick Philipse, who were also of the Council under James as Duke and as King. Thus among the framers of the original act which created the County, who, so to s])eak, were present at its birth, and also at its confirmation were two members of families, subsequently manorial, both of whom were the first Lords of the Manors of Philipsburgh and Cortlandt, neither of which had then been erected.'

Who represented " The North Riding," in the Assembly under the Duke of York is not known as the .lournals of all the Assemblies from lti83 to ItiSt) have been lost, and the names of the members of all of them have consequently gone iuto oblivion.

No change whatever took place in the limits of Westchester after the act of 1691, until the "Equivalent J>ands," or "Oblong," was acquired by New York in the settlement of a boundary dispute with the Colony of Connecticut, on the 11th of May, 1731. This was a strip nearly two miles in width taken ofl the western side of Connecticut as far north as Massachusetts, and ceded to New York in exchange for lands upon the Sound yielded to Connecticut. The extension of the counties of New Y'ork over this strip was not made by a Legislative act. Being an addition to a Crown Colony, it was a new ac(iuisition by the Crown, and iis such its status was legally determinable by the King. Hence an "Ordinance" by the Governor of New Y'ork in the name of the King was issued on the 2!)th of August 1733 extending Westchester and the other counties aflected up to the new line between New Y'ork and Connecticut established by the agreement of the 14th of May 1731.