Hustoii's service iu the Assembly, he sat for Rockland County directly across the Hudson. - Assembly Journals of 17G8, 3.

3 Assembly Journals of 17(59, p. 3, By a printer's error the Journals make the issue of the new Writs the "14th," instead of the "4th" of January, 176'J.

Commander-in-Chief of the Province of New-York In General Assembly for Said Province, on the Fourteenth day of February. In Testimony Whereof we have hereinto set our Hands and Seals this day and year First Above Written.

Joseph Traviss, [l. s.] Joshuah Traviss, Constable [l. .s.] Abram Purdy, [l. s.] Jeremiah Traviss, [l. s ] John Stevens, [l. s.] Charles Moore, [l. s.] *

This Assembly was the last elected in the Province of New York, and sat till 1775. Pierre Van Cortlandt sat for the Manor during its whole existence.

In 175S the population had so increased that an act was passed reciting the fact and authorizing the election of two Constables, one from those " having Habitations near Hudson's River," and the other from those whose " Habitations " were " on the Eastern parts of said Manor." ^

By 1768 the numbers of the people had so much more increased that, the last nientioned act was amended by authorizing the election of three Constables, and dividing the Manor into three " Divisions" or Wards, each of which was to elect one of the three constables. The first of these " division " contained all the Manor West of the east bonds of North lot No. I. and South lot No. I., North of the Croton River, and West of the West bounds of lot No. 8 on the South of the Croton. The second division, lay east of the first, and West of the West bounds of North lot No. 8 and South lot No. 8, and West of the East bounds of lot No. 10 South of the Croton.