Dongan arrived in August, and, in less than a month, summoned the people to elect representatives to the first Assembly, which he ordered to meet on the 17th of October, in the city of New York. Westchester County, being one of the three Ridings of Long Island, returned two members to this body, whose names, unfortunately, are not known, the acts of the old New York Assembly being, " for the most part, rotten, defaced or lost." ' An important law passed by this Assembly was the division of the province into twelve counties. The County of Westchester is marked out as " East and West Chester, Bronxland, Fordliam and all as far eastward as the province extends " and northward along tlie Hudson to the Highlands. Acts bearing upon the interests of this County were passed, establishing courts, repealing rate laws, for defraying expenses, for the destruction of wolves, and providing for damages by swine, and also settling that Westchester should henceforth have two representatives in the Assembly.^

In the latter part of November, after an intimation from the Governor, that, unless there was an abatement of her claims, he would proceed to extremities, a delegation from Connecticut was sent to New York to settle the boundary line between the two provinces. In the previous determination, in 1664, the understanding drawn up in formal manner was, that the dividing Hue should runabout twenty miles from any point on the Hudson River, and, as Mamaroneck Creek was, on the assurance of the Connecticut commissioners, discovered to be at that distance from the nearest locality on that river, an amendment was made that the western bounds of Connecticut should