'"Bonndarics of tlie State of New York." Keport of the Regents of the Vnivcrsity, pp. iBaird's Kye, p. 118. Public Records of Connecticut, vol. iv. p. :i,35.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

whom no returns having been made, Santen was compelled to be satisfied with two bonds, payable in the succeeding March. These Governor Dongan looked upon to be of no value and all the revenue of that county lost, " the man having hardly bread to put into his mouth."

The Acts of - the New York Assembly of 1783 were duly transmitted for approbation to the Duke of York ; but although they were, with some amendments, approved by him and his Commissioners, and although the documents were signed and sealed which were to declare this, the death of Charles II., in the succeeding February, changed the whole current of action. The Duke ascended the throne as James II. The approving papers were never returned, and the King, after issuing new instructions to Dongan nullifying much that had been done, soon determined to merge the dirterent provinces north of the Delaware into one government. Dongan was recalled, and Sir Edmund Andros made Governor of what His Majesty was pleased to call "our Territory and Dominion of New England in America." A council of forty-two of the princij^al inhabitants was named hy the King, to whom was assigned the making of laws and imposing of taxes. In the list of these counselors we again find the names of Philipse and Van Cortlandt, who were far from being pleased with the change. In a letter of theirs to the Board of Trade they join with Lieutenant-Governor Nicholson and Mr. W. Bayard in saying " how fatall it hath been to this city and the Province of New York for to be annexed to that of Boston, which, if it had continued, would have occasioned the totall ruin of the Inhabitants of .?aid Province." ' It must easily appear that these changes, with the consi'ijuent thwarting of their j)olitical hopes, produced much dissatisfaction among the people of this county.