The first Assembly of the province, which the new Governor summoned, met on the 9th of April, 1691, and the member from Westchester County was John Pell. The position taken by this Assembly was that the acts passed in 1683, not having received the approbation of Charles the Second nor the Duke of York were null and void, and it proceeded to enact some of the laws supposed by the people to be in force. An act making a division of the province into twelve counties, as intended in 1()83, was passed. In addition, the following laws for Westchester County were enacted: "An act for settling a ministry and raising a maintenance for them in Westchester County. An act for settling the militia. An act offering twenty shillings for a grown wolf killed by a Christian in Westchester County, and ten shillings for such a wolf killed by an Indian; one-half that sum respectively for a whelp. An act for the further laying out and regulating and better clearing public highways throughout this Colony," in which Adolph Philipse, Esq., Caleb Heathcote, Esq., Mr. Joseph Drake, Mr. John Stevenson and Mr. John Haitt are made commissioners to take a I'eview of the roads. These and the other acts of this Assembly were sent to England for approval.

After much delay and hesitation, and under circumstances not too strongly to be reprehended, the execution of Leisler and his son-in-law and confederate, Jacob Milborne, was ordered and took jjlace on the 16th of May, 1691. The punishment of Williams and his associates was deferred. But little more than two months passed when Sloughter himself, after an illness of only two days, died under circumstances at first deemed suspicious, but afterwards differently regarded. His death occurred on the 26th of July, 1691, and after a disadvantageous interregnum of thirteen months, his successor.