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. Colonel Benjamin Fletcher, landed in New York. The day after his arrival his commission and the names of members of his Council were proclaimed. Some changes of this body, which was substantially that under Sloughter, were afterwards deemed necessary, which introduced Colonel Caleb Heathcote, of the Manor of Scarsdale, and thus gave Westchester additional weight in the Province.

In the succeeding March, 1693, the Assembly met the County being represented by John Pell and by Joseph Theale, of the town of Rye. From the report of Governor Fletcher to the home government, in April of this year, we extract the following from his list of those employed in civil ofiice in the province of New York:

The justices in Westchester County were Col. Caleb Heathcote, Judge of Common Pleas, J(jseph Theale, Win. Barnes, Daniel Strange, James Mott, John Hunt, Wm. Chadderton, Thomas Pinkney, Esqrs.; Benjamin Collier, Esq., Sherift"; Joseph Lee, Clerk of the county.'

2N. T. Col. Mans , Limrlon Poc. IX. vol. iv, p. 27.