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.

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HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Theale, Strange and Collier were of the town of Eye ; Barnes and Hunt, of Westchester ; Chadderton and Pinkney, of East Chester; Mott, of Maoiaroueck, and Lee in all likelihood, from Yorktown. In the same report the militia of the county is represented to consist of six companies of foot, commanded by Colonel Caleb Heathcote, and to number two hundred and eighty-three men.

In the following September a new Assembly was convened by Fletcher, and Pell is again a member of the House, and has as his colleague, iu jjlace of Theale, Humphrey Underbill, also of Rye. At this session of the Colonial Legislature the act was passed, which, after ap2)roval, was carried out, in reference to the maintenance of religion in the province. The bill provided for good, sufficient Protestant ministers to officiate and have the care of souls. It required that there should be two ministers in the county of Westchester, one of whom should have care of Westchester, East Chester, Yonkers and the Manor of Pelham, and the other of Rye, Mamaroneck and Bedford, and that fifty pounds should be raised for each of the incumbents ; and also whatever sum might be necessary for the maintenance of the poor, which amounts were to be levied by the wardens and vestrymen, for whose election the act also provided.' It appears that the Governor took the deepest interest in the spiritual welfare of the colony.