In 172G, Frederick Philipse accepted the i)osition, which he held until his death, in 1751, and which his son, of the same name, held after him until the Revolution. From 178!) to 1748, Daniel Purdy, of Rye, and from 1743 to the Revolution, Judge John Thomas, of the same town, was the other member from the county. The courtesy of Mr. Willett and the election of Lewis Morris in 1738 will he spoken of hereafter.

' During the firet fifty years of its existence Westchester County steadily increased in population and material prosperity. Large areas of land were placed under cultivation. The public advantages of churches, schools, highways, mills, tanneries, etc., were greatly multii)lied, and the harsh life of the pioneer was mod-

: crating into the regulated one of the sturdy yeoman. In the numerous measures necessary for the development of its resources and the increase of its facilities, privileges and comforts, its inhabitants exhibit quickness to devise, and zeal and per.«everance to prosecute to the needed accomplishment. By petitions, rejiresentations and remonstrances to the Asseml)ly, to the Council, to the Governor, the various towns made their wants and wishes, even if not always answered, pressingly known. And so in all questions of rights, no communities in the province appear more sensitive and determined. " Our representatives," says Smith, "agreeable to the general sense of their constituents, are tenacious in their opinions that the inhabitants of this colony are entitled to all the privileges of Englishmen ; that they have a right to participate in the legislative power, and that the session of Assemblies here is wisely substituted, instead of a representation in Parliament.'" And yet this same historian is inconsistent enough to charge " that the views of these representatives seldom extend further than to the regulation of highways, the destraction of wolves, wild-cats and foxes, and the advancement of the other little interests of the particular counties which they were chosen to represent."* How much more correct the first statement is, if not seen from what has already been oft'ered, will be abundantly manifest, as we now turn to record the excitements and troubles which commenced with the second third of the eighteenth century.