To the vacant ofiice the Governor appointed the First Associate Judge, James De Lancey, who, with Judge Adolph Philipse, had not justified the course of Morris. The excitement in this matter extended to Westchester County. To allow of the election of Chief Justice Morris to the Assembly, William Willett, his friend and townsman, resigned his seat in that body. The person named to oppose the Judge was William Forster, Clerk of the County, who had held the office for many years and was greatly respected. The election took place on the 29th of October, and the following from the New York Weekly Journal, of the 24th of December, is a full detail of the event, under the coloring given to it by the successful party. It is described as an election of great expectation, and that the Court and County's interest was exerted to the utmost : '

1 Sew I'ork Weekly Jotinial, 1733.

"West Chester, Oct. 29tii, 1733. " On tliis day Lewis Morris, Esq., late cliief justice of tliis provinc.!, was, by a majority of voices, elected a representative from the county of Westchester. Xicholas Cooper, Esq., high slieriff of the said county, having, by papers affixed to the church of East Cliester and otlier public places, ^iven notice of the day and place of election without mentioning any time of the day when it was to be done, which made the electors on the side of the late jiulge very suspicious that some fraud was intended-- to prevent which abo>it fifty of them kept watch upon and about the green at East Chester (the place of election), from 12 o'clock the night before till the morning of that day, the other electors beginning to move on Sunday afternoon and evening, so as to be at New Rochelle by midnight -- their way lay through Ilarnson's Purchase, the inhabitants of which i^roviiled for their euterUiinnient as they passed each house in their way, having a table plentifully covered for that purpose.