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. About midnight they all met at the house of Wni. Le Count, at New Rochclle, whose hoiise not being large enough to entertain so great a number, a large fire was made in the street, by which they stit till daylight, at which time they began to move. They were joined on the hill at the east end of the town bj about seventy hoi-se of the electors of the lower part of the county, and then proceeded towards the place of election in the following order, viz. : Fii'st rode two trumpeters and three violins ; next, fo\ir of the principal freeholders, one of which carried a banner, on one side of which was atlixed, in gold capitals, ' King George,' and on the other, in golden capitals, 'Liberty and Law ;' ne.xt followed the candidate, Lewis Morris, Esq., late chief justice of this province; then two colors ; and at sunrising they entered upon the green of East Chester, the place of election, followed by above three hundred horse of the principal freeholders of the county, (a greater number than had ever appeared for one man since the settlement of that county.) -\fter having rode three times x-ound the green, they went to the houses of Joseph