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

Fowler and Child, who were well prepared for their reception, the

late chief justice was met, on his alighting, by several gentlemen who came there to give their votes for him. About 11 o'clock appeared the candidate of the other side William Forster, Esq., schoolmaster, appointed by the Society for Propagation of the Gospel, and lately made, by commission from his Excellency (the present Governor), Clerk of the Peace and Conmion Pleas in that county, which commission, it is said, he purchased for the valuable consideration of one hundred pistoles, given the Governor ; next him came two ensigns, borne by two of the freeholders ; then followed the Honorable James De Lancey, Esq., chief justice of the province of New York, and the Honorable Frederick