Relations of the County to the Colony.-- It will be quite evident from what has been presented that the county of Westchester occupied no passive position in the progress of the colony of New York, but largely assisted in the development of the city and the regions upon which it was continually advancing. What must be said of the influence of the towns upon each other is true also of their bearings upon the intellectual, social and religious condition of the whole Province. The energy, sturdiness, promptness and firmness of the inhabitants were everywhere appreciated, and while much was received, much was communicated. Sometimes the excessive ardor of the populace found its check in the sober thoughtfulness, the festina lente temper of their country neighbors on the north, and sometimes the dormant sensibility to justice and right was stirred to activity and fervor by boiling floods of resentment pouring down from our Westchester hills. But the relations between these portions were too continuously intimate to allow much of spasmodic action. A more correct statement of what was taking place is that the difl'erent portions of the province were all contributing to the making up of its general character and fortune, and this county was among the most potential.

3 Vule UeDdersou Walker Letter to Ld. Bp. LoDdoD, Prot. Episc. Hist. Soc. Coll., vol, 1851, p. 182. I <Thl9 book was widely disseniiuated, and I have under my eye a very I fine quarto edition of this early date.

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.