' A personal exaniiuatioii of the Records of the County, preserved iu the office of the Clerk of the County, at tlie While Plains, has revealed, to us, the significant fact that, although the Records of Ciiil Actions iu the Court of Conmiou Pleas, the Records of Roads, and other similar Records, from a very early period, have been carefully made in books provided for the purpose (in one instance, if in no more, one volume, by being reversed, has been made to serve for two distinct lines of Records) and as carefully preserved, the Records of Criminal Actions, in any and all the Courts, within the County, were not thus mailcin books, xintil long after tiie time of wliich we wi'ite -- until long, very long, after the close of the peaceful and juosperous and happy period of the Colonial era -- when the greater number and more important character of the Criminnl Actions -- until then too insignificant, in number and character, to entitle them to .-^uch a distinction, among the County Records -- warranted, the first time, the employment of books in which to keep the Records of them.

If the rough Minutes of flie Courts, in Cciniinn? .\ctions, prior to 17S7, were preserved, at all, they have all disai)peared ; and we feel justified in saying, as we have said, in the text, that where Pauperism and Intemperance were as uncommon as they were in Westchestei'-county, during the later Colonial period, there was, in consequence, a minimum of Crime.