History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
Freeholders, were cast. -- (The oritjinal Itelitrns of the Iiixpertors, in manuscript, owned by us.) In the Election for Representatives for the City of New-York, held on the seventh, eighth, and ninth of March, 17G8, when an intense excitement prevailed and all known means for increasing its strength were resorted to, by each of the antagonistic parties, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven votes, including those of eight hundre<l and twenty-three Freemen who were not, also. Freeholders, were cast. -- ( The oriijinnl Returns nf llie Innpeciom, in manuscrijit, owned by us.) In the Election for Representatives for the City of New-York, held on the twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, and twenty-seventh of January, 1709, when another very excited contest occurred, only fifteen hundred and twelve votes, including those of the Freemen who were not, also. Freeholders, were cast. -- (The Returns of the Jmpectors, original printed edition, owned by us.) In the Election for Deputies to the Provincial Convention by whom the Delegation from the City of New York to the second Continental Congre.s.s was to be elected, held on the fifteenth of March, 1773, nine hundred and eighty-eight votes, including those of the Freemen of the City who were not, also. Freeholders, were cast.-- (Holfs Sew -York Journal, 'So. 1680, New Y'oek, Thursday, ilarch Ifi, 1775 ; Ri.ingttin'-s Sen- -York Gnzetleer, No. 100, New York, Thursday, March IG, 1775 ;* Gaine's Sew York Gazette: and the Weekly Mercury, No. 1223, New York, Jlonday, March 20, 1775.)
We have found only one Return of an Election in Westchesterconnty, during the period of which we write ; but that very completely illustrates our subject. In the Election for the first Governor of the new-formed State, in 1777, the aggregate of the votes cast in .Vlbany, Cumberland, Tryon, Duchess, I'lster, and Westchcster-counties, including those of the Freemen of the City of Albany, was only twenty six hundred and forty-two. -- (Fragment of a Gemral Returtt of Votes cast throughout tlte State -- iliM:ellttneoM Papers, Volume xxxvii., in the Office of the Secretary of State, at Albany.)