Thomas Thomas, of Rye, was in the Lower House, having as his colleagues Philip Pell, Jr., of Pelham, Abijah Gilbert, of Salem, Ebenezer Purdy, of North Salem, Zebediah Mills, and Samuel Haight, sterling men in the trying times just past. The next year's election substituted Ebenezer Burling, of East Chester, and Ebenezer Lockwood, of Poundridge, in place of Messrs. Mills and Haight. In 1786 Jonathan G.Tompkins of Scarsdale, ancSamuel Drake were chosen instead of Burling and Purdy, and in 1787 Jonathan Rockwell, Joseph Strang, and^ Ebenezer Purdy, (who was again returned,) took ihc

GENERAL HISTOllY FKOM 1783 TO 18G0.

seals of Drake, Gilbert and of Pell, (who had become Surrogate.) The Hon. Richard Morris, of Scnrsdale, had been Chief Justice of the State since 1779, and John Thomas, of Rye, or Jesse Hunt, of Westchester, sheriffs since 1777. Richard Hatfield, of White Plains, was Surrogate from 1778 till 1787. In the list of supervisors of the county from 1783 to 1789 occur at least half a dozen of the names of the county officials just given, and to these may be added the following conspicuous members of the Board: Benjamin Stevenson, of New Rochelle, also one of the Judges of the County; Gilbert Budd, of Rye ; Abel Smith, of North Castle; Hachaliah Browne and Thaddeus Crane, both of Upper Salem; Daniel Horton, of White Plains; James Hunt, of East Chester; William Miller, of Harrison; James Kronkhite, of Ryker's Patent, or Cortlandt; and Philip Pell, of Pelham, who vras, in 1787, also sheriff of the county. From these details may be gathered a conception of the leadership in the political affairs of the County during the period immediately succeeding the Revolution.