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.

The first political differences of a serious nature which arose in the State sprang up as the generally realized insufficiency of the government by a Confederacy brought forth various plans for the increase of its powers and efficiency. It was felt that the union of the States was merely in name, when the credit which that union established was at the mercy of the States in their capricious dealings with it.

To the disappointment keenly enough felt by the enthusiastic friends of the Revolution was added a mortifying sense of the apparent fulfillment of the predictions of the enemies of the Republic, that the whole movement would prove a failure, not more from its own folly than from the incompetency of the untaught and inexperienced movers in it. In speaking of John Hancock and Samuel Adams, one of the Loyalist newspapers says : " When the lunacies of the former are separated from the villanies of the latter, the deluge of destruction that is certainly, though slowly, rolling after them will rapidly come on and .overwhelm them and their infatuated votaries in prodigious ruin." Here in this County, where the" Westchester County Farmer" had poured forth his entreaties and forebodings in view of the uprising against the British authority, the anxiety for the success of the new government could not but be intensified by these recollections, and by the daily contact with the many who had anticipated disa-ster.