At the election for members of Assembly the strong party feeling is manifested by a complete change in the representation, the following persons, strong Federalists, being returned : Thaddeus Crane, of North Salem ; Jonathan Horton and Philip Livings^ ton, of Westchester; Judge Nathan Rockwell, of Lewisboro ; Walter Seaman and General Philip Van Cortlandt. At the assembling of the Legislature in December, however, such was the political complex* ion of the two Houses that the five delegates to repre* sent the State in the Continental Congress were

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

chosea from the Auti-Federal party, one of the five being Philip Pell, of this county. The satisfactory working of the new Constitution, the popularity of Washington's administration and the great advantages which the proximity of the seat of government to this county was offering, were all favorable to the Federal party. Majorities in its favor continued through the succeeding ten years, in which two of the elections held -- -those of 1792 and 1796-- had a direct bearing on national politics. Washington entered without dissent upon a second term of office, General Stephen Ward, of East Chester, being one of the electors of this State and in 1797, John Adams, with the twelve votes of the State of New York, was chosen in opposition to Mr. Jefferson. At the election in 1798 there were plain indications of a falling away of the strength of the administration party throughout the State, which, although not borne out by the result the next year, were more than realized at the Presidential contest of 1800. Among the electors chosen by the Legislature was Colonel Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr., of this county, who had married a daughter of ex-Governor George Clinton, still the leader of the Republican party in the State. General Thomas, of Rye, an active Republican, who had been out of the Assembly for some years, is again restored to it.