Caleb Tompkins, of White Plains, and that for three years, from 1820 to'1823, the position of County Judge was held by William Jay, son of the Chief Justice.

The great political event which now falls under notice is the assembling of the convention ordered for

the revision of the State Constitution, and the presence in it of three distinguished citizens of the county, all members of its bar -- Peter A. Jay, Peter J. Munro and Jonathan Ward. It would seem that whatever the motive elsewhere, the political did not enter in the selections thus made in Westchester County.

Governor Tompkins was called to preside over the convention, and in the appointment of committees it is a matter of no little honor to Westchester that Mr. Monroe was made chairman of the committee on the judiciary department and Mr. Ward a member of that on the council of revision. One of the marked periods in the debates of this body was that in which the right of the colored population to vote at elections was discussed. The question was handled very dispassionately, but Mr. Jay's speech appears to have been one of the very ablest on the subject. By far the severest work of the convention was the consideration of the report of the Judiciary committee, when strong political feeling was aroused. The question really was the deposition of the old Judges. Mr. Munro, although assisted by Mr. Van Buren, struggled unsuccessfully to prevent the sweeping change.

At the session of the Legislature following the convention. Senator John Townsend, of East Chester, was made a member of the Council of Appointment, the sessions of which were the last held in the State, its powers passing by the new Constitution to the Governor and the Senate. Mr. Townsend, at the next election in the county, was made its Sheriff and Mr.