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. John Hunter, of Pelham, was returned under the new apportionment one of the four Senators of the Second Senatorial District. In 1824, in the list of Presidential electors, the last selected by the Legislature, are the names of the two brothers John and James Drake, both natives of Westchester County, the first residing in New York, but the latter on his estate at East Chester.

As well-known, the election for President was thrown into the House of Representatives, where Mr. John Quincy Adams, after several ballotings, was elected, Mr. Joel Frost, of Putnam (bounty, the member from the Fourth Congressional District, giving his vote to William H. Crawford, of Georgia, then Secretary of the Treasury.

The following detailed statement of the Electoral vote of Westchester County, beginning with the year 1828, will give a fair idea of the political opinions of the citizens of Westchester County from that date to the present time :

ELECTORAL VOTE OF WESTClIESTEtt COUNTY.

Year. Name of political Name of candidate. Number

party. of votes.

1828 Andrew Jackson 3788