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

Jolin Qiiincy Adams 315.3

1832 Democratic Andrew Jackson 3133

Whig. . ■ Henry Clay 2293

183G Democratic Martin Van Buren .... 3009

Wbig VVni. H. 1 arrison 1749

Scattering 287

GENERAL HISTORY

4118a

Whig

Whig

4:il2

FioeSoil ....

Whig

4(133

Whig

■UM

. . . Johu Bell

. 8100

Ropuhlican . . .

1864 Domocratic. . .

. . . Geo. B. McCloUan

11,667

1872 Domocratic. . .

11 112

10,223

1876 Democratic.

12,050

Rppiiblican . . .

. . . Rutherford 1!. Hayes . . . .

11,858

11,367

1:1 524

Republican . . .

. . . James G. Blaiue

11,286

In referring to thethirty years before Mr. Lincoln's election, some of the facts and events are important and interesting enough for record and consideration. General Aaron Ward of Sing Sing was, six times elected a member of Congress fulfilling his duties to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents and the pride of his neighbors. General Ward was an officer of the War of 1812, and for some years Brigadier General of the Fifteenth Brigade and Fourth Division of the Militia of the State. In the convention in 1846, for amending the constitution. General Ward represented the county and was made chairman of the committee on the militia and military officers. Mr. John Hunter of Hunter's Island, Pelham, in 1823, for one year, and from 1836, for eight years Senator from Westchester, was a man of large wt-alth and high social position and an affable and a considerate gentleman.