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. He was a very strong supi)<)rt(!r of Mr. Van Buren, during whose administration Mr. Philip Schuyler, a brother-in-law of Mr. Hunter and a resident of this county for many years held the consulship at London. Mr. Hunter was also a member of the constitutional convention ofl84C.

Mr. Allen McDonald of White Plains held a seat in the Senate for two terms and is said to have been exceedingly popular. In 1836, he was appointed Adjutant General of theState. Mr. William Nelson, of Peekskill, who commenced his political career by two terms in the Assembly, in 1819 and 1820, had already in 1815 been district attorney of the Eleventh District and was again in 1822 of the county. From 1824 to 1828, Mr. Nelson was State Senator and from 1847 to 1851 the member of Congress from this District. In all these positions Mr. Nelson merits the approbation due for faithful service. He died in 86(5 or ]8()7.