* Button's "History of Westctiestcr County." See also Edward F. de lancey's cliapter on tlio "Manors of Westchester County," in tliis Tolnme, and his sketcli of Maniaroneck.

•Bolton's "History of We.itcUcstor," vol. ii., Apiwndi.'i A,

^Buird's "History of Rye."

country in 1661, and in right of his wife, Elizabeth Richardson, daughter and co-heiress of John Richardson (one of the joint partners), became possessed of a large portion of the [Planting] Neck." Judge Leggett was mayor of the borough of Westchester, A.I). 1734.

Nathaniel Underbill, judge from 1755 to 1774, was the great-grandson of the " redoubtable " Ctiptain John Underbill, a soldier under the illustrious Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, in the Low Countries, who came to New England in 1630, and attained such distinction there that he was api)ointed one of the first deputies from Boston to the General Court, and one of the earliest officers of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery.^ Nathaniel Underbill was elected mayor of the borough of Westchester in 1775. He filled various other offices and died in 1784.

Jonathan Fowler was judge in 1769-71 and 1773-75. No positive data are to be found concerning this personage. In all likelihood he was the son of Caleb Fowler, county judge during the intervening year 1772 and until 1776. Caleb Fowler was a resident of the West Patent of North Castle, where he owned a good deal of property. He was surrogate in 1761-66. His son Jonathan (one of the twelve children) was appointed one of the executors of his will, which instrument, dated in the year 1760, was ofi'ered for probate September 14, 1784. The persons already mentioned appear by the court records to have been the presiding judges of the County Court of Common Pleas during the colonial period and at the times respectively given.