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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. 255 words

Jamison are next mentioned -- first name omitted-- as practicing, from 1719 to 1736- 37, in Westchester County. The former was, no doubt, Joseph Murray, of New York, member of the Colonial Council of New York from 1744-58.^ He died in 1758. There can be also little doubt that " Mr. Jamison''was David Jamison, one of the patentees of Harrison's Purchase (the town of Harrison), at one time chief justice of New Jersey and attorney-general of New York.''

Mr. Wileman (doubtless Henry Wileman) practiced occasionally in the Westchester County Courts from 1720 to 1725.*

John Chambers, of New York, practiced in the Westchester courts from 1724 to 1751. He was an able and successful lawyer, he and Mr. Clowes doing almost all the legal business until Mr. Clowes retired, in 1744, when Chambers retained the lion's share.

Other lawyers, hailing principally from New York City or from Queens County, appeared infrequently in the County Courts in those early years. They were Whitehead, 1721; Costifin, 1728; Price, 1728; T. Smith (possibly Thomas Smith, of New York, member of the Committee of One Hundred in 1775), whose name is frequently mentioned, 1727-69 ; EdwardBlagge, 1728-32; Seymour, 1729; Lodge, 1731-56; Kelley, 1732-51; Warrol, 1732; White, 1740-41; Crannel, 1744; Green, 1744-47.

John Bartow, of Westchester town, was a lawyer of some repute from 1742 until 1772. He at one time (1760-64) held the office of county clerk. He died in 1802, at eighty-seven years old. Mr. Bartow, we

1 Record of Wills, N. Y, City, vol, xxii, p, 232.