James Wetmore, of Rye, and a man of influence in the community. Pie was graduated from King's College in 1758, and was admitted to practice April 26, 1760. He was a pronounced Tory, and signed the protest at White Plains, April 11, 1775, against Congress and committees, and pledged his life and property to support the King. He afterwards removed to the province of New Brunswick where he practiced his profession many years and held situations of honor and trust. In 1800 he returned to New York, where he died March, 1820, aged eighty-three or eighty-five years.^

The court records furnish us with the names of a number of lawyers who practised for one or more years in the county. Having failed to obtain such information concerning them as could be embodied into a biographical notice, we give here merely the names and dates at which they appear on the records, between 174.") and 1776, -- Samuel Clowes, Jr., 1745-55 ; Parker, 1747-49; McEvers, 1748, 1749 and 1756; Bennett, 1748-58; John Cortlandt, 1750-56; Scott,

1752- 53; Moore, 1752-65 ; Augustine "Van Cortlandt,

1753- 67; Woods, 1762-76; Ludlow, 1761-71; Kent, 1762-72; Ryker, 1765-(38 ; Helme, 1765-73; Vincent, Matthews, 1770-71 ; Benson, 1771 ; Antill, 1771 ; Townsend, 1770-76 (probably Micah Townsend, Esq., of White Plains) ; Jphn McKcs.son, 1771 ; Wickham, 1763-72; De Peyster, 1773 ; Murray, 1774; and Bogart, 1776.

Hon. Richard Morris (of the Morrises, of Morrisania, and whose biography is given in another chapter) practiced in Westchesfer County (1752-76) ; He, with Thomas Hicks (1752-64), Benjamin Kissam (1750-75) and Timothy Wetmore, afterwards attorneygeneral of the province of New Brunswick, became the leading lawyers after Alsop and Nicolls had ceased to figure. Thomas Jones (1760-71) and Samuel Jones (1764-76) did also a good deal of legal business.