provided that in case of failure to elect, or where there were not more than twenty inhabitants, the owner of the manor or his steward should be supervisor. The freeholders of the Manor of Cortlandt were authorized, by the act of December 16, 1737, to elect annually one supervisor, one treasurer, two assessors and one collector, and Ryke's Patent, by the act of January 27, 1770, were granted a similar privilege. While much is left to surmise prior to the year 1772, the records give both the towns and the supervisors who represented them from that day to this. The following is the list for 1773:

" Wm, Barker, Esq., for Scarsdale ; Doct. Haverlond, for Rye ; Col. Cortlandt, for Yonkers; Jas. Pell, for Pelliam ; Col. Holmes, for Bedford; Jas. Ferris, Esq., for Westchester; Col. Morris, for Morrisania; .\bijah Gilbert, for Salem ; Wm. Davis, for Philipsborougli ; Doct. Daton, for North Castle ; Stephen Ward, for Eastchester ; Wm. Sutton, Esq., loan officer and supervisor for Memorineck ; Justice Lockwood, for Poundridge ; Maj. Cortlandt, for Cortlandt JIanor ; Jas. Cronkhite, for Ryks Patten ; Doct. Graham, for the White Plains." i

The supervisors met at first in the county town, Westchester. This place being inconvenient, the supervisors were directed to meet in the school-house at Rye, by an act entitled, " An Act to alter the place of the supervisors' meeting in the county of Westchester," passed 29th of November, 1745, with the privilege of adjourning to such place as the majority should deem proper. The population of the northern portions of the county increased rapidly, and for their convenience the place of meeting was changed by act of February 6, 1773, to the court-house at White Plains, with the same privilege of adjournment. After the burning of the court-house, in 1776, the supervisors became a vagrant body, with no certain meetingplace.