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. They met in Bedford, Manor of Cortlandt or Salem. But few towns were represented. All through these trying years we find about the same persons present, -- Ebenenezer Lockwood, of Poundridge ; Major Joseph Strang, of Manor of Cortlandt; Israel Lyon, of Bedford ; Jacob Purdy, of North Castle ; and Abijah Gilbert, of Salem. May 31, 1784, the supervisors met at the house of John Cromwell, in Harrison's Precinct, and there were present the following persons :

John Thomas, Rye ; Wm. Paulding, Manor of Philipsburgh ; Jonathan G. Tompkins, Manor of Scaredale; Joseph Strang, JIanor of Cortlandt; Thad. Crane, town of Upper Salem; Benj. Stevenson, New

Kochelle ; Israel Honeywell, Yonkers ; Miller, Harrison's Precinct ;

Ehenezer Lockwood, Poundridge; Ebenezer L. Burling, East Chester; Abel Smith, North Castle ; Daniel Horton, White Plains; Gilbert Budd, Hamaroneck ; Abijah Gilbert, Salem.