Watson was supervisor from 1829 to 1832, in which year Asiatic cholera prevailed in the township and the sum of $88.52 was expended by the Board of Health in suppressing the disease. In 1833-34 Augustus Huestace was both supervisor and justice of the peace; but in 1835 Israel H. Watson returned to the board. In that year William Barker, of Westchester, who for twenty-eight years had been clerk of the Board of Supervisors, resigned, and the board passed a vote of thanks for his faithful services. Watson continued to \ represent the town until 1839, when Andrew Findlay, | tiie well-known civil engineer and surveyor, succeeded him. Findlay continued toserve until 1846, with one exception in 1844, when Robert R. Morris, of Westchester, filled theoffice. In 1846 the Legislature passed an act dividing the township, all that portion of the ter- i ritory west of the Bronx being erected into the town- [ ship of West Farms, and that east of the Bronx con- j tinuing under the old name of Westchester. j

The division of the township created a contest for the seat of supervisor. Both Findlay and Watson I claimed to be legally elected. It seems that when, on '

the 13th of May, 1846, the act was passed, Mr. Findlay claimed that he was duly elected at the regular town-meeting, which was held prior to the passage of the act, and Watson claimed that he was elected Ibr the new town of Westchester at an election held on the 30th of June, after the passage of the act. The supervisors decided in Mr. Findlay's favor ; so he became the last supervisor of the old town of Westchester and the first supervisor of West Farms. At the time of the division of the township the aggregate assessment amounted to $841,490 ; the number of taxable inhabitants was 442 and the population in both townships was about 5052.