To this end resolutions were passed detailing the evils and infamies of his administra-

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

tion, which were sent to England and resulted in Cornbury's recall (1708). During the brief rule of Lord Lovelace, Morris again sat in the council; but under Lovelace's successor, Ingoldsby, lie was once more suspended because of personal unacceptability to the executive. Finally, in 1710, a governor was senr over with whom Morris was able to establish the most satisfactory relations, both official and personal-- the noted General Robert Hunter. His arrival is memorable in New York provincial annals because of the great Palatinate immigration of which it marked the beginning. Some three thousand Palatinates -- refugees from the Palatine or Pfalz provinces of Germany, whom continual wars and religious persecutions had driven from their homes -- sailed with Governor Hunter from Plymouth, England. The vessels bearing them were separated by terrible storms at sea, and hundreds of the immigrants died before port was reached. These Palatine immigrants and their countrymen who followed them were distributed mainly among the central and upper Hudson River counties--Orange, Ulster, and Dutchess -- and throughout the Mohawk Valley. But very many of them naturally remained in New York City, and from there gradually made their way into the surrounding country. Individual Palatine families sought homes from time to time in Westchester County, but our county was not one of the chosen places of colonization for these people, and no Palatinate settlements were established here. Hunter was an entirely different manner of man from the governors who preceded him. He boasted no dazzling ancestry. As a lad he was apprenticed to an apothecary, but left that employment to enter the army, as a private, without either money or influence. Possessing marked natural abilities, he soon attracted the attention of his superiors, and was steadily promoted until he attained the rank of brigadier-general.