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. He associated and corresponded on terms of intimacy with the celebrated literary characters of that sparkling age, ami, although not himself a man of great pretensions, had very excellent parts,' especially "a pleasant wit, and was never more happy in his sallies, as he wrote to his friend Dean Swift, than when he was most annoyed." In Lewis Morris he found a congenial soul. The two collaborated in the composition of a farce entitled " Androborus," which hit off the peculiarities of some of their opponents in a lively fashion. Morris was promptly installed by Hunter as president of the council. It was in 1710, the year of Hunter's assumption of the governorship, that he entered the Xew York assembly as a delegate from the borough Town of Westchester, and in that body he at once became a zealous supporter of the governor. In this championship he strongly opposed the popular party, which resisted