The resulting eiection, held on the 29th of October, on " the Green " at the Town of Eastchester, was probably the most notable one in the whole colonial history of Westchester County. The elaborate and graphic description of it, published in the first number of the famous New York Weekh/ Journal, November 5, 1733, is undoubtedly familiar to many of our readers, having been frequently reproduced. This description gives, however, so interesting a picture of the political customs of the times, and, in its entirety, is so pertinent to our narrative, that we copv it here without abridgment: October 29, 1733.

On this day, Lewis Morris, Esq., late Chief J"Stice of this Province, was by a majority of voices elected a Representative from the Comity of Westchester. It was an Election of exerted"(as is said) to the great Expectation; the Court and the County's interestof rwas it. Nicholas Cooper, Esq., High utmost. I shall give my readers a particular account of Eastchester and other Church the to affixed papers by having County, said the of Sheriff of public places, given notice of the Day and Place of Election, without mentioning any time Day when it was to be done, which made the Electors on the side of the late Judge very watch kept them of fifty about suspicious that some Fraud was intended-- to prevent which from 12 o'clock the night upon and about the'Green at»Eastchester (the Place ofElection) The other Electors, beginning to move on Sunday before till the Morning of the Day.