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.

HISTORY

WESTCHESTER

COUNTY

their way lay through afternoon and evening, so as to be at New Rochelle by Midnight, Entertainment as hey •s !s P •■ ha ef the Inhabitants of which provided for their About y covered for that Purpose a table plentifull house in their way, having William eachn i passed eat pa^tu Le Court at New Rochelle, whose house not

;::;;:;t "i^h'^^rtat a ^a^. *. r were 3omed on the They "^^w 1 eh the, sat till daylight, at which time they began to move

of the Electors o the lower part of U ,t tie East e„d o the Town by about seventy horse Election in the following order, vu: he Connty and then proceeded toward the place of the principal Freeholders, one of Fi-st r le tw o trumpeters and three violins; next, four of gold capitals « king George and v nVl ca rhHl a banner, on one side of which was affixed in to££ n the other in golden' capitals "Liberty and Law"; next ™°^^£trt ; upon the Gu 'en at La ^ Morris, Esq., then two Colours; and at sun rising they entered Freeholders of he County, a greater followed by above three hundred horse of the principle County. that of t settlemen the since man one for number than had ever appeared