There he resided during the closing years of his life, and died on the Kith of November, 1816. Jonathan G. Tompkins,1 of Scarsdale, the lather of Governor and Vice-President Daniel I>. Tompkins, was a prominent Westchester County figure throughout the Revolution and for many years after. His ancestors emigrated from the north of England to MassachuJusl dale from

Westchtster Town.

One

of the

family's neighbors in Scarsdale was Captain Jonathan Griffen, a well-to-do farmer, who, being childless, and taking a fancy to young

d had him baptized by Jril'tVn Tompkins. Capto him a farm of one

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1775,

JULY

9, 177G

setts. Besides serving on the county committee, he was supervisor for the Manor of Scarsclale, and later was a member of the committee of safety, a delegate to two provincial congresses, member of the assembly and county judge under the State government, and one of the first regents of the State University. He lived to the venerable age of eighty-seven, dying in 1823. The second continental congress began its sessions at Philadelphia on the 10th of May. Accepting the proceedings at Lexington and their associated events as acts of war, it immediately began to lay plans for a general armed resistance. Steps were taken for the creation of an army by the enlistment of volunteers, Washington was appointed commander-in-chief, and the preliminary arrangements were made for meeting the expenses of the struggle. When the New York provincial congress assembled on the 22d of May, the programme of revolution had already been well marked out. This provincial body was equal to the emergency, being fully controlled by the patriotic element, although well balanced in its membership. Itentered at once upon the serious business of the hour. By the election of Peter Van Brugh Livingston, an extremist, as its presiding officer, it testified irs complete readiness for co-operation with the sister colonies in radical action.