Plains court house of 1787 1 occupied the same site as the first, oil Broadway, and continued in use until 1857, when the present fine building on Railroad Avenue was finished. The Bedford court house, also erected in 1787, is still in existence, being now used as a town hall. After the Revolution the board of supervisors, which had had but a meager membership during the war, resumed at once its character of a representative body of all the organized communities of the county. The following is a. list of the members of the board, by localities, for the year 1784: Abel Smith, Precinct of North Castle. Gilbert Budd, Town of Mamaroneek. Thomas Hunt, Borough Town of Westchester. Ebenezer S. Burling, Town of Eastchester. William Paulding, Manor of Philipseburgh. Daniel Horton, Precinct of White Plains. Jonathan (J. Tompkins, Manor of Scarsdale. Israel Honeywell, Yonkers. Tliaddeus Crane, Town of Upper Salem. John Thomas, Town of Rye. William Miller, Harrison's Precinct. Philip Pell, Manor of Pelham. Joseph Strang, Manor of Van Cortlandt. Benjamin Stevenson, Town of New Rochelle. Ebenezer Lockwood, Precinct of Poundridge. William Morris, Manor of Morrisania. Abijah Gilbert, Town of Lower Salem.

In addition to the localities represented in this list was Ryck's Patent -- the present Peekskill and its vicinity, -- which had always retained an identity distinct from that of the Manor of Cortlandt, and even previously to the Revolution had been represented in the board of supervisors. No reconstruction of the civil divisions of the county having as \i'\ been effected under the State government, the localities claiming and receiving representation in the board of supervisors after the Revolution were only the old established ones of colonial times, and indeed no innovations in the local designations of political divisions were made until the legislative act of 1788, setting off the county into townships.