1 A personal examination of the Records of the County, preserved in the office of the Clerk of the County, at the White Plains, has revealed, to us, the significant fact that, although the Becords of CwU Actions in the Court of Common Pleas, the Becords of Boads, and other similar Becords, from a very early period, have been carefully made in hooks provided for the purpose (in one instance, if in no more, one volume, by being reversed, has been made to serve for two distinct lines of Becords) and as carefully preserved, the EecordB of Criminal Actions, in any and all the Courts, within the County, were not thus made in books, until long after the time of which we write -- until long, very long, after the close of the peaceful and prosperous and happy period of the Colonial era -- when the greater number and more important character of the Criminal Actions -- until then too insignificant, in number and character, to entitle them to such a distinction, among the County Records -- warranted, the first time, the employment of books in which to keep the Becords of them.

If the rough Minutes of the Courts, in Oriminal Actions, prior to 1787, were preserved, at all, they have all disappeared ; and we feel justified in saying, as we have said, in the text, that where Pauperism and Intemperance were as uncommon as they were in Westchester-county, during the later Colonial period, there was, in consequence, u minimum of Crime.