This man is not only one of our Vestry (though very " little esteemed by the true friends of the Church), but has procured "that the Majority of the Vestry are Men that will be governed by "him; several of the Vestry are not of the Church ; and not one of "them a communicant in the Church; accordingly, the Church are " not at all consulted with regard to a successor," to the former Rector, who had died in the preceding May.
With the father, on the Bench, and in the Legislature, and in the interest of the Crown, and the son in the front rank, if not the actual head, of the revolutionary element, what there was of it, within the County, it mattered very little to the Thomas family, which of the two the Crown or the Culonists, should become the victors.
8 John Thomas, Junior, by this early movement in behalf of the revolutionary element, placed himself in the front rank of successful politicians in Westchester-county-he was a member of the Committee of the County, and its Chairman ; a Member of the Provincial Convention representing Westchester-county, in 1775 ; a Member of the First and Second Provincial Congresses, representing Westchester-county in 1775 1776 ; Quartermaster of the Second Westchester-county Regiment of which his brother, Thomas, was Colonel ; and Sheriff of WestchesLrcounty, from 1778 to 1781-his brothers, also, having been well provided for, in the public service.
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