Tompkins was a member of the first County Committee, elected in May, 1775 ; a member of the Third and Fourth Provincial Congresses, of the Committee of Safety, and of the Council of Safety. He was a member of the Assembly of the State, 1780-'l, 1781-% 178G, 1787, 1788, 1791, 1792 ; of the Board of Regents of the University, 1787- 1808 ; and of the Constitutional Convention of 1801. He was the First Judge of the County, 1793-7, 1798-1802 ; and died on the twenty-second of May, 1823.

Tiie distinguished Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of the State, Vice President of the United States, and one of the greatest men of his period, was a son of Jonathan G. Tompkins.

s John Thomas, Junior, as the reader knows, was one of the leading men of his party, in Westchester-county ; a member of its County Committee and of the Provincial Congress ; and a brother of the Colonel of the Reg iment. Although it is said, positively, that he was also tin}. Quarter' master of this Regiment, it appears incredible that he was the person, and can be accounted for only by the profits which attended such an office and the well known proclivities of that family, in that direction, whereveran opportunity was presented. "We prefer to believe that this Quartermaster's place was given to that " John Thomas Minor," the second son of John Thomas, Junior, who had been already elected to the command of the Company in Harrison's Precinct, at a second Election, after Henry Dusenberry had been elected and accepted the Office, a few weeks previously.