It appears that, either by pre-determined limitation or otherwise, the term of service of that County Committee expired in May, 1776 ; and, in order that the succession of that body might be continued, notice to that effect having been given, on the sixteenth of April, 1776, "a Number " of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Westchester- " county appeared at the Court House," and " chose "the Persons hereafter named to serve as a Committee " for the said County from the 2 nd Monday in May, " 1776. to the 2° a Monday in May, 1777 -- any twenty " whereof to be a Quorum, vizt :

"For Morrissania. "Lewis Morris, Jun f . -- 1.

"For Westchester. " Thomas Hunt, "Abraham Leggett, '•Israel Honeywell, " John Oakley, " Gilbert Oakley, " Daniel White, " John Smith -- 7. "For Yonkers. " William Hadley, " William Betts, " Thomas Emmons, "John Crawford, "Fred. V. Cortlandt --5.

1 The elections in the Counties of New York, Westchester, Duchess, Kings, Queens, Tryon, Ulster, and Orange were held on that day ; while Albany-county appears to have elected her Deputies on the 25th ; Suffolk, on the 18th ; Richmond-county, on the 23rd ; and Charlotte-county, on the 1st May.

'Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Martis, 10 ho., A.M., May "14, 1776."

'Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Lunae, 3 ho., P.M., May 13 " 1776."

* Vide pages 82,83, 91, ante.

For Eastchester.

Stephen Sneden, Edward Briggs, Daniel Sebring -- 3.