The cojr'huuse, a handsome stone building, stands near the centre of the ijwn on Railroad Avenue. The first court-house was erected in 1759, •j;»on the removal of the courts from Westchester. The first court of Common Pleas assembled here on the 27 th of ^lay, 1760. The first court-house was burnt soon after the battle of White Plains, and the second built on the same site, about 1784 or 17S5. The third, or new court-house and jail, were erected in 1S54.

There are events connected with this spot, which will long live in the pages of American history. It was here that the Whigs of Westchester

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County appointed to meet the committees of the several towns to elect deputies to the Continental Congress, -who were to assemble at Philadelphia, on the first day of September, 1774. The proceedings of the various meetings held here would afford matter for a good size volume, we shall therefore present our readers with a small part only of the important productions of those eventful times. The following resolutions were adopted by the freeholders and inhabitants of Rye and Westchester : --

" On the loth day of August, 1774, the freeholders and inhabitants of the township of A^c-, made choice of Jolm Thomas, Jr. Esquire, Robert Bloomer, Zeno Carivnter and Ebenozer Haviland, for a committee to consult and determine with the committees of the other towns and dis-

554 HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.