THE TOWN OF WESTCHESTER. 311 



Samuel Ferris, Miles Oakley and Daniel Turner, gentlemen, Common Council of 

 said corporation, and did take the oaths appointed by act of Parliament, entitled 

 "of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy." Recorded, coram me, 



CALEB HEATHCOTE, Mayor. « 



Upon the nth of June, 1696, at a meeting of the Mayor, Aldermen 

 and Common Conncil, " it was ordered, that a seal shall be devised and 

 made for the use of the corporation, and that in the mean time the seal 5 

 formerly used by the trustees shall be made use of. It was further 

 ordered, that Mr. James Emott shall be Recorder, and Edward Collier 

 his deputy; also that Joseph Hunt, Jun., should be Serjeant of the mace, 

 if he would accept of it, and if not John Williams should be serjeant of 

 the mace. 



" At a court held in the borough town of Westchester by' the Mayor 

 and Aldermen of said town on the 6th of October, 1696, Col. Heathcote 

 brought the seal for the corporation, and did give it gratis to the town, 

 and left it in the hands of the Recorder." 



At a meeting; of the trustees of this town, held on the 8th of Tune. 

 1700, it was resolved: — 



" That whereas at a former meeting held by the inhabitants of the borough 

 town and precincts, on the 3d day of Ma}', 1697, it was voted and agreed upon 

 that there should be a town, hill built to hold courts in and for the public worship 

 of God, &c.; but it being then neglected, the mayor, aldermen and justices at 

 this meeting, did order with a joynt consent to build a house for the uses of a 

 court and prison. The dimensions of the house is to be twenty-six feet square, 

 sixteen feet joynts, a square roof, six window cases five feet square, <£c. The 

 trustees agreed with Richard Ward to build said house for £33, and with Eras- 

 mus Orton to build the prison for £5. It is to be twenty feet long, 16 feet wide, 

 seven feet high, two feet thick with a good chimney. The town to find attend- 

 ance. "Which work is to be done by the 31st. '' c 



The following certificate refers to the services of Lewis Morris as 

 representative to the Provincial Assembly: — 



General Assembly for the Colony of New York : 



Die Sabbati, 6 Jul}-. 1723. 

 These are to certifie that Lewis Morris, Esq., one of the persons duly elected 

 for ye borough of Westchester to serve in General Assembly for ye Colon}- of 

 New York, hath attended the service of this house in General Assembly, the full 

 term of sixty-one days. By order of ye General Assembly, 

 R. LIVINGSTON, Speaker. 



a Town Rtc. 



b Several impressions of 1 his seal are attached to papers in the town clerk's office. 

 c Westchester Rec. On the 4th of September, 1T0U, Joseph Haviland and John Hunt were 

 directed to agree for the timber work of the prison. 



