[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] erally removed, and the original line could not 2 Van Pelfs Hist, of the Greater New York, be traced with any certainty by reference to i., SO. 20L HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY Andros was appointed the first governor of the combined provinces, with headquarters in Boston. A lieutenant-governor, Colonel Fran-cis Nicholson, was deputized to take charge of the separate affairs of the Province of New York. The old governor's council was re-tained, although nothing was as vet done toward reviving the as-sembly. Lieutenant-Governor Nicholson's councilors were Anthony Brockholst, Frederick Philipse, Stephanus Van Cortlandt, and Nicho-las Bayard. Dongan, before being superseded, granted to the City of New York, in 1GSG, its first charter as a corporation, under the style of " The Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of New York," the city having two years previously been divided into wards and made to include the whole of Manhattan Island. This advance step taken by the city is fairly representative of the general develop-ment which had fairly begun at that period — a development to which Westchester County contributed its share. The reign of James, the last of the Stuart monarchs, was brief. Three years after he ascended the throne the people of England, weary of the tyranny, corruption, and religious intolerance of his