[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] landlords, the case was widely different. In this county the real battle was fought and won, determining unmistakably the exist-ence of a decisive majority against royal oppression among the peo-ple of the province at large. Nothing is more interesting in con-nection with the Westchester electoral contest of 1733 than the fact that the lines of local division upon which it was fought were pre-cisely the ones that divided the rival Whig and Loyalist factions of the county when they came to make their trial of strength forty years later on the issue of co-operation or non-co-operation with the general cause of the American colonies. At the historic meeting of the freeholders of Westchester County held at White Plains on the 11th of April, 1775, the contending parties were again led by the heads of the Morris and Philipse families — Lewis Morris, 3d, grand-son of the chief justice, and Frederick Philipse, 3d, son of the Judge Philipse of Cosby's Court of Chancery. And the result was the same as on the first occasion— a complete triumph for the Morris party, representing, as before, the principle of non-obedience to objection-able government. Lewis Morris, the deposed chief justice, upon re-entering the as-sembly became at once the leader of the popular forces in that body. It being decided to send a representative to England to inform the home government of Cosby's bad acts, and if possible get him re-called, Morris was selected to go on that errand.