[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] son of Peter and a nephew of the chief justice, in addition to his duties as high sheriff of Westchester County, represented a New York City constituency during the period in question. With the names of Philipse, the de Lanceys, Van Cortlandt, and Morris the reader is already familiar. They will recur prominently in the succeeding pages. Philipse and James de Lancey were stanch opponents of the whole Revolutionary programme; Van Cortlandt and Morris were as stanch supporters of it. Jolm Thomas was judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Westchester County in 1737-39, and again from 1705 to 1776. He was a son of the Rev. John Thomas, a missionary and rector of the Church of England. Judge Thomas was a very prominent citizen of Rye, and one of the most consistent and valu-able advocates of independence, dying a martyr to the cause in a prison in New York City in 1777. Isaac Wilkins, of Castle Hill Neck, in the Borough of Westchester, was;i brother-in-law of Lewis and Couverneur Morris, but was on the opposite side politically. He was one of the leaders of the conservative forces in the last pro-vincial assembly, and was suspected of being the author of the noted Tory tracts published over the signature of "A. W. Farmer." He acted as spokesman for the motley adherents of "Great George, our King," at the county meeting at White Plains in April, 1775, and two months later tied to England.