[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] After a varied career, which com-prehended a prolonged residence (subsequently to the war) among the forlorn refugee Loyalists in Nova Scotia, he returned in 1798 to West-chester and became rector of Saint Peter's Church. In the historic assembly of 1775, when the issues for and against aggressive re-sistance to England were sharply drawn, Westchester County's rep-resentatives were Van Cortlandt, Thomas, Philipse, and Wilkins. It is thus seen that, as concerns representation in the assembly, the opposing parties of liberty and loyalty were exactly balanced in this county. On the one side were Pierre Van Cortlandt ami Judge Thomas; on the other, Frederick Philipse and Isaac Wilkins. Phil-ipse, of course, had at his back the whole of his great manor. Wilkins really represented the de Lancey interest, which controlled the Bor-290 HISTORY OF WESTC1IKSTKK COUNTY eugh of Westchester, where also a Tory mayor, Nathaniel Underbill, grandson of the " redoubtable " Captain John, presided. Against this powerful conservative combination stood the Morrises in the ex-treme southern part of the county, Judge Thomas, representing no landed estates but the simple yeomanry of Rye, Harrison's Pur-chase, and the central sections, and Pierre Van Cortlandt, the bead of the great Van Cortlandt family. The popular side, therefore, comprised diverse elements.