[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] the first judges, and designated as chief justice our John Jay, who opened the first session of the Supreme Court at Kingston in Septem-ber, 1777. He held tin1 office, however, for only two years, being suc-ceeded on the 23d of October, 1779, by Richard Morris, also a son of Westchester County.1 Chief Justice Morris remained at the head of the judiciary of the State until 1790. At the first election held under the constitution, General George Clinton was chosen governor. By the provisions of the constitu-tion the senate had twenty-four members, chosen from four dis-tricts only, called the Southern. Middle, Eastern, and Western. Westchester County belonged to the Southern district. Its first senators were Pierre Van Cortlandt and General Lewis Morris; and upon the organization of the senate (June 30, 1777) Van Cortlandt was elected its presiding officer and also lieuteant-governor of the State. As General Clinton, after his choice as governor, still con-tinued to be much occupied by his command in the field, the actual duties of the governorship were performed for a considerable time by Van Cortlandt. lie held the office of lieutenant-governor from 1777 to 1795, a period of eighteen years. By the original apportionment for the assembly (which continued in force until 1791), Westchester County had six representatives in that body out of a total of seventy.