History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 205
[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] nil official arrangements wer lording to Lieutenant-Goverm the n ting of tl ouncil f. is held on Manhattan Island. CHAPTER XXIY GENERAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY CONTINUED FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE COMPLETION OF THE CROTON AQUEDUCT (1842) N a previous chapter we have briefly noticed the organiza-tion of the State government of New York on the 20th of April, 1777, when a constitution, framed by John Jay, was adopted by the "Convention of Representatives of the State of New York " in session at Kingston. At the time of the British invasion of Westchester County, begin-ning October 12, 1776, the county records were removed from the courl house at White Plains by Theophilns Barton, clerk of the county court, and deposited in a place of safety, where they remained until the end of the war. White Plains, which had been the county