[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] of its most distinguished and influential members, Gouverneur Mor-ris. It is true he sat in that body as a delegate from Pennsylvania, but, as has been aptly observed by one of our local historians, " it is a pleasure to remember that in the person of Gouverneur Morris, who was bom on Westchester soil and who returned again to represent her in the United States senate, and whose remains are sacredly enshrined in her bosom, she was present to form that wise and beneficent instrument." The federal constitution was ratified in this State on the 26th of July, 1788, by a convention which held its sessions at Poughkeepsie. The delegates from our county were Thaddeus Crane, of North Salem; Richard Hatfield, of White Plains; Philip Livingston and Lewis Morris, of Westchester; Lott W. Sarles, of New Castle; and Philip Van Cortlandt, of Cortlandt. All of them voted affirma-GENERAL COUNTY HISTORY TO 1842 535 tively on the question of ratification. In the last continental con-gress held under the old confederation of the State, that of 1788-89, Philip Pell, of our county, had the honor of being one of the repre-sentatives from the State of New York. Daring the eight years of Washington's administration as presi-dent the Federalist party usually enjoyed the preponderance in AYestchester County.