[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Jacob Vanderbilt, brother of Cornelius, was captain of the boat, and escaped without injury. Many other interesting particulars of the Hudson River traffic be-fore the era of railways might bo added. Peekskill had no monopoly of sloop proprietorship. Prom various points all the way down to i W, J. Gumming, ii., 406. 564 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY Yonkers vessels, largely or wholly owned by the farmers and promi-nent citizens, were sailed to and from New York. The present well-known Ben Franklin Transportation Line of Yonkers took its name from a sloop of fifty-seven tons, launched July 4, 1831, which was for the exclusive service of the people of Yonkers and vicinity; and even the original " Ben Franklin " had several predecessors devoted to the local interests of Yonkers. The organic law of the State of New York, as established by the constitution of 1777, underwent two radical alterations during the period of sixty years now under consideration. Constitutional con-ventions were held in 1801 and 1821, the delegates from Westchester Comity to the convention of 1801 being Thomas Ferris, Israel Honey-well, Jonathan G. Tompkins, Pierre Van Cortlandt, Jr., and Ebenezer White, and to that of 1821 Peter A. Jay, Jonathan Ward, and Peter J. Munro. Both conventions made revisions in the constitution de-signed to render it more acceptable to the democratic masses — changes which had the hearty support of the majority of the people of our comity.