The following is a specimen of the usual Minute of the Board of Supervisors, in the former part of the last century, relative to auditing the accounts of their Treasurer. It is full, unique and characteristic of the age.

The Supervisors have examined their Treasurer and called in their warrants, and have taken the reckonings of their Treasurer, John Vanderbilt, and found that he had done as an honest man, and he is acquitted of all reckonings concerning the Supervisors, and is in Cassa or money, the sum of £00. 06. 4."

The following is a list of the Clerks of the Board of Supervisors, from 1714 to 1842.

Among the Judges of this county anterior to the American Revolution, we find the following from Flatbush.

After the Revolution, the second first Judge of the county, was Johannes E. Lott, of this town. He remained upon the bench about six years. Beside these several associate judges of the court, have from time to time been taken from Flatbush, which we need not name.

But among those who have represented this county in the Legislative Assemblies of the country, we find many who were inhabitants of Flatbush. In the Colonial assemblies, who met at different periods, from 1683 to 1775, we notice the following names.

Among the Deputies from the county of Kings, who met in the city of New-York, in convention, April 10th, 1775, for the purpose of choosing delegates to the first Continental congress, was John Vanderbilt, who from his being subsequently a member of the Senate of the State,