British hands. The real judicial power was held by Daniel Horsmanden. He published the first history of New York, The History of the Province of New-York, from the First Discovery to the Year M.DCC.XXXIII. To which is annexed, A Description of the Country, with a short Account of the Inhabitants, their Trade, Religious and Political State, and the Constitution of the Courts of Justice in the Colony. in 1757 (London: Thomas Wilcox). Smith returned to England in 1783 and then came to Quebec City in 1786, when he was named Chief Justice for the province and also named to the legislative council. In 1791, he became chief justice for Lower Canada and was appointed to the Legislative Council of Lower Canada, serving as its first speaker. Personal life He married Janet Livingston, of the Livingston family of New York. In 1770, he built a manor house in West Haverstraw, New York. From July 15 to July 18, 1778, while his sister Martha and her husband Col. Ann Hawkes Hay were living in the house, it served as headquarters for General George Washington. The house burned down and the Fraser-Hoyer House later built on the site. He died in Quebec City in 1793. He was buried at Mount Hermon Cemetery in Sillery. Smith's diary and selected papers were compiled and edited in two volumes by L.F.S. Upton in 1963 as part of the Champlain Society's General Series. See also James Brown List of Washington's Headquarters during the Revolutionary War References 1728 births 1793 deaths Members of the Legislative Council of Lower Canada Chief justices of Lower Canada Rockland County, New York Livingston family People of the Province of New York Yale University alumni New York (state) lawyers Province of Quebec (1763–1791) judges Burials at Mount Hermon Cemetery