For the latter it is said he was afterwards fully paid.

Col. John Odell, s o called from having commanded a regiment of militia after the Revolution, born in 1756, was the eldest son of Jonathan. He was a stalwart patriot, and did valiant service in the cause of his country, winning distinction as one of the famous Westchester Guides. In a memorial to the legislature of this State date of Feb. 22, 1S30, his services are succinctly set forth as follows :

" The Memorial of John Odell of Greenburgh, in the County of Westchester, Respectfully showeth :

That in the summer of the year 1776, Vour memorialist, being then aged between nineteen and twenty years, entered the service of his country as a private, in a Regiment raised under the authority of the government of this State, and commanded by Samuel Drake, Esq., now deceased ; and that he continued to do duty in such Regiment for the space of six months, the period the enlistments were made.

And your memorialist further shows, that in the autumn of the year 1776, whilst your memorialist was doing duty on the lines, his father vras made a prisoner by the enemy and confined in the Dutch Church, in the City of New York, and that whilst the father of your memorialist was thus confined, the enemy encamped on his farm, and destroyed and carried off property to a great amount, leaving his wife with a large family almost destitute of the means of subsistence.