Gilbert Budil, Lieutenant-Colonel. Ebenezer Lockwood, 1st Major. Thaddeus Crane, 2d Major. Jonathan G. Tompkins, Adjutant. John Thomas, 2d Quarter Master.

Third Regiment. Pierre van Cortlandt, Colonel. Gilbert Drake, Lieutenant-Colonel. Joseph Strang, 1st Major. Ebenezer Purdy, 2d Major. John Cooley, Adjutant Isaac Norton, Quarter Master.

THE WESTCHESTER GUIDES. During the Revolution. John Pine, Michael Dyckman,

John Odell, James Oakley,

Abraham Dyckman, Frederick Martin Post,

Isaac Odell.

MAP OP BEDFORD.

REVISED HISTORY

OF THE

COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER.

THE TOWN OF BEDFORD.

This town forms in shape nearly a square, each of its sides being six miles in length. The name is derived from the town of the same title in Bedfordshire, England, from whence the early settlers came. The earlier etymology of its name in the Saxon language was Jjcbanpoiti), "more eminent," says Camden, "for the pleasantness of its situation, and its antiquity, than for either beauty or largeness."*

Among the Mohegan Indians Bedford formed a portion of the sachemdom of Rippowam, which extended eighteen miles north of Stamford, on the " Manunketesuck," or Sound, also eight miles east and west of the same.

"Within this territory," we are informed, "were traces of at least four distinct clans." "On the west side, with his seat not far from where the line now separates Stamford from Greenwich, was the bold and warlike Mayaro, with his vindictive band of warriors, already experienced in the conflict, both with the savage and civilized foe. Whence they had come, or how many they might count, we shall never know."