The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester (1881 revised edition, Vol. I)
Captain Denslow's company Light Infantry, of the 12th regiment, with the band attached to that regiment, and the first regiment Light Infantry, formed the military escort on the kft. The left in front.
2d. The officers and non-commissioned officers of the 15th brigade.
3d. Captain Wrarner's company of cavalry on foot.
4th. Citizens of the county.
6th. Mr. F. Kain, the architect and his workmen, with their implements to complete the work. 6th. The invited guests. 7th. The clergy of the county.
8th and last, the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution, the committee of arrangements and General William Hammond and suite.
The column was marched in this inverse order to solemn music with arms reversed, until arrived at the church-yard, when the procession opened to the right and left, fronting inward. The officers and soldiers presenting arms. The officers and soldiers of the Revolution preceded by General Philip Van Cortlandt, now the senior surviving officer of the Continental army. These passed through the line, conducted by General Hammond and suite, and the Marshal of the day, to the place reserved for them on the right of the monument, and the whole procession having passed through in this order, the military escort formed a square about the whole in the church-yard. At this spot, the column was met by a large procession of the ladies of the county, under the direction of S. Simpson, Esq., who acted as assistant marshal of the day, issuing from the church, at the