The following letter of the Westchester sub-committee, dated borough and town of Westchester, August 24th, 1775, to the Honorable Provincial Congress, is copied from the military returns.

» Town Rec. On the 2d of July, 1737, Lewis Morris, Jan., and Frederick Philipse were admitted freemen of the borough under the common seal of the corporation.

b The town property prior to its division, in 1846, amounted to sixteen or twenty thousand dollars, (arising from the sale of the common lands) the interest of which was appropriated to the common schools.

<= Laws of New York, 1813- The above confirms a former act of legislature, passed 18 April, 1785, in which the freeholders of the town were authorized to choose six trustees, who should have the right to order and dispose of the undivided lands, &c.

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We the subscribers appointed a sub-committee to inspect Iheelection of militia officers for the said town, do most humbly certify, that the following persons were chosen this 24th day of August, 1775, by a majority of voices duly qualified for that purpose, agreeable to the resolutions of the honorable congress abovesaid, (viz. :)

John Oakley, Captain.

Nicholas Berrian, 1st Lieutenant. Isaac Leggett, 2d Lieutenant^ Frederick Philipse Stevenson, Ensign.

C Thomas Hunt, Committee, < James Ferris,

' Lewis Graham;

At a meeting of the freeholders and inhahitants of the town of Westchester, held 1st day of April, 17SS, being the first Tuesday in April, and the annual day of electing town officers, pursuant to an act of the legislature, passed the 14th Feb. 1787. Present, Joseph Bowne, (fcc.