soldier of the former War, was its Colonel;' and Philip Van Cortlandt, of Cortlandt Manor, who held, also, a Royal Commission of Major in the Colonial Militia, was its Lieutenant-colonel ;* Barnabas Tuthill, of Southold, Suffolk county, was its ]\Lijor ; Benjamin Chapman was its Quarter-master ; and Ebenezer Haviland was its Surgeon.'' Of the ten Companies of which the Regiment was composed, thr.ee were largely from Westchester-county -- of one of these Jonathan Piatt, of Bedford, was Captain,' David Dan, of Poundridge, was First Lieutenant;'*

and Manning Bull, of , was Second Lieutenant:

of another of those Companies, Daniel Mills, of Bed-

3 James Holmes was the grandson of one of the original proprietors and settlers of the Town of Bedford. He was born in that Town, in 1737 : and a Captain in the ■\rniy, during the W'ar with France, in which he gained great credit. He was elected to the Provincial Convention for the appointment of Delegates to the Continental Congress of 1774 ; and he was a member of the Provincial Congress, by whom he was made Colonel of this Regiment. He went with his Heginient to the northern frontier, and occupied Ticonderoga, very much to his disgust ; quarrelled with General Schuyler, who commanded in that Department ; declined to continue in the service, after tlio term of the enlistment of his command had expired; became a Loyalist; took the Lieutenant-colonelcy of the Corps of the Westchester-county Refugees; continued to live in Bedford, until about 1810, when he removed to New Havon, where he died, on the eighth of July, 1824, aged eighty-seven years.