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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. Passage 1484 of 4798 348 words

He was a Surveyor and a Country Merchant and Miller ; a Major in the AVestchester-county Militia, under Covernor Tryon ; and a member of the Provincial Congress by whom he was made Lieutenant-colonel of this Regiment. He continued in the military service, until the close of the War of the Revolution ; after which he was one of the (Joniniissioners of J'orfeitures ; represented Wcstchester-coiinty in the Assembly, 1788-'9, 1789-'9(); the Southern District, in the Senate, 1791-'4 ; his District, in Congress, 1793- 18119; and died on the twenty-first of November, 1831.-- (Bolton's llistorij of Westrh fter-coimtii, original edition, i., 58-60 ; (/le «ame, second edition, i., 111-112; etc.)

5 Barnabas Tuthill was a resident of Southold; had not joined the Regiment, which was then at Ticonderoga, as late .is the first of .September, when he wa-s in New Vork City, "unable to proceed for want of "money to pay his expenses." He appears to have returned to the service, in 1776 ; but, during the Summer, he was dismissed from the Army, at his own request. -- {Journal of the Prorincial Congress, "4 ho., P.M., "September Isf, 1775 ;" General McDongnl to Robert I'ates, " Tonkers, "21 October, 1776.")

c The Roster of the entire Regiment may be seen in the Historical Manuscripts relating to the War of the Itn-olntion--MilitUTy Committee, xw., .531-- in the office of the .Secretary of State, at ,\lliany.

' Jonathan I'latt was an aged man, whom Mr. Bolton has erroneously made the great-grandfather of Hon. Lewis C. Piatt of White Plains ; he was Mr. Piatt's grand-Uncle. lie was elected a Delegate to the Provincial Convention called to elect Deputies to the Continental Congress of 1774 ; he was a member of the first County Committee of Westchestercounty, in 177.') ; and a member of the fourth Provincial Congress, or, as it was called after a while, the Provincial Convention-- that which de- "clared the Independence of New York from the King of Great Britain, which had not been done by the Congress, at Philadelphia, on the fourth of July, 1776.

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