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.

"David Dan was a member of the first County Committee of Westchester-county, in 1775, and a member of the Town Committee of Poundridge, in 1776. He was appointed to the command of a Company, in Colonel Thomas's Regiment, in August, 1776.

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ford, was Captain ; ' Elijah Hunter, of the same Town,

was First Lieutenant; - and Jolin Bayley, of ,

was Second Lieutenant:'' of the remaining Company, Ambrose Horton, apparently from the White

Plains, was Captain ;* David Palmer, of , was

First Lieutenant : * and Samuel Tredwell Pell, of

' Captain Daniel Mills continued in the service, after the Regiment was disbanded, at the close of the year, serving as a Captain in Colonel Van Scliaick'8 Regiment of the New York Line, in the Continental Army.

'Elijah Hunter was originally named for Second Lieutenant, with Samuel Haight, subsequently Sheriff of the County, us First Lieutenant. He was a member of the County Coniniitlee^ representing lletiford, 1770- 7 ; tfubst*quently became a Captain in Van Cortlandt's Regiment ; and left the service at the close of 1776.