In April, 1770, C'lileb Hobliy, who wiis said to have been a " Gentle- "inan," received a Coniniission from the C'ontineiitiil Congress, as FirRt Lieutenant in "the Firet Regiment of New York Forre.s," {Hixloiinil .1/.i//iis<T(j>/.«, etc. : Milil'irii IMimis, xxvii., liH) ; atiil he appears to have joined the Seventh, or Captain Hait's, Company, {HMmiinl Maniiscripls, etc. ; Militurij Otinmisxium^ .xxv., IG."), BVH.) Soon afterwards, it was said that -lie nnd the Second Iiieutenant and the Ensign of the Company [Unit's nr lli/alt'x] " wisli to decline tlie service ; they will be no loss to "it." {HitftorU-ul M'tiiHsrrijits^ etc. : MiliUirif Coiiimittee's Pttprrs^ x.vv., 488.)

.Joseph Strang was snbsetpieiitly nia<le First Mi\jt»r of the Regiment, the Third of the \Vestchester-<'onnly Militia, of which the eight Cimipanies in the Alanor of ('ortlandt apiH'ar to have tteeu memliers, (//tslitriral Mtiiiiim-ripl.t^ etc. ; Militnrti Itftnnis^ xxvi., He represented

the County in the .\ssombly of this State, in 178(1-1, 1788, 178'.).

< .lohn Myatt was snb(«e<|uently a Captain, in (ieneral John Alorin .Scott's Hrig-.iile. -- (loiter nf Cn/il'iiH John (hlrnru to the Gmivuliim of the StiUe •'/ \ew York, "FisHKii.i.s, l:i"> ,JanJ, 1777.")

6, lohn Praku was a sou of Gilbert Drake, Chairman of the County t'unnnittee.

'■> Josei>h Horton did not sign the iVifiVm until the day of the Election.

■ Pierre Van Corllanilt was sul>sei|uently a niend>er of the Second Provincial (.'ongre.-*", 177.'>-i!, and Chairman of its Committee of Safety, January ami February, 177t; ; a member of the Thiiil Provincial Congress, 177ii; of the Fourth Provincial Congress, 177li; of the Convention of the Slate of New York, 177t;-7 ; of the First Council ot Sjifety, 1777, of w hicli lie was the President ; a Senator from the Southern District, 1777 ; President of the Convention of the State, 1777; Lieutenant-Governor of the State, 1777-17!)r> ; and died on the first of May, 1819, aged ninetyfour years.