History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
Israel Honeywell, Junior, was said to have been a member of the County Committee, representinj; the Manor of Philipsborough, 177G-'7 ; and, in 1777-'8 and 1778-'9, he w,is Sivid to have represented Westchestercounty in the Assembly of the State. It is not impossible that, in some instances, these references have become mi.xed.
2 See jjages 278, 27'J ante.
Jlit^lorical Ma»nscrq)U relntiiig to the War of the RecoJittton : MUil(irij Ki'tunis, xxvii., 142.
* Abraham Storm represented the Manor of Philipsborough in the County Committee, 1770- 7.
5 George Combs was a member of the first County Committee, appointed in 1775 ; and in 18IX), ho represented Westchester-county, in the Assembly of the State.
6 (Uoad Kecpia represented the Manor of Philipsborough in the County Committee, 177e-'7.
^ William Dutcher was subsequently in conmiand of a ComiKiuy in the Secret Service of the Convention of the State, {UUtorical Manuscripts^ etc.: Mm-rllanmm Pajiers, xxxv., 467.)
The village of Irvington, on the Iludson-river, was built on his farm ; and his largo house was standing in the middle of that village, within a few years, and, probably, stands there, now.
Daniel Martling was subsequently a Lieutenant in Colonel Thomas's Regiment, by whom he was *' recommended for the Standing Army," ill 1777, although he w.ts said to have been " illiteral," (llisturkal Mamixcrqits, etc. : 3Iilitiirij CoiiDiiittee' s Pajiers, xxv, , 849.)
Gershom Sherwood, for its Second Lieutenant ; ' and George Mouson, for its Third Lieutenant.'"
The six Companies on the Manor of Philipsborough, and those at Westchester, previously referred to, at Eastcliester, and at New Rochelle and the Manor of Pelham, all of them reorganized and re-officered as thus described, were known as the South Battalion of Westchester-county, of which, soon afterwards, Joseph Drake was made Colonel," James Hammond its Lieutenant-colonel,'^ Moses Drake its First ]\Iajor,'' Jonathan G.