History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
16 .Vbraliam Emmons, of Yonkers, was one of those, in the Yonkers Company, who had voted for Frederic Van Cortlandt for its Captain, and who had united with that gentleman, who was the defeated candidate, in disregarding the Election and securing the degnulation of John Cock, from the office to which he had been elected, -- (tiee paijes 278, 279, ante.)
I'J Thus printed in the records of the St^ite ; but it was probably intended for Theophilus Bartow, Junior, of New Rochelle.
1' Robert Bloomer was a member of the first County Committee, ap- Itoiiitedin Blay, 1775.
18 Lyon Miller was reported as a Loyalist, soon after his election to the Lieutenancy of this Company, {List of' Westchester Counfi/ Tories, Hittorical Manuscripts, etc. : MiscellaneoHs Papers, xxxiv., 193 ; ) and, very probably, that was one of the reasons for the holding of a new Election, by the Company.
1" Gilbert Dusenberry was promoted to the First Lieutenancy of the Company, at the second Election for ofticere, in January, 177C. llLsfnrieal Manuscripts, etc. : MilUnrij Hetnrus, xxvii., 23C.
21 John Thomas, evidently a very young man, but one of the officeholding Thomas family. He was probably the second son of John Thomas, Junior, who was, at that time, a member of the Provincial Congress and, generally, a leader of the revolutionary party, and a continual office-holder.
This Captiiin John Thomas died January 6, 1835. -- (Bolton's Uistor;/ nf Wcstchestcr-cvunlij, original edition, i., 254 ; the same, second edition, ii., 761.)