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.)
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.
its First Lieutenant; William Woodward, for its Second Lieutenant; and James Miller, Junior, for its Ensign.
The District which included the eastern portion of Northcastle elected Benoni Piatt, for it.s Captain ;' David Holby, for its First Lieutenant; Abraham Knapp, for its Second Lieutenant; and Jonathan Guion, for its Ensign.
The District which included the southern portion of Nortlicastle elected Benjamin Ogden, for its Captain; Jeremiah Hunter, for its First Lieutenant; Caleb Merritt, for its Second Lieutenant ; and James Brundige, for its Ensign.
The District which included the northern portion of Northcastle was so entirely opposed to the Rebellion that " there were not persons sufficient in num- " bers who had signed the Annocintion to make Offi- " cers of, so that nothing was done," in the form of an Election, during the Summer and Autumn of 1775 ; but an attempt was made to organize the Company, in the following January, when Joseph Green was found, to accept the command of the Company, and Henry Peers, to accept the First Lieutenancy ; the Second Lieutenancy and the place of Ensign remaining vacant. -