' James Miller appears to have held offices, subsetiuently, in tbe New York Ucgiment^, coniuianded by Colonels Kit/.ema, tiansevoort, and Van C«>rtliindt ; but, inasmuch as there were several persons Itearing that name -- two, at the same time, in the same Regiment, bearing exactly opposite characters -- it is not, now, known which, if either, was the particular James Miller who is named in the text.
kiah Grey, for its First Lieutenant;" Ephraim Raymond, for its Second Lieutenant ; and Gabriel Higgins, for its Ensign.
The District of Poundridge elected Joseph Lockwoo<l, for its Captain ; Noah Bouton, for its First Lieutenant ; William Fausher, for its Second Lieutenant; and Gilbert Reynolds, for its Ensign."
The District which included the southern portion of Salem elected Abijah Gilbert, for its Captain ; Jacob Hait, for its First Lieutenant ; Sands Raymond, for its Second Lieutenant ; and Joseph Colcy, for its Ensign.
The District which included the northern portion of Salem elected Thaddeus Crane, for its Captain ; " Jesse Truesdale, for its First Lieutenant; Ezekiel Halley, for its Second Lieutenant ; and p]benezer Brown, for its Ensign. For some reason, the Captainelect and the Ensign-elect " did not take their Com- " missions;" and on the eighteenth of December, 1775, a new Election rasulted in the choice of Jesse Truesdale for Captain; Ezekiel Hawley, for First Lieutenant; Solomon Close, for Second Lieutenant ; and Elijah Dean, for Ensign.'''
The Companies at Scarsdale White Plains and Brown's Point, Bedford, Poundridge, Salem, Mamaroneck and Rye, Harrison's Precinct, and Northcastle, eleven in number, which were thus reorganized and re-officered, were known as the Middle Battalion of Westchester-county of which, soon afterwards, Thomas Thomas was made Colonel ; " Gilbert