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

"Ilc/.i'kiah (Jray was chosen Captain of the Bedford Company of Minute-uien, iTi February, 1776, {lliitAtrii-td Manmcripts^ etc. : Milititr;/ lietnniii, xxvii., lllli ;) a lleport on tbe military status of which ('onipany, may be seen in ]IUtfn-iciil Ultimutcriptu^ etc. : Mi'<relltinetiiin Piijhtx, xxxix., 32;i. He and bis Company, although not regularly enlisted, were ordered to join the Continental Troops, at Peekskill (lliilin u <il MttmiixTiiits, etc.: MittcellitneniLA Pujiern^ xxxix., ;i*25.)

"In April, 1777, Cilbert Keynolils was a member and"Clarck" of tbe local Committee of Cortlandt Manor, (/Vnceei/iiiyn uf the Omitiiiltee, "CiiTi.ENSMANNEit, April '2"', 1777 " -- IliiliirU'id Muiimeripts, He. : MisrelUtiieous /'f(/)cr.s-, xxxvii., ,3;U.)

^0 Abijah Gilbert was a menil)er of the County Committee, from .Snloni, 177<l-'7 ; and lie rejirewnited Westcbester-counly in the .\ssenibly of the State, in 177'.i-'80, 17Sl-'2, 17S2-'3, 17S4, 17«4-'5, 17«(1, 17.SS, 17'.n, 1X(HP, iwiii-'iil, 1«02,18(«, 1»I4, and l»M-'5.

11 Tbwldeus Crane was api>ointed Sectind Major of the Ueginieut ; and be was succeeded by Lieutenant Truesilale, wlu> was elected Captain, in tbe following December. He represented the County in the .Vssenibly of the Stati-, 1777-'S, 177S-;i, 17SS-'.I, and IMil ; and in the Convention which ratifieil the Cmtslilnlion jm- the t 'liileil Slulex.