History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
With the exception of the two Companies in the Borough Town of Westchester anil at Yonkers, the elections of who.se Officers were separately reported, the list of Officers who were iiriijiinilli/ elected by the several Companies, as stated in the text, have been taken, generally without any change in the spelling of the proper names, even when known to haVe been erroneous, from the ]list<iriml MnimKcrqils, etc. : MilUari/ Ketunis, xxvi., 122-12.'i. In the instances of Yonkers, Eastchester, Tarrytown, Han'ison, Scarsdale and the White Plains, Saleni, etc., where jieic Elections were held, the statements of those new Elections have been taken from the sevei-al Returns of those new Elections, referred to, at the foot of each, respectively.
< Letter from S<iiimel Itruke uml Leiris Graham to the Provincial Cungress, " Ist March, 177li ; " Jvurnal af the Prouinciul Voiiyreas, "4 ho., P.M., "March 1,1876."
The Company of Bedford elected Eli Seeley, to be its Captain ; * Zephaniah Mills, to be its First Lieutenant ; Cornelius Clarke, to be its Second Lieutenant ; and Philip Leek, to be its Ensign ; and their Commissions were issued by the Provincial Congress, on the twenty-seventh of October, 1775."
Subsequently, "agreeable to the Demand made by "Colon' Drake to the Sub-Committee of Bedford," another Company of Minute-men was organized, in that Town, with Hezekiah Gray, for its Captain ; ' Cornelius Clark, for its First Lieutenant ; James Miller for its Second Lieutenant ; " and Isaac Titus, for its Ensign.
A Company of nineteen men assembled at the White Plains and constituted themselves a Company of Minute-men, electing James Varian, to be their Captain ; Samuel Crawford, to be their First Lieutenant ;" Isaac Oakley, to be their Second Lieutenant ; and Joseph Todd, to be their Ensign.'^