History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
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.'^
Besides these four Companies, such as they were, there does not appear to have been any Minute-men enlisted in the County -- why should any have been
In the Journals of the Provincial Ooiigreiis : ihrrespondence^ ii., 90, Ebenezer Scofield is called " Ebenezer Scofield, Junior ; " and the Commissions of the original (Ifficera are said to have been issued on the twentyseventh of t)ctober, 177.').
' Eli Seeley was originally elected to the command of the Company in the western part of the Town of Bedford, (Paye 283, uule.)
*^ Jtnuutiils of the Provincial Coiujresv : (/orrenjjottdntce^ ii., 90.
" TIezekiah Gray was originally the First Lieutenant in the Company in the western part of the Town of Bedfonl, of which Eli Seeley was the Captain, (Page 283, ante.)
* James Miller was originally the Fii'st Lieutenant in the Company in the eastern part of the Town of Bedford, of which Lewis McDonalil, Junior, was the Captain, {Page 283, ante.)