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History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I

Scharf, J. Thomas, ed. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City, Vol. I. Philadelphia: L.E. Preston & Co., 1886. Passage 1533 of 4798 269 words

' 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.)

^ Isaac Titus hail served in (Captain Mills's ('ompany, under Colonel Holmes, in the Campaign of 1775, (Page 277, ante.)

The authority for the statement concerning the second Company may be seen in a Letter from the Siib-cotnmitt.ee at Bedford to the ( 'hairman of the County Commiltee, " Bedkoko 15 February 1770," -- (Historical Munuscriyta, etc. : Military Ueturns, xxvii., 190.)

•See, also. Journal of the Prorincial Camjress^ " Die Martis, 3 ho., P.M. "Feb. 20th, 1770," where the Secretary erroneously recorded the Sub- Conunittee and the Company as of Harrison's Precinct instead as of Bedford.

l"Captain James Varian was a member of the first County Committee, appointed in May, 1775, (Page 2.59, ante;) and First Lieutenant of the Scarsdale, White Plains, and Brown's Point (!ompany of Militia, of which Joshua Hatfield wsis the Captain, {Paije 283, ante.)

" Lieutenant Samuel Craw ford was a mendier of the first County Committee, appointed in May, 1775, (Piye 259, ante ;) and the only representative of the IManor of Scaredale, in the County Committee, 1770-'7.

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