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.

The authority for this sUitement is a ic«<T /mm Jonathan G. Tinnpkins and Nicolax Pixhcrto the Prorincial C<niyrcss^ " WnrrK Pl.mns, Febru- "ery 14th, 177G" -- (Hixtorical Manuscripts, etc.: Mililurii Returns, xxvii., 84.)

From the same manuscript, the follomng list of the names of the nineteen who thus organized themselves into a Company of Minute-men, has been carefully copied, without changing the siielling of the names : *' Benjamin Lyon, .Joseph Todd,

" Olliver Killick, .John Drake,

",Tohn Beeks, Ezekiel Duten,

".Stephen Shelley, James Farrel,

" Philip Huestis, Andrew Fach,

" Micah Townsend, Esq., James Brundage,

"James Verryan, Gilbert Horton,

"Samuel Crawford, David Johnston,

" Isaac Oakley, Robert Graham.

" William Tompsou."

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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. 1774-1783.

expected from a com m unity in wliich the revolutionary party had scarcely a Corporal's Guard," except of those who were office-holders or office-seekers? -- but as soon as two Compauics had been organized, the County Committee "took the liberty, with all " submission, to recommend Samuel Drake, to be " Colonel ; ' Lewis Graham, to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; " Abraham Storm, to be First Major; ' Samuel Lyon, " of Northcastle,to be Second Major; Elijah Miller, to " be Adjutant ; ' and Josiah Mills, to be Quarter-mas- " ter* ;" and thus the re-organization of the Militia of Westchestor-county and the organization of her fighting population were completed.