5 " Kesolved and Ohoeueu, That Colonel Joseph Drake and Colonel " Thomas Thomas, of Westchester-county, do draft out of their Regiments "two hundred men, in the following proportions, to wit; Two Compa- " nies of sixty-five Privates each, besides tlie Captains and other inferior " Officere, out of Colonel Joseph Drake's Regiment ; and one Company "of sixty-five Privates, with the Caj)tain and other inferior oflicers, in " Colonel Thomas's Regiment, and as many more men out of those two " Regimeuts as will turn out, volunteers for that service, to be innne- "diatelysent ti the City of New Y'ork, armed and accoutred in the "best manner possible, and to be joined to Colonel Samuel Drake's " Regiment," [of Westchester county Minute nu-u (pages 284, 285, ante) which was then in the City] "and to receive the same pay aud provisions as the "other Continental forces in this Colony." {Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Jovis, 4 ho., P.M., March 14, 1776.")

Colonel Samuel Drake's Regiment, referred to in this Order, was the skeleton Regiment of We.stcbester-county Minute-men, which wa* then in the Continental Service, aud posted at Hoern's Hook, on the Island of Manhattan, at the mouth of the Harlem-river, and opposite to Hell-gate, where was one of the passes to Long Island.

We have not found any record of the three Companies which were thus drawn from Westchester-county, if they were drawn.

Journal of the Provinciid Congress, "Die Soils, 10 ho., A.M., Feb. 18, "1771-,."

Journal of the Committee of Safety, " Die Veneris, A.M., April 19, "1776;" The Committee of Safetij to the ConimiUee of Weslchester-counlij, "In Committee of Safetv, New- York, April 19, 1776."