I The OrmmiUee of Safety to LuulenatU-eolond Graham, " In Comiut- "tee or Safetv, New-Yurk, Jany. 22, 17T6."

> Comjuire Captain JoDathao B)ake°8 letter to the Committee of Safety "Head Qvartf.rs is Westchester, .lauy. 31, 17TC," with the Roster of O'Umel Malt-inn' t llegimetity -- Historical Matiufcripts relnting to the War of the lieriilnlioH, in the Secretary of State's Office, Albany : MilUary ]{eturn», xxvii., 1.

• ni« (''mimittee of Sofrlji to Lievlenanl-eoUxiel Graham, "Is Commit- "tee of Safety, New York, Jany. 22, 1776."

"I hereby acquaint you that I have taken an account from Capt. "Variau what the exjiense of pruanling the gunn at Valentine's and "Williams' will be, thin week, viit. : 1 Capt., 1 Lieut., 2 Sergeants, 1 " Corporal, and 14 Privates. 0 of the above men board at lOs. per " week, and the others draw provisions from the Commissary, with a "Guard iwm and firewiKKl, at £1. per week, besides items, making in "the whole about £26., and last week it was considerably more." {Strjihni Ward !• I the Pnirimutl 0>iiyr<(t», "March .% 1776.")

It will li« renieml>ered that James Varian, the favored commander of th* (Juard, lu this instance, with eighteeen others, had been constituted a full-fledged Conii«ny of Westchester-county Minute-men, on the foiirt«i'Ulh of February precetling l^vide pages 2J4, 285, ante:) and it will be seen, from that letter which has been quoted, how soon and in what manner those nineteen Westchester-county "patriots" reached the sweets to which they had a.<l>iri'd -- five held offices of greater or lees dignity, while the fonileeu who held no offices enjoyed the comforts of dniuing their sup(H>rt fumi the Commisiairy or from the Treasury of the Provincial Oongrt>«», in addition to the |iay of soldiers and what, by hook or by ciwk, they could pick up, in the neighborhood of their quarters.