On the 8th day of May, 1775, a meeting of the freeholders of Westchester County was held in White Plains, and Gouverneur Morris, Lewis Graham, James Van Cortlandt, Stephen Ward, Robert Graham, Daniel Dayton, John Holmes, Jr., and Wm. Paulding were chosen delegates from this county to the Provincial Convention of the Province of New York.

Enlistments for the army immediately commenced, and Ambrose Horton reported fifty -six able-bodied men, July 26, 1775. The commissions for the officers, -- Isaac Hatfield, captain ; James Varian, first lieutenant ; Anthony Miller, second lieutenant ; and John Falconer, ensign -- were issued September 13, 1775.

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On the 14th of February 1776, niinute-meu to the number of nineteen, among whom were Benjamin Lyon, Stephen Sheley, Micah Townsend, James Varian, Samuel Crawford, Isaac Oakley, James Brundage and Robert Graham, met at White Phiins for the purpose of electing officers, and made choice of James Varian for captain, Samuel Crawford for fii-st lieutenant and Isaac Oakley for second lieutenant.

The Provincial Congress of this State, which had been in session in New York, adjourned on the 3Uth of June, 1776, to the court-house in White Plains ; and on the 9th of July, while assembled here, the Declaration of Independence was received and read in front of the court-house by John Thomas, Esq.

The battle of White Plains occurred on the 28th of October following. The details of that battle, and of the subsequent burning of the Court-house and the principal dwellings in the village, form part of a chapter which appears elsewhere in this work, written by a masterly hand, and will not be attempted here.