" A Number of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Westchester County having appeared at the Court House on the 16th April, 1776, in consequence of Notice given for that Purpose by the Committee of tlie said County, chose the Persons hereafter named to serve as a Committee for the said County from the •2'"> Monday in May, 1776, to the 2'"i Monday in May, 1777 -- any twenty whereof to be a Quorum, viz' :

"For Moi-rimnUi. " Lewis Morris, Jun' -- 1.

' Thomas Hunt. Abraham Leggett. Israel Honeywell. John Oakley.

' For We»tcheater.

Gilbert Oakley. Daniel White. John Smith-- 7.

" I do hereby certify that the above is a true Copy tjiken from the Records of the Committee of the County of Westcbester.

" Edward Thomas, Clerk." *

In the summer of 1777 Colonel Lord Cathcart was in command of the British out-posts stationed at King's Bridge and along the Fordham Ridge.

Simcoe's Queen's Rangers,^ Emmerick's corps and Hovenden's, James' and Sandford's partisan corps were also stationed there. A chain of redoubts was constructed by the British on Fordham Ridge, at distances just far enough apart to secure the flanks of a

3 Dwight's '• Travels, " iii. 491.

* Calendar of Revolutionary Papers, vol. i. page 632.

5 The Queen's Rangers were originally raised in Connecticut and thevicinity of New York by Colonel Rogers. They at one time mustered about four hundred meu, all Americans and Tories. Hardship and neglect had reduced their numbere. and, after several changes in commanders, they were finally placed under the command of Captain J. G. Simcoe, of the Fortieth British Regulars, about October, 1777, he being given the provincial rank of major. Sir Henry Clinton, in commenting on the gallantry of the corps, said, " The Queen's Rangers have killed or taken twice their own number." After the American War, Colonel Simcoe was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, and in October, 179^ , he was promoted maiior-general, and became civil Governor and ■commander-in-chief of the Island |of San Domingo.