He was a Surveyor and a Country Merchant and Miller ; a Major in the Westchester-county Militia, under Governor Tryon ; and a member of the Provincial Congress by whom he was made Lieutenant-colonel of this Regiment. He continued in the military service, until the close of the War of the Revolution ; after which he was one of the Commissioners of Forfeitures ; represented Westchester-county in the Assembly, 1788-9, 1789-'90; the Southern District, in the Senate, 1791-'4 ; his District, in Congress, 1793- 1809 : and died on the twenty-first of November, 1831. -- (Bolton's History of Westchester-county, original edition, i., 58-60 ; the same, second edition, i., 111-112; etc.)
5 Barnabas Tuthill was a resident of Southold ; had not joined the Regiment, which was then at liconderoga, as late as the first of September, when he was in New York City, " unable to proceed for want of "money to pay hiB expenses." He appears to have returned to the service, in 1776 ; but, during the Summer, he was dismissed from the Army, at his own request. -- (Journal of the Provincial Congress, " 4 ho., P.M., "September 1st, 1775;" General McDougal to Robert Yates, "Yonkeks, "21 October, 1776.")
"The Roster of the entire Regiment may be seen in the Historical Manuscripts relating to the War of the Revolution-- Military Committee, xxv., 531-- in the office of the Secretary of State, at Albany.
7 Jonathan Piatt was an aged man, whom Mr. Boltou has erroneously made the great-grandfather of Hon. Lewis C. Piatt of White Plains ; he was Mr. Platl's grand-Uncle. He was elected a Delegate to the Provincial Convention called to elect Deputies to the Continental Congress of 1774 ; he was a member of the first County Committee of Westchestercounty, in 1775 ; and a member of the fourth Provincial Congress, or, as it was called after a while, the Provincial Convention-- that which declared the Independence of New York from the King of Great Britain, which had not been done by the Congress, at Philadelphia, on the fourth of July, 1776.