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.

« David Dan was a member of the first County Committee of Westchester-county, in 1775, and a member of the Town Committee of Poundridge, in 1776. He was appointed to the command of a Company, in Colouel Thomas's Regiment, in August, 1776.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

ford, was Captain ; ' Elijah Hunter, of the same Town,

was First Lieutenant; 2 and John Bayley, of ,

was Second Lieutenant :" of the remaining Company, Ambrose Horton, apparently from the White

Plains, was Captain ; * David Palmer, of , was

First Lieutenant ; ' and Samuel Tredwell Pell, of

1 Captain Daniel Mills continued in the service, after the Regiment was disbanded, at the close of the year, serving as a Captain in Colonel Van Schaick's Regiment of the New York Line, in the Continental Array.

2 Elijah Hunter was originally named for Second Lieutenant, with Samuel Haight, subsequently sheriff of the County, as First Lieutenant. He was a member of the County Committee, representing Bedford, 1776- 7 ; subsequently became a Captain in Van Cortlandt's Regiment ; and left the service at the close of 1776.