n Thomas Thomas was a son of Hon. John Thomas and a brother of John Thomas, Junior, who was a member of the Provincial Congress. He was a member of the first County Committee, appointed in May, 1775 ; and he represented Harrison's Precinct in the County Committee, 1776-'7. Ho was unpopular as a Military Officer ; and several Officers refused to serve under him, in August, 1776, (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Miscellaneous Papers, xxxix., 347.) He represented. Westchester-county in the Assembly of the State, in 1780-'l, 1781-'2, 1782-'3, 1784, 1784-'5, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1792-3, 1800-'l, 1802, 1803, 1804; he was Sheriff of the County, 1788-1792 ; he was a Senator from the Southern District, 1805-8 ; in 1807, he waB one of the Council of Appointment ; and he died on the twenty-ninth of May, 1824.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Budd, its Lieutenant-colonel ; Ebenezer Lockwood, its First Major ;' Thaddeus Crane, its Second Major; Jonathan G. Tompkins, its Adjutant ; 2 and John Thomas, Junior, its Quarter-master. 3

The provisions of the Provincial Congress's enactment requiring one-fourth of the Militia of the County to be organized as Minute-men, appear to have been very indifferently obeyed; and the following are the Officers of the only Companies which were raised in Westchester-county, as far as they are now procurable from the records which have been preserved :

The Company of Poundridge and Lower Salem -- which was called, also, " the First Company of Min- " ute-men of the County " -- elected, originally, Ebenezer Slason, to be its Captain ; Henry Slason, to be its First Lieutenant ; Ebenezer Scofield, to be its Second Lieutenant; and Daniel Waterberry, to be its Ensign ; but, subsequently, when Captain Slason was promoted, Henry Slason was made Captain, Ebenezer Scofield was promoted to the First Lieutenancy, Daniel Waterberry to the Second Lieutenancy, and David Purdy was made its Ensign. 4