Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

4 Letter from Samuel brake and Lewis Graham to the Provincial Congress, " 1st March, 1770 ; " Journal af the Provincial Congress, "4 ho., P.M., "March 1,1870."

The Company of Bedford elected Eli Seeley, to be its Captain ; 5 Zephaniah Mills, to be its First Lieutenant; Cornelius Clarke, to be its Second Lieutenant; and Philip Leek, to be its Ensign ; and their Commissions were issued by the Provincial Congress, on the twenty-seventh of October, 1775. 6

Subsequently, " agreeable to the Demand made by " Colon 1 Drake to the, Sub-Committee of Bedford," another Company of Minute-men was organized, in that Town, with Hezekiah Gray, for its Captain ; 7 Cornelius Clark,for its First Lieutenant; James Miller for its Second Lieutenant ; " and Isaac Titus, for its Ensign. 9

' A Company of nineteen men assembled at the White Plains and constituted themselves a Company of Minute-men, electing James Varian, to be their Captain ; w Samuel Crawford, to be their First Lieutenant ; 11 Isaac Oakley, to be their Second Lieutenant ; and Joseph Todd, to be their Ensign. 12

Besides these four Companies, such as they were, there does not appear to have been any Minute-men enlisted in the County -- -why should any have been

In the Journals of the Provincial Gongrem : Correspondence, ii., 90, Ebenezer Scofield is called "Ebenezer Scofield, Junior; " and the Commissions of the original Officers are said to have been issued on the twentyseventh of October, 1775.