' 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.

6 Eli Seeley was originally elected to the command of the Company in the western part of the Town of Bedford, {Page 107, ante.)

Journals of the Provincial Congress : Correspondence, ii., 90.

t Hezekiah Gray was originally the First Lieutenant in the Company in the western part of the Town of Bedford, of which Eli Seeley was the Captain, (Page 107, ante.)

8 James Miller was originally the First Lieutenant in the Company in the eastern part of the Town of Bedford, of which Lewis McDonald, Junior, was the Captain, (Page 107, ante.)

9 Isaac Titus had served in Captain Mills's Company, under Colonel Holmes, in the Campaign of 1775, (Page 101, ante.)

The authority for the statement concerning the second Company may be seen in a Letter from the Sub-committee at Bedford to Hie Chairman of the Count)/ Committee, " Bedfoiw 15 February 1776,"-- (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : MUitary Retwns, xxvii., 196.)