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.)

See, also, Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Martis, 3 ho., P.M. "Feb. 20th, 1776," where the Secretary erroneously recorded the Sub- Committee and the Company as of Harrison's Precinct instead as of Bedford.

10 Captain James Varian was a member of the first County Committee, appointed in May, 1775, (Page S3, ante ;) and Vint Lieutenant of the Scarsdale, White Plains, and Brown's Point Company of Militia, of which Joshua Hatfield was the Captain, (Page 107, ante.)

» Lieutenant Samuel Crawford was a member of the first Connty Committee, appointed in May, 1775, (Page 83, ante ;) and the only representative of the Manor of Scarsdale, in the County Committee, 1776-'7.

M The authority for this statemont is a Letter from Jonathan G. Tompkins and Nicolm Fisher to the Provincial Congress, " White Plaims, Febru- "ery 14th, 1776"-- (Historical Manuscripts, etc.: MUitary Returns, xxvii., 84.)

From the same manuscript, the following list of the names of the nineteen who thus organized themselves into a Company of Minute-men, has been carefnlly copied, without changing the spelling of the names : " Benjamin Lyon, Joseph Todd,