Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

" Elijah Purdy, "Gilbert Horton, 9 " Edmond Ward, 10 " Caleb Morgain, 11 " James Hortan, Esq. 12 " William Barker, Esq. 13 " Person Seabury," "Godfrey Haines, added

"on Saturday evening, u

" Jeremiah Travess, Junr,,

" Joshua

" Col. Phillips, 2 " Joseph Harris, " James Harris, " Major Brown's two sons

" Isaac and Josiah that

" lives at home, 3 " Lyon Miller, 4

Bartholomew Hains, 5 Mr. Duncan and Brown

at Marroneck, Capt. Joshua Purdy, 6 Jeremiah Travess, Solomon Fowler,' Joshua Purdy, 8

in Connecticut, as in well known, were too nearly akin in Bentiraent to the Towns in Westchester-county to have supplied respectable men, for such a questionable service ; and specimens of those of Connecticut who were so zealous in the support of the Rebellion, in New York, when there was no armed forces before them-- those, from that.Colony were not so zealous, on the northern frontier and in Canada, at Kips Bay and in New Jersey, when an armed enemy was either before or behind them -- might have been seen in those who were led by Waterbury and by Sears, by Wooster and by Webb, of whom and of whose peculiarly "New Eng- "land Ideas," concerning the laws of mewn el twwm, history has left abundant evidence.

1 Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Miscellaneous Papers, xxxiv., 193.

» Colonel Frederic Philipse, of Tonkers and Sleepy Hollow, Member of the General Assembly, already made known to the reader. He was exiled ; and his property sequestrated, confiscated, and Bold.