Westchester County, New York, During the American Revolution

9 " Resolved and Ordered, That Colonel Joseph Drake and Colonel " Thomas Thomas, of Westchester-county, do draft out of their Regiments "two hundred men, in the following proportions, to wit: Two Compa- " nies of sixty-five Privates each, besides the Captains and other inferior " Officers, out of Colonel Joseph Drake's Regiment ; and one Company "of Bixty-five Privates, with the Captain and other inferior officers, in " Colonel Thomas's Regiment, and as many more men out of those two " Regiments as will turn out, volunteers for that service, to be inime- "diately sent to the City of New York, armed and accoutred in the "beBt manner possible, and to be joined to Colonel Samuel Drake's "Regiment," [of Westchester-county Minute men (pages 108, 109, ante) which was then m the City] " and to receive the same pay and provisions as the " other Continental forces in this Colony." (Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Jovis, 4 ho., P.M., March 14, 177G."J

Colonel Samuel Drake's Regiment, referred to in this Order, was the skeleton Regiment of Westchester-county Minute-men, which whs then in the Continental Service, and posted at Hoern's Hook, on the Island of Manhattan, at the mouth of the Harlem-river, and opposite to Hell-gate, where was one of the passes to Long Island.

We have not found any record of the three Companies which were thus drawn from Westchester-county, if they were drawn.

"> Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Solis, 10 ho., A.M., Feb. 18, "1776."