A long interval elapsed, but at lost the well known tramp declared the enemy near at hand. Every gun was cocked, and a death-like stillness prevailed; but whether the enemy suspected their designs, or obtained information, was never ascertained; for, at tliat time, they came with nearly their whole force. To liave fired upon them, would have been but the prelude to a massacre; the patriots, therefore, lay snugly concealed until their departure. ' The following extracts from the- town records, relale to the first eleca H.coiiU ol nouJs, Co. Kocords.

THE TOWN OF YONKERS. 659

tion of tovm. officers, in 1756, and immediately subsequent to the Revolutiua : --

At a public town meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of the Yonkers and jVIile ISquare, at the house of Edward Stevenson, in said Yonkers, on the first Tuesday of April, in 1756, being the day appointed by act of the General Asicnibly of this Province of New York, for choosing town olTicers, and likewise to make regulation of creatures and fences. The under-written officers and orders of creatures and orders of fences, were made by majority of votes,

James Coetox, Supei-tisor and Pounder.

BEN'jAiux FowLEK, TowTi Clcrk.

TnoiiAS SnET.wooD, Con&tdble and Collector.

Datid Oaklet, ) > William WAE^-EI:, ; '^*«^^^"^'-«-

Edwabd Weeks, "1 William Ckav. foed, | ■

DaMEL DeVOE. \ tt- t. -\r j.

.Tonv 1?TnF,v \ Highicaij Masters.

JonN Hide I Isaac Odell, HEXDincK Post.

AxDEEw Xonrs', "]

Cuaf.les "Wakxeh, I -c ,7-, T--

Moses Tailek, \ "^'""^^ «^^ Daviage Vwxers.