Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Joseph Benjamin and Moses Drake

History of Westchester County New York, Including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which Have Been Annexed to New York City edited by John Thomas Scharf: "a in tow Esq James Willis and Abraham Guion Esq all of New Rochelle William Button Esq of Ma maroneck2 Colonel Lewis Morris Thomas Hunt and Abraham Leggett of Westchester Captain Joseph Drake Benjamin Drake Moses Drake and Stephen Ward of East Chester and James Horton Junior Esq of Rye 2 all of them it said having received letters from the Chairman of the City and County of New York relative to the appointment of Deputies for this County to a proposed Provincial Convention met at the White Plains for the purpose ot devising means for taking the Sense of the County upon the Subject At best that meeting of local politicians or ot "

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