[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] 6th. The invited guests. 7lh. The clergy of the county. 8lh and last, the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revokition, the com-mittee of arrangements and General William Hammond and suite. The column was marched in this inverse order to solemn music with arms reversed, until arrived at the church yard, when the procession opened to the right and left, fronting inward. The officers and soldiers presenting arms. The officers and soldiers of the Revolution preceded by General Philip van Cortlandt, now the senior surviving officer of the continental army. These passed through the line, conducted by General Hammond and suite, and the marshal of the day, to the place reserved for them on the right of the monu-ment, and the whole procession having passed through in this order, the mili-tary escort formed a square about the whole in the church yard. At this spot, the column was met by a large procession of the ladies of the county, under the direction of S. Simpson Esq., who acted as assistant marshal of the day, is-suing from the church, at the head of which supported upon the arm of a friend, was the venerable widow of the deceased, followed by his surviving sis-ter, also supported, and next came the female children and grand children of the deceased, a goodly number, after whom, followed a large train of matrons and misses, amountino^ to four or five hundred in number. The whole of this interesting group having assembled within the yard and about the monument.