[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] tenant Jesse Truesdale, Second Lieutenant John Van Wart and Capts. Solomon Close, Titus Reynolds and Kbenezer Slawson. In 177* Jonathan Horton was major commanding the North Battalion of West-chester County. Two ( panics having been con-solidated May 28, 1778, with the Lower Brigade, Col. Thaddeus Crane was first major, then lieutenant col-onel. At the fight of Ridgetield, given in the his-tory of the Revolution, Colonel Crane, as elsewhere stated, was shot through the lung*. POLITICAL. — The territory now North Salem was embraced politically in Cortlandt Manor. In 17f>l, at a meeting held at Salem on April 2d in that year, town officers were chosen, of whom Jacob Wall was supervisor and Nathaniel Wyatt was clerk. The town, however, is not mentioned by William Smith in his list of the towns of Westchester County in 1756. On January 10, 1763, mention is made of a " town-meeting at Salem." In 1760 North Salem is mentioned in records and letters as "The Upper Dis-trict of Salem." • The supervisors records of the county, as printed,