The Regiment appears to have consisted of only five or six,companies, all belonging to this Manor. A return of the Regiment dated Philipsburgh, June 22, 1778 shows four companies, commanded

respectively by Captains Daniel Martling, Geo. Combs, Jonas Orser and Gabriel Requa, with 180 officers and privates. The following is attached to the report :

"N. B. -- Nine others sworn allegiance to King George, and three who live below the lines."

Not a bad showing for the Manor after three years of war.

Captain Israel Honeywell's company, of the lower part of the Manor, was also attached to Colonel Hammond's Regiment, and why not above reported does not appear.

The following is the first official pronunciamento by the warlike Colonel : .

Tarrytown, July 15, 1776.

May it please your Excellency to take into account our humble petition. Whereas, two of the enemy's ships of war with their barges and tenders are arrived up the North River as far as Tarrytown, we suppose with a hostile design to distress us ; with the concurrence of the Congress and assistance of the Committee, and by the forwardness of a number of volunteers, a considerable number of people are collected to our assistance, most of whom are very anxious about their harvests, which are now fit for collection, and in a suffering condition for want of laborers. We therefore humbly petition your Excellency to send us such a number of troops as your Excellency shall judge proper, to rescue the inhabitants up and down the river from the cruel designs of the enemy. As to further particulars must beg leave to refer your Excellency to the bearer Capt. (William Dutcher) Jas. Hammond.