And your memorialist further shows, that in the autumn of the year 1776, whilst your memorialist was doing duty on the lines, his father vras made a prisoner by the enemy and confined in the Dutch Church, in the City of New York, and that whilst the father of your memorialist was thus confined, the enemy encamped on his farm, and destroyed and carried off property to a great amount, leaving his wife with a large family almost destitute of the means of subsistence.

And your memorialist further shows, that in the summer of the year 1778, he again entered the service, having been appointed Horse Guard to that part of the Army of the United States which occupied the lines in Westchester County and the vicinity ; that he continued in such service until the spring of the year 1780, and whilst in such service he received the pay and subsistence of a Captain in the Line, and was under the immediate orders of the commanding officers on the line.

And your memorialist further shows, that in the Spring of the year 1780, your memorialist left the service as a Hofse Guide, having been appointed a Lieutenant in a Regiment raised under the authority of the government, of this State, and commanded by Morris Graham,

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Esq., now deceased ; that your memoralist continued to do duty in th • Regt. for six months, the period of time for which it was raised ; that during such time the Regt. was engaged in the campaign of that year on the Mohawk river.