Lieutenant Palmer was promoted to the command of a Company ; and, on the same day, Isaac Van Waert was apjiointed to the vacant Second Lieutenancy.

'Captain David Palmer, Lieutenant Samuel T. Pell, and Lieutenant Isiuic Van Waert are particularly noticed as having served in Canada, in 1776, [Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Military Committee's Papern, xxv., TM ; the same ; Military Wc/iirn«, xxvii., 166 ;) audit may reasonably be supposcil that the Company of which they were OfBcera, accom|>anied them.

^Journal of the Continental Congress, " Thursday, May 26, and Friday, " May 26, 1775," pages 274, 27.5, ante.

^Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Dunie, 4 ho., P.M., May 29th, " 1775."

'0 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Veneris, 9 ho., A.M., July 7, "1775 ;" <Ae same, " Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., July 27, 1775 ;" tlie same, " Die Lunie, 9 ho., .\.M., .\ugu8t 7, 1775 ;" and the same, " Die Merciirii, " 9 ho., A.M., August 9, 1775."

Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Mercnrii, 9 ho., .\.M., " August 9, 1775."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER CX)UXTY.

mouth, with a verj- important change, which permitted those who were not resident* of the Districts or Beats to take and to hold offices therein, that Report was included in an elaborate " AJi/ifia Bill." which provided tiiat every portion of the Colony should be divided into ''Districts or Beats,' in such manner that each of those Districts should include, as nearly as possible, eighty-three men and boys, between sixteen and sixty years of age, and capable of bearing arms. These Companies were to be commanded by Officers to be elected by the respective Companies, and commissioned by the Provincial Congress. One fourth of the entire force was to be organized as Minute-men; the Companies were to be organized into Regiments ; the Regiments were to be organized into Brigades ; and all were to be commanded by a Major-general, to be appointed and commissioned by the Provincial Congress.