Colonel Waterbury, who accompanied General Lee, through Westchester-county, acknowledged his possession of thirty Guns, two pairs of Holsters, nine Cutlasses, aud three Pistols-- how many more he bad seized, and retained or sent back into Connecticut, are uow unknown ; and no record was taken of the names of those who had been thus plunilcred. They must have been taken, however, on the line of march of his Regiment, between the Sawpitsand Kingsbridge; and there was not the slightest shadow of even revolutionary authority for the seizure, except the law of the stronger and that of thieves.

6 See pages 288, 297, 298, ante.

5 " Kesolved and Ohoeueu, That Colonel Joseph Drake and Colonel " Thomas Thomas, of Westchester-county, do draft out of their Regiments "two hundred men, in the following proportions, to wit; Two Compa- " nies of sixty-five Privates each, besides tlie Captains and other inferior " Officere, out of Colonel Joseph Drake's Regiment ; and one Company "of sixty-five Privates, with the Caj)tain and other inferior oflicers, in " Colonel Thomas's Regiment, and as many more men out of those two " Regimeuts as will turn out, volunteers for that service, to be innne- "diatelysent ti the City of New Y'ork, armed and accoutred in the "best manner possible, and to be joined to Colonel Samuel Drake's " Regiment," [of Westchester county Minute nu-u (pages 284, 285, ante) which was then in the City] "and to receive the same pay aud provisions as the "other Continental forces in this Colony." {Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Jovis, 4 ho., P.M., March 14, 1776.")