0 Captain Gray's Company probably marched from Bedford, on the sixteenth of February, agreeably to the promise tliat it sliould do so ; ami on the twenty-ninth of the s;inie mouth. General Lee said of the lii'giment and of a Company detiiclifd from another Rej^iment, tonrtber forming the garrison at Hoern's Hook, " Dr.ake'8 Keginiunt of Minnte- " Men and ijiic mure Company, (//( till alxntt tico hundred,) are statioii<-d at "Horn's Hook, which coniniamls Hell-Gate. Thoy are employed in " tlirowing up a redoubt, to contain three hundred men," {Gciu nil L, ,- lo driinal WaxhiiiijUm, "New-Yokk, February 29, n7().")

' Jacobus Swartwout was Colonel of one of the Regiuieul*, so railed, of Duchess-county Minute-men, {Ilislorical Mamiscrijils, etc. : Mililnnj IMitriis, xxvi., 3.)

3 Lieutenant-colonel Cornelius II mnphreys evidently commanded the Regiment of Duchess-couuty Minute-men, of which John Van Ne8.s was Colonel and Robert G. Livingston, Junior, one of the Miyors. (Jlixloritnl ^^ll)lllllcrlplll, etc. : Military RiUirm, xxvi., 3.)

9 (tchctuZ Orders of ]A>rd Sfiriiit'j, drurrtd of the CoiUinnttul Ih-oopn^ " llKAi>Qi'.\itTKiis, March IG, 1776."

10 deiwral Lcc lo General Widhiiiijloii, " Nkw-Youk, February 29, 1776;" Jones's Hixlonj of .Vtio York during the lievolutiontiri/ War, i., G9.

.\t the period referred to in the text, that was known aa " Waldron's " Ferry."

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

but it was composed of ineu of notorious poverty and meanness,' by no means representative men of the yeomanry of Westcb ester-county ; " many of them " were, "destitute of "arms" ' and, therefore, useless for soldiers ; and it appears tluit, as such characters were apt to be, they were recklessly destructive of the private property of those who were richer than they, not sparing, even, the property of those who had endeavored to make them more than ordinarily comfortable.' The Lieutenant-colonel of the Regiment, who was, also, a Deputy irom Westchestercounty in the Provincial Congress, c()m|)lained to that body that the Regiment " lodged in an uncom- " fortable manner for the want of Cribs for its l)eds; " and he insisted that it was " necessary that a car- " penter be sent to make Cribs for their beds; " and a car[)euter was accordingly sent to Hoern's Hook, for the pur[)<ise of making " Cribs " for the greater comfort of Westchester-county's " patriotic " Minutemen.'