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.'

It docs not appear how long that particular Regiment remained in the service of the Continent; but it was evidently mustered in for only a short term of service ; and that, at the expiration ol' that brief term, it Wiis discharged and mustered out, disappearing, for ever, from the 6eld of military service.

On the nineteenth of January, 177<}, the Continental Congress ordered four Battalions to be raised for the defence of the Colony of New York ; and, on the twenty -sixth of the same month, the experiment of starting the work of enlistment, for those four Battalions, by jol)l)ing out the OHices which would l)e required, among the several Counties, with invitations for estimates of the numbers of men who could " be "speedily raised and armed," in the respective Counties, by that proflered bait of Oflices, was the first action which was taken by the revolutionary authorities, in New York, on that important subject."