The i)rospect for the four Battalions, as far as Westchester-county was concerned in it, was not promising; and the Committee of Safety wa.s already entertaining the proposal to call back the Warrants which had been sent into the County, more than two months previously, when a letter was received by that body, from nill)ert Drake, the Chairnum of the Committee of the County, stating that one, Ezekiel Hyatt, or Ilaiglit, with his associates, had enlisted .seventy men in Westchester-county, for a Connecticut Regiment ; but w:us inclined to take them, as a portion oftheqiu>ta of that County, into a New York Regiment, if Commissions could be assured to those who were dcsignati'd as their Olliccrs.'*

Subse(iuently, it was seen that the men wdiom Ezekial Hyatt, or Haight, or Hait -- for by each of these several names that " patriotic " gentleman Wiis kuovvu, at different times -- had enlisted into his Company had been entrapped, by false representations; * and the revelations of unopened records of that period, more recently opened, reveal the fact that Commissions had already been issued, by the Continental Congress, to Ezekiel Hait, Esquire, as Captain,^ to Caleb Hobby, Gentleman, as First Lieutenant,'' to Jose])h De(troet, Gentleman, as Second Lieutenant," and to Lsaac Poineair, Gentleman, as Ensign,'* all dated on the eighth ofA[)ril, more than a fortnight before (iilbert Drake wrote to the Committee of Safety, asking Commissions for the same Officers from the Provincial Congress of New York ; and that each of thosi.' Commissions had specifically <lescribed the Com])any to which the holder of the Commission was attached, not as belonging to a Connecticut Regiment, but as " the Comijany of the First " Regiment of New York Forces." But, whatever schemes may have been laid to carry the Company into the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, and notwithstanding the men enlisted into the Com- ])any had been fraudulently entra])ped into a service which they did not intend to enter," Captain Hyatt