s (lillvrl Ihake In " Mv. Moriu .Sc<.«," " April the 24tli, 177t> ; " Journal iif thi- CuiiimilUe nf Hiift lji, " Die Jiivis, 111 lio., A.M., April 2.1, 177(;.-'

*.l List ttf Die Offiirrx mimes in Xrir IV.ri- 'IVoops, eU. : Col. .W</>i>ii<;ii/'» Iteijinmil. (5). -- Ilislitrinil Maiinsi i iiih, etc. : MilUiirii Commillee, xxv., 4.S8.

6 llislnrii-iil MiiuHitcripfti^ etc. : Milituri/ /^'/Hr«s, xxvii., 88. <• llii^oririil .V<ii(ii.«<riji/», etc.; Mililnnj IMnrns, .\xvii., !•(">. " Ili^tnrirtd ViftiiiM-riplXj elo. : Militnnj fMnnis^ xvvii., 112. » //i.i/..ri.-.i/ .lf.(;ii(» n;i/.v, etc. : Mililuni /i'./m-iw, xxvii., KM. ' Tliere iiie gixHl reiiwiMs for lielieviiiR that that ( 'omiiaiiy, Hlie (he similar CuiHimiy cuiniiiaiKleil li\ Cornelius Steeiiroil, <if wliirh iiietitioii will lie iiiaile, hereafter, haJ Immmi really enlisted for Colonel Samuel Drake's Regiment of Minnte-nien, then at Iloerii'a H.Mik, iis alreaily stateil ; anil that a .system of scheme.s hail followeil, lirsi with Alexauilur McDuugat, of the first New-York Keginient ; then with some Cunnectic

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

and his command were accepted by the Committee of Safety, as one of the two Companies required from Westchester-county ; ' and it subsequently constituted the Fifth Company of the First Regiment of the New York Line, commanded by Colonel Alexander Mc- Dougal.^ It was said of the Company, afterwards, that the Captain " has deceived the Convention " {the rrovincinl Congress f] " in Enlisting the men " for G & 12 months instead of doing it for the " war ; " ' that the men, who had, also, been deceived by their Captiiin, deserted in large numbers ; * that the Regiment was greatly reduced by the desertions, of which those from this Company were part ; ^ and the Company was thereby disgraced, through all time. Of Captain Hyatt, it was stated that he was "unfit" to be retained in the service,* as " he wants authority "to make a good Officer:"' of the three Subalterns, the same record stated, " These three wish to de- " cline the service ; they will be no loss to it." *