Two days after Ezekiel Hyatt, through the Chairman of the Committee of Westchester-county, had secured a place for himself and his command, in the New York Line of the Continental Army, {April 27, 1776,] Cornelius Steenrod api)eared, personally, before the Committee of Safety, in the City of New York, and informed that Committee " that he can enlist a "complete Company of men for the Continental ser- " vice, in fourteen days ; " and the Committee, after due consideration of the proposal, adopted a Resolution giving to him "full assurance that he and his "Subalterns, with the said Company, will be em- " j)loyed as part of the troops raising for the defence "of this Colony," provided a full and comjjlete Company of able bodied men should be cnli.sted and m.ade ready to join a Regiment, within the designated period of fourteen days."

That Cornelius Steenrod was a Miller, on the Cortlandt's Manor ; evidently a man of some property ;

parties ; and finally with tlie Ooiimiitteo of Westclipster-ioiinty -- each scheme having lieen an imimivenient on tliose whicii liail pieceJod it -- for tilt* (1i8iK)siti(»n oftlie Company, ju«t as Kcheme,s were formed for tlie promotion of pcTsmial inlei ests of Othcers, and jnst as Kniisted Men were trueked and hartered into Uef;iments which were foreign to them, for tlie promotion of those scliemeH, in another service, within the nicmorj' of living men.

1 Jimnud I'/ 1 he Oniiiiiillce o/ Siifiii/, " Die .lovls, 4 ho., P.M., April 2.'), " t77(i."