He evidently completed his Company, in season to take a place, as the second Company of the apportionment to Westchester-county, in the First Regiment of the New York Line, in the Continental Army of 1776, commanded by Colonel Alexander McDougal, of which it was the Sixth Company, Isaac Titus having been his First Lieutenant, Isaac Ruyckman, Junior, his Second Lieutenant, and Benjamin Jones his Ensign.'' But, like Captain Hyatt, Captain Steenrod had deceived his men and the Congress, in his enlistment of his command for six and twelve months instead of for the entire period of

11 Conielius Steenrod to the Commiltee of Snfeti/, " January 31, 1777 ; " the Onuminxionern of ^iefjnestratum tn the C^tmiell of Hitfelij, Peeks Kill, Jnly "24, 1717;" titepheii De Umceij to (in-iiel!iis Steenrod, "May 3, 1777 ;" Tediiiiony of Oornetiux Steenrod before the f\oilinUtee of Westx-hester-roimtl^, .Iline 13, 1777 ; VonieUus Steenrod tn tlie Convention of the Stole, " West- "CHESTKU Coi'NTV, CoiiTi.ANnT M.\.s'nit, June 2s, 1777," and the several enclosures therein ; etc.

12 He was anxious, by turns, to command a Troop of Hoi-se, to command a Com|iany of Minute-men, and to raise and coiniiiand a ( 'ompany in the Continentiil Line; and, in neither of tliese, does lie appear to have paid much respect to the proprieties of tlie iimha taking.

13 Cornelim Steenrod to " the C<mrailUm," without place or date-- Jourtuds of the I*ri>ri.nrud t'oittjress, ii., 147.

i^In June, 177f», Isaac Youngs testified before the Committee on Conspiracies, of the Provincial ('ongre.ss, that Tlioiii.TS Vernon, that prisoner who made so much trouble, bad informeil him that one of the Captains in McDougal's Regiment of Continentals, wius a loyalist, in correspondence with Governor Tryoii, and acting under the oidei>i of the (Joveruor. (Hhtm-U-al Manuseriptx, Hie.. : Miaell.ineoutt Vuperx, xxxiv., 4iM )