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 )
Cornelius Steenrod had only recently joined that Itegiment, at the head of a Couipany, » hen that statement was made.
IS llemrtd Lord Stirlinifs Generid Orders, " New York, March 10, "177i;."
i",7.)«nm! of the ProvinqUd Cvnijrexs, "Die Merciirii, 10 ho., A.M., Oc- " tober 25, 1776."
^' List of OJleers' mmies of New Yorl Troo/is, viz.: Colonel MelknujoVs Itegirnent -- Uisloricul Manuscripts, etc.: MiliUtry Committee, xxv., 488.
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the War;' his command reciprocating, like that of Captain Hyatt, by deserting, in great numbers, and, thereby, seriously crippling tin- Regiment;' and, also like Captain Hyatt, personally, he was reported as "unfit" for his command.' The similarity of that Company and its Officers and that commanded by Captain Hyatt and its Officers is singularly continued in the fact tiiat the Second Lieutenant who was with Captain Steenrod when the Company was mustered into the Continental Service, was subsequently cashiered,^ assuredly lor conduct which was more than ordinarily bad ; and in the Report, concerning First Lieutenant Titus and Ensign Jones, that " These two are unfit for the service."''