History of Westchester County, New York, Vol. I
It will be seen, from the respective records of the fraudulent practices of Ezekiel Hyatt and Cornelius Steenrod and their respective associates, in their enlistment of men for their respective commands; from the records of the questionable manner in which their respective Companies were carried, without their consent, into a line of the Continental Service for which they were not enlisted ; from the records of the personal unfitness for their respective offices of the several Officers of both these Companies ; and from those of the consequent disaffection and desertions of the enlisted men, that Westchester-county's quota, in the Continental levy of 1776, was of questionable usefulness to the country or the cause in which it was nominally engaged. Whatever may have been the character and conduct of the Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of which those Companies were respectively composed -- and it is due to the memory of those unknown men that it should be said of them that no record of bad conduct, on their parts, has
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" Ucri iiitinK Wiirriints wern issiiul ti> liiiii, on tlic tenth of Marcli, nVCi, und to'l'liiiniiw I.i' Foy. on tlic (wi-nty eiglilli cif tin- siinii' iiiuntli, fur tlio Nintli (Iiimiuuiy i>f the Vint Ucj^imi-nt of tliu Xi w York Line of tlii! Continental Army of 1770 ; bnl tlx' r.ionl wiys, also, "Captain Ilortun "anil Olliri'in' loniniissions not miuiv onl," {llr' iiiiliiiij H drnui/x ikxiuiI bl/lhe (iiul'cnliim liitllf Finl Arm Yink I '<>nliii,-nl'ilg--llMi>riiiil Mniillscriiils, etc.; MUiOiri) (V.iimii«.v, xxv., li;.'), (;7i; ;) and it is |iri.lialile that they were amont; those whose liluDilislinii'ntK were uneuccessful in obtaiuiDg recruitii, ua has been stated in the text, (j^iij/t 3'il, loifo.) ]