" 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.) ]

come down among the debrit of that period, since it cannot be regarded as a crime that some of them, unbidden, in that era of disregard of law, helped themselves to the freedom, belonging to themselves, of which their Officers had fraudulently deprived them -- it cannot be consistently pretended, by any one, that the Officers of those Companies were reasonably representative men of the great body of the farmers of Colonial ^V'estehester-county, of that or of any other l)eriod : whether or not they may be regarded as representative men of that other and smaller class of the inhabitants of that County, in 1775-76, of those whose "patriotism" was only ill-concealed selfishness, of those whose devotion to " the common cause" was graduated with nothing else than with the jjromised profits of the investment, of those whose zeal was tempered with nothing as effective as with an Office of some sort, the reader can determine for himself, from the evidence which has been already adduced, illustrative of the character and conduct of the revolutionary faction, within that County, during that later Colonial Period.