" That the said three Companies be subject to the " order and direction of the General Committee of "their respective Counties or such other jjcrson or " persons as this or a future Congress of this Colony " shall direct.

" OuDEiiEi), That a certified copy of the aforesaid "Resolutions be transmitted to the General Commit- " tees of Dutchess and Westchester-counlies. And

" OuDEREi), That Commissions be immediately "issued to the Captains, and that blank Commissions "be .sent to the said Committees, to be by them issued " to the Lieutenants."

It will be seen that no provisions were matle by the Provincial Congress for either the recruiting, or the e(juipment, or the (juarters, or the transportation of these men ; and there will be some among the readers of this narrative who will say that if lilty unarmed, scattered men, on foot, citnld surely ensure the peace of so large and so widely extended a community as Colonial Westchester-county -- and if those men

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could not surely preserve that peace, their appointment were useless -- the inhnbitants of that County could not have been as " dangerous" and its jieace could not have been as "greatly disturbed " as the authors and promoters of these Resolutions had falsely pretended, among the recitals of their Preamble: others will suspect, not without reason, that the entire movement was a purely political job, gotten up for the pur])ose of affording p(ditical sop, at the expense of the Colony, for hungry adherents of the Bensons and the Morrise -- suspicions which would be well-founded, since neither of the Duchess-county Companies were subscfiuently known in history, excei)tthrough the requisition on the Treasurer of the Colony, for their Pay and Subsistence;' while the Westchester-county Company, without having become known to history, in its capacity of an armed police, is known, in the military annals of the State,^ for having done nothing else than changed its Lieutenant,' for asking for greater Pay,*