-Ttie iinly allusion to military duty discharged hy this Company, wliicli we have found, is that Oj-./ec of Ihn I'roviiirial Congress, on the twenty-fifth of .Inly, "that Captain Townsend of Westehcster-coiinty "return to duty, with his CompaMy, at the mouth of Croton river and " Bucli places ailjncpnt as the Officer or Officers commanding the Ameri "can troops or Jlilitia, there, shall direct," [Jniinud nf the I'mvlm-Uil Con- (/ifss, " Tliursilay i ning, July 20,1771;;") which was certainly beyond the line of duties fur whii h it had been specilii ally raisecl.

SThe County Ccmimitteo, agreeably to the Kesolutious of the Provincial (longieKH, presented in the text, appointed Samuel Townsend to the | Lioutenaiitcy of this ( onipuuy. Subsecpieutly, liieutenaiit Townsend was | promoted to the command of another Company ; and, on the sixteenth of August, Zephaiiia Miller was appointed to the vacant IJeutenantcy, (The (icmnal Oniimittre of WesU hentrr-rtmilij li> the Cimmil'um of the .S(<i/<>, " August If), 1776 ; " Juiinial of the I'roi iiicuil Courentioii, " Die Veneris, "11 ho., A.M., August 10, 1770.")

♦ The following, copied from the original manuscript, (Historical Mim untrijilx, etc.: Pflitioiis, xxxiii., llKi, 1D4,) will bo interesting to our readers, in this cvtnnection :

" To nil'. IbiNoKAiu.K run Convkntion or nil'. St.M'k ok Nkw-York.

" The Petition of the Lieutenant non-commissioned officers & Privates "belonging to Capt" Micah Townsend's company raised to be under the "Direction of the Committee of Westchester County, Humbly Sheweth,

"That the Honorable the Provincial Congri'ss of this Colony when " they gave Instructions for raising Capt" Townsend's (Company allowed "the liieutenaiit Via. per weels, and the non commissioned officers and " privates Ss. per week in lieu of liatioiis and Subsistence.