Of these several requisitions, one Battalion of seven hundred and fifty men was called from the Colony of New York, for the Canadian service ; " and for the reinforcement of the Army at New York, that Colony was required to furnish three thousand men.'^ All were to be taken from the Militia of the respective Colonies ; all were to be "engaged " only " to the first " day of December next, unless sooner discharged by " Congress ; " and the pay of the men was to commence on the days on which they respectively left their homes.
< Elijah Hunter was evidently an ambitione man. In addition to tlie Commission, referred to in tlie text, he managed, on the twenty-first of November, 1776, to obtain the command of the Sixth Company of tlie Second, or Van Corllandt's, Regiment of the New York Line, in the Continental Army of 1776-77, (lUsturical Mannficript-^, etc.: Militanj Committee, XXV., 7GI ;) and he retired from the service, fifteen days afterwards, (Historical Manuscripts, etc.: MilHari) Committee, xxv., 851, 854, xxxv., 321 :) contenting himself, thenceforth, as we shall see, hereafter, with liaukering after authority to continue the persecution of his peaceful neighbors, which Ezekiel Hawley had previously failed to secure. (Viiiipages 350-35^1, ante.)
' Of Richard Sackett, Silas Miller, and Jeremiah Lounsberry no other mention tlian this appears to have beeii made, on tlie military recortis of the Colony or Stiite. It is probable they were stars of the smallest magnitude.