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.

^Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Mercurii, 1) ho., A.M., May "29, 1776."

T Journal of the Continental Congress, "Saturday, June 1, 1776." 8 The same, "Monday, June 3, 1776." 8 Ibid. 1" Ibid.

Journal of the Continental Congress, "Satnrdaj', June 1, 1776." 12 Tlie same, " Monday, June 3, 1776." "Ibid.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, 1774-1783.

Of the nine Provincial Brigadier-generals which these requisitions would bring into the service, one was assigned to the Colony of New York ; ' and, as will bo seen, hereafter, a lively canvass for the place was immediately conimenced by John Morin Scott, of the City of New York, and by the President of the Provincial Congress, Brigadier-general Nathaniel Woodhull, of Suffolk.