Although the Provincial Congress was "of opinion " that the several levies," apportioned on the different Counties, consisting of volunteers, would be most " advancive of the public service, yet" it evidently knew that volunteers could not be had, even under such a stress of circumstances as then existed and in so " glorious a cause ; " and drafts from the respective Regiments, in each County, were also provided for, in instances where deficiencies should be found; and every possible measure was employed, to secure the armament and general equipment of the men.^

Information had no sooner been received by the Provincial Congress of New York, that a Brigadiergeneral was to be appointed by that body, for the command of the four Battalions which were to be raised in New York, than it was announced "the "Congress conceived it necessary towards carrying "the several Resolutions and requisitions of the "Continental Congress into execution, to appoint a "Brigadier-general and a Major of Brigade of the "Militia of Westchester-county " -- the Congress did not reveal in what that declared "necessity" existed, however; and as those offices had been created on the twenty-second of the preceding August' and had not been occupied, during the entire intervening per-

1 Journal of the Coulinental Congresf, "Monday, June 3, 1776." ^Journal of the Provincial Congrete, "Friday morning, 9 ho., June 7, " 1776."

^Journal of the Provincial Congrett, " Die Veneris, 4 ho., P.M., June 7. " 1776."

* Journal of the Provincial Congresf, " Sundiiy aftornuun, Juno 9, 1776." > Ibid.