The canvass was evidently conducted, as we have already stated, with spirit ; but the influence of the Counties of Westchester, New York, Tryon, Charlotte, and Albany, in behalf of Scott, was too great to be overcome by that of the Counties of Orange, Suffolk, Duchess, and Ulster, for Woodhull, the Counties of Richmond, Kings, Queens, Cumberland, and Gloucester having been absent ; and the former was thus elected,* admirably filling the political demand, but not, in the slightest degree, promising to make the Brigade efficient or useful, as soldiers -- like other lawyers, some of them within our acquaintance, the uniform of a General wa.s attractive to him ; he secured an office of distinction ; and he continued to occupy it, until, on the establishment of the new form of Government, after having been defeated in his canvass for the office of Governor, he was transferred into the more comfortable, if not the more profitable place, of Secretary of State, which he occupied until 1789, and was succeeded by his son, who held the place until 1798.

On the following day, [June 10, 1776,] the Provincial Congress elected the Field-officers of the Regiment in which the levies from Westchester-county were to be enrolled ; and Samuel Drake, who was then commanding the skeleton Regiment of Westchestercounty Minute-men, in the Continental Service,^ was elected Colonel; John Hulbert, of Suffolk," was elected Lieutenant-colonel ; Moses Hetfield, of Orange-county, was elected Major.' The Line-officers of the Regiment and the other details of its organization of the Regiment will be noticed, hereafter.