It authorized and superintended the enlistment of men, in the service of the State, for local purposes ; * it attended to that of men for the reinforcement of the Continental Army ; * and it provided for the payment of Bounties, in addition to the stipulated pay, to those who thus enlisted.^ It resorted to Drafts, in order to ff]\ the requisitions for men, when enlistments were tardy;" and where resistance was made to the Draft, force was authorized, to compel men to fill the i-anks." It appointed Officers of both

reach them, in the distant City, Mr. Philipse was included among the victims of somebody's official misconduct ; and, as the world knows, that unintentional failure to return to his place of confinement, in Connecticut, was made the ostensible reason for the confiscation of his great estate, in Westcliester-county and elsewhere.

There is not the slightest evidence that Frederic Philipse was anything else than an honest friend of his native country; tliat he ever spoke or wrote or did anything whatever which could be justly construed as inimical to his country or favorable to the obnoxious measures of tlie Home Government ; or that he ever piirposed doing so. He was almost totally blind ; and that and his unusual corpulency unfitted him for the slightest personal opposition to or supiiort of any political or military movements; while his fondness for gardouing, in all its branches, to which the grounds of his Jlanor-houses, at Yonkera and Sleepy Hollow, bore ample testimony, and bis domestic ties, and his unusual love of home, led him to prefer the ipiiet and retired life for which he was distinguished, instead of that more active and more public life to which, from his rank and standing and purity of character, he was so completely entitled.