The latter was evidently promoted to the First Lieutenancy, when, in August of that year, Lieutenant Palmer was promoted to the command of a Company ;.and, on the same day, Isaac Van Waert was appointed to the vacant Second Lieutenancy.

7 Captain David Palmer, Lieutenant Samuel T. Pell, and Lieutenant Isaac Van Waert are particularly noticed as having served in Canada, in 1775, (Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Military Committee's Papers, xxv., 764 ; the same ; Military Returns, xxvii., 166 ;) and it may reasonably be supposed that the Company of which they were Officers, accompanied them.

8 Journal of the Continental Congress, " Thursday, May 25, and Friday, "May 26, 1775," pages 08, 99, ante.

Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Lunse, 4 ho., P.M., May 29th, "1775."

10 Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Veneris, 9 ho., A.M., July 7, "mo;" the same, " Die Jovis, 9 ho., A.M., July 27,1775;" die same, " Die Luna?, 9 ho., A.M., August 7, 1775 ; " and the same, " Die Mercurii, "9 ho., A.M., August 9, 1775."

^Journal of the Provincial Congress, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., A.M., " August 9, 1775."

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

month, with a very important change, which permitted those who were not residents of the Districts or Beats to take and to hold offices therein, that Report was included in an elaborate " Militia Bill," which provided that every portion of the Colony should be divided into "Districts or Beats,'' in such manner that each of those Districts should include, as nearly as possible, eighty-three men and boys, between sixteen and'sixty years of age, and capable of bearing arms. These Companies were to be commanded by Officers to be elected by the respective Companies, and commissioned by the Provincial Congress. One fourth of the entire force was to be organized as Minute-men ; the Companies were to be organized into Regiments ; the Regiments were to be organized into Brigades ; and all were to be commanded by a Major-general, to be appointed and commissioned by the Provincial Congress.