Colonel Waterbury, who accompanied General Lee, through Westchester-county, acknowledged his possession of thirty Guns, two pairs of Holsters, nine Cutlasses, and three Pistols -- how many more he had seized, and retained or sent back into Connecticut, are now unknown ; and no record was taken of the names of those who had been thug plundered. They must have been taken, however, on the line of march of his Regiment, between the Sawpits and Eingsbridge ; and there was not the slightest shadow of even revolutionary authority for the seizure, except the law of the stronger and that of thieves.

6 See pages 112, 121, 122, ante.

9 " Resolved and Ordered, That Colonel Joseph Drake and Colonel " Thomas Thomas, of Westchester-county, do draft out of their Regiments "two hundred men, in the following proportions, to wit: Two Compa- " nies of sixty-five Privates each, besides the Captains and other inferior " Officers, out of Colonel Joseph Drake's Regiment ; and one Company "of Bixty-five Privates, with the Captain and other inferior officers, in " Colonel Thomas's Regiment, and as many more men out of those two " Regiments as will turn out, volunteers for that service, to be inime- "diately sent to the City of New York, armed and accoutred in the "beBt manner possible, and to be joined to Colonel Samuel Drake's "Regiment," [of Westchester-county Minute men (pages 108, 109, ante) which was then m the City] " and to receive the same pay and provisions as the " other Continental forces in this Colony." (Journal of the Provincial Congress, " Die Jovis, 4 ho., P.M., March 14, 177G."J