1 The Committee of Safety to Lieutenant-colonel Graham, " In Commit- "teb of Safety, New-York, Jany. 22, 1776."

2 Compare Captain Jonathan Blake's letter to the Committee of Safety "Head Quarters in Westchester, Jany. 31, 1776," with the Roster of Colonel Maloom's Regiment, -- Historical Manuscripts relating to the War of the Revolution, in the Secretary of State's Office, Alhany : Military Returns, xxvii., 1.

* Tlie Committee of Safety to Lieutenant-colonel Graham, "In Committee of Safety, New York, Jany. 22, 1776."

4 "I hereby acquaint you that I have taken an account from Capt. "Varian what the expense of guarding the guus at Valentine's and "Williams' -will be, this week, Tizt.: 1 Capt., 1 Lieut., 2 Sergeants, 1 " Corporal, and 14 Privates. 6 of the above men board at 10s. per " week, and the others draw provisions from the Commissary, with a "Guard room and firewood, at £3. per week, besides items, making in "the whole about £26., and last week it was considerably more." {Stephen Ward to the Provincial Congress, "March 5, 1776.")

It will he remembered that James Varian, the favored commander of the Guard, in this instance, with eighteeen others, had been constituted a full-fledged Company of Westchester-county Minute-men. on the fourteenth of February preceding {vide pages 108, 109, ante;) and it will be Been, from that letter which has been quoted, how soon and in what manner those nineteen Westchester-county "patriots" reached the sweets to which they had aspired -- fivo held offices of greater or less dignity, while the fourteen who held no offices enjoyed the comforts of drawing their support from the Commissary or from the Treasury of the Provincial Congress, in addition to the pay of soldiers and what, by hook or by crook, they could pick up, in the neighborhood of their quarters.