»i Captain Gray's Company probably marched from Bedford, on the sixteenth of February, agreeably to the promise that it should do so ; and on the twenty-ninth of the same month, General Lee said of the Regiment and of a Company detached from another Regiment, together forming the garrison at Hoern's Hook, " Drake's Regiment of Minute- " Men and one more Company, (in all about two hundred,) are stationed at "Horn's Hook, which commands Hell-Gate. Thoy are employed in " throwing up a redoubt, to contain three hundred men," (General Lee to General Washington, "New-York, February 29, 1776.")

t Jacobus Swartwout was Colonel of one of the Regiments, so called, of Duchess-county Minute-men, (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Returns, xxvi., 3.)

8 Lieutenant-colonel Cornelius Humphreys evidently commanded the Regiment of Duchess-county Minute-men, of which John Van Ness whs Colonel and Robert G. Livingston, Junior, one of the Majors. (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Returns, xxvi., 3.)

o General Orders of Lord Stirling, General of the Continental Troops, "Head-quarters, March 16, 1776."

10 General Lee to General Washington, "New- York, February 29,1776;" Jones's History of New York during the Revolutionary War, i., 69.

At the period referred to in the text, that was known as " Waldron's " Ferry."

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

but it was composed of men of notorious poverty and meanness, 1 by no means representative men of the yeomanry of Westchester-county ; " many of them " were, " destitute of " arms " 2 and, therefore, useless for soldiers ; and it appears that, as such characters were apt to be, they were recklessly destructive of the private property of those who were richer than they, not sparing, even, the property of those who had endeavored to make them more than ordinarily comfortable. 3 The Lieutenant-colonel of the Regiment, who was, also, a Deputy from Westchestercounty in the Provincial Congress, complained to that body that the Regiment "lodged in an uncom- " fortable manner for the want of Cribs for its beds ; " and he insisted that it was " necessary that a car- " penter be sent to make Cribs for their beds; " and a carpenter was accordingly sent to Hoern's Hook, for the purpose of making " Cribs " for the greater comfort of Westchester-couuty's " patriotic " Minutemen. 4