Two days after Ezekiel Hyatt, through the Chairman of the Committee of Westchester-county, had secured a place for himself and his command, in the New York Line of the Continental Army, [April 27, 1776,] Cornelius Steenrod appeared, personally, before the Committee of Safety, in the City of New York, and informed that Committee " that he can enlist a "complete Company of men for the Continental ser- " vice, in fourteen days ; " and the Committee, after due consideration of the proposal, adopted a Resolution giving to him "full assurance that he and his "Subalterns, with the said Company, will be em- " ployed as part of the troops raising for the defence " of this Colony," provided a full and complete Company of able bodied men should be enlisted and made ready to join a Regiment, within the designated period of fourteen days. 9

That Cornelius Steenrod was a Miller, on the Cortlandt's Manor ; evidently a man of some property ; 10

parties ; and finally with the Committee of Westchester-county-- each scheme having been an improvement on those which had preceded it -- for the disposition of the Company, just as schemes were formed for tho promotion of personal interests of Officers, and just as Enlisted Men were trucked and bartered into Regiments which were foreign to them for the promotion of those schemes, in another service, within the memory of living meu.

1 Journal of the Committee of Safety, "Die Jovis, 4 ho., P.M., April 25, "1778."