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."

2 List of Officers' names of New York Troops, viz. . Colonel McDougal's Regiment, -- Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Committee, xxv., 488.

a Ibid.

* General Alexander McDongal to Robert Yates, " Yonkers, 21 October "177C."

g Ibid.

' General McDougal's Recmumeudationof Lieutenant-Colonel Van Cortlandl -- Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Committee, xxv., 845.

' List of Officers' names of New York Troops, viz. : Colonel McDougal's Regiment. -- Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Committee, xxv., 488.

8 Ibid.

Journal of the Committee of Safety, "DioSahbati, 10 ho., A.M., April " 27, 1776."

i« Cornelius Steenrod was tho owner of three fulling-mills, if not of some others; and he addressed "the Convention," without date, requesting protection for his millers.-- Cornelius Steenrod to "the Convention," without place or date-- Journals of the Provincial Congress, ii., 147.

and an intimate friend and confidante of Stephen De Lancey, a son of the late distinguished Chief-justice De Lancey, who was also one of the Proprietors and a resident of that Manor, 11 there can be no doubt. He was peculiarly anxious to obtain an office, no matter what, nor on what terms ; I2 he was particularly zealous in his desire that he might administer testoaths to his neighbors ; 13 and it is more than probable that he was, in fact, a "friend of the Government," in disguise, notwithstanding all his official disclaimers." He had been in command of one of the skeleton Companies of Minute-men of which the skeleton Regiment of Colonel Samuel Drake had been nominally composed 15 -- it is more than probable that one of those two blank Commissions, for Captains of Companies, which had been issued in advance of the formation of those Companies,' 6 was held by him ; and it is far from impossible that the men whom he and his Subalterns had evidently on hand, when he applied to the Committee of Safety for admittance into the service of the Continent, in a different Regiment, had been really enlisted for the re-inforcement of the former Regiment, then at Hoern's Hook.