He evidently completed his Company, in season to take a place, as the second Company of the apportionment to Westchester-county, in the First Regiment of the New York Line, in the Continental Army of 1776, commanded by Colonel Alexander McDougal, of which it was the Sixth Company, Isaac Titus having been his First Lieutenant, Isaac Ruyckman, Junior, his Second Lieutenant, and Benjamin Jones his Ensign." But, like Captain Hyatt, Captain Steenrod had deceived his men and the Congress, in his enlistment of his command for six and twelve months instead of for the entire period of

H Cornelius Steenrod to the Committee of Safety, "January 31, 1777 ; " the Commissioners of Sequestration to tlte Council of Safety, "Pkeks Kill, Jnly "24, 1777;" Stephen De Lancey to Cornelius Steenrod, "May 3, 1777;" Testimony of Cornelius Steenrod before Vie Committee of Westchester-county, June 13, 1777 ; Cornelius Steenrod to tlie Convention of Hie State, " West- " Chester County, Coetlandt Manor, June 28, 177-7," und the several enclosures therein ; etc.

12 He was anxious, by turns, to command a Troop of Horse, to command a Company of Minute-men, and to raise and command a Company in the Continental Line ; and, inneitherof these,does he appear to have paid much rospect to the proprieties of the undertaking.

18 Cornelius Steenrod to " the Convention,"" without place or' date-- Jovjrnals of the Provincial Congress, ii., 147.

"In June, 1776, Isaac Yonngs testified before the Committee on Conspiracies, of the Provincial Congress, that Thomas Vernon, that prisoner who made so much trouble, had informed him that one of tho Captains in McDougal's Regiment of Continentals, was a loyalist, in correspondence with Governor Tryon, and acting under the orders of the Governor. (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Miscellaneous Papers, xxxiv., 404 )