It will be seen, from the respective records of the fraudulent practices of Ezekiel Hyatt and Cornelius Steenrod and their respective associates, in their enlistment of men for their respective commands; from the records of the questionable manner in which their respective Companies were carried, without their consent, into a line of the Continental Service for which they were not enlisted ; from the records of the personal. unfitness for their respective offices of the several Officers of both these Companies; and from those of the consequent disaffection and desertions of the enlisted men, that Westchester-county's quota, in the Continental levy of 1776, was of questionable usefulness to the country or the cause in which it was nominally engaged. Whatever may have been the character and conduct of the Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of which those Companies were respectively composed -- and it is due to the memory of those unknown men that it should be said of them that no record of bad conduct, on their parts, has

1 Ibid.

2 Oeneral Alexander McDouqal to Bobert Yates, " Yonkers, 21 October,

"1770."

8 General McDougaVs Recommendation of Lieutenant-colonel Corilandt.-- Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Committee, xxv., 845.

4 Captain Steearod to tlie Provincial Congress, " Camp at New York, "20 June, 1776."

&Lisl of Officers' Names of New-York Troops, viz., Colonel McDougaVs Regiment-- Historical Manuscripts, etc. . Military Committee, xxv., 488.

« Recruiting Warrants were issued to him, on the tenth of March, 1776, and to Thomas Le Foy, on the twenty-eighth of the same month, for the Ninth Company of the First Regiment of the New York Line of the Continental Army of 1776; but the record says, also, "Captain Horton "and Officers' commissions not made out," (Recraitiug Warrants issued by the Convention to tlie First New York Continentals-- Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Military Committee, xxv., 165, 676;) and it is probable that they were among those whose blandishments were unsuccessful in obtaining recruits, as has been stated in the text, {page 145, ante.)