" That the General Committees of the said Coun- " ties be authorized to nominate and appoint the "Subaltern Officers to the said Companies, in their "Counties, respectively:

" That the said three Companies be deemed one '• Corps; and that Melancton Smith be Captain Com- " mandant ; that Micah Townsend be the second " Captain in rank ; and that John Durlin be the " third Captain in rank, in the said Corps:

" That the General Committees of the said Coun- " ties be authorized and requested to appoint a Mus- " ter-master in their respective Counties, to muster 'the said Companies; and that they transmit the " names of such Muster-masters to the Committee " appointed to audit the accounts of this Congress, " without delay :

" That the said three Companies be subject to the "order and direction of the General Committee of " their respective Counties or such other person or " persons as this or a future Congress of this Colony " shall direct.

" Ordered, That a certified copy of the aforesaid " Resolutions be transmitted to the General Commit- " tees of Dutchess and Westchester-counties. And

" Ordered, That Commissions be immediately " issued to the Captains, and that blank Commissions " be sent to the said Committees, to be by them issued " to the Lieutenants."

It will be seen that no provisions were made by the Provincial Congress for either the recruiting, or the equipment, or the quarters, or the transportation of these men ; and there will be some among the readers of this narrative who will say that if fifty unarmed, scattered men, on foot, could surely ensure the peace of so large and so widely extended a community as Colonial Westchester-county -- and if those men