- The only allusion to military duty discharged by this Company, which we have found, is that Order of the Provincial Congress, on the twenty-fifth of July, "that Captain Townsend of Westchester- county "return to duty, with his Company, at the mouth of Croton -river and i " such placcB adjacent as the Officer or Officers commanding the Ameri " can troops or Militia, there, shall direct," [Journal of the Provincial Oflgress, "Thursday morning, July 25,1770;") which was certainly beyond the line of duties for which it had been specifically raised.
a The County Committee, agreeably to the Resolutions of the Provincial Congress, presentod in the text, appointed Samuel Townsend to the Lieutenantcy of this Company. Subsequently, Lieutenant Townaend was I promoted to the command of another Company ; and, on the sixteenth of August, Zophania Millor was appointed to the vacant fjieutenantcy, {The General Ooviiiiitlcc of Weslchcster'county to the Coiivention of the State, " August 16, 1776 ; " Jonrmd of 1 he Provincial Convention, "Die Veneris, "9 ho., A.M., August 16, 1770.")
4 The following, copied from the original manuscript, (Historical Man wcripts, etc.: Petitions, xxxiii., 103, 104,) will be interesting to our readers, in this connection :
" TO THE HONORABLK THE CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF NeW-Y0IUC.
" The Petition of tho Lieutenant non-comniissionod officers & Privates " belonging to Capt n Micah Townsend's company raised to be under the " Direction of the Committee of Westchestor County, Humbly Sheweth,
" That the Honorable the Provincial Congress of this Colony when " they gave Instructions for raising Capt 11 Townsend's Company allowed "tho Lieutenant 12s. per week, and the non commissioned officers and " privates 8s. per week in lieu of Rations and Suhsistance.