Of these several requisitions, one Battalion of seven hundred and fifty men was called from the Colony of New York, for the Canadian service ; u and for the reinforcement of the Army at New York, that Colony was required to furnish three thousand men. 12 All were to be taken from the Militia of the respective Colonies ; all were to be "engaged " only " to the first " day of December next, unless sooner discharged by " Congress ;" and the pay of the men was to commence on the days on which they respectively left their homes. 13
4 Elijah Hunter was evidently an ambitious man. In addition to the Commission, referred to in the text, he managed, on the twenty-first of November, 1776, to obtain the command of the Sixth Company of the Second, or Van Cortlandt's, Regiment of the New York Line, in the Continental Army of 1776-77, (Historical Manuscripts, etc. : Military Committee, xxv., 761;) and he retired from the service, fifteen days afterwards, (Historical Manuscripts, etc.: Military Committee, xxv., 851, 854, xxxv., 321 ;) contenting himself, thenceforth, as we shall see, hereafter, with hankering after authority to continue the persecution of his peaceful neighbors, which Ezekiel Hawley had previously failed to secure. (Tide pages 174-177, ante.)
6 Of Richard Sackett, Silas Miller, and Jeremiah Lounsberry no other mention than this appears to have been made, on the military records of the Colony or State. It is probable they were stars of the smallest magnitude.