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.

• Journal of Uie Provincial Congress, "Die Mercurii, 9 ho., A.M., May "29,1776."

7 Journal of the Continental Congress, "Saturday, June 1, 1776."

8 The same, "Monday, June 3, 1776."

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid.

H Journal of the Continental Congress, " Saturday, June 1 1776." " The same, "Monday, June 3, 1776." « Ibid.

WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

Of the nine Provincial Brigadier-generals which these requisitions would bring into the service, one was assigned to the Colony of New York ; * and, as will be seen, hereafter, a lively canvass for the place was immediately commenced by John Morin Scott, of the City of New York, and by the President of the Provincial Congress,' Brigadier-general Nathaniel Woodhull, of Suffolk.