I should be glad you would furnish me with such Orders as you may think necessary in any of these Matters, as I think it a matter of some importance that will if properly Executed do honor to the Kings representative, in proportion as its necessity becomes more universally felt.

The Regiments in the forming of which I had a particular hand were those this way, of these the Scohare Reg' wants still a Major occasioned by S"" Harrys death, for this majority I recommended & take the Liberty to recomend to you Peter B. Vroman, & for the Reg*^. for the City of Albany Roseboom, I don't know

of any other Vacancies from Alby Westward, except that by the death of the Patroon concerning whose Reg* I have as yet no return, but there will be many Commissions wanting should you approve of dividing those of Dutchess & Ulster Counties as the rest.

In the return herewith transmitted the Total of the Columns is not cast up, there were of necessity, such a number of Blanks As this return was intended to give you a Genl. Idea of the Whole until one more perfect could be made, and in the forming of those Regiments who now are Less than 500 men, regard was had rather to the Circumstances of their Situation & future encrease than to their present numbers which are daily Augmenting,

The Honble C. Colden Esq^ Lt Gov, New York.

960 MANUSCRIPTS OF

THE SAME TO THE HON. OL. DELANCEY.