Tho' I had the pleasure of Writing you pretty fully on Militia Affairs in General yet from a late Letter from M"" Banyar I find you would be desirous of more particular information especially as to the Regiment at Claverack, I need not give you the Trouble of reading the Case & petitions of the Inhabitants of that Neighbourhood as I understand theyj:iave been laid before You, but I inclose you a Copy of Capt Hogebooms letter to me which I laid before Sir Henry Moore but as he died about the Time It must have reached Nev/ York it went too late ; --

I before observed to you that Sev^ of the Colonels within my Brigade having neglected to make me returns my Information concerning some of the Regiments is collected from the Accots of others, which however I have reason to think I can depend upon.

The necessity of dividing the Overgrown Regiments, and the divisions that had already been made for that purpose furnished a pretence for creating that Regim* for Col. Ranslaer, A Regiment there was necessary, but the Mode of EstabUshing it was very faulty. It appears to have been concerted to favor his Claim in the disputed Lands there, at Least so it is conceived by the Inhabitants, and the manner in which it has been conducted Justifies that Apprehension, as first the Commissions by Ante dating them are Countersigned by M*' Livingston several Months before he was Secretary, The Commissions of the Inferior Officers are dated before the Colonels and Consequently they are made Officers in a Regiment that did not then- Exist, but I conclude it was necessary to get off the Commiss^^ as quick as possible for private reasons, for it should be observed that the dates of all the Comns given to the inferior Officers living on the Contested Lands were previous to the Trial of the Crown's Cause against M^".