On June 9, General Ten May 11, 18, 27; June 3, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 22, 29, July 1, 14, iS, 20-, August 12; September 15, 18; October 3, 1778.

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Broeck was requested to furnish ammunition to this contingent, which operated for the safeguarding of its own home territory. The frequency of robberies in the Helderbergs and contiguous regions induced the board, on July 2, 1779, to consider the raising of another company of rangers, to be under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Ismay. Orders for thisbody were issued on August 2 and 8, and at other times. On September 14, 1779, the board discharged De Forest's rangers, because their services were no longer needed; and on February 9, 1780, certified the pay-roll of Ismay's rangers, amounting to £91 19s. 6d., "being the full Amount of the Pay and Su'osistance Roll of the Party of Militia" under his command. The disturbances occasioned by disaffected inhabitants of Albany County, and the crying demand for enforcing the laws against them, determined the board, on June 30, 1780, to authorize Lieutenant Philip Staats, of Colonel Van Rensselaer's regiment, to Killian engage "about ten men", who were to provide themselves "with a good Horse & proper Arms and Accoutrements", and who were to be allowed the same pay as given to the cavalry of the army of the United States, together with an allowance for horse-hire and subsistence. Samuel Stringer, one of the members of the board, was requested, on August 11, 1780, to propose to John Tillman that he raise a company