[No. 3603.] Mr. Van Cortland Reports the Robbery of His Horses. Excellency Governor Clinton: S'r, I take the Liberti to acquaint your Excellency, that Martine Post, Michal and Abraham Dyckeman, Archer, Pine, and Honavel, as I am Informed, came to my Brother's Barn, ond Monday night ye 19 Febr. broke open his Stable, and drove out of it five Horses, four of them very valuable, two of which belonged to my Brother, and three to myself, as I am Confident it is Contrary to your Excellency's orders, I Prevaled on Mr. Isaac Vermjlyea's son to go to the Commanding officer at Crompond. in order to Intercead with him to get them returned; his answer was, that he had no Command over the militia, therefore, he could not Interfear; he likewise went to the above Persons, who had held a Vandue, and brought them amoungst themselves; they woud not return them, nither could they render any Reasone for taken of them. I shall be much obliged to your Excellency, if it be agreeable, to order them, to deliver the said Horses, to the Bearer; the favor of which, I shall always asknowledge, I remain your Excellency's most obedient & Very Hum. Sarv't Fred V. Cortlandt. [No. 3604.] Captain Jacob Lansing Appointed Muster Master. Sir. I do hereby authorize & impower you to receive & muster any men who may be inlisted in pursuance of the act entitled "an act for raising two regiments for the defence of this state on bounties of unappropriated lands" passed 20" March Inst. and to give them individually certificates of their inlistments to entitle them to the bounty & creation (?) offered in said act. You will be particularly careful to pass none but such as shall be able bodied men, and fit for immediate service and such as would be received in the Continental army. .31 March 1781. [To Captain Jacob Lansing.] [No. 3605.] List of Prisoners of War-Albany and Tryon. Names of Prisoners of War in the Counties of Albany & Tryon: William Boon, Lieut. Butler's Corps; Zadock Wright Major, Coll. Peter's Corps, George Werthoff, Serjt; Andries Boetger, Ernst Rahia, Paulus Hartman, Johannis Muller, Frederick Gleyseman, Andries Walters, Conraedt Albeas, Hendrick Schinneman, Hendrick Bruineman, Christiaen Bruns, Ludwig Brunner Ludwig Gelt, Christian Bar, John Henry Zacherias Bonse, Johannes Kempsy, Gebhard Coolman, Julius Eggers, John Otto Meynecke, Andries Kogh, George Peatzhold, Godfred Israel, Christian Smith, Frederick Neese, Frederick Keeping, Johan Eylers, Christopher Papist, Hendrick Hoffman, Hendrick Kreykenbom, Jacob Sieringer, Cunrad Beeler, Michael Norff, George Aple, Johannis Plugh, Hendrick Burghdoff, Christian Just, Hendrick Kogh, Carle Weegenar, Hendrick Henecke, John Weather, Frederick Westfahlen, Carle Meyer, John Leedeke, Adolph Bruns, Christopher Keenholtz, Jacob Lawenstien, Johan Henry Rysnard, Andries Heleman, Frederick Streder, Frederick Lauwas, Hendrick Miller, Christopher Cartner, Jury Hoofman, Hendrick Cogh. James Parks, Isaac Arse, Adam Hoofer, in Confinement. [3606.] Levies Raised in Westchester County for the Continental Battalions. Return of the Men received from the Several Classes in West Chester County. [No. 3607.] Charles Toll Petitions for a Remission of His Fine. To his Excellency George Clinton, Esquire, Governor of the State of New York, General and Commander in Chief of all the Militia & Admiral of the Navy of the same. The Humble Petition of Charles Toll, Sheweth that your Petitioner is an Exempt & has an Adjutant's Commission, but being an Infirm Man and unfit for Military duty by Reason of the Rheumatism, he was obliged to hire a Man to serve in his stead for during the War, and Whereas, last May there was an alarm, and your Petitioner was not warned by any of his officers in a proper Manner, nor by any Body but a Boy belonging to Colonel Yates's Regiment; and some of your Petitioners nigh neighbours who were Exempts as well as him, were not warned by any Person; which makes him think that he was Fined out of Spite; and it has been proved at the Court Martial that your Petitioner was not warned by his Officer nor was not deemed as a Delinquent. And notwithstanding your Petitioner was fined five hundred Dollars which he thinks your Excellency will be pleased to Redress his Grievance in that Case and as in duty Bound he will be for ever obliged to your Excellency. P: S: The undernamed Officer Witnesseth. [No. 3608.] Three Albany Companies Consolidated into Two. The Field Officers of the City of Albany Regt., with the Commissioned Officers of the three Companies of the first Ward of the City of Albany, convened agreable to the request of Genl. T. Broeck, for the purpose of Dividing the above Compa's into two. Which they humbly propose as follows: Capt. Jacob Roseboom's Com'y to begin at the City Hall of the City of Albany, thence West up a Lane to the Corner House of Obadiah Cooper, thence North into the Corner House of Edward Butler thence West up Churchyard Street, taking all residing on the south side & all residing to the North of the above Line as far as the first Ward of said City extends. Capt. John Scott's Com'y to be composed of all those resident in above Ward to the south of Capt. Roseboom's Com'y. V. Vechten Bery Capt. Roseboom's Ob. Cooper . Butler Churchyard Street [No. 3609.] Congress to Pay, Subsist and Clothe the Two Regiments Raised by New York for the Defence of the State. By The United States in Congress assembled. April 2d 1781. • The Report of the Committee on the Letter of the 19th of March from the Governor of New York was taken into consideration, whereupon, Resolved, That the two Regiments of Militia proposed to be embodied in the State of New York to serve till the first day of December next, as mentioned in Governor Clinton's Letter of the 19th of March last, be paid and subsisted while in Service at the General Expence on the same Terms as the Troops on the continental Establishment. That the two Regiments of Infantry proposed to be raised in the said State, to serve for three years as mentioned in the aforesaid Letter be paid, subsisted, and clothed while in Service at the genral Expence, on the same Terms as the Troops on the continental Establishment: provided, the said State shall first fill up their Quota of Troops for the Continental Army, and that the Regiments, particularly the two last mentioned, be officered as far as may be, by the reduced officers belonging to that State, and that the officers be proportioned to the Number of Men actually in Service. Extract from the Minutes. Chas. Thomson, Secy. [No. 3610.] The Governor Explains to Du Simitiere His Failure as a Correspondent. Sir, I did myself the honour to transmit to your Excellency by Mr. Frederic Jay, who left this city the 31st December last, a couple of pamphlets which I hope may have proved acceptable. I would have sent the inclosed sooner had I been informed in time of the messenger that was dispatched from here some time ago, as I wish to be the first to furnish your Excellency with what new publications appears here. Your Excellency is no doubt well convinced that it is impossible to keep up a correspondence when it is carried on only on one Side, indeed it is rather no correspondence at all! The case is exactly so with me. I have continued writing to your Excellency for upwards of two years and done my best efforts to transmit every pamphlet, paper &c. that I thought would be entertain'g and acceptable, but I have had hitherto very little encouragement to proceed. I would have been happy on many See document 3612, page 737. |