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Joseph Stratton, captain; Daniel Burr, lieutenant; Walter Lyon, ensign, of light infantry.
Freeman Austin, captain; John Winn, lieutenant; Daniel Smead, ensign; John Vanwaggennen, captain; George Sands, junior, lieu- tenant; Jolin Shaver, ensign, in Middletown-two companies.
Jonathan Sheldon, captain, vice Hugh Sloan, promoted; Robert Harris, lieutenant, vice Jno Denniston, declines and turned preacher ; Levi Bartlett, ensign.
Henry Burghardt, captain, vice A. Harper, removed; Elisha War- ner, lieutenant; Abner Graves, ensign, vice A. Hoaghtalin, declines.
Levi Gaylord, captain, vice D. Hendry, declines; Jedediah Gay- lord, lieutenant, vice J. Pachin, removed; Matthew Lindsley, ensign.
Archibald Burgis, captain; Aaron Blish, lieutenant; Isaac Gold, ensign; John Lamb, captain; Joseph Hurd. lieutenant; James Grant, junior, ensign, in Stamford-two companies.
Abraham Gold, captain; Solomon Parsons, lieutenant; Samuel Merrill, ensign; Benjamin Frisbee, captain; Zachariah Snyder, lieu- tenant; Edward Vermille, ensign, in Roxbury-two companies.
Bailey Foot, adjutant, vice J. Mack, promoted; Asa Emmons, quartermaster: Roswell Hotchkiss, paymaster; Henry Marshall, surgeon.
RENSSELAER COUNTY. .
Timothy Graves, lieutenant colonel commandant of a regiment, having (irregularly) resigned, his resignation is accepted.
Jacob A. Fort, lieutenant colonel commandant of said regiment.
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COLUMBIA COUNTY.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Charles McKinstrey's regi- ment:
Captain John Taylor, Lieutenant John Castorer, Ensign Asa Vir- gil, and Major Samuel Mallory having (regularly) resigned, their resignations are accepted.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Palmer Cady's regiment:
Captain Samuel Hudson, and Captain Abel Bristol, having regu- larly) resigned, their resignations are accepted.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jacob Rutsen Van Rensse- laer's regiment:
Captain Bartle Hendricks, Captain John Van Deursen and Lieu- tenant David Bonestale having (regularly) resigned, their resigna- tions are accepted.
CLINTON AND ESSEX* COUNTIES.
Nathaniel Z. Platt, inspector of General Melancton Lloyd Wool- sey's brigade, to serve also as brigade major with the rank of a major.
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ESSEX COUNTY.
In Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Ross' regiment:
Delevan Dillelance (Delance), junior, adjutant, vice T. Stowers, appointed sheriff.
Edmond Shelden, captain; John Hoffnagle, junior, lieutenant; Jesse Watson, ensign, of light infantry.
Richard Egglestone, ensign, vice J. Hoffnagle, junior, promoted.
Alexander Hay, captain; William Kirby, lieutenant; Moses Searls, ensign, of a new company at Crown Point.
Hezekiah Barber, captain; Thomas Hinckley, lieutenant; James Vaughn, ensign.
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CLINTON COUNTY.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Benjamin Mooers' regiment:
William Bailey, first major, vice B. Mooers, promoted; George Marsh, second major; Adiel Peabody, adjutant, vice N. H. Tred- well, removed.
Robert Cochran, captain; John Roberts, lieutenant; Isaac S. Pratt, ensign, of a new company formed at Salmon river.
George W. Platt, captain; Benjamin Roberts, lieutenant; Jesse Ketchum, ensign, of a new company.
Captain Kinner Newcomb, Captain John Stephenson, Lieutenant Elnathan Rogers, Lieutenant William P. Platt and Lieutenant Asa Adgate of the last mentioned regiment, having (irregularly) resigned, their resignations are accepted.
In the troop of horse in Brigadier General Melancton Lloyd Woolsey's brigade:
William Coe, captain, vice Geo. Marsh, promoted, and Charles Dunham, first lieutenant, vice W. Coe, promoted.
RENSSELAER COUNTY.
In a troop of horse in Brigadier General Henry K. Van Rensse- laer's brigade:
Roswell Halstead, cornet of Captain (Samuel) Milliman's troop, vice Harper Rogers, promoted.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant James Newcomb's regiment:
Tunis Veile, ensign, vice G. Van Antwerp, disabled; Ezekiel Has- den, ensign, vice S. Stearns, removed.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Dirck 'Lane's regiment:
Nathan Adams, adjutant, vice Wm W. Wands, removed; Joshua Burnham, quartermaster, vice P. Defreast, declines.
David Coon, ensign, vice H. Springer, removed.
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In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Nicholas Staats' regiment:
Lieutenant Martin Van Beuren having (irregularly) resigned, his resignation is accepted.
Cornelius Schermerhorne, adjutant, vice N. Kittle, promoted.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Hezekiah Hull's regiment:
Zebulon Scriven, captain, vice C. Terry, removed; Thomas West, lieutenant, vice Z. Scriven, promoted: Elkanah Smith, junior, ensign, vice T. West, promoted.
Silas Maxson, captain, vice C. Green, removed; William Sweet, lieutenant, vice S. Maxon, promoted; Jonathan Irish, ensign, vice WV. Sweet, promoted; Freeborn Burlinggame, ensign, vice D. Spen- cer, removed.
In the troop of horse formerly commanded by Captain Jeremiah Landon in Brigadier General Henry K. Van Rensselaer's brigade:
Winthrop Root, captain, vice J. Landon, removed: Stephen B. Hull, first lieutenant, vice R. Brockway, removed; Benjamin M. Dyer, second lieutenant, vice W. Root, promoted; Amasa Adams, cornet.
In view of the alarming possibilities of war with France, Governor Jay, shortly after his second term as governor had begun, called an extraordinary session of the legislature, which opened August 9, 1798, and lasted until August 27th. National subjects only were considered by the governor in his address and by the legislature in their deliberations. Necessary legislation was enacted for the pro- tection of the State. The regular session of the legislature began January 2, 1799. The Council of Appointment selected were: William Denning of New York, Republican; and Ebenezer Foote of Rensselaer. Ebenezer Clark of Ulster, and John Frey of Mont-
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gomery, Federalists. The Republicans undertook by legislative enactment to change the mode of selecting presidential electors by transferring the power from the legislature to the people direct, the State to be divided into districts with that object in view. The bill passed the Assembly, where the Republicans predominated, but was rejected in the Senate, which was controlled by the Federalists, who regarded the measure purely as a political expedient to enable the Republicans to obtain a part of the electoral college in the presi- dential election of 1800. A rider which abolished the great sen- atorial districts and provided for the election of Senators from sepa- rate districts, after the system now (1901) followed, died with the original bill.
In the same manner the celebrated Virginia and Kentucky resolu- tions, drawn by James Madison, as a protest against the alien and sedition laws and other unpopular concomitants of President Adams' administration, were disposed of. The Republican Assembly adopted and the Federal Senate repudiated these resolutions. Another act which has made this session of the legislature a memo- rable one, was that for " supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome water." Colonel Aaron Burr was the progenitor of this scheme; drafted the bill and personally was responsible for its passage through the legislature. Under this innocent caption the legislature chartered the Manhattan Bank of New York, a fact not generally known until after the governor signed the bill.
This demonstration of political charlatanry produced an effect on the election for members of the legislature of 1800 disastrous to the party and to the men who engineered the scheme. The secret became known shortly before the election, and Colonel Burr, who had been selected to lead the Republican ticket in New York-where his party had been uniformly successful for the two preceding
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years-went down in the general ruin. Charges were made in pam- phlets and the newspapers of the day, in effect that a large number of the members of the legislature had been deceived into voting for the bank bill under the delusion that it only proposed to insure New York city with a much needed water supply; while partisans hoped that the new corporation, with its vast influence, could be utilized by Colonel Burr as a powerful political machine to assist friends and to injure opponents. After the spring election of 1799-when the legislature was chosen for the year 1800-the Federalists neu- tralized a great deal of the effect of their victory by rigorous prose- cutions of Republicans for alleged violations of the alien and sedition laws.
It was under circumstances of this kind, with the shadow of the death of Washington hanging over it, that the, legislature started the session of 1800 on January 28th. Dirck Ten Broeck was re-elected Speaker. February 5th the new Council of Appointment was chosen: Samuel Haight of Westchester, Robert. Sands of Washington, James Gordon of Saratoga, and Thomas R. Gold of Oneida, all Federalists.
April 8th the legislature adjourned to the first Tuesday in November. The result of the election in April, however, discom- fited the Federalists, who had carried the legislature so trium- phantly the year before. The Republicans were surprisingly suc- cessful, and their victory in the State and nation practically insured the election of Thomas Jefferson as President the following year. The term of the legislature then in existence would expire June 30th. The Federalists were in the majority. If the legislature could be convened in extraordinary session, and a bill passed to divide the State into districts for the election of presidential electors by the people, the Federalists were reasonably certain of electing
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four of their representatives, thus allowing the Republicans but eight votes instead of twelve, which the latter would inevitably secure were the matter left to the legislature. On the face of the returns after the April election in 1800 Jefferson could safely rely upon 73 votes, including the twelve votes from New York, if chosen by the legislature, while seventy votes only were necessary to a choice in the electoral college. But if a special session of the existing legislature were called and the expedient as proposed were adopted, Jefferson could control only sixty-nine votes, and his election would be defeated. Alexander Hamilton was the one man in the State capable of inspiring such a plot and the one Federalist with audacity enough to manipulate it. Accordingly, after a conference with a number of his partisan friends, he addressed a letter to Governor Jay urging him to call the legislature together before the expira- tion of his term, to convert his scheme into a law of the State. Gov- ernor Jay declined to lend the power of his office to the conspirators. He wrote this indorsement on the back of Hamilton's letter : " Pro- posing a measure for party purposes, which I think it would not become me to adopt."
The new legislature assembled November 4, 1800. In the Assembly Samuel Osgood, of New York. a Republican, was chosen . Speaker. The Senate elected Federalist and the Assembly Repub- lican electors. On joint ballot, however, the Republicans named the twelve electors by twenty-two majority. The day before adjournment, on November 7th, a Republican offered a resolution for the election of a new Council of Appointment. The Federalists opposed the motion and used the Republican argument of 1794, when the Federalists, then in majority, curtailed the time limit of the then Republican council, in effect that the existing Council had not held office for a year. The resolution, however, was adopted
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and the new Council was thereupon chosen: DeWitt Clinton of Queens, Ambrose Spencer of Columbia, Robert Roseboom of Otsego, and John Sanders of Schenectady; the latter was the only Federalist of the four.
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Palmer Cady's regiment: Ammi Doubleday, second major, vice Sam'l Jones, resigned. Hezekiah Patchin, captain, vice A. Doubleday, promoted; Josiah Patterson, lieutenant, vice H. Patchen, promoted; Asahel King, junior, ensign, vice J. Patterson, promoted; Abel Abbot, junior, ensign.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Brigadier General Henry Wisner's brigade:
In Captain Geo. D. Wickham's troop of horse: Benjamin S. Carpenter, cornet, vice Jacob Vanderhoof, removed.
NEW YORK COUNTY.
Nicholas De Peyster, junior, paymaster in Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jacob Morton's regiment in the city of New York, having regularly resigned, his resignation is accepted.
Peter Kettletas, ensign in Lieutenant Colonel Commandant William Boyd's regiment, New York city, having (regularly) resigned, his resignation is accepted.
Captain John Cheeseman and Lieutenant Jabeslı Pell of the Fourth New York regiment having (regularly) resigned, their resig- nations are accepted.
KINGS COUNTY.
Captain Nicholas Boerum of Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Aquila Giles' regiment having (regularly) resigned, his resignation is accepted.
DUTCHESS COUNTY.
Major David Hamlin of Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Edmund Parlee's regiment having (irregularly) resigned, his resig- nation is accepted.
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ULSTER COUNTY.
Captain Joseph Hasbrouck of Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Philip De Bevier's regiment having (regularly) resigned, his resig- nation is accepted.
DUTCHESS COUNTY.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Benjamin Noxon's regiment:
Benjamin Hackston, paymaster, vice G. L. Vanderburgh, promoted.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant John B. Van Wyck's regiment :
Benjamin Hasbrook, second major, vice R. Adriance, resigned.
Coert Horton, captain, vice B. Hasbrook, promoted; Hendrick Hulst, lieutenant, vice C. Horton, promoted; Zachariah Flagler, ensign, vice H. Hulst, promoted.
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Samuel Ten Broeck's regiment :
John B. Ten Eyck, captain, vice J. Schermerhorne, removed; Peter P. Ham, lieutenant, vice J. B. Ten Eyck, promoted; John T. Miller, ensign, vice G. T. P. Snyder, removed; Abraham Millet, ensign, vice P. P. Ham, promoted.
In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Charles Mckinstry's regi- ment:
[Appointment suspended] William Tanner, second major, vice S. Mallory, resigned; Samuel Osborne, ensign, vice J. Platt, resigned.
[Appointment suspended] Jonah Butler, captain, vice W. Tan- ner, promoted; Bartholomew Williams, lieutenant, vice J. Castorer, resigned; Levi Hatch, ensign, vice A. Virgil, resigned.
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Solomon Hutcheson, captain, vice J. Taylor, resigned; Ira Law- rence, lieutenant, vice D. Taylor, deaf; Belley Semor (Bela Sey- mour), ensign, vice S. Hutcheson, promoted.
In Captain John Whiting's troop of horse in Brigadier General Henry Livingston's brigade: Dan Throop, first lieutenant, vice N. Dryer, removed; Charles Mckinstry, second do, vice D. Throop, promoted; Levy Parse, cornet, vice C. Mckinstry, promoted.
RENSSELAER COUNTY.
ORDERED, that the secretary be directed to obtain from the 1500. January 18.
attorney general a report in the case of John Keating, captain of the artillery company in the village of Lansingburgh, referred to him by a resolution of this Council of the 29th August, 1798, and lay the same before the Council.
NEW YORK COUNTY.
In the Sixth regiment-Jacob Morton, lieutenant colonel commandant:
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Jacob Bradford, first major; Jacob De Lamontagne, second major; Isaac Heyer, third major; Francis Arden, fourth major.
Peter Augustus Jay, first adjutant; William Paulding, junior, second adjutant; Aaron Levy, paymaster; Bernard Hart, quarter- master; John R. B. Rodgers, first surgeon; David Hosack, second surgeon; James Stringham, first surgeon's mate.
First company-Francis Saltus, captain; John Forsyth, lieuten- ant; Alexander Campbell, ensign.
Second company-William De Forest, captain; Samuel Watson, lieutenant; John Bleecker, ensign.
Third-Edward W. Laight, captain; Benjamin R. Seaman, lieu- tenant; Alexander Bleecker, ensign.
Fourth-John Marschalck, captain; William H. Shipman, lieu- tenant.
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Fifth-Charles Watkins. captain; Simon Fleet, lieutenant; Henry, Ackerman, ensign.
Sixth-John Wells, captain; Thomas Ustick, lieutenant; Anthony Bleecker, ensign.
Seventh-William Richardson, captain; James Palmer, lieutenant; Juan F. Lewis, ensign.
Eighth-Samuel Jones, junior, captain; John W. Mulligan, lieu- tenant; Lewis Jones, ensign.
Ninth-Andrew Anderson, captain; William Paulding, junior, lieutenant; Thomas Phoenix, ensign.
Tenth-George J. Eaker, captain; Joseph Constant, lieutenant; Theophilus Bartow, ensign.
Eleventh-Lebbius Loomis, captain; George Richards, lieuten- ant; Stephen Tillinghast, ensign.
Twelfth-Henry Hunt, captain; Charles Adams, lieutenant; Colin V. G. Forbes, ensign.
Thirteenth-William Whitehead, captain: Samuel A. Lawrence, lieutenant; Henry Hilman, ensign.
Fourteenth-Andrew Sitcher, captain; John M. Smith, lieutenant; John Menuse, ensign.
Fifteenth-William Armstrong, captain: Edward Moore, lieuten- ant; Martin Hoffman, ensign.
Sixteenth-John F. Ellis, captain: Charles Snowden. lieutenant; James W. Brandt, ensign.
RESOLVED, that such of the above named officers as are now appointed to command in the said Sixth regiment as have hereto- fore had military commissions in the brigade shall take relative rank according to the grades and dates thereof respectively.
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RANK OF ADJUTANTS, QUARTERMASTERS AND PAYMASTERS.
RESOLVED, that all adjutants of regiments and who by law have rank of lieutenants shall be promoted to the rank of all the superior grades successively in the regiment according to the dates of their ' respective commissions of adjutants, or according to the dates of their prior commissions of lieutenants or captains in the brigade in case they shall have had such prior commissions-and when an adjutant shall rank as eldest captain and the place of second major be vacant, he shall (if in other respects proper and qualified) on the principle of senior rank be appointed to fill that vacancy and take command accordingly;
RESOLVED, that in all cases where a quartermaster or paymaster has been or shall be taken from among the commissioned officers of the line he shall, on the principle of rank. have the same title to promotion as if he had remained in the line.
SCHOHARIE COUNTY.
Whereas Jeremiah Loucks was on the 14th January last appointed an ensign in the regiment of militia in the county of Scho- harie commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Peter Swart. and it appears from the representation of the adjutant general that the said Loucks does not reside within the beat of the company for which he was appointed, RESOLVED, that the said Jeremiah Loucks be no longer an ensign in the said regiment and that no commission be issued to him.
RENSSELAER COUNTY.
RESOLVED, that Nicholas Staats be no longer lieutenant colonel of a regiment of militia in the county of Rensselaer and that he be superseded accordingly: Resolved, that Major Nicholas Van Rensse- laer, be and he is hereby appointed lieutenant colonel commandant
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of the regiment of militia in the county of Rensselaer in the place of Nicholas Staats superseded.
5. 1800. April
In Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Van Rensselaer's regiment:
The resignations of Aaron Ostrander, second major, and Abner Newton and Philip Staats, captains, are hereby accepted.
James McKown, first major.
1800. . April 9. In Lieutenant Colonel Commandant Jacob A. Fort's regiment: Joseph Dorr, first major, vice Nich's Snyder, declines serving; Richard Coval, second major, vice Jacob A. Fort, promoted.
Edmund Haynes, captain, vice Jos Dorr, promoted; John Matti- son, lieutenant, vice E. Haynes, promoted; Nathaniel Bishop, ensign, vice J. Mattison, promoted.
Ebenezer Cross, captain, vice R. Coval, promoted; Caleb Witford, lieutenant, vice E. Cross, promoted; John Haynes, ensign, vice C. Witford, promoted.
Robert Wood, captain, vice Joseph Martin, removed; Gideon Gif- ford, lieutenant, vice' R. Wood, promoted; John Read, ensign, vice G. Gifford, promoted; Barent Salisbury, ensign, vice John Bovie, resigned.
Nicholas Ten Broeck, adjutant, vice T. Comstock, promoted; Cor- nelius Van Vechten, paymaster, vice D. Van Rensselaer, deceased.
WHEREAS it appears from the report of the adjutant general, that the company of light infantry attached to Lieutenant Colonel Jacob A. Fort's regiment in the county of Rensselaer, commanded by John Brice, captain, Luke Frink, lieutenant, and Samuel Crary, ensign, has never been compleated nor has appeared on the regimental parade for three years past, RESOLVED, that the said company be and is hereby disbanded and returned to the said regiment and the commissions of the said officers of the said company be and they are hereby revoked and annulled.
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In Brigadier General Henry K. Van Rensselaer's brigade:
Roswell Halstead, cornet of a troop of horse, vice Harper Rogers, promoted.
RESIGNATIONS-NEW YORK COUNTY.
The following officers in Brigadier General James M. Hughes' brigade having (regularly) resigned, to wit:
Bernardus Swartwout, junior, lieutenant colonel commandant; Whitehead Fish, first major; Gabriel Furman, major; John A. Wolfe, Richard Duryee, John Cheeseman, Leonard Kip and John Divine, captains; Isaac Ter Boss, captain; Beekman Van Beuren, lieutenant; Francis Arden, major; John Marschalk, captain; John B. Brooks and Alexander Phoenix, ensigns; RESOLVED, that their res- ignations be accepted.
Nathaniel Pendleton, captain of riflemen in the said brigade, hav- ing (irregularly) resigned, his resignation is accepted.
SUFFOLK AND KINGS COUNTIES.
Gershom Brown, captain in Colonel Nicoll Floyd's regiment in Suffolk county, and John Voorhees, captain in Colonel Aquila Giles' regiment in Kings county having (regularly) resigned, RESOLVED, that their resignations be accepted.
ORANGE AND DUTCHESS COUNTIES.
The following officers having regularly resigned, to wit: Captain Enoch Jackson and John Willing, adjutant in Colonel (David) McCambly's regiment; Charles Howell, captain of a troop in Orange; Levi Van Etten, captain, and Uriah Terry, captain, in Colonel (Reuben) Hopkins' regiment; Jacob Lewis, ensign in Colonel (Seth) Marvin's regiment; John Penny, captain, and Stiles Peet, adjutant in Colonel Jonathan Crane's regiment (Dutchess);
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WESTERN DIVISION.
John Fondey, junior, paymaster; David Fonda, quartermaster, and Harmanus P. Schuyler, captain, in Colonel Jno. H. Wendell's regi- ment (Albany); and Salmon Lusk, ensign; Spencer Briggs, lieu- tenant, and Kirkland Griffen, captain, in Colonel (George) Doo- little's regiment (Herkimer); John Lamb, captain in Colonel H. Olcott's regiment (Onondaga); Elias Smith, lieutenant in Colonel Uriah Gregory's regiment (Saratoga); Daniel Nickerson, lieutenant in Major (Timothy) Moore's (Morse) battalion (Otsego); John Dunbar, ensign in Colonel (Francis) Henry's regiment (Otsego); John Freleigh, captain in Colonel G. Hale's regiment (Albany and Ulster); Captain George Stimson and Ensign Ambrose Norton in Colonel J. Holcomb's regiment (Albany); John Winn, major; Peter Dunkel, Martin G. Van Alstyne, John Roof and Charles Powel, captains in Colonel (Robert) McFarlan's regi- ment (Montgomery); Andrew Davison, ensign in Colonel (George) Wedderick's regiment (Herkimer); Richard Copper- noll, major; George Waggoner, Nicholas Van Slyck, cap- tains, in Colonel (Charles) Newkirk's regiment (Montgomery); . Hezekiah Mattison, in Colonel (John T.) Visscher's regi- ment (Montgomery); Thomas Rockwell, ensign in Colonel (Leonard) Bronk's regiment (Albany); Nicholas Hanson, John N. Veeder, captains, and Wilhelmus Brower, ensign, in Colonel (Abra- ham) Veeder's regiment (Montgomery); Saml Thompson, ensign in Major (John) Lincklaen's battalion (Chenango); Matthew R. Van- denberglı, captain in Colonel (Derick) Lane's regiment (Rensselaer); Major Ichabod Palmer, in Colonel (John T.) Visscher's regiment (Montgomery);
EASTERN DISTRICT.
Samuel Hudson, captain in Colonel Palmer Cady's regiment (Columbia): Asa Hamlin, captain in Colonel Chas. Mckinstry's
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regiment (Columbia); John Wigram, captain in Colonel (Samuel) Ten Broeck's regiment (Columbia); John Chase, captain in Colonel (Charles) Mckinstry's regiment (Columbia). Resolved, that their resignations be and they are hereby accepted.
MIDDLE DIVISION.
The following officers having (irregularly) resigned, to wit:
James Hasbrouck, paymaster, past 45 years old; Conradt Ed. Elmendorf, adjutant, attorney of the district, of Colonel (Moses) Cantine's regiment (Ulster); John Van Leuven, Henry Freligh, captain in the above regiment. RESOLVED, that their resignations be accepted.
Captain Joseph Williamson, of Colonel Jno Tillotson's regiment (Cayuga); Lieutenant Andrew Clapsaddle, of artillery, General (Michael) Myers' brigade (Herkimer): Cornet James Creamer, in (Stephen) Ball's company, General (James) Gordon's brigade (Sara- toga); Captain Zachariah Comstock, in Colonel (Daniel) Ross' regiment (Essex); Captain Jonathan 'Harris, of artillery in General (John) Williams' brigade (Washington); Captain Henry Kilmer, of Colonel Chas. Kane's regiment (Washington). having irregularly resigned, RESOLVED, that their resignations be accepted.
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