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provide against such a catastrophe; we are too scarce of powder to do much with artillery. I should be glad in your Honour’s next letter to the General, that you would intimate your willingness that I should take a short tour down and return again, if the service will admit of it. I am, Sir, your Honour’s most humble servant, SAMUEL MOTT. To his Honour Governour Trumbull. New-York, August 4, 1775. Whereas, the Provincial Congress of the Colony of New-York hath resolved and ordered as follows, that is to say: That the New-York Regiment be the First, or senior Regiment of the Troops raised in this Colony, and take rank accordingly; and unanimously approved of Alexander McDougall for Colonel, Rudolphus Ritzema for Lieutenant-Colonel, and Herman Zedtwitz for Major of the First Reginvnt. That Goose Van Schaick’s Regiment be the Second Regiment, and take rank accordingly; and unanimously approved of Goose Van Schaick for Colonel, Peter Yates for Lieutenant-Colonel, and Peter Gansevoort, Jun., for Major of the Second Regiment. That James Chinton’s Regiment be the Third Regiment, and take rank accordingly; and unanimously approved of James Clinton for Colonel, Cornelius D. Wynkoop for Lieutenant-Colonel, and Henry Livingston, Jun., for Major of the Third Regiment. That James Holmes’s Regiment be the Fourth Regiment, and take rank accordingly; and unanimously approved of James Holmes for Colonel, Philip Van Cortlandt for Lieutenant-Colonel, and Barnabas Tuthill for Major of the Fourth Regiment. And whereas the Provincial Congress have appointed a Committee to form and determine the rank of the Captains and inferiour Officers in each Regiment, and of the Captains and inferiour Officers of the several Regiments: The said Committee being, therefore, met to execute the powers to them delegated by the Provincial Congress, unanimously elected Colonel Jacob Blackwell, Chairman of the said Committee, and John McKesson for their Clerk. And the said Committee having maturely and deliberately considered of the rank of the Captains and inferiour Officers in each Regiment, and of the rank of the Captains and inferiour Officers of the several Regiments; do resolve, agree and order, that the officers of each respective Regiment shall take rank and command in their respective Regiments in the order they stand above numbered; and that the Officers of the several Regiments when they serve together, shall take rank and command according to the seniority of their Regiments, and their numbers in their respective Regiments, that is to say, that the first or highest in rank of the first or other senior Regiment present, shall command the officers of equal or inferiour rank of any other Regiment present. That a First Captain in any Regiment shall always command a Second Captain in any other Regiment. That the First Lieutenant of the first Company of the First or other senior Regiment then present, shall command all other Lieutenants present; and the First Lieutenant in any first Company of any Regiment, shall command the First Lieutenant in the second Company of any other Regiment then present; and in the like order throughout the whole of the said four Regiments. By order of the Committee: JACOB BLACKWELL, Chairman.
State of the Four Regiments raised in the Colony of NEW-YORK, for the Continental Service, and the order of their rank. FIRST REGIMENT.
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