[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] This document he subsequently destroyed, and re-ceived in lieu thereof a lieutenant colonel's commission in the Con-tinental service, bearing dale June, 1775, signed John Hancock, COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. 59 President of Congress. He continued to hold the above com-mand in the 4th New York recrinient until November the 28th, 1776, when lie received from General Washington a colonel's commission in the 2d New York regiment. In this capacity he served at the battles of Stillwater and Saratoga. In both of these actions the New York regiment suffered severely. In the winter of 1778 he was ordered to protect the frontiers against the depre-dations of Brant, the Indian chief, who had destroyed much va-luable property and murdered several of the defenceless inhabi-tants. In pursuance of these orders Col. van Corllandt marched to Laghawack, where he posted his command. Soon afterwards havinof received fresh orders from the commander-in-chief, he was on the eve of marchino; when Brant, supposing he had left the neighborhood, prematurely set fire to an adjoining village. The colonel immediately started his whole command in hot pur-suit. Upon the first tidings, however, of their approach, Brant fled to the neighboring hills. In his diary Gen. Philip van Cort-landt remarks, "As I approached him (Brant) he being on the hills, and seeing me leaning against a pine tree waiting for the closing up of my men, ordered a rifle Indian to kill me, but for-tunately he over-shot me, tlte.