[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] commission as lieutenant-colonel in the Fourth Bat-talion of the New York troops, under command of General Montgomery, signed by John Hancock, President of Congress. This acceptance involved many sacrifices; his store, mills and other property were totally lost. The young soldier met, too, with many discouragements. At Newtown his enlisted men, not receiving the clothing promised, marched oil', only returning when Van i Wtlandt agreed to supply all de-ficiencies from his own purse. At Albany he was ob-liged lo borrow funds to pay his men, a mutiny having ■ Sketch or Pierre Van Cortlandt, uj the Ber. I. B. Wakelj, n.n., l,:i.lio»' Hr|«>«i!nl'V, 1>i rt'lilluT, 1X06. '-' oliitimrv notlOe. ■ Sketch l>y Or. Wakely. broken out, in the midst of which, harassed and dis-couraged, there came to him the heavy tidings of the death of his favorite brother Stephen. Spent with fa-tigue and distress, after quelling the mutiny, he fol-lowed the troops to Ticonderoga, where he lay at the