[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] month, and that each should receive, as a bounty, a felt hat, a pair of yarn stockings, a pair of shoes, and, if they could be procured, a hunting-shirt and a blanket. On the other hand, the men were to furnish their own arms, or, if too poor to do so, were to be armed at the public expense, the value of their weapons to be deducted from their pay. Concerning this matter of arms, the following explicit statement was made in a circular letter from the president of the provincial congress: "It is expected that each man furnishes him-FROM JANUARY, 1775, TO JULY 9, 177G 325 self with a good gun and bayonet, Tomahawk, knapsack or haver-sack, and two bills. But those who are not able to furnish them-selves with these arms and accoutrements will be supplied at the public expense, for the payment of which small stoppages will be made out of their monthly pay, till the whole are paid for; then they are to remain the property of the men." Little wonder that the rela-tive numbers of officers and volunteer privates were somewhat dispro-portionate. On the 13th of February, 177(5, at a meeting in Harrison's Pre-cinct, a cavalry force was organized, Samuel Tredwell being elected captain. This was the beginning of the well-known Westchester Troop of Horse. About the same time there were various enlistments in