List and Return of the Companies
Raising in the County of Albany.

1473 NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY, APRIL, 1776 1474
Die Sabbati, 3 ho. P. M., April 27, 1776.
The Committee met pursuant to adjournment.
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1475 NEW-YORK COMMITTEE OF SAFETY, APRIL, 1776 1476
The List and Return of the Companies raising in the County of Albany was read and filed, and is in the words following, to wit:
"Albany, April 11, 1776.
"List of Officers recruiting in the City and County of ALBANY, and the number of Men inlisted for each company.
"Cornelius Van Santvoordt, Captain; Abraham Becker, First Lieutenant; Obadiah Vaughn, Second Lieutenant; David Becker, Ensign.--Eighty-nine men inlisted.
"Samuel Van Veghten, Captain; John Hoogkirk, First Lieutenant; John Ball, Second Lieutenant; Daniel Everts, Ensign.--Forty-seven men inlisted, officers included.
"John H. Wendell, Captain; John C. Ten Broeck, First Lieutenant; John Welch, Second Lieutenant; John Ostrander, Ensign.--Forty-nine men inlisted, officers included.
"Gerrit S. Veeder, Jun., Captain; Solomon Pendleton, First Lieutenant; David Bates, Second Lieutenant; Ephraim Snow, Ensign.--Thirty-eight men inlisted.
"Harman Vossburgh, Captain; Barent Staats, (Salisbury,) First Lieutenant; Isaac Bogert, Second Lieutenant; Silas Howard, Ensign.--Seventy men inlisted, officers included.
"Two Companies in Tryon County. Henry O'Hara, Captain in Charlotte County.
"Colonel Wynkoop.
"Lieutenant-Colonel Cortlandt.
The Committee took the said Letter and Return from the Committee of Albany into consideration;
And thereupon Ordered, That the Companies within mentioned, the two Tryon County Companies, and Captain O'Hara's Company, compose Colonel Wynkoop's Regiment.
And Resolved and Ordered, That Peter V. B. Livingston, Esq., as Treasurer of the Provincial Congress of this Colony, advance to Lieutenant-Colonel Philip Cortlandt the sum of one thousand Pounds (out of the first moneys that shall come into the Treasury) for the recruiting and billeting of Colonel Wynkoop's Regiment; that Lieutenant-Colonel Cortlandt proceed to Albany to forward the recruiting of the said Regiment; that he wait on his excellency, General Washington for such directions as he shall give; and that he call on Colonel Wynkoop in his way for his aid and direction and assistance.
Resolved and Ordered, That Doctor Ebenezer Haviland be, and is hereby, appointed Surgeon to Colonel Wynkoop's Regiment; and that he immediately take the directions of the Field-Officers of the Regiment as to his duty and attendance.
Source:
Force, Peter, American Archives: Consisting of a collection of authentick records, state papers, debates, and letters and other notices of publick affairs, the whole forming a documentary history of the origin and progress of the North American colonies; of the causes and accomplishment of the American revolution; and of the Constitution of government for the United States, to the final ratification thereof., 4th Series, M. St. Clair Clarke and Peter Force, 1837-46, Volume 5, pp. 1473, 1475-1476
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