 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1830 - 632 pages
...army. The confidence which was reposed in bis character ma} 254 be estimated by his appointment as captain-commandant of the four regiments levied for...protection of the western frontiers of the counties of Ulster and Orange, a post of great responsibility and danger, by which he was intrusted with the... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - United States - 1839 - 934 pages
...York. He displayed an early inclination for a military life, and held successively several offices in the militia and provincial troops. During the French...protection of the western frontiers of the counties of Ulster j"^ Orange. In 1775, he was appointed colonel of the third regiment of New York .forces,... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1842 - 586 pages
...York. He displayed an early inclination for a military life, and held successively several offices in the militia and provincial troops. During the French...protection of the western frontiers of the counties of Ulster and Orange. In 1775, he was appointed colonel of the third regiment of New York forces, and... | |
 | Grenville Mellen - United States - 1843 - 866 pages
...York. He displayed an early inclination for a military life, and held successively several offices in the militia and provincial troops. During the French...the appointment of captain-commandant of the four regiment?. levied for the protection of the western frontiers of the counties of Ulster anil Orange.... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 582 pages
...York. He displayed an -early inclination for a' military life, and held successively several offices in the militia and provincial troops. During the French...protection of the western frontiers of the counties of Ulster and Orange. In 1 775, he was . appointed colonel of the third regiment of New York forces,... | |
 | M. Sears - Statesmen - 1844 - 596 pages
...captain-commandant of the four regiments levied for the protection of the western frontiers of the counties of Ulster and Orange. In 1775, he was appointed colonel of the third regiment of New York forces, and in the same year marched with Montgomery to Quebec. During the war? he rendered eminent services to... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Biography - 1849 - 544 pages
...inclination for a military life, and held sucfe»ivtly several offices in the militia and provincial troop§. During the French war he exhibited many proofs of...captain-commandant of the four regiments levied for fte protection of the western frontiers of the counties Ulster and Orange. In 1775 he was appointed... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 640 pages
...army. The confidence which wns reposed in his character may 255 be estimated by his appointment as captain-commandant of the four regiments levied for...protection of the western frontiers of the counties of Ulster and Orange, a post of great responsibility and danger, by which he was intrusted with the... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Governors - 1851 - 910 pages
...Side by side, hand in hand, with his brother George, he entered into the contest. In the summer of 1775, he was appointed colonel of the third regiment of New York troops raised by order of the continental congress. This regiment formed part of the army which invaded... | |
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He displayed an early inclination for a military life, and held successively several offices in the militia and provincial troops. During the French war, he exhibited many proofs of courage, and received the appointment of captain-commandant of the four... 
