of the Netherlands may
be inculcated and preserved." For further account of the NINE MEN and
the part taken by Arnoldus van Hardenbergh in the affairs of the
colony, see Col. Hist. N.Y.I, 258, 261, 270, 305, 310, 318, 324.

[2] Col. Ritzema was a Hollander by birth, and educated as a soldier
in the Prussian army. Being refused the advancement to which he deemed
himself entitled, he left the American service, but not before he was
suspected of disaffection, if not of treachery. During the battle of
White Plains, where his regiment was engaged, he was some four or five
miles away, and was shortly after displaced from his command. He
subsequently joined the British army.

[3] Col. Van Courtlandt gives the following account of the manner of
his appointment: "This commission was sent by General Washington, by
express, and was of his own direction, having been furnished with
blanks from Congress signed by John Hancock, President, for him to
fill up as he thought proper, appointing me Colonel of the Second New
York Regiment, dated November 30, 1776." _Autobiography, &c. The
Magazine of American History for May, 1878._

[4] Autobiography of General Van Courtlandt.

[5] Mss. in possession of Mr. John H. Osborne, of Auburn, N.Y.

[6] Some accounts make the number even less.

[7] This house was pillaged about the same time, and large quantities
of clothing and vegetables taken by the Indians. One Indian, a chief,
emerged from the scene of plunder, mounted on a horse taken from the
stable, profusely arrayed in stolen apparel, with silver bands about
his arms and a bunch of some forty silver broaches hanging about his
person. He was discovered by some soldiers who were on the alert to
get a shot at the invaders as they were leaving the place, when one
levelled his rifle at him and fired. He was seen to lay over on his
horse, but turning into the woods, disappeared. Some time after, his
body was found near the place where he was shot with his plunder still
about him. _Narrative of Massacres and Depredations in Wawarsing, &c.,
&c., Rondout, 1846._

[8] _Stone's Life of Brant. Narrative of Massacres and Depredations
in Wawarsing, &c., &c._, _Rondout_, 1846.

INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALS.

The following is printed from the original manuscript, in possession
of the family, in the hand-writing of Lieutenant Hardenbergh,
undoubtedly an original journal made by him during the campaign of
General Sullivan against the Indians.