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That the Treasurer of this Convention be ordered to advance to the said James Stewart 144, in order to enable him to advance the bounty to those he may inlist taking his receipt to account for the same to the Treasurer of this State.

That as soon as the said James Stewart shall have returned to this Convention, or a future Legislature of this State, a regular muster-roll of thirty able-bodied men, duly inlisted, certifying that the said men have been mustered, in the presence of a person to be appointed by the Chairman of the Committee of the City and County of Albany, or of a person to be appointed by the Chairman of the Committee of the City and County of New York, that then, and not before, the said James Stewart shall be authorized to draw upon the Chairman of the Committee of the City and County of Albany for the further sum of 100 in order that he may be enabled to proceed in his inlistment, giving his receipt to account for the same to the Treasurer of this State; and that when the said James Stewart shall have been duly inlisted and mustered, in the presence of a person to be appointed by the Chairman of the Committee of the City and County of Albany, the whole of his Company, or as many as he can inlist, and then he shall be ent.i.tled to receive of the said Chairman of the County Committee the remaining proportion of bounty due to the non-commissioned officers and privates which he shall have inlisted.

That if the said James Stewart shall not be able to complete the inlistment of this Company, that he shall make a report of the same, with all dispatch, to the President of this Convention, or to a future Legislature, who will either order his Commission to issue, or make such further provision for his trouble in recruiting as the equity of the case shall require.

That the Treasurer of this Convention be ordered to remit into the hands of John Barclay, Esquire, of the City of Albany, the sum of 288, on or before the last day of December next, in order to enable him to make unto the said James Stewart the disburs.e.m.e.nts aforesaid.

That the said James Stewart shall be authorized to engage to each man the sum of 7s. per week, billeting money, till such time as further provision is made for the subsistence of his recruits.

That the said Company, when raised, shall be either employed as an independent Company, or incorporated into any Battallion as to this Convention, or to a future proper authority of this State, shall appear advisable."[204]

There is no evidence that this action of the Convention terminated in any thing tangible. There was a James Stewart, captain of the third company, in the Fifth regiment of the New York Line, and while there was a large percentage in that regiment bearing Highland names, yet Captain Stewart's company had but five. It is not to be a.s.sumed that the two names represented the same person.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 196: _Ibid_, Vol. XI, p. 370.]

[Footnote 197: American Archives, Fourth Series, Vol. V, p. 495.]

[Footnote 198: Colonial Records of Penna., Vol. IX, p. 111.]

[Footnote 199: _Ibid._]

[Footnote 200: See Loskiel's Hist. Indian Mission, Book II, Chapter XVI.

Schweinitz's Life of Zeisberger, Chap, XV.]

[Footnote 201: North Carolina Colonial Records, Vol. VIII, p. 620.]

[Footnote 202: _Ibid_, p. 621.]

[Footnote 203: N.C. Colonial Records, Vol. IX, p. 303.]

[Footnote 204: American Archives, Fifth Series, Vol. I, p. 1441.]

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