120 The Story of The Bronx 



Jonathan G. Graham, second major; Abraham Emmons, ad- 

 jutant; and Theophilus Bartow, quarter-master. Among the 

 company officers will be found some of the best-known 

 names of the ancient Borough. 



Every man between the ages of fifteen and fifty was obliged 

 to provide himself with a good musket and bayonet, a sword 

 or tomahawk, a cartridge box and belts, twenty-three rounds 

 of cartridges, twelve flints and a knapsack, and to keep himself 

 provided with a pound of gunpowder and three pounds of 

 bullets in reserve; he was also required to parade for drill on 

 the first Monday of each month. All these things he must do 

 at his own expense, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. 

 This, of course, bore very heavily upon the poorer classes, 

 who had much difficulty in feeding and clothing their families. 

 It is not to be wondered at that when De Lancey and others 

 came recruiting and offering bounties, clothes, accoutrements, 

 and good pay in current money, and not in depreciated Con- 

 tinental bills, that these men, with the fear of fine and im- 

 prisonment before their eyes for recalcitrancy in obeying the 

 orders of the Provincial Congress, readily and willingly joined 

 the standards of the loyalist battalions. 



One of these corps was that of the Queen's Rangers, organ- 

 ized by Colonel Robert Rogers of New Hampshire in 1776 

 from the loyalists of Connecticut and Westchester County 

 to the number of four hundred. They afterwards became 

 reduced in numbers; and in the autumn of 1777, after the 

 Battle of the Brandywine, Major Simcoe of the British army, 

 at his own urgent request, was appointed to command them 

 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He soon made them 

 models of order, discipline, and valor. The following adver- 

 tisement from Rivin "ton's Royal Gazetteer will give some idea 

 of the inducements offered to the loyalists: 



