Note 459 — Chapter II
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Sparks's Corresp. of the Rev., i. 124, 135, 139; Life of Gouverneur Morris, i. 74-88. Already, on Jan. 6, 1776, the provincial congress of New York had organized a company of artillery to defend the colony and guard its records; and March 14, 1776, a student in King's College was made its captain. That organization still exists as Battery F, Fourth Regiment U. S. Artillery. (Asa Bird Gardner, in Mag. of Amer. Hist., 1881, P. 416.)