408 HISTORY OF BROOKLYN.

Ferry, crossed the North River, and passed through this city to Brooklyn Ferry, before one o’clock this morning. They had several bands of wind and military music, with flags, and a label on each hat, ‘Don’t give up the soil,’ and proceeded to work on the fortifications at Brooklyn with an alacrity truly admirable and commendable. Such an instance of patriotic enthusiasm in the inhabitants of a neighboring State, from a distance of seven miles, cannot be too highly appreciated or recorded in terms too honorable to the zeal and disinterestedness of our fellow-citizens of New Jersey. Newark will forever live in the grateful remembrance of the people of New York.”

Wednesday, September 7th. One hundred and eighty-four inhabitants of Hanover Township, Morris County, New Jersey, principally, however, from the village of Parsippany, headed by their pastor, Rev. Mr. Phelps, came over to Brooklyn and labored upon the defenses there.

September 23d. The members of the Baptist Church in Mulberry street, New York, under the lead of their eloquent pastor, the Rev. Archibald McClay, rendered an efficient day’s work.

By the early part of September, the fortifications whose construction we have thus traced from day to day, were nearly completed, and mounted with heavy artillery. Within the lines was stationed the Twenty-Second Brigade of Infantry, 1,750 strong, composed of the militia of Kings and Queens Counties (the Sixty-Fourth, Ninety-Third, One Hundredth, and One Hundredth and Seventeenth), under command of Brigadier-General Jeremiah Johnson of Brooklyn. They were encamped in front of Fort Greene, along the present line of Hudson street. Kings County furnished the Sixty-Fourth Regiment, composed of five companies, of one hundred men each, officered as follows:

Major, Francis Titus, Commanding.
Second Major, Albert C. Van Brunt.
Adjutant, Daniel Barre.
Quartermaster, Albert Van Brunt.
Surgeon, Schoonmaker.
NEW UTRECHT COMPANY.—Captain, William Denyse; Lieutenants, Barcalo, Vanhise ; Ensign Suydam.