HISTORY OF BROOKLYN. 409

BROOKLYN COMPANY.1—Captain, Joseph Dean;(2) Lieutenants, Chas. J. Doughty and John Spader; Ensign, William A. Mercein.
WALLABOUT AND BUSHWICK COMPANY.3—Captain, Francis Skillman;4 Lieutenants, Joseph Conselyea and Daniel Lott.
GOWANUS COMPANY.—Captain, Peter Cowenhoven, afterward John T. Bergen; Lieutenants, John Lott and Adrian Van Brunt.5
GRAVESEND AND FLATBUSH COMPANIES.—Captain, Jeremiah Lott; Lieutenants, Robert Nicholls(6) and Charles Rapelye; Ensign, Jeremiah Johnson.

This regiment was mustered into the service of the United States, at Bedford, on the 2d of September, 1814, and the men were dismissed to their homes on the 13th of November ensuing.7

The Star, of 28th, remarks: “We take a great satisfaction in mentioning the very orderly deportment of the large body of citizensoldiers now quartered in Brooklyn, towards the inhabitants of the village. The perfect quiet of the village, both of day and night, and even in those parts contiguous to the camp, is honorable to the soldiers and officers. We hope our citizens are not unmindful of this, and will do all in their power to render the situation of the soldiers comfortable. Many of them have come two hundred miles, leaving all the endearments of domestic and social life, and cheerfully put

1 By order of September 14th, Captain Dean, in addition to his own company, received command of those of Captains Stryker and Herbert, to which were attached Lieutenants Doughty, Spader, and Ensign Mercein. A Muster-Roll of this company will be found in Appendix 11.

2 Captain Dean, who is now living, and to whom we an greatly indebted for valuable information relative to the War of 1812, was commissioned Ensign in the Sixty-Fourth Regiment of Kings County Militia, March 18, 1809 ; Captain in same regiment, February 29, 1812; Brigade Major and Inspector of Twenty-Second Brigade, June 21, 1815: commissioned as same Inspector of the Forty-Fourth Brigade, to take rank from former date, July 8, 1816; as Colonel (the first ever commissioned in Kings County, in place of Lieutenant0Colonel) of the SixtyFourth Regiment, March 4, 1817.

3 The Bushwick Company, Captain Van Cott, and Joseph Conselyea, Lieutenant, was consolidated with Captain Skillman’s company.

4 Francis Skillman, appointed Ensign, March 23,1796; Captain, April 7,1807; Major, may 10, 1815.

5 Adrian Van Brunt was first Ensign, then Lieutenant, then Adjutant.

6 Robert Nicholls, the late worthy President of the Brooklyn Gas Company, was made Captain and placed in command of Fort Swift—relieving Captain Spader, then in command.

7 The house of John R. Duryea was designated as the alarm-post of the Sixty-Fourth Regiment.