Excerpt from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 1910, Vol. 34 While the British were in possession of the city of Phila delphia we find from Howe's Narrative that, aside from certain provmmal corps raised, they obtained but three troops of light dragoons, consisting of one hundred and thirty-two troopers, and one hundred and seventy-four real volunteers from Jersey, under Colonel Vandyke. From this obscure statement military writers have uniformly re garded these troops as a legionary corps under the com mand of Colonel Vandyke. The exceptional facilities afforded me in my research among the original muster rolls of the British Provincials show that the three troops of light dragoons were independent organizations raised in Pennsylvania. The real volunteers were recruited exclu sively in the lower counties of New Jersey and known as the West Jersey Volunteers, who were commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Vandyke of Somerset County, New Jersey. A brief sketch of these cavalry troops will be of interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.