m long ago, if not
prevented. Only think what daily provocation does.

Jenny joins me in compliments to Mrs. Fonda.

I am, Sir, Your humble servant, Callachie, 15th March, 1777. Helen
McDonell."[125]

Immediately on the arrival of Sir John Johnson in Montreal, with his
party who fled from Johnstown, he was commissioned a Colonel in the
British service. At once he set about to organize a regiment composed of
those who had accompanied him, and other refugees who had followed their
example. This regiment was called the "King's Royal Regiment of New
York," but by Americans was known as "The Royal Greens," probably
because the facings of their uniforms were of that color. In the
formation of the regiment he was instructed that the officers of the
corps were to be divided in such a manner as to assist those who were
distressed by the war; but there were to be no pluralities of
officers,--a practice then common in the British army.

In this regiment, Butler's Rangers, and the Eighty-Fourth, or Royal
Highland Emigrant Regiment also then raised, the Highland gentlemen who
had, in 1773, emigrated to Tryon county, received commissions, as well
as those who had previously had joined the ranks. After the war proper
returns of the officers were made, and from these the following tables
have been extracted. The number of private soldiers of the same name are
in proportion.

"FIRST BATTALION KING'S ROYAL REGIMENT OF NEW YORK.
-------|-------------------|--------|-------|-----------------------------
Rank | NAME |Place of|Service| REMARKS
| |Nativity| |
------------------------------------|-------|-----------------------------
Captain|Alexander Macdonell|Scotland| 8 yrs.|200 acres of land in fee
| (Aberchalder) | | | simple, under Sir John
| | | | Johnson, at yearly annual
| | | | rent of L6 per 100.
Captain|Angus Macdonell |Scotland|25 yrs.|Ensign in 60th Regt., 8th
| | | | July, 1760; Lieut. in
| | | | do. Dec 27, 1770; sold
| | | | out on account of bad
| | | | health, May 22, 1775.
| | | | Had no lands.
Captain|John Macdonell |Scotland| 8 yrs.|Had landed