even after 1781 when james livingston's regiment was demobilized anybody left over from that as well as other foreign recruits and soldiers joined hazen's regiment and it became known as the canadian old regiment, but let me tell you. not the name that's in the pension accounts hazen's regiment congress's own is usually what you see they they picked up on that identity. so this leads me into the other one that i want to talk about is this is how we get sergeant major john h hawkins. is that they are recruiting among all of these other camps and garrison's up in the new york area. they are sending recruiting officers down here into pennsylvania into these other states to the point where we've got soldiers from 11 of the states in the regiments. the only ones we don't have is i haven't found anybody from south carolina or georgia in this regiment, but they've got somebody from every other state. so we've got this tremendously unique. regiment that was called canadian was called congress's own but in some ways is a microcosm of the continental army itself. is that within its companies a

they were joining us and the first regiment or the first canadian was by james livingston who had already been in action up there so he got the first canadian and moses hazen got the second canadian. to give you a little bit of back ground on moses hazen he had been in the seven years war and he had actually gotten a commission with the 44th regiment of foot which led him to retire in the montreal region and right around st. john in canada itself. here was an american who did get a british commission as opposed to washington who did not. and hazen was actually really important about which way he was going to go in this conflict. for his service in the seven-year war, he was there on the border lands if you can see it in canada along st. john's south of montreal. would he give up that pension? would he give up those lands to join in this american rebellion? at first he wasn't sure. he was really on the fence in those border lands which way he was going to go. ultimately he could create his own regiment and he had command of that, the second canadian regiment in this case. hazen is not the

the first regimen, or the first canadian, was by james livingston, who had already been an action up there, so he was the first canadian, and moses hayden got the second canadian. to give you a background on moses hayden, he had originally been a rogers rangers during the seven years'war, and then he had actually gotten a commission with the 44th regiment of foot, which ultimately led him to retire in the montreal region and ride around saint-jean in canada itself. so i'd like to point this out, here was an american who did get a british commission as opposed to washington who did not. his inaction was really torn about which way he was going to go. he was getting a pension from the british government for his service during the seven years'war, he was right there on the borderlands, you can see it up there, in st-jean, south of montreal. would he give up those lands, that pension, to join in this american rebellion? at first, he wasn't sure. he was really on the fence on the borderlands, which way was he going to go. ultimately, at the, and of course, as we know, he decided to join w