Sec also July 13, 1780. •September 28; October 30, 1778; January 12; February 22, 1779. • Octol>cr 1, 31, 1778. • Voter and Proceedings of the Assembly. First session. Kingston: John Holt. 1777. p. 15. 'June 24. 1778; May 27, 1779. •September 14. 1778.

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counties. 1 A tory from Hartford, Conn., who held a major's commission in the British service, was sent from Northampton jail by the council of Massachusetts to be confined by the Albany board, and was released on December i, 1778, on a

bond of £1,000, because the board believed he had undergone " Imprisonment sufficiently long". An ensign from Sir John Johnson's corps apprehended at Danby, in Charlotte County, was brought before the Albany board, and was

examined and committed. 3 In a letter to Massachusetts, about a person concealed somewhere near Worcester, the board requested that the man be " instantly apprehended if possible " and sent to Albany. 4 A prisoner confined by a court martial was brought before the board, examined, discharged and given a pass to go to Hartford, Conn. 5 A number of persons were captured by the Oneida Indians and were sent to the board. They were examined and discharged forthwith, with or without bail, in virtually every case.®

Women as well as men were sent to prison. 7 On April 20, 1778, the board protested to the commanding officer against the undue liberty granted to prisoners in the garrison. Six months later Governor Clinton wrote the board that he had learned that patriot prisoners were being treated with less rigor than formerly by the British, and requested that certain tory prisoners in Albany " be released from their present