Mathew Aerson, ferryman, was granted £8 17s q.d., for services in ferrying Ryley's company across the Hudson River at various times. The full pay-roll was presented by Ryley on September 18, and amounted, "from the Time of their Inlistment being the 11V 1 May 1778 till 2o9 Day of July now last past," to £460 1 8s. 4d., part of which, as already shown, was paid before on account. He was also paid a gratuity for apprehending a person who committed a robbery. 1

The Albany board continued to employ rangers or militia detachments -- a practice not uncommon among the boards throughout the State, as is witnessed by pay-bills or vouchers yet in existence. On May 18, 1779, the Albany commissioners ordered the payment of an account of £25, presented by Captain Stephen Hayt, for bringing from Claverack to Albany the company of Captain Smith's rangers, together with a number of robbers and tories. On the 27th of the same month, the board made out instructions for a volunteer company of rangers, raised by the inhabitants of the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, residing on the east side of the Hudson, to be commanded by Captain Jacob De Forest, and to be under the direction of the board. On June 9, General Ten May 11, 18, 27; June 3, 12, 13, 18, 19, 20, 22, 29, July 1, 14, iS, 20-, August 12; September 15, 18; October 3, 1778.

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Broeck was requested to furnish ammunition to this contingent, which operated for the safeguarding of its own home territory. The frequency of robberies in the Helderbergs and contiguous regions induced the board, on July 2, 1779, to consider the raising of another company of rangers, to be under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Ismay. Orders for thisbody were issued on August 2 and 8, and at other times.