T his sub-board met there on July 19 and 20, during which time persons were summoned, examined and bound by recognizances and bail in various sums. 8 The Albany board, when desirous of learning who had gone over to the British interest, ordered the militia officers to make a return " of the Names of the Persons within their

Laxft of \'cw York. Poughkeepsie: John Holt, 1782, p. 189. * July jo, 1 1, 22, 1780. •July 22, 1780. See also August 19; September 7, 1779, for a similar sub-board at Saratoga.

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respective Beats" who had "lately gone over and joined the Enemy ." 1 Tories who had been judged in Vermont were, in the opinion of General Stark, not under the jurisdiction of

the commissioners for conspiracies of New York, even when these prisoners were brought into the State; whereupon the Albany board wrote to the governor and informed him that Stark had told them it was none of their business to interfere with tories from another State 2 . A few days later , they wrote again to Clinton about seven more persons "sent down by the pretended State of Vermont to be forwarded to the Enemies Lines by General Stark," and stated that from the "first Reception" they met with from Stark, they thought it "needless to remonstrate with him any farther about the Matter." Subsequently 4 when Stark asked them to commit ,

a prisoner sent from Bennington, they complied and issued a mittimus to the jailer to receive the prisoner into his custody. Persons who were to be removed to the British lines were each to be served with a notice by the secretary of the board , 5 and were required to pay the costs of transportation for