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Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York

Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York, 1778-1781. Collections of the New-York Historical Society, 1924-1925. Originally compiled 1778-1781, first published 1909-1925. 256 words

A mittimus was therefore made out & he orderd to Confinement untill Discharged by a Board of Commissioners -- Adjourned till 9 OClock A.M.

1778 Met according to Adjournment 24 April 1778 Apr. 24.

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John M. Beeckman \ Matthew Visscher | Isaac D Fonda - - Cornelius Humphrey James M Masters c ; ( Hugh Mitchell

Coll 1 Cornelius Humphrey agreeable to notification appeared, took the Oath of Office, and his Seat as a Member An account of Isaiah Butler and Ebenezer Baker for services making [17] discoveries of the Comperformed in

binations of the disaffected in this County was laid before this Board amount to £10 which was paid.

It having appeared to us from the information of sundry Persons that Emerich Plass, Matthias Coons, David Crankheydt, Philip Tater, Thomas Blewer, John Dorn, Thomas Wood Jun r Frederick Weager and Henry Plass are Persons disaffected to the Cause of America and whose going at large may be dangerous to the State Ordered That an order issue to Cap* Scharpe or the next An error in the original manuscript for Buchanan. 1 The original voucher is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 146, State Comptroller's office.

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