Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
Nicholas Demoray on Recognizance in . £\o Ordered that a Letter be wrote to the Commissioners of Conspiracies at Pougkeepsie requesting them to confine several Persons about Fishkill against whom we had received Information of their intending to go to New York and also to have apprehended Josiah Talmadge and David Chase as notorious Offenders which Letter is in the Words following (prout)
Adjourned till 9 Oclock to Morrow Morning
Met pursuant to Adjournment -- 30^ April 1778. 1778 Apr. 30. Present
Jeremiah Van RenselaerJ j Isaac D. Fonda John M. Beekman ) \ William Wills
Ordered that a Letter be sent to the British Officers and Doctors ordering them not to take the Liberty of Going at
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1778 large in this City notwithstanding the Order of the General Apr. 30. by which they claim this Privilege which Letter is in the Words following (prout) [23] John Wilsie from Philipstown Jonathan Brown from 1
Philipstown Hendrick Van Hening Jonathan Brown and Adam Vrooman made their Appearance according to Recognizance On Information received of a Robbery committed at the House of Jacob Hogstrasser at the Helleberg -- Ordered that an Officer with a Party of Men be dispatched to endeavor to apprehend the Villians In Consequence of the Information received respecting Alexander Campbell wrote a Letter to Gen! Schuyler requesting him to have the said Alexander Campbell secured and sent down to us, which Letter is in the Words following (prout) -- William M'Kensie, Zachariah Overmagh, John Sparding and Daniel Marsh Prisoners taken at Tieconderoga and Residents of this State and Charles M-Arthur a Deserter from the Enemy and also Resident of this State were sent to us by Egbert Benson and Peter Cantine Juffi Commissioners &c -- Ordered that a Mittimus be made to the Sheriff to take the said William M'rKensie Zachariah Overmagh John Sparding Daniel Marsh & Charles McArthur and closely confine them -- In Consequence of Application of Dr.