Wynkoop's Employ -- James Robins on Recognizance in. . . £200 -- -- a Mathew Watson his Bail in. . . £200 -- -- u Sampson Dyckman his Bail ... in. . . £200 -- -- Moses Cowan, Ichabod Cook, and John Elder were brought before the Board and were permitted to return to his [rzV] usual Place of Abode on entering into Recognizance for good Behaviour and Monthly Appearance -- Moses Cowan on Recognizance in. . . £100 -- Robert Cowan -- his Bail in ... . £100 -- Ichabod Cook on Recognizance in. . . £100 -- Christiaen Schoolcraft his Bail. in. . . £100 -- John Elder on Recognizance. . in ... . £100 -- John Mc Cool .his Bail . in. . . . £100 -- Stephen Hooper and Thomas Purchase of Newtown were liberated on entering into Recognizance for good Behaviour & Monthly Appearance -- Stephen Hooper on Recognizance. . in £100 -- John Hooper his Bail in £100 -- -- „

Thomas Purchase on Recognizance in £100 -- „ -- Peter Van Campen his Bail in £100 -- „ -- Adjourned till 9 OClock to Morrow Morning

Minutes of Commissioners for Conspiracies 119

Met according to Adjournment i6 h May 1778 l ; -- May Present

Jer. Van Rensselaer Isaac D Fonda John M Beeckman Matthew Visscher

Cap? George White and M? Isaac Sheldon appeared before th is Board and informed that on their way home they

stopped at Nicholas Michal's to refresh, that during their Stay four Men who were Secreted on the Garret came down [44] in the Room armed, Assaulted beat and abused them together with one Pease and Robbed them of all the Money they had with them together with their Horses, and led them a Considerable distance into the Woods and there threatned to take their Lives, and they farther inform that they suppose the said Michal and Henry Shans know who the perpetrators of this Robbery were Ordered Thereupon that Coll K.