State of Connecticut who is to lay him under such Restrictions as he may conceive necessary Ordered therefore that the said Bethuel Huntley repair to the State of Connecticut and there make his Appearance before the Lieutenant Governor and that upon a Certificate of the Lieutenant Governor of the Appearance of the said Bethuel Huntley as aforesaid the said Joseph Smith be discharged from his Recognizance

Bethuel Huntley on Recognizance in. . . £4.0 Joseph Smith his Bail in. . . . £40

Adjourned till 9 OClock to Morrow Morning 1

1778 Met pursuant to Adjournment I s1 . June 1778 -- June 1 Present

John M. Beekman Mathew Visscher Isaac D. Fonda

No meeting reported for May 31.

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Minutes of Commissioners for Conspiracies 133

Three Persons were brought to us under Guard who [59] June I. upon Examination we found to be Robert Sloss, John Sloss and Archibald McMullen who were all three concerned according to their own Confession in the Robbery of Henry Van Renselaer and Arent Van Schaack and [Isaac] Shelden their Confessions were taken down in writing and filed -- they were all three closely confined Ordered that the Treasurer pay to Lieu' Joseph Gifford £\J for victualling the said Robert Sloss John Sloss, and Archibald McMullen and for himself and Nine Men Guarding the said Persons to Albany 1

Ordered also that the Treasurer pay to Jacob Van Valkenburgh ^I2 // i6 // o for apprehending the said Robert Sloss, John Sloss, and Archibald McMullen and also for apprehending and securing James Noels who is also concerned in the abovementioned Robberies -- 2