Mr Stewart the Indian Minister had removed from Fort Hunter to Schonectady with his Family -- that he conceived Mr Stewart would have it in his Power to convey Intelligence from that Place to the Indians and as Mr Stewart has always been a declared Enemy to the Liberties of America he thought it would be necessary to Order him down the Country Received a Letter from Robert Yates Esq r informing that there is a certain Thomas Anderson in the Manor of Livingston a Blacksmith who is charged by D Latham r

with encouraging Negroes to desert from their Masters to go

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over to the Enemy and forging a Pass under the Signature 1778 June 11. of Captain Solomon Strong Ordered that a Warrant be made out to apprehend the said Thomas Anderson and commit him to Goal & that the Keeper of the Goal be required to take him into his

Custody -- Adjourned till 9 OClock to Morrow Morning -- [70] Met pursuant to Adjournment Albany I2 h June 1778 l : June 12. Present

John M. Beekman ^ j > ( < u Mathew ,7 , Visscher . ,

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It having been suggested to us that John Smith who stands charged with having committed several Robberies is at present at his Fathers Jurrie Smith's in Livingston's Manor and that Jonathan Wickwire who is an Accomplice with the said John Smith also lurks somewhere in that Quarter Ordered that a Letter be wrote to Petrus Wynkoop Jun!"