Place as by the said Letter will appear -- Ordered that Captain John Ryley apprehend and commit to Goal Hugh Frere Thomas Wood JunT of New Britain Martinus Kimmel and Frederick Querin of Poesten Kill who stand severally charged with having committed several Robberies and the Keeper of the Goal was ordered to receive them The Board was informed that Thomas Garnet and others keep at a place called Peesink and there plunder and distress the good and faithful Subjects of this State -- Ordered That Cap^ Ryley and his Rangers immediately be sent for, to go in quest of said Garnet and others, and

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1778 that Matthias Boom be sent for as a Guide, and that the June 12. said [71] Matthias Boom be ordered to attend this Board to Morrow at four OClock -- Adjourned till 9 OClock to Morrow Morning

June 13. Met pursuant to Adjournment 13T June 1778 -- Present

John M. Beckman ) j Mathew visscher Isaac D. konda j (.

Wrote a Letter to the Commissioners at Pougkeepsie informing them that Jacob Cortman who stands charged with the Murder of Abraham Van Ness is somewhere in the Nine Partners and requesting them to have him apprehended also that the Board have been under a Necessity to raise a Party of 15 Rangers whom they have been under a Necessity of Paying 6/ a Day besides their Rations and requesting to know from them what allowance they make to such Parties of the Militia as bring in Prisoners -- which Letter is in the Words following (prout) -- Ordered that Cap! John Ryley with his Party of Rangers proceed with all possible Secrecy & Dispatch in a Batteau to Coyemans and from thence to a place about five Miles above Peesink, and there endeavour to apprehend Thomas Garnet, Roeliff Van der Kar John Stoner, John Cafort, Stephen Miller and others Ordered that Application be made to the Commanding Officer for a Party of Continental Troops as an Additional Guard to be under the Direction of Cap!