July 15- dangerous Persons to the Wellfare of their State & therefore ordered them to be sent to Albany that he might forward them to General Gates to be by him sent to the Enemies Lines with which Request from the State of Vermont he conceived it was just to comply and would order the same to be put into Execution -- Peter Finehout who was some Time since confined in Goal was brought before the Board and we having examined into the Nature of his Crime, have thought proper to eliberate him on his entering into Recognizance for good Behaviour and Appearance when called upon -- Peter Finehout on Recognizance in.. £100 Jacob Finehout his Bail in.. £ 100 Reuben Grippen of Kinderhook also his Bail in.. T100 Ordered that a Letter be wrote to his Excellency the Governor informing him that in Consequence of the Application made by the Person above mentioned in Behalf of those Persons sent from Bennington we waited on General Starkes who informed us that it was none of our Business to interfere with Tories from another State which Letter is in the Words following (prout) 1

Richard Cartwright, Henry Ten Eyck, John Van Alen, and Henry Staats and Gysbert G. Marselis were cited to

appear before this Board on the Sixteenth Instant at ten OClock in the Forenoon of that Day to render Satisfaction [103] to us touching their Conduct during this War conformable to the Act lately passed respecting Persons of neutral and equivocal Characters -- Adjourned till 9 OClock to Morrow Morning