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

' In George Clinton Papers, no. 1584, archives of the New York State Library.

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Minutes of Commissioners for Conspiracies 171

Met pursuant to adjournment -- 16 July 1778 1778 July 16.

Present

n M. Beeckman Hugh Mitchell Van Rensselaer Matthew Visscher Isaac D. Fonda

In pursuance of the order of Yesterday Richard Cartwright appeared before the Board and was agreeable to the Act of the Legislature of this State Tendered the Oath therein mentioned which he refused taking John Van Alen, Gysbert G. Marselius, and Henry Staats in Pursuance of an Order of Yesterday also appeared before the Board and were agreeable to the Act of the Legislature of this State tendered the Oath therein recited, and they having requested to consider till next Monday Morning Ordered that Time be given them till then and if they do not appear, that their Non Attendance will be construed into a Refusal -- Duncan M^Dugall of Schohary who was some Time since confined for Disaffection to the American Cause was brought before the Board, and it appearing from a Recommendation of a Number of respectable Inhabitants of Tryon County that he had always behaved himself well, and it also appearing from a Certificate of Coll Harpur that he had last Year kept back a Party [104] of Indians who were coming to make him Prisoner we are induced by those Considerations to eliberate him on his taking the Oath prescribed by the Act lately passed by the Legislature of this State and entering Bounds of into a Recognizance not to exceed the Limits and the Farm of his Brother Donald M;Dugall at Canajohary in Tryon County