It is for the arrest of " Matthyse Bondt ", and is signed " Cornelis Vandeuse."

Minutes of Commissioners for Conspiracies 175

Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 20'J' july 1778 -- 1778 July 20. Present

John M. Beekman | ( Isaac D. Fonda Jeremiah Van Renselaer I ( Mathew Visscher

John Van Alen and Henry Staats appeared and being tendered the Oath they both refused to take it Gysbert G. Marselis also appeared and being tendered the Oath he refused to take it Cornelius Van Schelluyne was cited to appear before the Board to render Satisfaction to us touching his Conduct during the present War conformable to an Act of the Legislature lately passed respecting Persons of neutral and equivocal Characters at 2 OClock this Afternoon -- [108] Ordered that Captain John Ryley immediately appear before this Board, and bring with him Egbert

Ostrander and his Wife -- Ordered that a Certificate be sent down to John Morin Scott Esq Secretary of the State of New York certifying that r

James Ellice of Schonectady Merchant on the sixteenth Day of July Instant Daniel Campbell Esqr late fudge of the Inferior Court and John Visger late Justice of the Peace of Schonectady on the Seventeenth, John Thurman late Merchant of New York Peter Van Schaack Attorney at Law on the Eighteenth and John Van Alen late Justice of the Peace Henry Staats Merchant and Gysbert G. Marselis late Aiderman of the City of Albany on the Twentieth did appear before us and that the Oath as prescribed in the Act was tendered to them which they refused to take Ordered that a Letter be wrote to his Excellency the Governor informing him of the Names of the Persons who have refused to take the Oath and requesting to know when we must send them and who he purposes to detain for an Exchange --