Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
Debby Wall appeared before the Board and applied for a Pass to go to Unadilla to her Husband -- Ordered that she be informed that no permit or Indulgence can be given by the Board to any part of a Family whereof the Husband or Master has so far deviated from humane principles or to associate with Barbarians & assisting in Imbruing his Hands in the Blood of Women and Children and peaceable Inhabitants Ordered that Barnet Stillwell and William Prendergast be summoned to appear before the Board on Saturday the fifth day of September next in order that the oath prescribed in the late Act of the Legislature of this State may be tendered them -- Ordered That Cap' Van der Hoof be requested to cause Neal M'Neil (mentioned Morgans examination) to be in
apprehended and fort[h]with send him to the keeper of the Common Goal -- Adjourned till to Morrow Morning
Sept. 1. Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany I s ) Sept r 1778 -- Present
John M. Beekman Mathew Visscher Jeremiah Van Renselaer
( Petrus Wynkoop Junr Isaac D. Fonda
Cap' John Smith appeared before the Board with William Leonard, Frederick Felt Bartholemewis Van Valkenburglq
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Hendrick Skinkle Jacob Livingston Peter Plass, Junr 1778 Sept. 1. Daniel Price, Peter Wheeler Jacob Halenbeeck Jun', Jurie Wheeler, David Price Nathaniel Morgan, Bartholemewis Hess Mary Wheeler and Ariantie Schuck who were sent up Prisoners by the Board of Commissioners lately sitting at Claverack Ordered that they be committed -- [156] Nathaniel Morgan, Bartholemewis Hess, Philip Shifter and Ariantie Schuck were brought before the Board and we having examined them Ordered that they be recommitted An Account of Cap! Abraham Fonda for going to Barrington and bringing from thence Nathaniel Morgan with a Party of Men was laid before the Board amounting to