Isaac Bogert who by a Request of this Board lh of the 2 . of August last went to Cherry Valley in Order to obtain an Account of the Cattle taken at the Butter Nutts and brought to Cherry Valley by a Party of the Continental Troops, and of the Number of those they have killed for their own Use, returned this Day and made a Report which was committed to writing and attested to by the said Isaac Bogert in the Presence of John M. Beekman Esq and is r

in the Words following, to wit, (prout) -- 1

Adjourned till 9 OClock to Morrow Morning

1778 Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 11 Sept r 1778 -- Sept. 11. Present

John M. Beekman / ( Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher \ I Hugh Mitchell In George Clinton Papers, no. 1750, archives of New York State Library

Minutes of Commissioners for Conspiracies 231

Application was made to the Board by Robert Van Deusen 1778 Sept. 11 of Kinderhook in Behalf of Lowrence Scharp a Prisoner confined in Goal by Virtue of an Order of three of the CommissionerS^of Conspiracies who requested us to withdraw our Mittimus in Order that he might then be brought before Judge by a Writ of Habeas Corpus for the Purpose of being let to Bail and we having taken the same into our Consideration do order that the said Mittimus be withdrawn and that the Sheriff be ordered to discharge him the said Lowrence Scharp from his Confinement Received a Letter from the Commissioners at Poughkeepsie which is dated 5 l h September 1778 which Letter . is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) Received by the Hands of the Reverend Doctor Livingston the sum of Five hundred Pounds being the [167] One half of the Money drawn for by this Board on the Treasurer Ordered that the said Five hundred Pounds be delivered into the Hands of the Secretary who is required to take Charge of the same -- Ordered that a Letter be wrote to the Governor and that Lieutenant Isaac Bogert's Affidavit be inclosed which Letter is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) 1