* Then Adjourned till next Monday Morning

Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 14 th Sept r 1778 Sept. 14..

Present

John M. Beekman | \

Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher j (

John Lilley alias dictus James McCormick who was by an Order of a Court-Martial confined in Goal was brought before the Board and we having examined him do order Ibid.

232 State of New York

t le sa *^ J°hn Lilley be discharged from his Confinet ^iat ^ Sept ^14 ment and that a Pass be given him to go to Hartford in the State of Connecticut -- Received a Letter from Cob Frederick Fisher which is

dated the 23 ' August 1778 which Letter is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) Whereas General Stark has discharged from Confinement a Negro Man named Prince as being a Prisoner of War and in his Discharge to the Sheriff has set forth that he has done

it by Consent of this Board and as no such Consent was at

any Time obtained from us Ordered therefore that as the said Negro Man Prince is in no Wise under the Directions of the Commissioners of Conspiracies we cannot give our Assent or Dissent to his Discharge from [168] the Custody of the Sheriff, and that the Sheriff be immediately served with a Copy of this Order Received a Letter from Caleb Stark Brigade Major to General Stark informing us that two Men Inhabitants of this State who have deserted from Canada are confined in the Guard House and that by applying to the General we might have them delivered over to us Ordered that the General be immediately requested to deliver over the said Prisoners -- Isaac Lawson and Robert Harbert the two Prisoners delivered over to us by General Stark were brought before the Board and examined Ordered that a Mittimus be made out to the Sheriff to receive them into his Custody Jeremiah Marinus with three other Men as a Guard appeared before the Board and delivered as Prisoners Adam Paps and Rudolph Paps who stand severally charged with having advised a Number of Men to go to the Indians and have themselves gone Part of the Way with them -- Ordered that they be confined and that a Mittimus be made out to the Sheriff to take them into his Custody --