Received a Letter from M" Cumming informing us that 1778 Sept. 14. a Report prevails in her Neighbourhood that a Party of Rangers are coming that Way to apprehend disaffected Persons and secure their Property and as Mf Cumming is confined in Goal for Disaffection is apprehensive they may disturb her and her Family and take away their Property Ordered that this Board grant a Protection to the said M" Cumming and that all Officers both Civil and Milatary & all other Persons whatsoever be strictly enjoyned and forbid not [169] to molest the said M" Cumming or Family either in Person or Property on Pain of being prosecuted with the utmost Severity of the Law -- Then Adjourned till to Morrow Morning

Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany I5 Sept 1778 -- l h ; r Sept. 15. Present

John M. Beekman ) j Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher ) ( Petrus Wynkoop Jun^

It having appeared to us by the Information of Nathaniel Morgan that Johan George Fought and Coenradt Johnson were knowing to the Robberies committed by the said Nathaniel Morgan and others Ordered that they be severally cited to appear before the Board on the Eighteenth Day of September Instant -- Mathew Aerson laid before the Board his Account for ferrying across the River Capf John Ryley and the Company of Rangers under his Command at different Times amounting to £8^17^4 ordered that the same be paid -- 1

Ordered that Jeremiah Marinus bring before the Board as soon as possible the two Persons who can give Evidence 'The original voucher is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p 162, State Comptroller's office, signed " Matth Arsin."