Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
Instant requested Time till the I4*! to consider of the
Oath (as prescribed in the Act respecting Persons of neutral and equivocal Characters) then tendered him, and agreed that his Non Appearance on that Day [ 1 7 ] should be 1
construed into a Refusal to take the said Oath and the said Martin Crom not having appeared on that Day according to Agreement Therefore ordered that his Refusal to take the said Oath be entered -- Adjourned till to Morrow Morning
Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 18^ Sept 1778 -- r Sept. 18. Present ^ohn M. Beekman ) f t l \t- : - Mathew t\ Visscher
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John Wykoff who w as some Time ago confined in Goal r
for Disaffection to the American Cause was brought before the Board and at the Solicitation of several of his Friends permitted to go at large on his entering into Recognizance with a sufficient Surety for his future good Behaviour and Monthly Appearance
John Wykoff on Recognizance in.. £100 --o--o Benjamin Rodgers appeared before the Board and requested from us a Pass to go to Little East Hosack at which
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I7 78 ^ ace f* e * n f° rrns us he intends to reside Ordered that a Pass be given him -- Se t 8
On Suggestion of the Goaler Stephen Bell that Jacob Halenbeeck Jun r is sick it is ordered that the said Jacob Halenbeeck Jun r be brought before the Board and that Doctor Samuel Stringer be sent for to examine him Upon the Report of the said Samuel Stringer that the said r Jacob Halenbeeck Jun is very sick and that by his remaining in Confinement his Life will be endangered It is ordered r that the said Jacob Halenbeeck Jun be released from his Confinement on his entering into Recognizance with [172] a sufficient Surety to remain within the House of Samuel Pruyn in this City r Jacob Halenbeeck Jun on Recognizance in -- -- £300 Jacob Ten Eyck of the City of Albany Yeoman his Bail £300 -- -- Captain John Ryley laid before the Board a Pay Roll of the Company of Rangers under his Command from the Time lh of their Inlistment being the ii l May 1778 till 20 Day of h : ;