Alexander Campbell of Schonectady on the Seventh Day of September Instant and Martin Crom of Claverack District on the Fourteenth Day of September Instant and offered to administer to them respectively the Oath in the said Act prescribed which they severally refused to take Received a Letter 1 from his Excellency Governor Clinton which is dated 20 ^ Instant wherein he again informs us (in Concurrence with what his Private Secretary Robert Benson Esq r had wrote us in a Letter dated 1 h Instant) that it is l

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In New York Colonial MSS., vol. ioi. p. 149, archives of New York State Library. In George Clinton Papers, no. 1777, archives of New York State Library.

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Lambert Burghart, John D. Goes, Mathew Goes Jun r and 1778 Sept. 22 Dirck Gardinier should be immediately confined in Goal and detained for an Exchange which Letter is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) Ordered that the Request in the above Letter be complied with and that the said Henry Van Schaack David Van Schaack Lambert Burghart, John D. Goes, Mathew Goes r Jun and Dirk Gardinier be put in close Confinement [177] Henry Van Schaack appeared before the Board and laid before us a Note directed to us from his Excellency the Governor in the following Words -- "The Commissioners at Albany on the Arrival of r Henry Van Schaack at that Place will please to take his Parole and permit him to repair to this