Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
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
Place to deliver himself up to the Person administring the Government without Delay Ordered in Compliance with the above that Henry Van Sehaack's Parole be taken which is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) -- Jurie Pater and Regina Parkerson appeared before the Board at Witnesses against Adam Paps and Rudolph Paps and the said Jurie Pater and Regina Parkerson having been examined were discharged -- Then Adjourned till the Day after to Morrow -- Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 24^ Sept 1778 -- r Sept. 24, Present
John M. Beekman [ Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher '
Received a Letter from General Stark wherein he informs us that he has in Confinement as a Prisoner who is an Inhabitant of this State named Alexander Anderson who was taken and sent down to him by Col! Aden Ordered that the