Adjourned till 2 OCIock to Morrow Afternoon

Minutes of Commissioners for Conspiracies 243

Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 25'!' Sept r 1778 -- 1778 Sept. 25.

Present

John M. Beekman I 1 Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher j l

Whereas it has been represented to this Board that Jacob [ 79] Johannis Vrooman is in Custody of the Sheriff of Tryon County and that the said Jacob Johannis Vrooman is very desirous of having a Hearing before us It is therefore ordered that the said Sheriff of Tryon County deliver the said Jacob Johannis Vrooman into the Hands of Simon Job?. Vrooman together with the Cause of his Caption and Detention as specifyed in the Mittimus whereon he stands committed and that he be brought before us on the [blank] Day of [blank] that we may take the Cause of the Committment of the said Jacob Joh s . Vrooman into our Consideration -- r r Received a Letter from Peter Cantine Jun Esq which is dated S'!1 Day of September Instant wherein he requests us to grant Permission to David Knap and Daniel Annin (who have been great Sufferers by the late Robberies in Dutchess County) to examine certain of the Prisoners in Goal respecting the Places where they have secreted stolen Effects Ordered that the said David Knap and Daniel Annin have free Access to such Prisoners as they shall conceive it necessary to examine -- William Smith of the Manor of Renselaerwyck appeared before the Board and complained of Samuel Rock as being a Person inimical to the American Cause and dangerous to the Safety of the State Ordered that Major BarentStaats be requested to have the said Samuel Rock apprehended and sent to us -- Ordered that a Letter' be wrote to his Excellency Governor Clinton informing him of the Cause why the Notice of the [180] Removal of Henry Van Schaack and others was not •In George Clinton Papers, no. 1791, archives of New York State Library.