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.

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1778 sooner transmitted him and also assigning a Reason why the Sept. 25. Flag passed Poughkeepsie without stopping to know his Excellencys Pleasure concerning the said Persons which Letter is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) -- Then Adjourned till next Monday Morning

Sept. 28. Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 28 Sept 1778 -- 1 1 ? r

Present

John M. Beekman Mathew Visscher Isaac D. Fonda