Beekman Esq r One of the Members of this Board and also a Justice of the Peace be present at such Examination -- [183] Ordered that Lieu 1 Col! Barent Staats do make a Return to this Board as soon as possible of all such Persons belonging to his Regiment as have gone off to the Enemy and are at this Time absent from their respective Places of Abode -- Ordered that Mathew Visscher one of the Members of

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this Board inform the Commissioners at Poughkeepsie that Sept. 30, Mosier has been examined respecting Silas Duel and that upon such his Examination he denied that Duel had advised him to rob or counselled him in it but that he had informed Duel he had been with Burgoyne's Army and was fearful to be apprehended and that Duel had thereupon advised him to go to New York

Then Adjourned till to Morrow Morning

Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany if Oct 1778 r 1778 Oct. 1.

Present

John M. Beekman Cornelius Humfrey Mathew Visscher

M Visscher reported that in Consequence of the Order of r

Yesterday he had wrote a Letter to the Commissioners at Poughkeepsie acquainting them with the Substance of Mosier's Examination respecting Silas Duel -- A Petition was laid before the Board signed by a Number of Persons living at Spencertown wherein they set forth that Thomas Clark who was some Time since discharged from Confinement by us is a Person who from his Conduct last Year in going to the Enemy has [184] rendered himself so odious to the Inhabitants of that District that they are determined not to let him remain among them, that his Behaviour since he has been liberated from Confinement in associating with Persons who are notoriously disaffected has given them 1