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

furtherCause for Disatisfaction and praying us that we may order the said Thomas Clark to be again imprisoned ordered that the Prayer of the said Petition be taken into Consideration The above Petition having been considered and we finding Erroneously written " gavin " in the manuscript.

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1778 it altogether Inconvenient to confine the said Thomas Clark Oct. 1. on Account of the Infectious Distemper at this Time prevailing in the Goal and of the great Number of Persons confined It is therefore ordered that the said Thomas Clark return to Spencertown and there make such Concessions to the Inhabitants of that District as they shall think proper to require of him and that it be recommended to the Inhabitants of the said District to consent to his remaining among them on his making the said Concessions -- M?? M-Donald and Miss McDonald of Johnstown appeared before the Board and requested from us Permission to go the former to New York the latter to Canada Ordered that their request be taken into Consideration -- The Board having taken the above Request into Consideration and judging that it would be more benificial to the State to permit the said r ?