McDonald & Miss McDonald (whose Husband and Father are gone over to the Enemy) to to keep them here do order that it be go there also than recommended to General Stark to grant them Passes for the above Purpose [185] M" Waltimyer and Mr? Nancy Fairchild (whose Husbands are both gone to New York) appeared before the Board and requested Permission from us to go to New York Ordered that their request be taken into Consideration -- Then Adjourned till to Morrow Morning

1778 Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 2?'? Oct? 1778 -- Oct. 2.

Present

John M. Beekman } ^ Mathew Visscher Cornelius Humfrey j / Isaac D. Fonda

Col! Humfrey informed the Board that having received Information that there is at Kinderhook a certain Daniel

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Dobs who appeared to be of a suspicious Character and 1778 Oct. 2. whose going at large in that Quarter might be attended with dangerous Consequences, he ordered the said Daniel Dobs to be apprehended and brought before him that on examining him he found that he was last Year a Prisoner on Board the Fleet Prison and that he made his Escape from the Guard who conducted him to Hartford last Fall, that in Consequence of the above Confession he had bound the said Daniel Dobs in Recognizance in the Sum of £ 20- o- o and Casper Shaver as his Bail in the like Sum to appear when upon by the Commissioners of Conspiracies called