Hugh M^Colley who was some Time since confined by Major Schermerhorn and was shortly after such Confinement discharged by us appeared before the Board and requested that the Money taken from him by Major Schermerhorn and left in our Hands amounting to One hundred and Eighty Dollars might be redelivered him and nothing having appeared against the said Hugh M^Colly since his having been released Ordered therefore that the Secretary deliver the said One hundred and Eighty Dollars to the said Hugh M^Colly taking his Receipt therefor -- [188] Ordered that the Secretary, pay to Captain John Ryley for hisExpence and Trouble in apprehending and bringing to Goal from the Nine Partners to Albany Jacob Cronkheyt one of the Persons guilty of the Robbery of John Van Ness £7 u 16^0- Bartholemewis Hess was brought before the Board and examined and his Examination committed to writing Ordered that he be recommitted -- Philip Shiffer was brought before the Board and examined Ordered that he be recommitted -- Ordered that the Secretary pay to Captain Coenradt Cline and Captain James Robison for their Trouble and Expence in going to Barrington to examine Nathaniel Morgan and for apprehending a Number of Persons who were Accessories to the Robberies committed in Livingston's Manor, Claverack and other Places £26 u 8 u o- 1

The original voucher is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 162, State Comptroller's office.

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1778 Ordered that the Secretary pay to Jacob Cline for his Oct. 3. Trouble and Expence in apprehending and bringing to Claverack a Number of Inhabitants of Livingston's Manor who had harboured and concealed the Robbers £1 1 u o o- /y