Received a Letter from Lieutenant Col 1

Philip Van lh Alstyne dated at Schohary 8 ; Instant wherein he informs us that he sends to us under the Care of Ensign Moffat two Prisoners whose Names are Jacob Angle and Lodiwick Stull formerly Inhabitants of the Bever Dam who were apprehended upon the Information of Lieuf Mathew Shulter and Ensign Adam Dietz for going off to the Enemy with Jacob Ball which Letter is in the Words following, to wit, (prout)

[192] In Consequence of the foregoing Letter the said Jacob Angle and Lodiwick Stull were brought before the Board and examined, and after such Examination It was ordered that the said Jacob Angle and Lodiwick Stull should be committed and that a Mittimus should be made out to the Coaler to receive them into his Custody -- Lieutenant Peter Drummond who was formerly eliberated from Confinement by this Board appeared before us and requested a Pass to go down to Poughkeepsie in Order to sollicit from his Excellency the Governor an Exchange for some Officer of equal Rank with him in the Power of the Enemy Ordered that a Pass be given to the said Peter Drummond for the above Purpose -- Then Adjourned till next Monday Morning

Met pursuantto Adjournment -- Albany I2' h ; October 1778 -- 1778 Oct. 12. Present

Jeremiah Van Renselaer f Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher 1

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1778 David Price who was some Time since confined on a Oct. 12. Suspicion of having been concerned in the Robberies committed by Morgan and others was brought before the Board and no other ProfF [rzV] having yet appeared against the said David Price except the Information of the said Morgan and there being the greatest Reason to suppose that the said David Price is not guilty of the Crime laid to his Charge It is