Tryon County which Letter is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) Benjamin Lull and Caleb Lull who were lately taken by a Party of Oneyda Indians at the Butternuts and brought down to this Place as Prisoners were brought before the Board and it having appeared to us that the said Benjamin Lull and Caleb Lull were taken at their respective Places of Abode and were not known to have acted Inimically to the American Cause therefore ordered that they be discharged from Confinement -- Received a Letter from Hugh Mitchell Esq? dated 16 th Instant which is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) Ordered that a letter be wrote to Hugh Mitchell Esq? in Answer to the above which Letter is to be in the Words following, to wit, (prout) -- Complaint having been made to the Board by Frederick Berringer that Cap? John Ryley retains and keeps in his Hands several Articles which the said John Ryley as Captain of a Ranger Company has [201] taken from suspected Persons and which the said Frederick Berringer claims as his Property ordered therefore that the said John Ryley be cited to appear before this Board on Wednesday next to render an Account of the above Goods -- Then adjourned till to Morrow Morning

Met pursuant to Adjournment -- Albany 24* Oct 1778 : h r Oct. 24. Present

John M. Beekman I

j Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher j 1

Whereas it has appeared to this Board that Jotham Bemus is a Person who on many Occasions has evinced his Dis-