Received a Letter2 from his Excellency the Governor dated 26V Instant wherein he informs us that from the Information he has received he has great Reason to think that such of the Inhabitants of this State as are in the Power of the Enemy are not now treated with that Degree of Rigour which they formerly experienced and therefore requests that Henry Van Schaack, David Van Schaack Dirck Gardinier, Mathew Goes JunF and Lambert Burghart may be released from their present Confinement and placed in another as easy and mild as we can possible make

'The original voucher is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 161, State Comptroller's office. In George Clinton Papers, no. 1869, archives of New York State Library.

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266 State of New York

1778 it to -- which Letter them is in the Words following;, 6 to wit, (prout) -- Oct. 27.

Ordered that the Board take into their Consideration the above Letter and fix upon a Place to remove the said Henry Van Schaack, David Van Schaack, Dirk Gardinier Mathew Goes fun r and Lambert Burghart to -- [204] Barnabas Loughley one of the Persons lately taken by the Oneyda Indians and brought by them to this Place as a Prisoner and confined was brought before the Board and it having appeared to us that the said Barnabas Loughley was taken at his Place of Abode and no Proff [i/V] having as yet appeared against him of his having acted any Way inimically to the American Cause therefore ordered thatthesaid Barnabas