Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
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
Loughley he discharged from his present Confinement on his entering into a Recognizance with a sufficient Surety to appear at the next Court of General Sessions of the Peace to be held at
the City Hall in the City of Albany on the third Tuesday in January next or before oneof the Commissioners when called upon
Barnabas Loughley on Recogniznace in £50 --0-- Joshua Bloore his Bail in £50 --o-- Isaac Lawson who was some Time ago taken a Prisoner to the Westward and sent down to this Place was brought before the Board and it appearing that the said Isaac Lawson has been with the Enemy and did desert from them and was on his Way to surrender himself a Prisoner when he was apprehended therefore ordered that the said Isaac Lawson be discharged from his Confinement on his entering into a Recognizance to appear on the last Day of every Month before one of the Commissioners and for his future good Behaviour -- Isaac Lawson on Recognizance in. . £100 --o--o Then adjourned till to Morrow Morning --