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Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York

Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York, 1778-1781. Collections of the New-York Historical Society, 1924-1925. Originally compiled 1778-1781, first published 1909-1925. 256 words

John Harrison on Recognizance in .£100 . --o--o John Haswell his Bail in.. £100 --o--o Brigadier General Hand acquainted the Board by Letter that there were confined in theGuard House five Persons whose Names Samuel are Bagnell John Seaback, John Dove, Charles M-Collister and Hector Southerland who have been taken Prisoners and as they are Inhabitants of this State he is willing to deliver them over to us Ordered that the above Persons be sent for and committed to Goal and that the Goaler be ordered by a Mittimus to take them into his Custody

[210] Albert Van Der Werken having been apprehended for being disaffected to the American Cause and confined in Tryon County Goal made Application to us to be released from his Confinement and a Number of Certificates having been produced in Favour of the said Albert Van Der Werken from Persons well affected to the American Cause therefore ordered that a Letter be wrote to Zepheniah Batchelor and Andrew Wemp requesting them to cause the said Albert Van Der Werken to come before them and enter into a Recognizance for his Appearance at the next Court of Oyer and Terminer to be held in and for the County of Tryon and for his Appearance before any One of the Commissioners when called upon -- which Letter is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) -- Received Copy of an Authenticated Act of the Legislature

of the State of New York for continuing the Powers of the Appendix I: Laws, October 29, 1778.