Tioo o Adam Dietz his Bail in... £100 --o-- Peter Mesick Junr of Claverack who was apprehended on Suspicion of being Accessory to the Robbery committed on Arent Van Schaack was brought before the Board and the Grand jury having found no Bill or Indictment against the r said Peter Mesick }un therefore ordered that he be discharged from Confinement with a sufficient Surety for his future good Behaviour and Appearance at the next Court of General Sesions of the Peace to be held at the City Hall of the City of Albany on [the] third Tuesday in January next or before the Commissioners of Conspiracies when thereunto required

Peter Mesick Jun r on Recognizance in . £500 --o Henry J Mesick his Bail in. £500 --o Then adjourned till to Morrow Morning -- [219] Met pursuant to Adjournment -- 1778 Albany 5 1 1 ! Novr 1778. Nov. 5. Present M. Beekman JJohn ] ( T t-. t? j V - Isaac D. fionda Mathew Visscher ) (.

David Van Renselaer laid before the Board an Account of Monies paid out at different Places in bringing to Goal John Sloss, Robert Sloss and others who had been guilty

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of several Robberies the whole amounting to £15 „ 14^8 1778

ordered that the Secretary pay the same -- Nov. 5.

The Worshipful John Barclay Esq^ laid before the Board two Papers the one being a Remonstrance presented to him by George White EsqT and a Number of other Persons setting forth that Aron Hammond the Person therein mentioned is a Person disaffected to the Cause of America and praying that he may not be permitted any longer to keep a Tavern, the other being a Recommendation from a Number of Persons in Favour of the said Aron Hammond -- The Board having taken the above Recommendation and Remonstrance into Consideration do order that a Letter be wrote to the said George White requesting him to appear before the Board on Friday the thirteenth Day of November Instant in Order to support the Charge by him alledged against the said John Hammond John Sloss who was to have been executed for a Robbery by him committed and received a Pardon from his Excellency the Governor was brought before the Board and it appearing to us that the said John Sloss is a [220] Person whose Testimony may be very material in Order to convict several Persons now confined in Goal of Robberies and other Olfences therefore ordered that the said John Sloss enter into a Recognizance to appear at the next Supream Court to be held at the City Hall of the City of Albany on the third Tuesday in January next or wheresoever the said Court shall then be held 2 -- John Sloss on Recognizance in £50 --o-- The original voucher, receipted for David Van Rensselaer by John Van Rensselaer, Jr., is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 166, State Comptroller's office.