Fonda Mathew Visscher \ ( Petrus Wynkoop Junf

Isaac Lawson who was some Time since liberated from Confinement and restricted to the Limits of this City appeared before the Board and requested from us Permission to return to his usual Place of Abode in the County of Tryon ordered that he be informed that the Board will take his Request into Consideration -- Received a Letter from Frederick Fisher Col! of a Regiment of Militia of Tryon County dated io 1 ! Instant informing us that he sent down to us [226] a certain Peter Davis lately an Inhabitant of Tryon County who went off and joined the Enemy last Year & now came over from them and surrendered himself to him in Hopes of being pardoned for his Offence ordered that the Subject of the above Letter be taken into Consideration -- The Board having taken into Consideration the Request of Isaac Lawson and also the Letter from Col! Fisher respecting Peter Davis do order that a Letter be wrote to Zepheniah Batchelor and Andrew Wemple requesting them to take from the said Isaac Lawson and Peter Davis a

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Recognizance to appear at theOyer and 1778 next Court of Nov. 17. Terminer to be held for the County of Tryon and for their Appearance before one of the Commissioners when thereunto required Received a Letter from Henry Van Schaack dated 1 1 11 .

Instant which Letter is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) Ordered that an Answer be wrote to the above Letter of Henry Van Schaack which is to be in the Words following to wit, (prout) -- Ordered that Andries Ten Eyck and Jacob Legrange be cited to appear immediately before this Board and that the Secretary notify them of this Order forthwith -- The Board then adjourned -- [227] Met -- Albany iq November 1778. !