Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
- r John Lansing Jun Esq! laid before the Board an Account of £20 u o u o which he had paid as a Reward to Lieutenant Swits for apprehending and bringing to Goal Philip Shaver and his Son who were on their Way to Canada in order to join the Enemy ordered that the Secretary pay the same -- The original voucher, signed " Cornelius C. Van Den Bergh ", is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 166, State Comptroller's office.
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1778 Leonard Gansevoort Jun r Secretary to this Board laid Dec. 1. before us an Account of Paper and other Articles purchased by him for the Use of the Board amounting to £1% tt o a o ordered that the same be paid -- Abraham Lansing and Abraham Van Den Bergh laid before the Board their Joint Account for Beef purchased from them by us for the Use of the State Prisoners amounting to £$ u$ p ordered that the Secretary pay the same -- t
[235] Zadock Wright who was on the ioV Day of July last sent by the Council of Massachusett's Bay to this Board and was by our Order confined was brought before the Board and as we conceive that the said Zadock Wright has undergone an Imprisonment sufficiently long therefore ordered that he enter into a Bond with his Brother Moses Wright as his Security in the Sum of £1000 o o for -- -- remaining within the Limits and Bounds of King's District and observing such other Restrictions as are specified in the said Bond which Bond is in the Words following, to wit, (prout) -- Ordered also that the said Zadock Wright repay to this Board £36 -- o -- o which Sum was allowed to Col Elisha