be permitted to remove to the Town of Brattleborough in 1779 Jan. 25. the said County of Cumberland and the Board having taken the same into Consideration do resolve that the Prayer of the said Petition cannot be granted -- Cap Robert Woodward appearing informed the Board that a Number of disaffected Persons frequently resort to the House of Mathewis Van Valkenburgh residing in the Manor of Rensselaerwyck that at a late Meeting of the said Persons at which were present John Van Valkenburgh, John Rysdorp, Leonard Thomas Witbeeck, Jacobus Rysdorp, Pool, John Pool, Harmanus Salsbury, Hendrick P. Van Buren, Peter Van Buren, Joachim Van Valkenburgh, Gerrit M. Pool, and Jacob Skinkle, he the said Robert Woodward together with his Brother in Law Joseph Fitch went to the House of the said Mathewis Van Valkenburgh in order to disperse them and that when they came there the above mentioned Persons did violently assault and beat them resolved in Consequence of the said Information that a warrant be made out directed to the said Robert Woodward to apprehend and forthwith bring before us the said Persons.

Adjourned.

[17] Met Albany 27- January 1779. 1 779 Jan. 27. Present

John M. Beeckman ) ( Mathew Visscher Jeremiah Van Rensselaer \ ( Isaac D. Fonda

Captain Robert Woodward to whom a warrant was directed to apprehend a Number of disaffected Persons appeared before the Board with Mathewis Van Valkenburgh, John Van Valkenburgh, John Rysdorp, and Leonard Rysdorp and Jacobus Pool and they being severally examined