A Party of Continental Troops having apprehended & 1779 Apr. 20. taken Prisoners James Kelly, Francis Fall, Adam Haines and Hendrick Stater who were on their way to Join the Enemy & they being delivered over to this Board by the Honorable Brigadier General Clinton and being examined and it appearing from the Examination of James Kelly that Anthony Kersikon has advised him the said James Kelly to go to the Enemy and the said Anthony Kersikon being now Confined in Goal by Virtue of a Civil Process resolved that the Goaler be directed to detain the said Anthony Kersikon in his Custody notwithstanding a discharge from the Process

on which he is now Confined -- [33 ] J°h n Caine having been apprehended as a suspicious Person by Naning Visscher Esq^ Justice of the Peace was brought before the Board and not being able to give a good Account of himself therefore resolved that he be confined and that a Mittimus be made out for him -- Adjourned -- Met Albany 21^ April 1779 1779 Apr. 21. Present

Jeremiah Van Rensselaer - Mathew Visscher Isaac D. Fonda

Peter Seger who sometime since was confined for being concerned in a Robbery committed on Teunis Van Slyck and has since broke Goal came this day and surrendered himself a Prisoner to this Board and informed that Hans Waltymier is latelycomes from New York as an Express with dispatches for Butler andBrandt and that he will provided the Board give him his Liberty undertake to apprehend the said Waltimyer with his dispatches and bring to us and having, great Reason to suppose the above Intelligence to be true