Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
Ensign Peter Magee of Col' Gansevoort's Regiment laid 1779 May 8. before the Board an Account of Monies by him laid out for his Expences when after a spy from New York at Hosick by our order and also for Money advanced by him to a Guide when after a Party of Robbers in the whole amounting £2 7 „ 10 s „ 8 d ordered that the Secretary pay the same 1
Lieutanant Jonathan Sever laid before the Board an Account of his Services when after a spy from New York with Ensign Magee amounting to £2 „ o „ o ordered that the Secretary pay the same -- 2
A Letter from David Van Schaack (confined on Parole to certain Limits at Schodack) was laid before [43] the Board wherein he requests us to allow him Permission on
Account of his 111 State of Health to ride on Horseback a Mile or two beyond the bounds prescribed him by his Parole resolved that he be informed that the Board will take the same into Consideration at some future day -- Adjourned -- Met Albany 10 th May 1779 1779 Present May io.
John M. Beeckman / \ Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher \ ( Hugh Mitchell William Lee who was on the 7!!? Instant brought before this Board in consequence of a Letter from Peter R. Livingston Esq^ and was then ordered to remain within the Limits of this City and to appear before this Board when calledupon appeared this day and laid before the Board a Recommendation signed by Major Samuel Ten Broeck and Hendrick Pulver Esq- by which the[y] certify that they have been acquainted with the said William Lee upwards of The voucher is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 1 54, State Comptroller's office. * Ibid, p. 152.