Mathew Visscher Esql informed the Board that on a Settlement with Bethuel Washburn Assistant Commissary of Issues he had found due to this Board a Ballance of three hundred and eighty one Pounds of Beef -- Lieu' John Hoogkerk having been cited to appear before this Board was Examined with respect to Duncan M^Connelly and the Examination of the said John Hoogkerk agreeing in every perticular with that of Nehemiah Sealy -- Ordered that the same be reduced to Writing and filed --

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John Cittamon who was last year with Brant & who 1779

May 28. since his' return home has been concerned in several Robberies having been apprehended and confined was brought before the Board and examined ordered that he be recommitted -- Col! Henry Van Rensselaer appeared before the Board and requested us to liberate from Confinement Archibald M'rNeal as the said Archibald M'rNeal is desirous of enlisting in the Regiment of New Levies now raising in this State and we having taking [jzc] the request of the said Henry Van Rensselaer into our Consideration and no perticular crime being alledged against the said Archibald MfNeal Therefore resolved that he be discharged from Confinement accordingly on his Enlisting in the said Service -- Adjourned -- [54] Met Albany 29 h May 1779 l . 1779 May 29. Present

John M. Beeckman Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher

A Letter from Peter Silvester Esqr dated 28- Instant was laid before the Board informing us that he is appointed an Executor to the Estate of his Father in Law Cornelius Van Schaack deceased that he is unable without the Assistance of Henry Van Shaack and David Van Shaack who are confined on Parole at Schodack to make any Division whatever of the said Estate and that as the necessary support of a Number of Orphans depend on a Settlement thereof he prays that they may be permitted for a few days to come Lieutenant William Colbrath was paid a reward of fifty dollars for apprehending John Citnam alias John Cittemon, on May 8, 1779. -- Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 168, State Comptroller's office.