Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
1779 amounting to £22 u 10 s u 0 d ordered that the same be June 5. paid 1 -- Joshua Griffith, John Farre, Martha Basset and John French who were on the third Instant cited to appear before the Board as Witnesses against Robert Martin now Confined in Goal appeared this day agreeable to our [59] order and the said Joshua Griffith, John Farries, Martha Basset, and John French being Examined with respect to the Conduct of the said Robert Martin they say as follows (see their Examinations on File) A Letter from Petrus Wynkoop Jun- Esq- dated 2-- Instant was laid before the Board informing us that he has been unable to have the Citations on Df Thompson & Teunis McDonald served on Account of the Absence of the said Dr Thompson Ordered that the said Letter be filed -- Adjourned -- June 7. Met Albany 7-- June 1779 -- Present
John M. Beeckman [ Issac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher ) \
In Consequence of the Act of the Legislature for enabling the Commissioners for Conspiracies to administer the Oath of Allegiance to those Persons who had refused and afterwards offered to take the same resolved that Volkert Van Veghten be cited to appear before the Board to take the said Oath -- As the Robberies at the Hellebergh and the adjacent Places still continue notwithstanding the unremitting Endeavours used by this Board to put stop to the same and as most of the well affected subjects in that Quarter unless The original voucher is in Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 169, State Comptroller's office.