Charles Rosseter a Deserter from Burgoynes Army having been apprehended and brought before the Board and it appearing from the Information of sundry well affected Inhabitants that since the Time of his Desertion he has behaved himself in a becoming manner -- Whereupon resolved that it be recommended to him to remove from this Part of the Country on account of it's disaffection.

Adjourned -- Met at the Hellebergh 22? d June 1779 1779 June 22 .

Present

John M. Beeckman Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher |

Derick Van Der Wilger being brought before the Board and it appearing from his examination and the Information of his Neighbours that by Reason of his Illness and the distresses of his Family he has not been able to render his Country the services he otherwise might have done and that he had taken the Oath of Allegiance resolved that he be discharged -- [ 74] J an Bradt being brought before the Board on being

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1779 Examined says that he was informed by Jacob Halenbeeck & June 22. Mathew Halenbeeck that a Party of Robbers intended to Robb him the said Bradt and Isaa[c] Price That the said Halenbeeck's are disaffected Persons that they have a Brother whose Name is Arie Halenbeeck and who is married to Wormer's Daughter who keeps in the Woods and has understood that the said Arie Halenbeeck has been on his way to the Savages as far as Schohary Kill that he has also been informed that Anthony Lane and Bob Ruff are among the Robbers. Gerrit Seeger being brought before the Board was examined upon his Examination says That last Sunday forthnight he was at Harmanus Van Alstyne's where he found a Serjeant and Corporal of Col; Alden's Regiment who said the[y] came in search of Van Alstyne's Son who had deserted their Regiment that after a little while the said Van Alstyne who they came in search of Frederick Oliver and two others came up to the House armed and took the said Serjeant and Corporal Prisoners & carried them off and that he has not heard of them since that Time.