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.

Adjourned -- 1779 Met Albany 23^ June 1779 June 23. Present

John M. Beeckman ) ' Isaac D. Fonda Mathew Visscher )

Samuel Stringer Esqr one of the Aldermen for this City appearing before the Board informed us that he has [75] by Virtue of a Law of this State confined Barent Whitacre for the space of twenty Days for refusing to furnish his Waggon and Horses for transporting Stores to the Westward for the purpose of the Western Expedition and also for not paying

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the sum of ten Pounds as a Fine imposed on him for such 1779 Jane 23. his Refusal and that the said Barent Whitacre now consents to pay the said fine whereby he will obtain his Release from Confinement and as the said Barent Whitacre is a disaffected Person whose going at large may be dangerous to the State he therefore recommends it to us to detain the said Barent Whitacre in Confinement resolved in Consequence of the said Information that a Mittimus be made out to the Goaler to detain the said Barent Whitacre in his Custody. A Letter from William Harper F.sqf one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Tryon was laid before the Board containing the Crime of John Waters now in Confinement & as the said Crime is not of such a Nature as to come under the Cognizance of this Board therefore resolved that the Mittimus of this Board against the said John Waters be withdrawn George Grant being looked upon as a Person of a suspicious Character and having been ordered to appear before this Board appeared resolved that he be discharged on some Militia Company in Col!