1779 Could be demanded for the future good Behaviour of the Son -- Sept. 10. said Peter Schuyler & his Resolved that they be informed that this Board are not Sufficiently acquainted with the Charges alledged against them and therefore cannot yet liberate them -- Resolved that a Letter be wrote to William Wills Esq r one of the Commissioners for Conspiracies for the County of Tryon requesting him to make perticular Enquiry of and collect all the Charges against the several Persons from Tryon County now here Confined and transmit the Same to us with all possible Dispatch -- Ad journed
1779 [111] Met Albany II th September 1779 Sept. ix.
Present
John M Beekman Isaac D Fonda Mathew Visscher -j
Moses Coarson having been apprehended on Suspicion of his being a Spy from the Enemy was brought before the Board and being examined Confessed that he has been a Captain in
Col- M Keys Regiment and deserted to the c
Enemy in 1777 at Bound Broock that he has acted while with theEnemy as a Volunteer in the Artillery till two or three Days after they landed at the Head of the Elk that he then left them and went to his Place of Abode where he was made a Prisoner and carried to Canada from whence he run off and Came to this town but not as a Spy -- Resolved that Col- Van Schaack be requested to furnish a Guard to Convey the said Moses Coarson to the Army