Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York

Sept. 22. twenty Dollars & that he has from the Commencement of the present Contest been Disaffected to the American Cause Resolved in Consequence of the above Information that a Warrant for the immediate apprehension of the said Blackman Browning be made out & inclosed in a Letter to John Younglove Esq- [116] requesting him to have it Served & desiring him to bind over such Witnesses as are able to prove the above Charges against the said Browning to appear at the next Supreme Court of judicature -- Resolved that a Letter be wrote to Major Esselstyne at Claverack inclosing a Warrant for the Apprehension of Jacobus Hoagteling & that he be requested to have the Same Served -- It having been Suggested to the Board that there is now residing with M Trimper at Eusopas a Man whosje] name r is

Carel Koning whom there is the Greatest Reason to suspect as one of the Robbers that are daily plundering the good people of this State -- Therefore ordered that a letter be wrote to the Commissioners atEusopus requesting them to have the said Carel Koning immediately apprehended & Sent to this Board with all his -- Apparel

Adjourned --

1770 Met Albany 23 th September 1779 Sept. 23. Present

john M Beekman I

Mathew Visscher Isaac D Fonda j

Casper Smith Peter Miller was ordered to appear before the Board & examined which Examination is in the following words (to wit) (See Examination on the File)

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