within British lines, 18, 19, 21, 173, 176, 177, 183, 189- 190, 191, 193, 209, 213, 217- 218, 228, 260, 288; banished, 19; lands of, attainted, 19; lands of, to be charged double taxes, 19, 785-786; act of Feb. 17, 1779, extending time for taking oath of allegiance by, 21; rejected bill (November, 1778) extending time for taking oath by, 2 1 (note); secret conductof, responsible for actof June 14, 1780,25; removal of families of, by act of July i, 1780, 25-26, 508, 523, 527, 540, 541, 560-561, 612, 619, 620, 709; notification for removal of families given by justices of peace, supervisors or commis- sioners for conspiracies, 26, 795; removal of families of, under the act of March 22, 1781, 26, 799; legislature's accusations agains", 28; several in Manor of Rensselaerwyck troublesome, 29; arrest of those who came into New York from British lines, 32; petition to legislature in favor of deported persons. ;'Jur.';'o:> .1 1 I s 228 State of New York Tories — continued. 32, 59; passes to families of, 40, 41, 58; system of arresting, 41; conduct of whigs toward, ob- jected to by Albany board, 43- 44, 185, 197; one sent from Northampton, Mass., to be con- fined at Albany, 45; tory major released by Albany board on bond, 45; ensign of Sir John Johnson's corps imprisoned at Albany, 45; Govenor Clinton recommends leniency toward certain, in prison at Albany, 45, 265; letters conveyed to, by spy from New York city, 46, 147; Albany board gives pro- tection to wife of, 47, 233; rangers employed by Albany board to ferret out, 48, 49; disturbance by, in Albany county, 50; whigs plunder wife of, 55; the act of March 30, 1781, against, 55; absurd con- versation of George Rodgers, a tory, 56, 454; Albany board orders officers of militia to make returns of, 56-57, 139, 238, 246; those judged in Vermont, in opinion of General Stark, not under jurisdiction of New York, 57, 169, 170; those to be re- moved to British lines served v/ith notice, 57, 176; cost of re- moval of, paid by themselves, 57; allowed to remove clothing and furniture, 57; names of those to be removed certified to Governor Clinton, 57; deten- Tories — continued. tion of, for exchanges, 57, 58, 175, 206, 223, 240-241; request by, for temporary suspension of removal, denied by Albany board, 58, 184; contemptuous refusal to oath by one, 60; certain, committed by commit- tee of city and county of Albany, 87, 89; certain, committed by committee of Kinderhook dis- trict, 87; one sent under guard from Northampton to Albany, 167; v/lves of those with enemy should be sent to enemy's lines, 184; pay-bill for conducting certain, to Fishkill, 189 (note); one, from Hartford, to be ex- amined in jail, 200; several pre- sent to commissioners objec- tions to oath of allegiance, 203; one released on bail because of sickness, 210; Albany commis- sioners denounce those who as- sociate with savages in warfare, 220; one sent from Albany to Ezekiel Williams, sheriff of Hart- ford county, Conn., 221; person brought before commissioners on charge of harboring, 222; persons required to explain visits of, to their houses, 222; request for arrest of one con- cealed near Worcester, Mass., 224; two returning from Canada delivered to commissioners, 232; certain, exchanged and paroled, 237, 244; petition for reimprisonment of one, 247; wlj tlO Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies 229 Tories — continued. tory advised to make conces- sions to inhabitants of his dis- trict, 248; tory escapes from guard on way to Hartford, 249; two apprehended for going to enemy, 255; pay-bill for con- ducting certain, to Pough- keepsie, 258, 262; account of goods taken by rangers from suspected persons to be ren- dered, 263; removal of, to Fort Edward, 267; application to permit return of certain, re- moved within enemy's lines, 272; order to send officers in American hands to New York, 272; one deserting from enemy delivers himself to Colonel Frederick Fisher, 284; two con- fined for corresponding with enemy, 291; two apprehended on way to Canada, 291; Wash- ington orders tliat officers of New Levies in American hands be sent to New York, 295; com- missioners at Poughkecpsie con- sulted about complying with this order, 299; meeting of, in Rensselacrvryxk, 313; warrant for arrest of those attending this meeting, 313; certain, to be removed within enemy's lines unless legislature intervenes, 319; those who have returned to Peesink from enemy's service to be apprehended, 323; those fleeing from Peesink to be in- tercepted at Schoharie creek, Tories — continued. 323; correspondence with and harboring of, an offense, 324, 325; wives of those with enemy harbor persons in concealment, 327; party of, captured on way to join enemy, 329; those offer- ing to take oath after refusing not to