Fonda / Mathew Visscher )

jacobus Hoogtaling one of the Party of the Robbers infesting the Neighborhood of Pocsink Hellebergh &c who has been with Brant and Butler at the Destruction of the Settlements on the Mohawk River having been apprehended was brought before the Board Ordered that he be examined. Jacobus Hoogtaling having been examined Ordered that he be committed & that a Mittimus be made out to the Coaler to take him into his Custody. A Letter from George Herchemer, George H Bell & Warner Dygert dated the 13U Instant was laid before the Board wherein they request the Liberation of Peter Schuyler & John Jost Schuyler from Confinement which Letter is in the words following (to wit) prout Ordered that the above Letter be taken into Consideration.

388 State of New York

1779 Ordered that a Letter be wrote to Brigadier General July 19. Clinton inclosing a Copy of the Examination of Jacobus Hoogtaling which Letter is in the Words following (to wit) prout

The Board then Adjourned.

1779 Met Albany 19 th July 1779 July 19 - [90]

Present

John M Beekman ( Isaac D Fonda. Mathew Visscher \ |

A Recognizance of Michael Van Coughnot taken before Zepheniah Batchelor Esq r was laid before the Board Ordered that the Secretary file the same. An Affidavit was exhibited by [sic] this Board by Catharine Simpson living at Schohary setting forth that a Number of Persons a few Days ago came to her House and under a Pretence of her Husband being a Person disaffected to the American Cause did forcibly pull down her House and distroy her Furniture and Cloaths Ordered on Consideration of the same that a Letter be wrote to Johannis Lawyer & Jonas Vrooman Esq" two Justices of the Peace at Schohary recommending it to them to make an enquiry into the Root above mentioned and bind over such Persons as are concerned in it to the Peace to appear at the next supreme Court.