A Reward of two Hundred Dollars having been offered to any Persons who would apprehend Johannis Groonenbagh johannis P Weeghman Casper Smith & Frederick Mouche & Ensign Hendrick Shaper having with a Party of Men apprehended & brought to Goal the said Person[s] It is therefore ordered that the above Reward be paid to [93] the said Hendrick Shafer -- M-- Halenbeeck Wife of Michael Halenbeeck Appeared before the Board according to Order whereupon she was examined as to the Robbery Committed on the said Michael Halenbeeck and then Discharged -- John Clock being a Person Disaffected to the American Cause as has appeared to this Board from the Information of sundry respecttable Persons was cited to appear, on his appearance avowing his Principles ordered that he be Confined and a Mittimus be made out to the Goaler to take him into his Custody -- 1779 Met Albany 24 th July 1779 -- July 24. Present lohn M Beekman ) > ( M , , 7. Mathew Visscher ,

Isaac D fonda ) (

An Account of ]ohn Ja: Beekman was laid before the Board for hire of his Waggon to Saratoga and Helleberg Amounting to ordered that the same be paid. Ismay was paid £ „ 2S. in this month for dieting and lodging Peter Seeger and for his own services in search of robbers. -- Revolutionary Manuscripts, vol. 40, p. 1 71, State Comptroller's office. * So written erroneously for Shafer.

Minutes of Commissioners for Conspiracies 393

Ordered that Bethuel Washburn Commissary of Issues be 1779 July 24. paid £tgj for Bread furnished by him for the State Prisoners' Nicholas C Van Den Bergh appearing according to Order produced Several Witnesses in Support of his Charge of Disaffection against Isaac Fonda on hearing of which it is resolved As the Opinion of this Board that the Charge against the said Isaac is ill founded -- Met Albany 27 July 1779 July 17.