Board a Letter received from his Excellency Governor Clinton wherein he informs him that he has received Information that a Large Party of the Enemy intend to attack Kats Kill & Schohary and that Hans Seger is Collecting a Party of Men to go off & join them -- On Consideration whereof resolved that it be recommended to General Ten Broeck to order out one eighth Part of the Militia of his Brigade -- Ordered that a Letter be wrote to Lieu- Thomas Ismay requesting him to send out Peter Seeger to make Discovery of the Enemy and also to send two or more Persons of his Company to the Roe Kill and Batavia and to keep Continually in the night Scouting Parties about the Different roads to take up all Strangers 5c to report to us from time to time -- Adjourned Met Albany 10 th August 1779. 1770 Aug. 10 Present

John M Beekman f Mathew Visscher Isaac D Fonda Nicholas Schuyler of Tryon County appeared before the Board and made Application to have his Father [101] Peter Schuyler liberated from Confinement -- Ordered that he be informed that his father cannot be released unless at the Request and upon the Recommendation ofsome of the Principal well affected Inhabitants of Tryon County and that untill this is procured all Application in his favour is needless -- John Frederick having been apprehended was brought before the Board as a Suspicious Person on being examined he Confesses he has been with the Enemy last Summer and