order a Party of Men of his Regiment to proceed to Newtown and there Endeavour to apprehend the Persons Complained of that the Officer who is to Command the Party be informed of the Business he is to go upon and he be Charged to Communicate his Instructions to no person Whatever --

Adjourned

Met Albany 22- September 1779 1779 Sept. 22 Present

John M Beekman I j Mathew Visscher Isaac D Fonda j i

Information having been given to this Board that Blackman Browning who is now [in] Cambridge District has been with Burgoyne & was sent for by Major Skeene as a Spy into General Stark's Army for which Piece of Service he received

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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