limits of, pending in- quiry into character, 338; five prisoners at fort in, delivered to Albany board, 360; Samuel Stringer, alderman of, 368; ac- cused person to surrender him- self to jailer of, on failure to disprove charges, 415; per- sons confined by order of magis- trates of, 442, 445, 446, 456, 458, 479; list of prisoners in jail of, to be prepared, 443; person on his way to Canada apprehended by order of magis- trates of, 447 ; Colonel Goose Van Schaick commanding offi- cer at, 450; suspicious charac- ters traveling through, to be deterred, 451; suspected per- son in, examined, 501; sus- pected person in, cautioned not to leave without pass, 514, 594; witnesses cited to appear at city hall in, 516; pass to Tryon county conditioned on promise of return to, 533, 539; counter- feit money circulated in, 545; lO State of New York Albany, city — continued. bailed person forbidden to leave, 549; efforts made in, to dis- suade persons from bearing arms, 552; Coxsackie militia in, 565; Albany board meets at city hall in, 582; prisoner granted liberty of city hall in, 600, 602-603; inhabitants of, sign petition in behalf of Jane Moffit, 619; suggestion that soldiers be sent from, to Helder- bergs, 676; delinquents to be brought to city hall of, 679; prisoner on way to, escapes, 684; person advised to sur- render to commissioners at, 695; fort in, marks limit of residence prescribed to bailed person, 703; party of levies detained in, 728; encounter with danger- ous tory near, 729; Thomas Chittenden gives pass to, 739; despatches from Canada brought to, 755, 759, 760; cap- ture of resident in neio-hbor- hood of, 759; supposed plot to kidnap mayor of, 763; person returning from Canada lurking near, 767. Albany county, 82; 83; 86; 88; 89; 105; 680; commissioners for conspiracies in, 9, 12, 29, 33, 35, ff., 42, 43, 63, ff., 67, 79; night watch in, 20; representa- tion of grievances from districts of, received by legislature, 27; assemblymen from, 31, 48; only incomplete minutes extant of Albany county — continued, commissioners in, 36, 63, 64; meetings of Albany board, where held, 36; secretary, treas- urer, doorkeeper of Albany board, 37; deserters from Bur- govne given passes to go at large in, 39, 86, 89, 91, 98, 133, 159, 207, 224, 352; rangers employed by committee of city and county, 47 (note); dis- turbances by disaffected per- sons in, 50; correspondence kept up between Poughkeepsie and Albany boards, 51; rob- beries in, 52, 98; secretary of committee of city and county, 65 (note); officers in regiments of, to report names of men absent from their homes, 139; request to representatives of city and county in assembly, 150; oath of neutrality taken before committee of, 200; com- mittee of, confines tor)-- suspect, 2 :1; officers of militia in, to ref/Jit names of persons who have joined enemy, 238; per- son paroled by committee of, 264; court of general sessions of, 265, 274; information sent to representatives of city and county in legislature, 268; negro conimed by committee of, 304; restrictions imposed by com- mittee of, 331; committee of, advises that dangerous person be cited before commissioners, 386-387; committee of, advises Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies 1 1 Albany county — continued, restriction of liberty of tvvo prisoners, 387; committee of, asked to refrain from granting passes except on recommenda- tion of Albany board, 394; accused person to surrender himself to jailer of, on failure to disprove charges, 415; dis- turbances caused by tories in, 443; notices to persons under recognizance posted in different parts of, 445; pretense of sus- picious persons arrested in pass- ing through, 445; man from Massachusetts forbidden to re- main in, 456; sundry inhabitants of, complain against Shakers, 469; connection with disaf- fected inhabitants of, disproved by oath, 473; copy of act of July I, 1780 to be made for every district in, 508; justices of peace in, order removal of tory families, 523, 525, 541, 543, 612; justices of peace in, recommend exemptions from their orders, 525, 528-529, 612- 613; John Younglove orders removal of tory families in, 540; exemptions from removal orders granted to women in, 540, 541, 543; confiscation of property in, 548; treasurer of, 821; financial accounts of com- missioners in, 809, 814, 820, 821, 822, 823, 824, 825, 826; commission of commissioners in, 829. Albers, Conrath, deserter from British army, takes oath of neutrality, 201; allowed to live in Schoharie, 201. Alden (Aden), Ichabod, colonel, sends prisoner to General Stark, 241; charge against captain of his regiment, 300-301; capture of soldiers from his regiment, 364, 368. Alexander, Hugh, of Rensselaer- wyck Manor, blacksmith, re- leased on bail, 229; pass to Schoharie given to, 245; bails- man for John Murray, 623. Allen, Ebenezer (Ebenezar), de- serter from