truce to, 58; arrest ordered of persons about Fishkill bound for, 99; resident of, 175; bail required for return of tory sloop from, 201, 202; wife of Alexander White seeks permission to go to, in.f ,f;:der to solicit exchange for him, 206; soldier from Bur- goyne's army advised to go to, 247; Sarah McMichael asks permission to go to, 252; Peter Ten Broeck asks to be ex- changed for some person in, 253; his request referred to governor, 253; British and tory prisoners who are officers to be sent to, 272; person refusing oath of allegiance to be sent to, 281, 286; exchange of persons con- . +1 ■I' it 'i : : j '•-.i;0:f ,^::a:i<./5 ^'JCrfir, j(nv/c» ,8jC^ ,CC> v^^''' ,COi i6o State of New York New Yprk; city — continued, fined in, insisted on, 28 1-282; Washington orders tory officers sent to, 295; pretended deserter from, 317; return to Kinderhook of tory from, 327; despatches from, for Butler and Brant, 329; arrest of persons suspected to be from, 330; effort to ap- prehend spy from, at Hoosick, 339; suspected person from, 347; express from, on way to Canada, 351; alleged escape of prisoner from, 356; testi- mony of person from, 431; sus- pected person from, at Kinder- hook, 468; arrest of robber returning frorn, ordered, 469; British officers on way to, harbored in Livingston Manor, 475; bailed person asks to be sent to, 483; persons from, under bonds to surrender them- selves to Albany board, 515; property of person from, de- tained by justice of peace, 521; woman at Kinderhook goes to, 522, 523; Benedict Arnold's escape to, 538; evidence sought concerning tories residing in, 548; express from, entertained in Rensselaerwyck Manor, 550; British commissions sent from, 658, 665; supposed journey of suspected person to, 671; per- son from Canada said to be carrying despatches to, 678; persons from, carrying des- patches to Canada, 680; sus- I New York: city — continued, pected person from, at East Camp, 686; counterfeit money brought from, 686; tory avows purpose to go to enemy in, 707; deserter advised to go to, 708; persons at Stamford sup- posed to have been in, 723; resi- dent of, has wheat at Catskili, 734- New York: state, inquisitorial methods of, against toryism, 9, ff, 35, ff, first constitutional convention of, 10; oath of alle- giance acknowledged "free and independent State," 18, 784, 831, 832: general appropriations unasked, considered unprece- dented and dangerous to reve- nues of, 22; address from legis- lature to people of, 27-28; seven patriot counties of, 35-36; laws of, against counterfeiting, 37- 38; whigs of, obliged to reveal disloyalty, 41; senate invokes constitutional methods for sup- pression of robberies in, 54; proclamation against plundering of British subjects in, 55; main- taining that king of Great Britain had authority in or over, adjudged a felony, 55-56; General Stark disallows juris- dicaon of, over tories con- demned in Vermont, 57, 169, 170; certain Cambridge sus- spects aver allegiance to, 88; provision made for support of prisoners of, 210-211, 224; i I t I Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies i6i New York: state — continued, request to General Stark to • deliver prisoners who are sub- jects of, to Albany board, 212- 213, 232, 242, 245; subjects of, at Oniskethau join enemy, 238; alleged forfeiture of goods to, 244; inhabitants of, in enemy's hands treated with less rigor, 265; prisoners who are subjects of, delivered to Albany board by General Hand, 271; sub- jects of, confined in New York city, 282; harboring persons guilty of crimes against, 327; law of, forbids exportation of ilour, 371; tory incursion against frontiers of, 411; people of, exposed to plunder, 418; former tory seeks to become subject of, 420; security exacted for good behavior toward sub- jects of, 429, 437, persons deny jurisdiction of, 452; exchange to be sought for inhabitants of, in enemy's hands, 476; advocate of non-resistance warned not to enter, 518; tory families warned to remove from, 523, 525> 527-528, 529* 540» 541, 546, 612, 709; counterfeit money circulated in, 544; prin- ciples of non-resistance subvert constitution of, 552-553, 592; attempt to embarrass, by op- posing collection of taxes, 601; laws of, violated by public reading of British proclama- tion, 636; liberty and inde- New York: state — continued, pendence of, how threatened, 6555 disrespect to authority of, 694; oath of allegiance to, taken by persons put on bail, 718-719; form of oath of allegi- ance to, 747; request for sur- render of certain inhabitants of, 769; bailed person to do nothing inimical to liberties of, 770; commission of, creating commissioners, 829-830. New York: state assembly. See also subhead legislature. assembly, bill for creating com- missioners for conspiracies in, 14-15*, bill enlarging number of commissioners, 16; minutes of commissioners for conspira- cies to be reported to,