discharged on taking oath of allegiance, 747- Palmertown (Palmerton, Parmer- town), Saratoga district, N. Y., residents of, 97, 109, 128, 526, 536; several persons at, harbor and conceal party from enemy, 405. Paper, kind used for minutes of Albany board, 63; accounts for, paid by Albany board, 173- 174, 292, 446. Paper currency. See also Money. Paper currency, counterfeiting, raising, passing or depreciating of, how punished, 37-39; coun- terfeit, 114, 282, 283, 285, 287; secreted by robbers, 336-337; certain issues of, exchanged for bills of another date, 337; effects of its depreciation on wages, 375; compensation of commis- sioners in, 441; forfeited re- cognizances paid in, 603, 737; persons accused of depreciating 681, 706, 707; depreciation of commissioners' pay in, 815, 816, 817, 818, 819. Papist, Chrtstoph, Hessian deserter from British army, takes oath of neutrality, 204. Paps. See Pabst. Pardons, sought for accomplice In robbery who turned State's evidence, 53, 259; granted from death penalty by Governor Clinton to robber, 53, 209, 279; Albany board recommends pardon to prisoner for State's evidence against robbers, 103; sought by tory deserter from British army, 284. Parle, Joseph, of Claverack dis- trict, husband of Susannah Parie, 347. Parle, Susannah, of Claverack district, her deposition against Angus (Teunis) McDonald and Dr. Thompson, 347, 475, 499; cited before Albany board as witness, 548. Park. See Parke, Parks, Parke. See also Parks. Parke, James, prisoner, released on bail, with conditions, 715. Parker, Isabel, of Tryon county, accused of harboring persons from enemy, 733; to remove from place of abode, 733. Parker, James, of Tryon county, accused of harboring persons from enemy, 733; to remove from place of abode, 733. Parker, William, of Tryon county, charged with harboring persons from enemy, 733; committed, 733- 172 State of New York Parkerson, Regina, witness against Adam and Rudolph Paps, 241, 242. Parks. See also Parke. Parks, , witness for Joatham Bemus, 305. Parks, james, prisoner, delivered to Albany board by General Stark, 245. Parks, James, comes from enemy, 524; examined and confined, 524. Parks (Park), John, of Harpers- field, farmer, prisoner, removed to hospital on account of illness, 219; released on bail, 273; his surrender by bailsman de- manded, 602; released on bail, 613. Parmateer, Mrs., confined on sus- picion of being accessory to robberies, 214; her release on bail to be permitted, 214. Parmertown. See Palmertown. Paroles, system of issuing, 44; opinion of governor taken as to, 44; disallowed, 44; prisoner on, allowed to return temporarily to sick wife, 47 ; release of wit- ness in murder trial on, 58; issued to prisoners by Albany board, 131; issued to Indian minister, 158; issued to Henry Cuyler, 184; issued to exchange tories, 237, 244; issued to Henry Van Schaack, 241; is- sued to Timothy Bussing, 264; issued to tories removed from Albany to Schodack, 269, 274, 309, 312, 322; issued to Jacob Paroles — continued. Legrange, within limits of Al- bany, 286-287, 288-289; gov- ernor empowered to discharge from restrictions of, 289; issued to John Gumming within limits of Great Imbocht, 295; issued to John D. Goes within limits of Schodack, 311, 369; issued to Zadock Wright within limits of Kings district, 312, 453; tory asks extension of bounds of, 339; paroled tories at Schodack allowed to go to Kinderhook to settle estate, 349-350, 352; paroled tories to be confined in jail, awaiting exchange, 476; these persons to be conducted to Fishkill, 477; given by tories sent to Fishkill, 482, 484, 506; tories accused of violating, 506; given by tory whom illness pre- vents from proceeding to Fish- kill, 512; prisoner on, applies for permission to be exchanged, ^^-836. Parr, James, captain, at Schoharie, 355' 35^^ » letter to, concerning continental soldier, 356. Partherton. See also Patherton. Partherton, John, dissuades friends of liberty from taking up arms, 469; arrested, 469, 470; com- mitted, 471. Partherton (Parthington), Mary, dissuades persons from taking up arms, 470; committed, 471; to be removed to enemy's lines, 504. i I 4 Index— Commissioners for Conspiracies 173 Parthington. See Partherton, Patherton. Passes, 35; given to deserters from Burgoyne, to go at large in Al- bany county, 39, 207, 224; system of issuing, by Albany county board, 40-41; to enter American camp or place, 40; to go out of New York, 40, 41 ; to Canada, 40, 58, 208, 248, 545, 547; to British lines in New York city, 40, 41, 58, 248, 252; refusal of, 40, 41 ; to British military prisoners, 41, 255; to Poughkeepsie, 41, 206, 222; to Charlotte county, 41; to New Jersey, 41, 365, 366; to Pennsyl- vania, 4 1 ; refusal of, to Benning- ton, Vt., 41, 356; issuance, contingent upon certificate in certain cases, 41, 365, 366; Al- bany board not to issue except by vote of three commissioners, 41, 394; forging of, 41; Albany board gives, to