sioners at, 91, 92; commis- sioners at, send eleven prison- ers to Albany, 92-93; Albany board request commissioners at, to confine suspects about Fish- kill, 99; commissioners at, re- quested to apprehend Jacob Cortman, 144; commissioners at, consulted by Albany board on allowance to militia for pris- oners, 144; commissioners at, requested to apprehend rob- Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies 179 Poughkeepsie — continued. bers, 150; bailed person from Albany ordered to appear be- fore commissioners at, 153; commissioners at, advise Albany board of policy toward neutrals, 166; commissioners at, write to Albany board respecting ran- gers, 174; commissioners at, consulted by Albany board re- garding neutrals who avoid test of allegiance, 176; commission- ers at, informed of names of persons who refuse oath, 197; one of the commissioners at, writes to Albany board, 199; commissioners at, write to Al- bany board, 205; pass to, given to wife of Alexander White, 206; Peter Van Schaack writes from, to Albany board, 216; exchanged tories sent to, 239; tories taken below, without notice to gov- ernor, 244; examination of Esack Mosier transmitted to commissioners at, 246-247; pay- bills for conducting tories to, 258, 262; flag of truce sent from, to New York, 286 ; Albany board writes to commissioners at, about tory sent to New York, 288; commissioners at, con- sulted about sending officers of New Levies to Nevv York, 299; deserter surrenders to commissioners at, 318; Albany board writes to commissioners at, 328; commissioner at, writes to Albany board, 328; account Poughkeepsie — continued. for carrying letters to, 358; dangerous prisoner returned to commissioners at, 363; prisoner escapes from jail at, 402; pay of secretary to Albany board to equal pay of secretary to com- missioners at, 37, 441; resident of, 449; Governor Clinton writes from, to Albany board, 471; commissary of prisoners writes from, to Albany board, 477; commissioners at, to fonvard Shakers to enemy's lines, 504; commissioners at, send two prisoners to Albany, 515; com- missioners at, send to Albany person who has escaped from enemy, 561; commibsioiiers at, send to Albany person charged with stealing horses, 584; com- missioners at, write about Ann Standcrren, 589; Albany board refuses to interfere with busi- ness of commissioners at, 624; letters fonvard ed to Albany from, 722; prisoners sent to Al- bany by commissioners at, 723; person from Canada given pass to, 739; audited accounts of commissioners at, 804-805, S17- 819; cost of conveying prisoners to jail of, 806, 807; charge for messenger to, 807; charges for traveling to and from, 817, insert opp. 821; accounts of commissioners at, with state treasurer, 820, 821, 822, 824, 825, 826, 827. ..m: - . ■I/:.,' i8o State of New York Powers (Power), Jacob, of Liv- ingston Manor, farmer, bails- man for Thomas Anderson, i6i; makes affidavit concern- ing Dr. Thomas Thompson, 531; bailsman for Hans Peter Snyder, 618; arrests suspected person, 644. Powers, John, released on bail, 121. Powers, William, bailsman for David Wyng and John Powers, 121. Pownal, Vt., resident of, 185. Pratt (Piatt), Joel, of New Leba- non, farmer, refuses to take up arms, 461; confined, 461; re- leased on bail, 573. Prendcrgast (Pendergrast), Wil- liam, of Cambridge district, cited to appear before Albany- board, 220, 235, 242; proof of service of citation on, required, 286. Price, Daniel, sent under guard from Claverack to Albany, 221; committed, 221; released on bail because of injur}' received, 239-240. _ Price, David, sent under guard from Claverack to Albany, 221; committed, 221 ; accused of com- plicity in crimes of Nathaniel Morgan, 256; released on bail, 256. Price, Isaac, design of robbers against, 368. Price, William, of Schoharie, tory suspect, ordered confined, 89; released on recognizance, 116. Prices, exorbitant, prohibited by commissioners for conspiracies, 38-39, 3 io._ Primmer, Elsie, examined and dis- charged, 164-165, Primmer, Joe, Ryley's rangers ordered to search barn of, for stolen property, 135; stolen goods buried near his house, 164-165. Prince, negro, discharged from confinement by General Stark, 232. Printup, William, prisoner in Johnstown jail, petitions for re- lease on bail, 212. Prisoners. See also Felony, Tor- ies. Prisoners, commissioners for con- spiracies empowered to arrest or release, 12, 13, 24; subsist- ence of, 13; judges and magis- trates not to bail those com- mitted by commissioners, 13; deserters from British lines when confined, how released, 24, 791; release of, did not excuse from militia duty, 24, 791 ; legislature requests report about, from com- missioners, 31; guards placed over counterfeiters, paid by commissioners, 38; good money found on counterfeiters, held to reimburse persons defrauded, 38; those captured by Brant, 39; one of Burgoyne's German allies, 40; British military, seek- ing exchange, granted passes to Poughkeepsie, 41; system of •1 'C.'/' U : f! q Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies i8i Prisoners — continued. handling, by commissioners, 41-47; manner of