Minutes of the Commissioners for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies
in Rensselaerwyck Manor, 636; arrest of certain, in Schodack, 638, 640; rescue delinquents from officer, 644-645; arrested for rescuing delinquents, 646; hold meeting in Helderbergs, 647, 650; recruiting for enemy's service, 655, 657, 740; two accused of aiding in destruction of Schoharie, 656; several on bail join enemy, 672-673; tory families north of Hudson river ordered to remove, 696; order to male members of tor}' families, 696; order for removal of tory women from region of Saratoga, 696; enlisting in Helderbergs, 699-700; information sought concerning those in Peesink, 706; certain, removed from frontier, allowed to return for effects, 711, 721; these persons to be sent back to Albany, 721; at Ballston, to be removed, 724; families of, to be removed to enemy's lines, 724; several apprehended for supplying enemy's emissaries with provisions, 733; to be removed from Helderbergs, 733-734, 737-738; one Tories — continued. confesses that he has taken oath to serve the king, 735; names of those in Major Ezekiel Taylor's regiment obtained, 735; one on bail joins enemy, 736; confined for harboring emissaries from enemy, 741; many in Durlach involved in destruction of Currytown, 749, 750, 751, 752; those removed from frontier supposed to be plotting, 754; attempt to kidnap General Schuyler, 758, 760, 765; attempt to kidnap Lieutenant John Leonard, 761; attempt to kidnap mayor of Albany, 762-763; attempt to kidnap Major McKinstrey, 767; certain, at Catskill, to be removed, 774; money received from certain, who are prisoners, 817; certification to secretary of state of names of persons refusing oath, 833-834; those removed to enemy's lines or held for exchange for refusing oath, 834-S35.
Toryism, laws of New York against, 9, fF, 55, fF; the principle of, 9; partizan literature about, 10; lenient measures for suppr'^ssing, ineftectual, 17; object of act of June 30, 1778, 17-18; act of Feb. 17, 1779, as to removal, 21 ; opinion of Westchester county petitioners as to method of repressing, 29; persons captured by Brant, exon- ""V ' ' : -''J ' 1 '■.'10 ' C';!;' I 232 State of New York Toryism — continued. erate themselves from suspicion of, 39; whigs obliged to reveal disloyalty, 41; the act of March 30, 1 78 1, against, 55; system of commissioners for conspiracies against, 55-59; commissioners discountenance lawless proceedings against, 185, 197; charge of, against tavernkeeper, 279, 289; innkeeper accused of recruiting for British army, 302; person restricted to limits of his farm on pretense of, 306; drinking health of the king, 325, 442, 618, 690, 692, 694; drinking success to British army, 330; speaking disrespectfully of congress of United States, 345, 454; harboring and concealing persons from enemy, 352, 419; obstructing execution of orders of militia officers, 357; failing to qualify on appointment to militia office, 357; rescuing drafted man from officer, 372, 379; made pretense for destroying property, 388; offensive conduct and conversation, 395; cooperating with enemy's scouting parties, 416; using expressions injurious to American cause, 421, 454, 489, 494; assisting persons to join enemy, 458, 496, 634, 721; supplying enemy with provisions, 468, 733> 762; harboring British officers, 475, 624, 633, 644, 686; harboring persons going over to Toryism — continued. enemy, 483; circulating reports injurious to American cause, 484; ascription of, removed by good behavior, 503; dissuading persons from enlisting in continental service, 606; denouncing rebels, 630; circulating British proclamation, 636, 637, 638, 645, 653, 658; harboring emissaries from enemy, 731, 733, 738, 740, 741, 762.
Towner, Gideon, summoned as witness against Egbert Ostrander and wife, 194. Townsend, , gown given by, to Henry Van Rensselaer, 146. Treason.
See also Felony. Treason, banished persons found in state, guilty of, 19, 785; the Helderbergs a hatchery of designs for, 53; adherence to king of Great Britain adjudged high treason, 55; Thomas Cummings convicted of, pardoned ^^^y legislature, 60; relations of commissioners for conspiracies in cases of, 60; Benedict Arnold's case of, 60-61; Jurie Man to be tried for, 257; officers of New Levies indicted for, 272, 299; Daniel Fraser indicted for, 334; oath to reveal, to commissioners, 504, 630-631; house to be searched for treasonable papers, 760.
Trimper, , of Esopus, suspicious person residing with, 418. 1 I .'■«7> i;tji;- ;:>5;d Index — Commissioners for Conspiracies 233 Tripp (Trip), Gideon, of Kings district, farmer, bailsman for Robert Tripp, 741. Tripp (Trip), Robert, of Achquetuck, farmer, warrant issued for his arrest, 734; examined, 738; released on bail, 741. Truax, Isaac I., of Albany, innkeeper, bailsman for Jacob J.
Truax, 507, 589. Truax, Jacob (T.) J. (I.), of Albany, innkeeper, tory suspect, affidavits respecting, 454; warrant for his apprehension,