Renselaer's Regiment belonging to the nine Months Service who the said Zachariah Butler by a Recognizance entered into before this Board engaged to deliver up Ordered that the said Elisha Rodgers be delivered over to Col Henry K Van Renselaer Commanding the Regiment of new Levies. An Extract from the Minutes of the Committee of the City and County of Albany was laid before the Board wherein they recommend to us to cite before us John Klock an Inhabitant of this City who they look upon as a Person

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extremely dangerous to the State on Account of his Utter 1779 July 14- Disaffection to the American Cause Ordered on Considering the same that the said John Klock be cited to appear before the Board this Afternoon. Another Extract from the Minutes of the Committee of the City andCounty of Albany was laid before the Board wherein they recommend to us an Enquiry into the Conduct of John Cobham & Ivy Chambers who are prisoners of War and who they conceive as such ought not to be trusted with so much Liberty as they at present do each of them enjoy Ordered also that they be severally cited to appear before the Board this Afternoon.

The Board then adjourned.

Met Albany i6h July 1779 1779 July 16. Present

John M Beekman | Isaac D. Fonda / Mathew Visscher )

jacobus Hoogtaling one of the Party of the Robbers infesting the Neighborhood of Pocsink Hellebergh &c who has been with Brant and Butler at the Destruction of the Settlements on the Mohawk River having been apprehended was brought before the Board Ordered that he be examined. Jacobus Hoogtaling having been examined Ordered that he be committed & that a Mittimus be made out to the Coaler to take him into his Custody.