(see Letter on the File) Resolved that William Foster & Benjamin Richmond be severally examined respecting the Conduct of Amos Moore John Miller & Lucas Moore and it appearing from their Examinations that the Said Amos Moore John Miller & Lucas Moore have been with the Enemy therefore Ordered that the[y] be Severally Committed & that a Mittimus be made out for them Resolved that Citations be made out and sent to Nathaniel Grummond Seth Hull Isaac Howe Noah Olmstead Benjamin Brown &c job Elsworth to appear before us on Friday next to testify to such Matters as they may know respecting the Conduct of the above Mentioned John Miller -- and also Resolved at the Request of Amos Moore that Citations be made out and sent to William Rhodes Elisha Andrew &: Mathew Edmund to appear before us on Friday next to Give their Evidence respecting the said Amos Moore

Adjourned

1779 1 Met Albany 16 th September 1779 Sept. 16. [ 1 3]

Present

John M Beekman f i Isaac D Fonda Jeremiah Van Renselaer j (. Mathew Visscher

John Hunter appearing before us according to order was examined as to the Charge alledged against him of his having been with the Enemy &z he having entered into a Recogni- In George Clinton Papers, no. 2526, archives of New York State Library, where the answer is also to be found.

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zance before M Justice Roorbeeck to appear at the next r 1779 Sept. 16. Supreme Court was permitted to go at large till that time -- Nicholas Sixby being also Suspected of having been with the Enemy &c having in Consequence thereof been Cited to appear before us appeared and denying the Charge alledged against him & offering an Oath to prove his Innocence resolved that he be permitted to go at large on entering into a Recognizance to appear before the Board on or before the first day of next Month then 8c there to dispose the Same by Sufficient Witnesses -- Robert Davis being Charged with encouraging Continental Soldiers to desert was cited to appear before the Board on his appearing and denying the Charge -- Resolved that he be discharged on his entering into a Recognizance with Sufficient Sureties for his appearance before us on Wednesday next & disproving the Above Charge by Sufficient Evidence or that in Failure hereof he Surrender a Prisoner to the Goaler of this City and County of Albany