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Committee for Dutchess County, New-York

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DUTCHESS COUNTY (NEW-YORK) COMMITTEE.

In Committee, November 27, 1775.

Ordered, That Captain John Schenck take in custody, and confine in jail, Jacobus Ostrum, Johannes Medlar, and Barent Lewis, and keep them in safe custody until the further order of this Committee or the Provincial Congress.

And further Ordered, That John Child, Esq˙, Zephaniah Platt, Dr˙ Peter Tappen, and Colonel John Freer, be a Committee to examine the aforesaid persons, and such other persons as they may think proper to call upon, and transmit a copy of the said examination to the Provincial Congress in New-York, and return a copy thereof to this Committee, at their next meeting.

MELANCTON SMITH, Secretary.

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