The districts of Albany and Schoharie was infested by Tories, and young Schoolcraft was ever on the _qui vive_ to ferret out this most insidious and cruel of the enemy's power.

On one occasion he detected a Tory, who had returned from Canada with a lieutenant's commission in his pocket.

He immediately clapped spurs to his horse, and reported him to Gov.

George Clinton, the Chairman of the Committee of Safety at Albany.

Within three days the lieutenant was seized, tried, condemned and hanged.