Ron^ Livingston Jun^ Sworn this 8^^ day of May 1755. before me. W*" Smith.

LT. GOV. DE LANCET TO LT. GOV. PHIPS.

New York 12 May ]756

SiK -- I received your letter of the 28"' of April by the post on satui'day's Evening, wherein you mention the information you had received of a barbarous murder committed on the Eorders of the town of Sheffield on the body of one William Race. The liiith of the Case is this as I have been informed : One Noble

PAPERS RELATING TO TliE

a tenant of M'Renslaers within this Province with several otlier Rioters took tlie sherift' of the City & County of Albany in tliic Execution of his oflfice within his Bayliwick & carried him a prisoner into the Massachusetts Bay, where he was obliged to give Bail for his release, upon affidavits made of this riotous disorder, I issued out a Proclamation with the advice of his Majesty's Coimcil of this Province to apprehend the said Noble & those wlio assisted him in taking & carrying away the High Sheriff upon which tlie under sheriff w^nt into the Mannor of Livingston to apprehend William Race or Rees, who snapping his gun at one Matthew Furlong w^as immediately shot by the said Matthew, not within the Government of the Massachusetts Bay, but within this at 17 miles distance from Hudsons River ; the unhappy deceased was as M"- Livingston informs, his tenant, his Fathers & Grandfathers. Furlong surrendered himself to a Justice of the peace, I have ordered it should abide the law & • take his trial next June & have acquainted Gov Shirley that I will advise him of the Precise time when the Court is to be held that McArthur or any other person who can give testimony touching this affair may be heard on the trial & justice be impartially administred.