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. I shall do all in my power to restrain the inhabitants of this Government from Acts of Violence, but still I must protect them against the Acts of Violence & injustice by riotous persons under Pretence of the jurisdiction of Mass** Bay in the ancient settlements of this Province I have already sent the opinion of his Majesty's Council to Gov Shirley on the methods proposed for putting an end to the disturbances on the Borders at this Critical juncture & shall gladly come into any reasonable method for that purpose I have seen the proclamation you issued & sliall only observe that it appears by M"" Livingston's affidavit that the place were Race unhappily was killed is within this Province & cannot by any pretence, as I conceive, be within Mass's Bay.