I sliould be glad to receive Yonr Honour's Directions, if any are necessary to be sent, to the Judges and Justices of Albany, with respect to t!ie prisoners that we have apprehended, who are either imprisoned or bound over to appear tliere, at tlie next General Session of the Peace, which will open on tlie first Tuesday of next month. --

Relying upon the Vigilance and Activity of this Government, for tlie restoring a General Tranquility to the poor People on the Borders

I am,

with all due respects.

New York Youi- Honours most humble Serv*

29th May. 1755. lloa' Livingston Jun^.

MESS^« SMITH & LIVINGSTON TO LT. GOV. DELANCEY; ENCLOSED IN THE PRECEDING.

New York 28th May 1755.

May it Please Your Honor

In Obedience ^to Your Order of Yesterday, we beg leave to lay before You in Writing, the Account then Verbally given, concerning the Proceedings of Sundry Persons of tlie Massachuset's Bay Government last Week.

On Friday tlie 16th Instant, at the Request of Robert Livingston Jun"" Esq"", we set out from his House at the Mannor of Livingston, with an Intent to meet a Committee appointed by the General Court of the Massachuset's Bay, to transact Sundry Affairs relating to the Lands Claimed in Common by both Provinces. We proceeded to Tac]ionick,and were there informed, tiiat about One Hundred Men had in the Morning, passed Southward under the west Side of Tachonick Mountains, and from thence Westward towards Hudson's River, and tliat their Business was to run lines for new Townships, to be laid out and settled under the Massacliuset's Bav Government. In the