This Twentyfirst day of NoV 1755 appeared before me Dirck W : Ten Broeck one of his Majesties Justices of the peace for the City & County of Albany Peter Livingston Dirck Swart Tim° Connor Jacob Decker and James Elliot and made Oath on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty god To the Truth of the above warning and their Respective answers.

Sworn Before Me Dirck W : Ten Broeck.

(Endorsed) 21st jvbi>r 1755 Affidavit of Peter Livingston and others. 6 Dec 1755. Read in Council

ANOTHER RIOT & LOSS OF LIFE.

At a Council held at Fort George, in the City of New York on Saturday the fourteenth" day of May 1757. Present, His Excellency Sir Charles Hardy Knt Cap* Gen^ &c

M^ Kennedy M' Cliamber L* Gov. De Lancey M^ Smith. His Excellency communicated a Letter from Rob' Livingston Jun Esq Proprietor of the Manor of Livingston of the lO''' Inst.

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and copies inclosed tlierein of Several Affidavits with the Copy of an Inquisition taken on the body of a Man Killed lately in a Riot in tlie Manor of Livingston representing the Circumstances of that Riot, that another man is since Dead of the Wounds he received That the Rioters threaten him in his Person and Estate, and requesting a Company of 50 men to be quartered at the Manor house to protect him liis Family and Estate from the Rioters

Tlie Council were of Opinion that the Facts are not sufficiently proved to Warrant the Issuing a Proclamation to Apprehend the Rioters and therefore that M^ Livingston should obtain Affidavits setting forth the Facts at large, the Place where the Riot happened, the Names of the Persons concerned in it, and the Distance of such Place from Hudson's River, tliat the Council may upon the Original Affidavits being laid before them, judge what it may be proper for their Government to do therein.