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William Decker, a resident of Richmond County New York, says: 

I was at Shandy Hall on the 12th day of Dec 1866, and saw the commencement of the fight that occurred on that day there. When the difficulty first occurred, which was at the stable or "gin-mill" as I called it, I was there and saw the following parties all drinking. There were present Madison Morgan, Wm McCarty, Hamilton Dudley & Cyrus Harding (all white) and they were pretty well under the influence of liquor. There was two colored men present, named Lewis Jones & Wm Glasgo. The latter was selling liquor from a demijohn, in the cellar under a stable. Lewis Jones was standing near the stable, when Hamilton Dudley a white man mounted a horse and commenced trying to make the horse kick Lewis Jones. Jones got astride of the tongue of a wagon that lay on the ground, for the purpose of better protecting himself from the heels of Dudley's horse. Dudley told the negro that if he did not get off the wagon tongue, he would get off his horse and knock him in the head, and kept calling the negro a dam black son of a bitch. 
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