<​July 1​> of whose society I had been deprived for four months. Just at dark, the Sheriff and jailer came to the with our supper. I sat down and ate. There were a number watching. After I had supped, I whispered to the Jailer to blow out all the candles but one, and step away from the door with that one. All this was done. The Sheriff then took me by the arm, and an apparent scuffle insued— so much so, that those who were watching, did not know who it was the Sheriff was scuffling with. The Sheriff kept pushing me towards the door, and I apparently resisting, [HC 3:465] until we reached the door, which was quickly opened and we both reached the street. He took me by the hand and bade me farewell, telling me to make my escape, which I did with all possible speed. The night was dark. After I had gone probably one hundred rods, I heard some person coming after me in haste. The thought struck me in a moment that the mob was after me. I drew a pistol and cocked it, determined not to be taken alive. When the person approaching me spoke, I knew his voice, and he speedily came to me. In a few minutes I heard a horse coming. I again sprung my pistol cock. Again a voice saluted my ears that I was acquainted with. The man came speedily up and said he had come to pilot me through the country. I now recollected I had left my wife in . I mentioned it to them, and one of them returned, and the other and pursued our journey as swiftly as we could. After I had gone about three miles, my wife overtook me in a carriage, into which I got, and we rode all night, It was an open carriage, and in the month of February 1839. We got to the house of an acquaintance just as day appeared. There I put up until the next morning, when I started again and reached a place called Tenney’s grove; and to my great surprise, I here found my family, and was again united with them, after an absence of four months, under the most painful circumstances. From thence I made my way to where I now am. My wife after I left her, went directly to and got the family under way, and all unexpectedly met at Tenney’s Grove. . [HC 3:466]