head to foot. A man by the name of was also tarred at the same time. Three days afterwards the mob assembled in great numbers, bearing a red flag, and proclaiming that, unless the Society would leave “en masse,” every man of them should be killed. Being in a defenceless situation, to avoid a general massacre, a treaty was entered into and ratified, by which it was agreed that one half of the society should leave the by the first of January, and the remainder by the first of April following. In October, while our people were gathering their Crops and otherwise preparing to fulfil their part of the treaty, the mob again collected without any provocation, shot at some of our people, whipped others, threw down their houses, and committed many other depredations; the members of the Society were for some time harrassed, both day and night, their houses assailed and broken open, and their women and children insulted and abused. The Store house of & Co. was broken open, ransacked, and some of the goods strewed in the Streets. These repeated assaults so aroused the indignant feelings of our people that a small party thereof on one occasion, when wantonly abused resisted the mob, a Conflict ensued, in which one of our people and some two or three of their assailants were killed, This unfortunate event raised the whole in Arms, and we were required forthwith to surrender our Arms and leave the . Fifty one guns were given up, which have never been returned or paid for to this day. Parties of the mob from 30 to 70 in number, then scoured the Country in every direction, threatening and abusing women and children until they were forced, first to take shelter in the woods and prairies at a very inclement Season of the year, and finally to make their escape to , where the people permitted them to take refuge for a time. After the Society had left , their buildings, amounting to about two hundred, were either burned or otherwise destroyed, with a great portion of their crops, as well as furniture, Stock &c. for which they have not as yet received any renumeration. The Society remained in , nearly three years, when in Compliance with the demands of the citizens there, it was determined to remove to that Section of the Country, known afterwards as . In order to secure our people from molestation, the members of the Society bought out most of the former inhabitants of what is now , and also entered much of the wild land, then belonging to the in that Section of [p. [2]]