walking about— no odds who he might be I any one of that meeting was to kill him and throw him aside into the brush. this passed in a manner as <​the​> above had passed— The third covenant was to conceal all these things then observed, <​that​> the Kingdom of heaven has no secrets,— and said that yesterday a man had slip[p]ed his wind, and was drag[g]ed into the hazel brush, and said he “the man that lisps it shall die” There were sever'al companies organized at this meeting, and volunteers called for, and I, having <​assigned to me​> the command of an <​the​> express company, called for volunteers wanting to be doing something to make a show— , a defendent, was in that meeting, and was appointed <​by ​> Capt of a company, whose duty it was to watch the movements of the enemy, or mob in Buncombe, and if they burnt one house in . his company was to burn 4 of theirs & men were selected who were strangers in the community where they were to act— towards the latter part of the instructions to ’s company, observed that if the inhabitants <​in the surrounding country​> commenced burning houses in , if they could not get clear of them in any other way they could <​would​> poison them off. this last remark I did not understand as being particularly addressed to , as a part of the duties of his company, but seemed addressed to the meeting generally. This meeting was on Saturday. and on the next monday I returned to [p. [93]]