During this time the mob of Carrill county the said that all they wanted was that the citizens of should leave Carrill county and go to , and counties. The citizens finding that they must leave , or eventually starve finally agreed to leave, and accordingly preparations were made and was vacated <​avacuated​>. The first evening after we left we put up for the night in a grove of timber. Soon after our arival in the grove, a female who a short time before had given birth to a child in consequence of the exposure died. a grave was dug in the grove and the next morning the body was deposited in it without a coffin, and the company proceeded on their journey; part of them going into and part in to . This was in the <​month of​> October of 1838.

In a short time after the<​ir​> arival into and counties, messengers soon arrived informing the now citizens of and that the mob was marching to with their cannon with them threatning death to the citizens or else <​that​> they should all leave . This caused other efforts to be made to get the authorities to interfere. I wrote to <​two​> memorials one to the , and one to circuit Judge [p. [5]]