I copy the following from the public prints

About 1 o’clock <​in the​> afternoon I started for Shokoquon, with Mr. and Elders and on Sleighs, when we came on the Prairie it was so extremely cold I proposed to to wait till tomorrow, but he chose to go forward, and we arrived in safety at Mr. Rose’s, where we had supper, and in the evening I gave a long exposition of Millerism. That night I slept with . [HC 5:277]

<​16​> Thursday 16. After breakfast we proceeded towards Shokoquon: After travelling five miles brother and ’s Sleigh upset. hurt his hand, the horse ran away, and we brought it back, after dinner at Mc.Queen’s Mills we went to Shokoquon, viewed the place and found it <​a​> very desirable <​location​> for a City. When we returned to the place where we dined. prayed, and I preached to a large and attentive audience two hours— (from Revelations xix<​ch​>. 10. <​v​>) and proved to the people that any man that denied himself as being a prophet, was not a preacher of righteousness. They opened their eyes and appeared well pleased. When we had returned as far as Mc.Queens Mills halted and proposed to call. While waiting a moment ’s horse ( came with our Company) which was behind, ran and jumped into our Sleigh as we jumped out, and thence over our horse and the fence, Sleigh and all, the Sleigh being still attached to the horse and the fence 8 rails high, and both horses ran over lots and through the woods clearing themselves from the Sleighs and had their frolic out without hurting themselves or drivers. It was a truly wonderful feat, and as wonderful a deliverance for the parties— We took supper at ’s, and I staid at Mr. Rose’s that night. [HC 5:278]

invited the brethren to come to my house on Monday next to chop and pile up my wood. <​17​> Friday 17 returned with me to my house, where we arrived about noon, and I enjoyed myself by my own fire side with many of my friends around me, the remainder of the day— proposed to give me one fourth of the City lots in Shoquoquon.

<​18​> Saturday 18. Mostly about home and at the . several called for Council on points of Law. Esqre. of called on me, he had hurt his horse, and said it [p. 1471]