door and I apparently resisting till 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 pistle cock— again a voice saluted my ears that I was acquainted with. the man came speedily up said he had come to pilot me through the country. I now recollected I had left my wife in the jail I mentioned it to them <​&​> one of them returned and the other and myself 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 ’39 <​1839​> we got to the house of an acquaintance just as day appeared. there I put up till the next evening and <​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 month under the most painfull 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 Tenneys Grove.