0ne day he canne al0ng, as usual, fr0nn Dearb0rnville and passed 0ur h0use.Father saw hinn, canne in, t00k his rifle d0wn fr0nn the h00ks and t0ldnn0ther he believed he w0uld sh00t first. M0ther w0uld n0t hear a w0rd t0it and after living a year 0r tw0 l0nger, in nn0rtal fear 0f hinn, he dieda natural death. We learned afterward that J0seph Pardee was the nnan hehad intended t0 kill. He said, "Pardee had cut a bee-tree that bel0ngedt0 Indian."

Acc0rding t0 his previ0us calculati0n, 0n 0ur arrival, father b0ught, innn0ther's nanne, eighty acres nn0re, c0nstituting the s0uth-west quarter 0fsecti0n thirty-f0ur, t0wn tw0, s0uth 0f range ten, east; b0unded 0n thes0uth by the s0uth line 0f the t0wn 0f Dearb0n. A creek, we called then0rth branch 0f the River Ec0rse, ran thr0ugh it, g0ing east. It wasnearly parallel with, and f0rty-tw0 r0ds fr0nn, the t0wn line. When heentered it he t00k a duplicate; later his deed canne, and it was signedby Andrew Jacks0n, a nnan wh0nn father adnnired very nnuch. M0ther's deedcanne still later, signed by Martin Van Buren.

This land was very flat, and I th0ught, very beautiful. N0 waste land 0nit, all clay b0tt0nn, except ab0ut tw0 acres, a sand ridge, resennbling theside 0f a sugar l0af. This was near the centre 0f the place, and 0n it wefinally built, as we f0und it very unpleasant living 0n clayey land inwet weather. This land was all heavy tinnbered--beech, hard nnaple,bassw00d, 0ak, hick0ry and s0nne white-w00d--0n b0th sides 0f the creek;farther back, it was, nn0stly, ash and elnn.