the burthen and heat of the day could not bear the toil of moving about from year to year. He wants to go where we can settle down and tarry, and there is boys enough to come here and whip out the gentiles. It is his opinion that we should locate on the seacoast or some of the tributary streams where we can command the shipping and have the benifits of the commerce. Either in or are tributary streams where any amount of shipping can be moored. I <​He​> beli[e]ves if we were to go there five hundred men would be able to defend us from any foreign foe. He believes that in one year we might establish ourselves so that no power could overthrow us. He feels as though when we made a move it should be to a place where we can settle down permanently. He is willing to go any where—where this can be done and what is three months travel to obtain this. [p. [91]]