Dear brethren,— I will give you a few particulars of our proceedings, and also of the rioters, as I have been able to collect them. Some forty or fifty of them in one night, demolished or unroofed ten houses of ours, above Blue. They came out again in the night and two of their number were taken, and that stopped their career that night.— Again they fell upon the society at the Blue, & commenced firing upon them, which was returned by the society, & one of their men was shot through the thigh. Again they came out against the society above the Blue, a battle ensued in which some two or three of their men were killed, and a number wounded and shortly died, and others were wounded but are like to recover.

Brother was shot through the bowels & his case is considered doubtful; another by the name of [Andrew] Barber was wounded and has since died; five or six more were wounded but not mortally. Another party had fallen upon the brethren in and did considerable damage. We went against them, and took one man while in the act of breaking open the . We had him before the magistrate but he refused to do any thing with him at that time. He then sued br. and myself, and others for an assault; we were prisoners in the court house for trial when the news came of the battle above Blue. The house being full they rushed upon us to kill us, but through the mercy of God we were preserved and not hurt; we saw plainly that the whole county were enraged, and preparing for a general massacre the next day. We then thought it [p. 238]