[Hosea Stout Diary] Wednesday Nov. 5th 1845. Went to the Hall at 7 as before and Sent Jas McGaw with Jas Woolsey up the river to ascertain what had become of Urban V. Stewart & G. W. Hickerson who had been up the river after a raftThey had been gone about ten days & had not been heard ofThey were to have been back in 3 days when they left home and their wives were very uneasy about them least they had fell into the hands of the mob. I Staid at the Hall till about noon and McGaw & Woolsey came back and reported that Stewart and Hickerson were on their way down the river & all was wellI then went on horse back to see how Chandler Rogers & his company of wood choppers came on, who were chopping wood up the riverall was well I then went to where Duncan McArther was chopping wood, with a company on John Robinsons land East of the City.All was well there also.
I then went home and from thence to the police and let Hunter have my horse and went to Allen Weeks and from thence to B.
Gardners and to A. Pattens on company business and then home at 8 oclock
[source: Diaries of Hosea Stout]
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