SOLON ROBINSON, 1847 57 



Cultivator in June 1841 — Allow me to read it, as part & 

 parcel of our history — ^ 



At a subsequent period, Mr. Wells in coming from Wil- 

 kinson's crossing of Deep river after dark, missed his 

 course for there was no path, and got on to Deep river 

 somewhere about south of the Hodgman place & broke 

 through the ice and with great difficulty succeeded in 

 getting his horses loose, and in undertaking to get back 

 to a house on 20 mile prairie, riding one horse and lead- 

 ing the other, he came unexpectedly to a steep bank of the 

 river in the dark, and pitched headlong down a dozen feet 

 into the water and floating ice. He clung to one horse & 

 succeeded in reaching the other shore, and getting near 

 enough to the house to make himself heard by the loud 

 cries he gave as the only means of saving his life. 



About noon next day he found his other horse on a 

 little island near where they made the fearful plunge, but 

 it was near night when he found his wagon. 



At a time previous to this, his family got out of pro- 

 visions & made a supper of a big owl, and were on the 

 point of roasting a wolf, when a supply arrived. 



During this winter, the Legislature named the teritory 

 lying West of La Porte County, and North of Town, 33, 

 Porter County; & South of that, Newton County. We 

 were previously attached to St. Joseph for representative, 

 and to La Porte for judicial purposes. 



At the session of 1835-6 the teritory North of the Kan- 

 kakee was divided into Porter & Lake & the former was 

 organised, and the latter attached to it — Lake County 

 being 16 miles wide and about 32 long, and contains about 

 500 square miles, and is the North Western-most county 

 in the State of Indiana. Of its organization, I shall speak 

 by & by — I will return now to the progress of the settle- 

 ment. 



In the fall of 1834 after I settled here, old Mr. Myrick 

 & his sons Elias & Henry & Thomas Reed made claims 

 which they moved on to the next season. In the spring 



^ See Robinson, 1:160 fi. 



