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During this summer I often took my little boy Willie with me riding -- and sometimes Sallie Lee also -- I sometimes left them in safe places, on the road side, to fish until my return --

I shot but bats a great deal in the evenings-; & being a good wing shot, got many a nice bird pie for our table --

On the 19th of October Will Coe left Quincy with his family, to engage in merchandising with [Jas?] Evans-, as I have already stated-; and also told of their failure-; of poor Will's sad fate-; drinking himself to the gates of death, and the miserable, blundering old doctor's of that place sealing his fate so irrevocable, and outrageously, by giving him Croton oil largely -- and of the sad fate of Will's wife I have also told-; old Mr Duncan, her uncle, moving to Manatee in the vain hope of perhaps recuperating & getting back part of his lost health-; he died & she died-; & poor little Johnnie was left a stranger in a strange land -- Johnny Coe's uncle Will Mackey went to Manatee, and took the little fellow, who was left orphanned & helpless amongst strangers, and took charge of him-; he raised him as his own child -- in Pensacola-; & John grew up a most excellent man, & a prosperous one; he became the head of a Book & Stationery Store that was very successful-; the doctors and those who were about Mrs Coe & her last sickness swept away all she had -- took every thing to satisfy their bills-; there was but little left --

On the 23rd of November I went to Lake Iammonia in my buggy -- on a ducking expedition, taking with me Dr W. S.