The debt had become due to a man who had worked for us in the building of a saw-mill.

I arranged the matter without going to jail, but before I could return to Port Stanley, my family, kindly assisted by Mr.White, had departed for Buffalo.

The weather was cold and the lake very rough, but they safely arrived in Rochester, after a journey of three days.

During their passage up the lake my oldest daughter took a severe cold, from which she never recovered.
I returned to the colony to attend to the duties of my office, and to close my business with the colony, preparatory to joining my family, who were now settled in Rochester, but in very different circumstances from those in which they had left it.

I had deposited quite a sum of money in the Rochester Bank; but our continual expenditures at Wilberforce, in my journeyings for the benefit of the colony, and in the transacting of business pertaining to its interests, had left not one dollar for the support of my family, or to give me another start in business.
Nevertheless, I felt willing to submit the case to Him who had known the purity of my intentions, and who had hitherto "led me through scenes dark and drear," believing he would not forsake me now, in this time of need.
Consoling myself with these reflections, I renewed my endeavors to do my best, leaving the event with my God..