Solomon Binkus arose and held up his hand and was asked to go to the minister's room and confer with the committee.
Mr.John Adams called at the inn that evening and announced that he was to defend Captain Preston and would require the help of Jack and Solomon as witnesses.

For that reason they were detained some days in Boston and released finally on the promise to return when their services were required.
They left Boston by stage and one evening in early April, traveling afoot, they saw the familiar boneheads around the pasture lands above Albany where the farmers had crowned their fence stakes with the skeleton heads of deer, moose, sheep and cattle in which birds had the habit of building their nests.

It had been thawing for days, but the night had fallen clear and cold.

They had stopped at the house of a settler some miles northeast of Albany to get a sled load of Solomon's pelts which had been stretched and hung there.

Weary of the brittle snow, they took to the river a mile or so above the little city, Solomon hauling his sled.