The proposition was that the Tennesseean gentleman should sell that land; that the New York gentleman should pay all the expenses and fight all the lawsuits, in case any should turn up, and that of such profit as might eventuate the Tennesseean gentleman should take a third, the New-Yorker a third, and Sam Moffett and his sister and I--who are surviving heirs--the remaining third.
This time I hope we shall get rid of the Tennessee land for good and all and never hear of it again.
[Sidenote: (1867.)] [Sidenote: (1871.)] I came East in January, 1867.

Orion remained in Carson City perhaps a year longer.

Then he sold his twelve-thousand-dollar house and its furniture for thirty-five hundred in greenbacks at about sixty per cent.
discount.

He and his wife took passage in the steamer for home in Keokuk.

About 1871 or '72 they came to New York.