But were informed that they propose
dividing the Meeting & Building 2 new
houses this summer one on each side
of the River having often met with
Difficulty in crossing still water --

2nd Day morning Benjamin Iddings
proposed setting out with us having
victuals provided we set out early
& Rode to Thatcher's 18 miles Crossed
Loramies Creek & a large Branch of
the great Miami riding thro it being
about the saddle skirts. after Staying
sometime we set out in company with
thatcher & rode to Flins swimming
our Horses across the second Crossing
of Loramies Creek where we put up
for the Night & slept on the Floors
The land this Day mostly good tho'
much of it is too flat to settle on
before we reached thatchers we passed
several miles thro' the woods where the
the trees were lined with Pigeons nests [?]
some times 20 or thirty in one tree