John Chandler and his family, who accompanied the Gordon families on their journey to Lincolntown, spent the night in the township under the hospitable roof of Joseph Garland. The next day they found quarters in the cabin of Justus Harriman, where they remained until the first of May. Mr. Chandler had purchased of Arnold Murray his interest in lot eight, range nine, which joined Mr. Harriman's lot. Mr. Murray bad felled an opening on this lot three years earlier and had raised one or two crops there. Henry Merrill, who married a granddaughter of John Chandler, now owns and occupies the same lot.

Mr. Harriman's little cabin afforded close quarters for his own family. There was scarcely more than standing room for two families. Lodgings for the Chandler family must be sought elsewhere. Necessity often enforces compliance with accommodations that accord neither with choice nor convenience. In this case it compelled the Chandler family to resort to the barn for lodgings. Beds were, therefore, placed in the barn and comfortably furnished. The inconvenience in the case was in getting to and from the barn through the snow and water of the warm spring days. Repairing to the barn for the night without adequate protection for the feet, the hosiery of the family became saturated with water. Cold nights followed warm days and the footwear would freeze. Fruitful in expedients, Mrs. Chandler wrung the water from the hosiery and placing it between the feather and straw beds it came out in the morning in good condition for use.