 The first, titled "The Life of Amos Wilson, &c.", is a brief telling of the Wilsons' story.The writer describes himself as William's friend and claims to have visited him the night before he died; he is generally assumed to have been the farmer who lived across the Creek.The second part of the pamphlet is "The Sweets of Solitude, or Instructions to Mankind How They May Be Happy In a Miserable World", and is purported to have been written by Wilson himself.