1st W |
Fair cool set up the loom put in a new beem pd Canfield $1.44 cts Coaltering burning brush etc back of stack |
2nd Th |
Fair smokey sold Dr Daricotte 1/2 bu potatoes at 50 cts caught 2 fish ploughing burning brush etc Mr Tainham came to day to see me |
3rd Fr |
Fair cold morning ground froze Mr Trainham finished my chimney & comenced pointing it etc ploughing finished new ground 2ith 4 furrows – grubing etc - - - |
4th Sat |
Fair cool morning I went to Chiles burg to muster & mustered Mr Kean Pd for coffin $3.50 cts. his chiles ploughing grubing Bob went to see his wife |
5th Sun |
Fair frost we went to Carmel Bro Harris preached Luke great many persons at meeting sent a letter to Mrs Dandridge |
6th M |
Fair mild grubing & ploughing the brier bottom, head of the long ditch etc |
7th Tus |
Fair cdy evening like rain fixing lge hopper finished bottom ploughing grubing etc Anna got her shucks & tops |
8th W |
Rainy day. picked over m,y potatoes & measured them up 21 bushels red & rohan 1 1/2 rohan bought 8 brooms for 40 cts Jessey had a pattern of leather for 50 cts ows for it – made a lye hopper put in ashes etc Katy had her 2nd daughter shelling coen etc etc |
9th Th |
Fair a large frost I made a new yoke broke the old one gr.[?] burning brush commenced rakeing corn beds etc etc Pd Mr Tainham 2 $ in part of the 4 |
10th Fr |
Fair foggy morning I shot at a owl in H-over Sowled Ware 2 bushels potatoes at 75 cts ows 50 cts Commenced planting corn next to the ice pond Commenced planting corn |
11th Sat |
A few drops of rain sent to mill for meal & cotton seed etc planting corn by the shop put sweet potatoes in hot bed gave the negroes holiday caught a duck in the river |
12th Sun |
A shower we went to T. Castle spent the day I came up to give out feed |
13th M |
Fair windy & cool day I came up home & went back for Thomasia – I hired Bob & Robert to plough & gave 50 cts Billy malling rails at 1/ pr hundred sent Mrs Swanns note to cart by Bro Saml to collect - - - - - |
14th Tus |
Fair a large frost and a crust on the ground saw ice.) Mr Hackett & hands came to help plough and grub hall off all the logs & wood etc burning brush etc |
15th W |
Fair cool & windy – planting corn finished the wet bottom sent to Bro Saml for 1/2 bu red potatoes col weather |
16th Th |
Fair a large frost cool morning set a turkey hired 2 hands of Anna 1 $ 25 cts for Archy 10 cts for Fany Mama sent 4 hands this evening to help plant corn planting corn |
17th Fr |
Fair mild Dr sent 3 hands to plant corn Mama sent Joh & mule finished planting all the land ploughed throughing up manure ploughing etc halling rails etc Mr Vass dined hear to day sent Winston 1 bu potatoe |
18th Sat |
Fair warm & windy halling manure on beet patch ploughing the ice pond throughing up manure planted butter beens put 1/2 bu sweet potatoes in hot bed made a manure falk sent one to the mill with a piece of iron to mend it halled 5 lodes manure |
19th Sun |
Fair warm I went to Carmel Bro Harris preached Text Joshua 24 ct 15 verse Bro Saml & Lewis & Edmond dined hear to day cut bull |
20th M |
Fair I went to Bro Saml & dined received 10 $ of him from Dr Swann Thomasia spent the day at Mr Gouldins finished ploughing by the ice pond ploughing my garden halling rails manure etc throughing up manure etc halled 4 loads manure |
21st Tus |
Fair warm finished ploughing the garden halling out manure halled 41 lodes manure throughing it up etc sent to rail road carrryed a beal to go to Richmond sold 37 1/2 cts worth potatoes 1 $ of soap 24lbs 2nd pot soap 25 lbs 3rd soap 8 1/2 [lbs] making 34 [balls?] |
22nd W |
Fair warm halling out manure halled 35 lodes ploughed over the beet patch this evening sticking peas etc |
23rd Th |
Fair warm day I went to Gouldans ville to the election voted for White pd Write $2.57 cts land tax & Jessey's feees. – manured beet patch & ploughed it etc halling manure etc – halled 18 loads manure |
24th Fr |
Fair warm a few drops rain – planted my sugar beet seed & some carrots planted cymblains halling manure rakeing up etc 18 loads manure J Dickinson is elected by 40 votes James |
25th Sat |
Rain I carryed barush to mill & had the spring mended. planted pumpkin ["patch" lined through] seed halling manure sent to mill etc dun up the fence from the gate to the swamp by corn house Edmond T Redd got 1 bu potatoes Hacket 1/2 bu 1 load manure sheared sheep – got 21 1/2 lbs clean wool from 9 sheep |
26th Sun |
Showery morning – Cdy day we went to T. Castle Mr Winston got 1.2 bu potatoes Dr for them Emily the buffalow cow had her first calf |
27th M |
Fair ploughing the cotton patch & halling manure halled 15 loads planted broom corn seed stuck peas etc Lewis Redd came over this evening Linnaeus came by at night with letter that was said was his - |
28th Tus |
Rain a little in the evening. planted cotton pumpkin seed & symblain seed etc halling manure halled 17 lodes |
29th W |
Rainy or showery day halling out manure halled 30 loads put the cows in the new cow pen turned out the sow & pigs etc |
30th Th |
Fair halling out manure for potatoe patch halled 22 loads scattering manure ploughing for corn etc cleaned out the spring |