1st M |
Fair I came up home to run a fence hired Bob & Billy & Ben to fence finished halling the rails from orchard I went for Thomasia & the children this evening came up home Linnaeus planted his Irish potatoes on the river |
2nd Tus |
Rain this evening and a heavy rain last night finished fencing the pasture fence Livvys calf died to day killed by a mule sticking peas & beans - |
3rd W |
Fair ploughed about 1/2 of the cotton patch & wed it weeding corn by the gate sticking the beens – peas etc dined at Mamas Thomasia & self |
4th Th |
Fair warm Dr Anderson sent for 3 1/2 bushels potatoes Hackett came to weed corn planted cymblain seed I sowled Olivy to W Swann for 14 $ throughing dirt to the corn in wet bottom |
5th Fr |
A small shower Vass sent 2 hands to weed corn finished the wet bottom Martha is laid up - - - weeding corn throwing the dirt from the corn & back again |
6th Sat |
Fair I went to Carmel Bro Lowery red a chapter etc Mr Vass came up this evening & helped to wed corn weeding corn by plant beds |
7th Sun |
Fair spent the day at home about the house |
8th M |
Cdy commenced cutting wheat front of the house weeding corn beets etc sent to mill for chop meal |
9th Tus |
Rain showery finished weeding beets planted 1 1/2 bushels potatoes weeding corn cutting whet etc etc sent for clover Mama went to Richmond |
10th W |
Rainy morning making caps for garden getting been sticks sent to Mama, & Mrs Swanns for straw berry vines set out 9 rows weeding corn ploughing cotton etc |
11th Th |
Rainy day mostly fine rain shelling corn working on art body made swingle tree thining corn in new ground etc budded 10 trees apple 6 cheese 4 R wildings [apple trees growing in the wild] |
12th Fr |
Rainy day north east wind cool choping bushes & briers in the corn field sharpning stakes etc I made a coamb. - - |
13th Sat |
Rainy day rained very hard part of the time – choping corn poling the fence pasture - - I made a bee hive & set it on top of hive |
14th Sun |
Rainy morning we went to Annas in the evening Miss E B Hill came over . . |
15th M |
Shower thining corn cutting wheet etc spreding out my wheet is very wet etc I went to the mill |
16th Tus |
Rain a hard shower caught all my wheat out. finished cutting the forward wheet thining corn etc – I went to new ground to look at wheat – budded several plomb trees from S. Rs |
17th W |
Fair most of the day cutting wheat by the new Barn thining corn etc etc white washed my house to day 3 rooms. - - took a bee hive for Mama |
18th Th |
Rain a shower in evening I have been sick all day I hived a swarn of bees in the garden – ploughing corn cutting wheat etc |
19th Fr |
Fair cutting wheat ploughing corn etc sent to the mill for flour & meal made a bea hive & swam a hive bees |
20th Sat |
Shower in the evening cutting wheat commenced halling up etc hilled 5 loads we went to T Castle Linnaeus pd me 10 $ for potatoe[s] |
21st Sun |
Fair cool day I went to Carmel Bro Tisdale preached Text 2nd Corinithians 22 & 22 verses came home |
22nd M |
Fair cool day finished cutting my wheat by the barn Hacketts & hands helping etc ploughing in the morning sent to mill for ploughs I took a bee hive barrell |
23rd Tus |
Fair cool day windy etc finished cutting wheat by Cobbs Mama, hands helped to cut I killed a lamb W Swann sent to Depot for my things & his molasses the most of it lost – hive of beas went away |
24th W |
Fair cool finished halling up my wheat by my Barn & house halling with 2 carts sent a iron to mill yoke iron Lucy Redd & Mama went to Bro Saml to day |
25th Th |
Fair warm ploughing corn new ground weeding etc carryed Blossum to Bull Lucy R Sarah T B & Molly dined hear to day worked over my water mellon vines |
26th Fr |
Fair warm Finished halling wheat by Cobbs ploughing corn by corn house took Bull |
27th Sat |
Fair very warm plastered some potatoes & corn etc ploughed pumpkin patch wed over the beets etc ploughed the greens weeding the m [?] etc commenced ploughing corn by corn house took Bull |
28th Sun |
Rain a good one this evening we went to Carmel Bro Lewis preached Text Joel 3 ct 18 verse we went to T Castle came up home |
29th M |
Fair cdy part of the day Shower to night – ploughing the corn throwing the dirt to a part on set out beets all large enough reeplanting potatoes etc |
30th Tus |
Rainy evening a shower last night Thad went to Chester Field with S
& L Redd - - ploughing finished ree planting potatoes weeding corn etc
putting a top to arbour etc |