1st M |
Fair cold & windy I went to Richmond & spent the day bought sugar 50 lbs 10 lbs molasses etc stayed at W Dandridge halling wood grubing the corn field for oats caught fish |
2nd Tus |
Fair cool I came up from Richmond, Tom stayed with Thomasia fallowing grubing & setting out beets carrots & turnips in the new garden the old black sheep died this evening |
3rd W |
Cdy a shower of rain this evening halling manure from the kitchen to manure my apple trees set out 33 this evening & one dozen beets fallowing for oats - |
4th Th |
Rain this morning & all night nearly finished faning out my oats faned out 35 bushels & a 1/2 halled a load of wood I made 2 frames for fish traps caught 3 or 4 miners |
5th Fr |
Fair sent Bob to Depot for shirts sugar etc. . . bought a pair of traces for 75 cts pd bob 25 for trap malling halling rails wood fencing etc. . |
6th Sat |
Fair cool we went to T. Castle in the evening ploughing halling rails etc fencing etc etc. . |
7th Sun |
Fair We spent the day at T. Castle Bro Harris preached Mollys funeral sermon spent the night there - |
8th M |
Rain commenced last night cdy day. I came up home & sent Mama, carriage for Thomasia. . cutting & malling fencing halling rails. . etc. . ewe had a lamb . . . - |
9th Tus |
Rainy day shelling corn sent to mill brought up 3 single ploughs & a rake Robert made a fish trap & carryed the boat & trap to the river put them in etc caught 3 fish malling rails halled 1 load wood. ewe had a lamb - |
10th W |
Rainy morning fair evening malling rails halling rails fencing etc I pd Listern Cobbs 62 1/2 cts for 1 bushel of rye I got last fall - - - - |
11th Th |
Snowy day the ground is covered with snow Mama Anna Miss Mary A Temple & Sister S dined hear with Miss Lord & children. halling rails malling rails etc fencing I have a sick ewe gave her a dose of lard this morning - - |
12th Fr |
Snowy evening I went to mill carryed harnes to have irons shifted went to Mr Hewletts saw puppies gave him bet I went to Linnaeus & Bro Sam, & dined there cutting & halling wood |
13th Sat |
Snowed a little this morning cdy day & cool halling & cutting wood bled the sick sheep to night shot a robin caught some fish |
14th Sun |
Snowy morning commenced in the night fair evening spent the day at home to day Thad came over to night |
15th M |
Fair cool fencing malling rails halling old rails a load of straw etc. . . carryed a new trap to the river & put it in caught 1 or 2 fish |
16th Tus |
A few flakes of snow this evening cold evening I went by T. Castle & to E. C. Taylors Tom came up to stay all night I came home lost a sheep malling rails fencing halling rails etc etc |
17th W |
Fair cold morning caught 4 fish cut Wm S Talleys hair fencing by the gate near the house halling rails malling etc set out 11 turnips for seed that came from Dr Roberts lost a lamb Mr Hewlett came for Bet this evening - |
18th Th |
Fair mild commenced sowing oats sowed 6 bushels rakeing them in commenced by the rye field halled 3 loads straw fencing caught 15 fish shelling corn I made a new rake to day |
19th Fr |
Fair mild halling manure to the garden halled 6 loads ploughed for potatoes & peas planted 1 row set out some beets putting manure in potatoe drills sent rake corn etc to mill sowing oats 2 bushels rakeing them in caught 17 fish |
20th Sat |
Fair warm day ploughing in the new garden planted potatoes 1 bushel & a peck planted a row of onions Nancy dined hear to day sent to mill for chop & a rake brought up some scantling or rafters sowing oats 6 bushels finished to the bridge rakeing with 2 rakes caught 7 fish |
21st Sun |
Rainy evening I went to Carmel Bro Harris preached 86th Psalm 5 verse I subscribed $5.00 for the Irish |
22nd M |
Rain a little this morning fair the balance of the day I caught about 40 fish to day halling rails fencing by the stack halling manure to the garden & to nursery, & ploughed it malling rails etc set out 4 plum trees some Bar grass Sent Wm Noell 7 bushels of potatoes at $1.12 1/2 cts per bu - |
23rd Tus |
Rain shower finished sowing oats by Dabs house & commenced on the fallow ground below the out gate sowed 3 bushels oats halling manure to the nursery putting it in the drills planted 7 rows of peaches & along the mill road Bro Sam & Moncure came by 2 first rows of peaches are the best kind ripest. |
24th W |
Fair a hard rain last night halling manure to the nursery sowing oats this evening 2 bu rakeing them in etc etc etc I planted some peachstones on the mill road and finished planting planted the balance of the nursery in apple seed & a row of pepper |
25th Th |
Fair warm sowing oats 7 bushels ploughing them in by the ice pond Thad helping to plough - - fencing from the gate to Anna, fence diging up manure at the stack working in the garden sowed a row carriots & a row of peas. |
26th Fr |
Rainy day very windy I sowed 1 bu ["or a" lined out] bushels oats finished by the ice pond ploughed a part of them in shelling corn etc I caught 3 jacks or pikes - - - ewe has a lamb |
27th Sat |
Fair very cold morning ground frozen windy cool day putting up the fences that blew down halling wood etc rakeing by the ice pond this evening sent corn to mill halled a load manure to garden etc planted a row of Irish potatoe seed & one of carriots & parsnips |
28th Sun |
Fair I went to Cty Line to meeting Bro Cole preached text 23rd ct of numbers latter part of the 10th verse Bro Phillips spoke Miss B Hill came by and spent the evening |
29th M |
Fair mils finished rakeing the oats by the ice pond sowing oats & ploughing them in sowed 6 bu Dab is ploughing in oats. halled 2 or 3 loads manure to the garden sowed a row of salsify seed lent John Dickinson a barrow to day |
30th Tus |
Fair mild finished sowing the ruffle oats sowed 4 1/2 bu sowed 37 bu & a 1/2 the ruffle planted a row of salsify seed & a row snaps & corn etc etc planted some tomatoe seed the large kind halling manure. . Anna & family came over to spend the night. |
31st W |
Fair. Rain last night I went to Mr Keans for 20 bushels of oats at 40 cts went by Mr Swann's Emery, he died last night about 1 ock -) put a tooth in rake halling rails 2 loads rakeing over the oat land etc. . . . . throwing up manure Martha is laid up to day - |