1st Fr |
Fair warm day I sowed 1 bushel of rye & finished sowing Hacket & I went hunting saw 2 turkeys killed a squirl Emily Talley came over with Sister Sarah she was baptized yesterday diging Rohan potatoes 11 bu |
2nd Sat |
Fair warm I went to Chiles Burg to muster & mustered Wm Noell pd me 8 $ to day for potatoes. James Gatewood pd me 89 cts the pallance due me. finished rakeing & ploughing rye fallowing for wheat diging potatoes Irish Rohans dug 25 bushels |
3rd Sun |
Fair cool we went to Carmel Bro Garlick preached Text 7 ct John 37 verse – Bro Harris preached in the evening Text Acts 2nd ct last part of the last verse in – the chapter 47 verse. . . – Harriet A. Anderson profesed conversion to day at Carmel. [sister-in-law, Harriet Ann Anderson, 1819 – 1897] |
4th M |
Fair we went to the mill to the baptizeing – Sister Cobbs & wife & Ed T – Redd were baptized – we went to Mr Gouldins & dined fallowing by the house halled a load of wood diging potatoes Rohans dug 22 1/2 bu [stray numbers appear after this entry, as does wheat sketch and "wheat" recorded twice] |
5th Tus |
Fair warm commenced sowing wheat Medertaranean wheat sowed 2 1/2 bu in front of the house rakeing & ploughing it in – dug 12 bu of Rohan potatoes and finished dug 1 1/2 bu red potatoes dug 102 1/2 bu potatoes – Hackett faning out wheat with my fan |
6th W |
Rain showery day halled 4 loads corn faned out some wheat altered 3 hogs – I am making a pigeon box a good deel of thunder & lightning last night - - - - |
7th Th |
Cdy day Thomasia went to T Castle this evening to see Ella she is sick billious [nausea & diarrhea] – Seeing up corn moved the cow pin halling up corn 3 loads – commenced shucking corn – 1/4 of 8 Raining thundering & lightning the most washing rain we have had |
8th Fr |
A Shower we dined at – Mama, to day Thomasia helping to quilt I went hunting killed 4 birds [sketch of flying birds] halled a load wood cutting poles for house shucking corn cutting buck wheat etc etc etc |
9th Sat |
Fair we went to T. Castle in the evening finished cutting buck wheat shucking corn cutting down corn etc. - - - halled a load corn. . - - - - - - - |
10th Sun |
Fair – I went to Carmel to the prayer meeting came up home this evening Bro Hackett prayed |
11th M |
Fair sowing wheat, rakeing it in back of the barn ploughing it in by the house sowed 2 1/2 bushels diging potatoes commenced in the garden dug 16 bushels to day - - - - [stray numbers] |
12th Tus |
Cdy day I went to the mill to cut away a bank of sand – rakeing the fallow land sowed 1/2 bu wheat - - - diging Irish potatoes dug 16 1/2 bushels red kind - - |
13th W |
Rainy morning shucking. corn halled a load cutting down corn etc cutting poles for hog pen |
14th Th |
Fair cool halled a load corn shucking to night – rakeing sowing wheat 1 bu sowed back of garden ploughing it in etc diging potatoes 12 1/2 bu Linnaeus dined hear to day |
15th Fr |
Fair cool day a frost the first I have seen this fall sowing wheat 2 1/2 bu to day halled a load wood corn etc giging [diging?] potatoes 6 1/2 bu |
16th Sat |
Clear a large frost finished digning potatoes in the garden dug 4 1/2 bu to day commenced on the sweet potatoes sowed 1 bu of wheat finished the fallow rakeing I finished putting up the Hog pen I have dug 158 1/2 bushels Irish potatoes |
17th Sun |
Clear day we went to Carmel Bro Harris preached Text 12 ct latter part of 12st verse let us lay aside every weight & We dined at Mama, to day - |
18th M |
Fair mild weather washed and sowed 1/2 bu & a little over a gallon of wheat in the garder[n?] finished rakeing fallow land diging sweet potatoes dug a horse cart load small faned out 2 bu of rye George England had 2 bu rye price to be fixed on by the price of corn |
19th Tus |
Fair warm day I finished diging sweet potatoes in the patch ploughing howed the patch by the barn & sowed it in wheat red shuck & wheat picked out of white bearded wheat. Bro Quarles came to get Llewellyn to go to scool to him – Edmond Redd dined hear to day lent him my gun – halling up corn ploughing by the shop ploughed 1 bu potatoes |
20th W |
Fair cdy morning halling up corn dug sweet potatoes in corn field 1 bu gathering beens I made a box to put sweet potatoes in – ploughing by dabs. Lewis Redd spent the night here |
21st Th |
Fair small frost. I put a floar to the hog pen – gathering beens put away my sweet potatoes in san ploughing by my Barn – halled a load of oats down from the barn Lewis Redd spent the night |
22nd Fr |
Fair we went to Bethlehem to the constitution of the church Bro Reynolds preached they chose 2 deacons a clerk etc We went to Edmon C Taylors – gathering beans peas etc moved the cow pen ploughing etc |
23rd Sat |
A shower in the morning went to meeting we went to Mr Talleys {E Taylor 2 Miss Browns 1 more wer baptized ploughing halling corn setting it up etc (Martha has a 2nd daughter) |
24th Sun |
Rainy day went to Baptizing Miss Stevens was baptized & went to meeting Bro Allen preached - - - - - - |
25th M |
Fair we came home to day from Mr Talleys halling corn ploughing etc shucking corn etc etc |
26th Tus |
Fair cool day halling – corn halled a load of wood cutting down corn ploughing I killed a mutton I put up my hogs to night – I made a box for seed potatoes Rafe came to see me about work. |
27th W |
Fair cold morning a crust on the ground halled a load of straw in hog pen halled a load wood & a load of pine leaves & packed away my sweet potato seed halling up corn ploughing ploughed a patch by the buck wheat patch for wheat killed a bird |
28th Th |
Fair very cold morning I saw ice killed a beef for Mama, went to T Castle for cotton bails (frost – ploughing halling up corn rakeing over ploughed ground washed out 2 1/2 bu wheat faned up 5 bushels got 1 quarter beef of Mama 40 lbs |
29th Fr |
Fair a large frost halling manure to wheat patch by Buck wheat patch I planted 100 & 8 or 10 grains wheat picked out of the Medn wheat I sowed 2 1/2 bushels of wheat by Dabs rakeing it in etc got 3 1/2 bu potatoes from Mama, for my part shucking corn at night Mr Page came over this eve |
30th Sat |
Fair a large frost washed 3 bu wheat & sowed it one row sowed below the cherry tree stump before the ground was raked halling manure to wheat patch rakeing in wheat went to mill sowled H Martin Flirtella for 20 days work he is to work next week |
31st Sun |
Fair mild we went to T. Castle & spent the day got a set of boxes from T. Castle that came from Richmond |