1st W |
Fair cold morning windy day I sent Jeff to Depot with 12 bushels potatoes & I got some cabbage seed of mama & Anna I vaxinated Tom Swann & Lucy Robinson brought up the plaster 1/2 tun. grubing fallowing burning brush etc |
2nd Th |
Snowy day a very deep snow cold day rain in the night. I burnt a plant bed in the garden & sowed one half of it put little buffaloe in barn shelter & patched up the side with planks & brush etc |
3rd Fr |
Fair a hard crust on the snow rained last night – I went to L Allens to the sale bought a axe butter printer & a stack of straw for $3.50 cts for the hole – cutting & haling wood halled a load to Anna |
4th Sat |
Clear cold morning I went to Carmel about 14 persons received Brister [family name?] in the church halling wood for Anna cut & halled 2 loads wod & one yesterday $1.00. halled wood cutting etc patching the new house under eves. |
5th Sun |
Fair cold & windy day I went to Carmel Bro Harris preached Mr Gouldin spent the evening hear Maria moved to the new house to day & all of her goods etc. . House |
6th M |
Fair very cold morning mild evening snow melted a good deel to day - - hall 5 loads straw from Bro Allens Mamas cart halled one load - |
7th Tus |
Fair mild day I commenced sowing clover seed sowed nearly 1/2 bushel sent plaster to T Castle to grind halled a load or 2 of wood cutting burning brush grubing etc etc at new garden |
8th W |
Fair mild windy day halled 2 loads straw to stack – Williams came to day & plastered the room I pd him 4 $ 50 cts for work done pd in full. L Allen came to day I pd him for old house seven dollars & fifty cts – being in full etc cutting & malling rails – grubing by garden etc Tom came up to day |
9th Th |
Rain day – I sowed some clover seed shelling corn Bob making fish trap etc & Peter 1/2 soled my shoes to day |
10th Fr |
Fair I baited a fishing hold Mr Vass came hear to day halling rails fencing etc malling rails this evening – by garden. got a letter from Frank. . . |
11th Sat |
Fair cold morning I finished sowing clover seed sowed 1 bushel by my barn I went to T Castle to carry note to the Dr for H Ann Anderson halled some dirt in Mariahs old house for a floar sent to mill etc malling rails by new garden fencing I planted 3 pick corn [pecan?] nuts in new garden |
12th Sun |
Fair cool day we walked over to Mamas in the evening William Talley Charles Gouldin -& Thad came & stayed till bed time |
13th M |
Fair cool & windy I commenced sowing – oats sowed 3 bushels – frunt of the house – runing 2 rakes ploughing in oats etc. . . . finished fencing by Cobbs grubing at new garden working on shop shed - |
14th Tus |
Fair cold day north west win malling rails halling wood etc cleaning up – at the garden brush etc sowing oats this evening sowed 1 bu. ploughing in made a calf pen under shelter |
15th W |
Fair very cold day & windy I sent for my plaster got about 15 bushels - - cutting grubing etc malling rails etc etc |
16th Th |
Fair a very cold day Mama getting ice to day – mild snow I went to W Cobbs came by N Lucks spoke for 1/2 bu corn malling rails halling around garden fence grubing etc commenced coaltering I pd Peter 25 cts – for mending shoes & boots |
17th Fr |
Cdy most of the day moderate weather finished coaltering the garden fencing it in etc ploughed a square in the garden & commenced – planting potatoes planted 2 rows halled 3 loads manure finished sowing plant bed etc shelling corn etc etc gardening. |
18th Sat |
Rainy day sowed a few oats sent to mill halled a load of manure to garden put it on drills for potatoes – sawing & splitting out – spokes etc Bob made fish trap for me |
19th Sun |
Rain foggy day I went to Carmel Bro Harris preached Text Joh 5th ct 42 verse |
20th M |
Cdy Mr Terrell came for his hogs halled a load wood sowing oats 3 bushels & rakeed them over halling manure to the garden finished putting it in the drills for potatoes. halled 3 loads rich durt to cover sweet potatoes put 1 bu in hot bed throwing up manure at stack ploughing for apple trees etc Mrs Agnes Harris died this evening - |
21st Tus |
Fair warm day we went to Mr Harrises – to Mrs Harris, funeral – sowing oats for Anna sowed 5 1/2 bushels ploughing them in with 2 ploughs. - - set out a few apple trees throwing up manure planted 1/2 bu potatoes 2 rows & 1/2 with 14 potatoes planted some potatoe seed - |
22nd W |
Shower rain this evening planted 1 bushel of potatoes in the garden purple & yellow potatoes – covered plant bed etc finished sowing oats for Anna sowed 1 bushel raked it over I sowed a few rufffle oats by old ice pond Lewis Redd painted the sash at Mama, to day |
23rd thu |
Fair cool day finished fencing in the garden malling rails commenced planting corn by Canfield Lewis spent the night. |
24th Fr |
Fair cool morning planting corn commenced – planting the Burruss corn burning logs etc shelling corn etc |
25th Sat |
Fair mild ploughed the garden sowed peas planted my seed potatoes 2 rows 4 or 5 kinds halled 3 or 4 loads manure to the garden sowing oats by Canfields. - - - - - |
26th Sun |
Fair mild day spent the day at Hybla came home this evening. – [Hybla was in Hanover County] |
27th M |
Fair warm day I sent out onions & apple trees in the nursery Mr Johnson came to get some ["apple" lined out] peach trees of me I am to give 5 trees for 1 budded sowing oats by Canfields finished it |
28th Tus |
Cdy most of the day I carryed 360 trees to Mr Johnson - - - - - caught a fish killed a snake Anna & Miss Henry etta dined hear to day - - - finished sowing oats to day sowed 1/2 bu - - - - - - - planting corn set out some apple trees to day |
29th W |
Fair mild day Hackett wenbt for some seed corn I swaped 2 1/2 bu in years bought 1 bushel – planting corn got in the peaach orchard - |
30th Th |
Fair mild weather I went to N Lucks for 1/2 bushel corn swaped it planting corn commenced by Canfields with hucks corn planted about 1/2 bushel to day |
31st Fr |
Fair warm finished the Luck corn & the field by Canfields halled 2 loads manure to the garden planted corn for rosting years Bob ploughed Anna, garden to day commenced before dinner finished to night. shelling corn Dr Gouldin & Louisa came up to Mama |