Fr 1. |
Fair very cold/Fair/Fair cold n/Fair I worked on the Flower pit went to rock spring to measure Kenedys corn got 4 flour barrells corn. shelling to night 1 bu Mrs Southworth & Biron came to night going to sit till bed time |
Sat 2. |
Fair a large frost/Fair/Fair/Snow a L I caught a large brown mink went to Bro Saml, & dined saw Sister Sarah E Talley & Cate & Benwar [Benoist] Lewis gave me a trap spring I stoped at Dr Lins he is very poly hurt his back saw John McL A there gave the Dr an order to pay Mr Thacker $8.50 cts Lewis is traping again Kenedy came up with Fan he is hear to night Savery came this morning etc he is hear to night Savery came this morning etc |
Sun 3. |
Snow/Snow/Cdy/Cdy A snowy morning spent day at home I have a pain in side all day - |
M 4. |
Cdy/Rain a L/Fair/Fair I made a box mink trap Savery sent for me to make ox cart tung I went up & helped put tung on & left had very bad pain in my side Kenedy came at night & sat till bed time Jas came home w sack salt. caught a brown mink saw a large gang w pigeons. Nora Englan is hear |
Tus 5. |
Fair/Fair/Fair/Fair I spent day in bead Jas went to Dr Lins & mill for meal, got some phisick for me Edmond came in evening, wants pants made Thomasia & Linnie fixing flour pit with pine tags Cate & Lizzie & Mag w to Savery, & dined Nora sarted home came back. |
W 6. |
Fair very cold/Fair/Fair/Fair Garland & Tom came up to help to kill hogs Sorny came with Ed cloth & his to make pants. I got up to day black sow weighed 120 lbs white 80 Fannies pig 60 lbs Susan Southworth & Pertha came & sat till bed time S, brought $3.00 for Tho for potatoes from Ct Addams. pd it to me money lent caught 2 H |
Th 7. |
Fair mild/Fair/Fair/Fair I got up to day Joh Cobbs came to by some pine timber Jas gone to let him have it or try to make a bargain Kenidy came up in his buggy to carry Lizzie to Peaches on a fools erron. Jane sent up to get clothes made for children Sorny came E is on the way. Edmond came & dined Mr Oliver came by Fannie & Jas gone to Peaches |
Fr 8. |
Fair mild d/Fair/Fair/Fair Edmond sent Tate up halled 2 lodes of corn after it was shucked, Mrs Savery & Effie came in evening stayed a while. Kenedy carryed Mr Mathes to Spotsylvania to day Fannie came home to day Liz & Jas last night. poly to day |
Sat 9. |
Fair/Fair/Fair/Fair Pertha came this morning to get me to pull her tooth did not have the right kind of puller Jas gone to Hulett & Bro Saml quite poly to day caught a Hair Jas bated my trap yesterday. for me. - |
Sun 10. |
Fair/Fair/Fair/Fair Sent [spent] day at home Aggy Maggy & Fannie spent day hear Aggy is going to spend night Lizzie gone to Cedar vale to spend night Jas gone to Trinity meeting came back to night. |
M 11. |
Fair mild/Fair/Fair/Fair I went to my traps to day ice on river Edmond Redd came gone up to Saverys games went to L Terrells gave him $6.00 pay Oliver tax at coart. he borrowed Mrs S, corn sheller is shelling corn to go Richmond borrowed Charles, cart & carryed 11 bu corn & 2 bags wheat to mill E came by Aggy spent day Cate came up Lizzie & Linnie gone to Mrs Southworths to sit till bed time makg a otter trap mash. |
Tus 12. |
Fair/Fair/Fair/Fair I made & sat a mash trap for otter caught a hair bated with H head Jas shucking corn halled up a H cart lode carryed Charles cart home Mr S, he is gone there to night P Duke is there Lizzie is gone to spend night Tom Quarles is dead |
W 13. |
Fair/Fair/Fair/Fair I made a mash trap for otter to day sat steel trap bated it with parcenips for smush rat bated trap over river etc E Mahon came & w ½ day finished pulling off corn Jas borrowed Jones horse cart went to Huletts carryed meal to go to Richmond brought meal & flour home bought hinges & oil I lent $1.00 to by things I nailed on some joint brakers [Tig?] came he moved in new house other room E R came for pants |
Th 14. |
Fair/Fair/Fair/Cdy I caught a large black C carryed Mr Jones cart home Jas borrowed Saverys oxen etc he & Mahon finished the corn halling up putting it in corn house in the shucks Kenedy brought my cart home to day Mr Jones sat out an apple orchard. shingling his barn etc. I put hinges on doars to day Bro Trainham came by from Carmel had singing etc to day. Lizzie went to Mrs S. came back to night Elicks wife at Landora is dead |
Fr 15. |
Snow/Snow Fair/Fair very cold night/Fair Snowed till 1 or 2 ock about 2 or 3 or 3 ½ deep Cate & Aggy came by all going to E hill to a supprise party expect the Woods there etc etc Jas broke lamp chimney cutting wood etc Lizzie w to Cedar vale & returned Bro D Wit preacher is dead [Virginia Baptist minister Daniel Bedford Witt, 8 Nov 1801 15 Nov 1871] |
Sat 16. |
Fair large frost/Fair/Cdy Fair/Cdy A very cold night last Charles L & Charles Welton came by from E hill Aggy S spent night Lizzie went to Cedar vale last n. is home now Fannie went down just before night E Redd came & stayed till near night he & Jas went down before dinner I made a partirdge-trap & bated it Jane sent for her childrens frocks, Welton workg on his house the snow melted a little to day a Mr Luck & V Win came by sat a while, E Mahon came got a ½ bu meal for his work gave him ½ soles for one days work next week he had 3 patridge,s for sale |
Sun 17. |
Cdy/Fair/Fair/Fair I spent day at home have the rheumatism Jas went to hanover for H he did not get back Edmond came with her home got home late Jas & Cary went to Mrs Smiths I hear that Bro Allen is very sick |
M 18. |
Rain a.f.d. mild day/Fair/Fair/Cdy Mahon old man came for peg wood etc H stiched my (Sack Coat) [loose-fitting mans coat with straight back] Lizzie gone to Mrs S. Susan & Pertha came with her to night, I nailed on joint brakers on house etc to day Jas got home to night |
Tus 19. |
Hail Snow/Rain/Cdy Snow/Snow Cdy Hail etc nearly covered ground melting etc Jas cutting wood in lot Edmond & Sol came this evening & carryed Jas away with them Mr Savery came by brought H a letter. I gave him a plot of E hill |
W 20. |
Fair cold day/Fair/Fair very c/Fair Snow fell about 1 or 1 ½ in deep very light snow I caught a black mink by boat landing I went to Huletts bought 2 yrds of caimbrick for 25 cts bought spool & bar soap for 22 cts went by Mr Hainses caryed a letter for John Dr T makg this store larger Jas came home this evening I caught a hair bated traps etc Kenedy & Charles are hear to night. Sol came with 1 lb buter for Fannie. |
Th 21. |
Fair very cold/Fair/Fair cold/Cdy A very cold night last I sat up 2 traps one at sand bank one in old barn swamp Edmond & Sol came helped Jas to kill 2 hogs Mr Savery came for goose neck Jas gone with Edmond we ground 2 axes etc |
Fr 22. |
Snow Hail etc/fine rain/Fine rain/Cdy Kenidy came & spent day Pertha came this evening K went with her home H is gone too Jas came this morning cutting wood dead pines halling up in sley the ground covered with snow & hail etc Cousin Angy Woodfork is dead & Tom Lumpkin |
Sat 23. |
Rain/rain/Rain/Cdy I have been quite poly all day & night last with bad cough & coal Edmond & Sol came & spent day Edmond Mahon came & cut wood ½ day Jas halling & went to mill for meal H came from Mrs. S, (Bro Little berry Allen died 2 ock Friday night [Littlebury Woodson Allen, 26 Mr 1803 23 Dec 1871, Baptist preacher at County Line] I hear Bro Jas B Taylor also the same day or night) Grace Lily is dead (colored) |
Sun 24. |
Fair/Fair cdy/Fair mild/Fair Biron & Other came by to go with H to Carmel she went on horse back she came by Providence & got the buggy harness. boys dined hear Lizzie Fannie Linnie & Cate walked up in evening to Landora & brought down Sandy England & Sam Trainham they stayed till bed time Edmond & Sol came at night went with Jas to Mrs S. Thomasia & H went to sit till bed time came back about 9 ock |
M 25. |
Cdy Fair Foggy/Fair/Fair mild/Fair Jas & Thomasia cut out 2 hogs at day dried up lard etc Jas went in buggy, to Huletts & Dr Lins for H, trunk got 25 cts w sugar for me 25 for H 50 cts. H gone to Mrs Southworths to make cake for Xmas tree Carmel Linnie went to Mrs S, to grind sausage meet Fannie Dukes came to see Gwinnet she was at Mrs S, came back Bob Mahon came for some fresh meet etc |
Tus 26. |
Fair foggy m/Cdy/Cdy mild/Cdy I put a bar on wagon pole made a seet etc Mr Savery, came by H & Linnie went to Carmel to tree etc Other S. came by brought some H heads to bate traps Mr Englan & Trainham came by Lizzie E & Nora wer hear L gone with girls to Kenidys to a dance Cary is hear going down with Jas Nora is hear. boys made egg-nog etc |
W 27. |
a f drops Rain Fair/Fair cool/Fair cool/Fair cool I went to Carmel to Xmas tree got there late Co George Tompkins & Jas Wood came last night went to Carmel with us they went off with Lizzie to Co Woods without leave or licence Emma & Sol came up this evening Nora is hear Lizzie E gone home all of my scollars wer at the Xmas tree. |
Th 28. |
Fair cool day/Fair/Cdy cool/Cdy I made a large patridge trap & proped it up by diving board went up to horkings creek [Hawkins creek in Louisa County?] made a mink mash trap saw Byron & Other Southworth there spent day hear Pertha & Willy D came this evening all going to Mrs Englands to night England Sany & Sam are hear. Jas gone to Dr Gouldins |
Fr 29. |
Cdy/Rain showery/Rain/Cdy I saw a wild duck by island in the swamp went up to Landora after her Sandy England is hear to night I bated trap at Harkins I started to make Bash a house to sleep in etc |
Sat 30. |
Cdy/Cdy/Cdy/Cdy I caught a hair turned him loose caught a squirl in hair trap caught a musk rat in steep trap & bated my traps with him found a hair in bed above san bank saw Biron & Other hunting he is hear to night. Linnie went to Cedar vale this morning. Savery came with letter for Lizzie he wants his plank |
Sun 31. |
Fair/Fair cdy/Fair cdy/Rain I went to Carmel with H I had 5 Scollars had cakes handed round James Wood spent day hear went home to night Edmond & Sol spent day with dogs dog bit Jim Wood Kenidy & England came in evening went with girls to Mrs Southworth, came back in night |