Thursday, November 14, 1850: I drove the ox team to plow sward on my Rodgers farm and John F. held plow. Today Geo P. made scaffolding and began to shingle the east side of the roof of my Rodgers house.
Friday: Today I went with my one horse wagon and Charles Palmer with me to Berlin to upper village to Mr. Hall’s to see if I could buy sheep, his price too high, it was one dol 81 cts per head, to pick them. I did not look at them. Today Geo P. and Simeon Wylie Jnr. shingled on my Rodgers house and this forenoon Mr. Tanner came and skinned two of my hogs, weight 44 pounds and paid three cents per and Russel Palmer had the pork at five and a half cents per, weight of them 254 and 205 pounds. It came to 25 dol 25 cents and Palmer paid me nine dollars and 25 cents. I this evening took my one horse wagon and carried said pork to Palmer.
Saturday: I and Geo P. went out to my Fairbanks lot to look and see if there was timber to fence it. Mr. Eber Moffitt went with us. Today my wife went with us and visited to said Moffitt’s and we took dinner to said Moffitt’s. Geo P. walked home from Moffitt’s and I and my wife stayed til nearly night. Today John F. plowed sward and he and Simeon Wylie Jnr. finished shingling on my Rodgers house.
Sunday: Today my two sons rode out to Samuel Beers and John F. gave his two sons an answer, he would keep their school at 14 dol per, they being trustees. On the way home Geo P. rode to John Wylie’s and fetched Sarah home, today a snow storm.
Monday: This evening John F. walked to the school inspector Eber Rollo and got a certificate to keep school.
Tuesday: I and my two sons went onto my Fairbank lot and Geo P. paid Squ Strait one dollar to survey the lot. Ralph Chapman and Mr Whitman helped for they had land joining. John F. and I drew out rail cuts and Exra and Nathan Sackett chopped rail timber for Geo P. When I returned home I went to Eber Moffitt’s and carried him two bushel turnips to pay him for going with me to show me the bounds on my Fairbank lot and to watch and keep people from pilfering my timber.