Friday, December 20, 1850: Today Geo P. took his horse and cutter and carried his two sisters to Elder Havens and left them on a visit and went on to our Fairbanks lot to see what work had been done on the job by young Dimon and partly paid him and then he went to John F. school and fetched him home and called to S. Beers and took supper.
Saturday: Today I and my two sons went with two yoke young oxen into my Rodgers swamp and got a load of wood and I and John F. came home with it and Geo P. stayed and chopped and John F. returned and got the second load of wood. This evening John F. and his two sisters went in a cutter to singing school to the chapel.
Monday: This morning about six o’clock John F. started to go to his school, he went up over the hill across lots, when he went a high wind and very blustering and snowed and rainy.
Tuesday: This forenoon I and Geo P. went on to the highway with the ox team and sled and shovels for the road was drifted.
Wednesday, Dec. 25: Today I and Geo P. chopped down a butternut tree and chopped ox sled length and took the ox team and drew it up out of the south meadow.
Thursday: I threshed two bushels of wheat and Geo P. helped me fan it, and today Geo P. went to Lebanon with his cutter and the widow Freelove Wylie with him to the store.
Friday: I went to Charles Linsley’s shop and engaged him to shoe my cutter with old wagon tire. From there I went to Henry Avery’s and paid my taxes, which was eleven dol and eight cents.
Saturday: I took my cutter and carried my wife to Samuel Beers on a visit, and I went to John F. school and he rode home with us. I fetched three bushels of turnips to Wm L. Brown’s store and got two gallons molasses for the turnips. Today Geo P. took his cutter and rode out into the Fairbanks lot and paid some wood choppers three dollars for chopping cord wood.
Sunday: This evening I took the cutter and carried John F. part of the way to his school and on the way this evening we called to Wm L. Brown store and paid six cents for of a pound of horehound candy to use for the cold.
This morning I drove my fat bull over to Russel Palmer to have him butcher said bull and at evening I took my cutter and fetched the meat home and left the hide for Palmer to carry to Hancock for Charles Mason to credit me for 60 pounds at four cents per, and said Palmer charged me fifty cents for butchering said bull and I reckoned with him and found I owed him one dollar and twenty one cents and he agreed to take his pay in carrots and today James M. Glass came and helped I and Geo P. butcher two pigs or last spring hogs in the way of changing works, and I am to help him for helping butcher.