Monday, March 3, 1851: Today one Mr. from New Lebanon came and bargained to pay 15 dol for my house and garden that is near James M. Glass and I agreed to pay him 13 dollars per month for four months to work the four first days in each week. He came in company with Mr. Bassett, Geo P’s hired man and they both took dinner to my house.
Wednesday: I took my one horse wagon and went over to my Rodgers farm and carried some provision to Aaron Merrils for his wife is sick and this forenoon I carried one and a half bushels oats and two troughs on said farm and said Merrils is to feed the oats to my sheep and I fetched home a one horse wagon load of hay that my sheep had picked over.
Thursday: Tonight Geo P. returned from Berlin and Petersburgh engaging fruit trees, he called in Berlin to the railroad meeting. Today the funeral of Hosey W. Brown at the Baptist Church. He died in Troy.
Monday, March 10: This afternoon I and John F. got a load wood from off the hill and hewed timber for back house for my tenant house. This afternoon my tenant that has agreed to move into my house, by the name of Alexander Celingbalm, came and began to build a back house to the tenant house he had hired. He has agreed to build it for the use while he lives in my house and Mr. Bassett came with him and stays with us and chops wood on Wm. B. Maxon’s farm.
Tuesday: Today I and Mr. Alexander Celinbalm worked making a back house and Mr. Bassett continued to board with me while he is chopping his fire wood on W. B. Maxon’s land.
Wednesday: I mixed mortar and Mr. Celinbalm finished the back house, today noon, and this afternoon he plastered mortar in the tenant house which he has agreed to hire. Today Geo P. went to Pittsfield with his horse and wagon and sold his grafted apples for 87 cts and one dol per bushel and then he went on east engaging fruit trees.
Thursday: This forenoon Mr. Bassett and Mr. Celinbalm returned home. Today I and John F. worked repairing my tenant house. Today some snowy, and Geo P. returned home. I sent the cash by him and bought twenty four panes glass and ten pounds nails for 37 cents.
Friday: I this afternoon took my one horse wagon and carried my wife to Squ Nathan Howard’s on a visit and I called to Palmer Barnes a spell for there they were swearing voters to know who they voted in the election of 1849, and I called to see S. Murier, but could not engage him to come and do carpenter work.