Wednesday, February 12, 1851: Today Geo P. went horseback to Hancock and Williamstown engaging fruit trees.
Thursday: Tonight Geo P. returned home from engaging trees.
Monday: This afternoon we shovelled an old drift of snow on the highway near the widow Lucy Pierce’s and others in the district helped shovel. Today John F. dismissed his school and he returned home.
Tuesday: Today Geo P. walked out onto the Fairbanks lot and paid up the jobbers, and Geo P. went to the Sheldon Doty farm to a vendue of the personal property of said Doty deceased.
Saturday: Today Geo P. went in pursuit of Abraham Haley to hire him, Geo P. did not return home tonight.
Monday: I tended to taking up and preparing and carrying in our hams up to the widow Eliza Wylie and put them with their hams in their smoke house to be smoked and I carried cobbs to smoke the hams. Today some rainy, my two sons chopped some to the door and Geo P. grafted roots a spell and John F. walked up to Geo P. nursery to see if the ground was thawed.
Tuesday: I chopped wood to the door and Geo P. grafted roots and cut grafts and John F. walked over to the Baptist church to temperance lecture.
Wednesday: This afternoon my two sons picked up stone on the Wm Bliss Maxons farm that Geo P. hired for 150 dollars and the taxes. Today a man came and bargained by the name of Basset for the house and gardens and fire wood all for 30 dol that Geo P. has of Wm. Bliss Maxon, and said Basset agrees to work four first days in each week for 14 dol per month until he has worked four months for Geo P.
Thursday: This forenoon my two sons picked up stone on Wm B. Maxon’s land.
Friday: Geo P. went to Lebanon, I sent one dol and bought tea and molasses and John F. carried boosums to Canada.
Saturday: Today John F. went to Pittsfield with the one horse wagon and carried three and a half bushels apples and sold from fifty cents to seventy five cents per and sold twenty cabbages at three cents apiece, and paid one dol and twelve cents for a keg of oysters and bought sugar, coffee and nutmeg. He then went to F. Jay Wylies and took dinner. I sent twenty five dollars to said F. Jay Wylie and had endorsed on a note.
Monday: I this forenoon chopped wood to the door and John F. walked to Hancock to see an Irishman to try to let out my house and this afternoon we drew manure on the hill into the young orchard. Today Geo P. started to go to Berlin and Petersburgh to engage fruit trees.