Thursday, January 30. 1851: This forenoon I and Geo P. went with ox team two miles into Lebanon to Salmon Owens meadow and got a sled load hay that Geo P. had in the stack that he paid said Owens 24 dollars in cash for the grass. Today a severe cold day, I froze my ears going after the hay.
Friday: I carried the widow Eliza and the widow Freelove Wylie each a basket of shavings to kindle their fires. This afternoon Geo P. took his cutter and rode out onto the Burbanks lot and his two sisters rode along to Jerry Vary’s on a visit. The severe cold continues and I am quite unwell with a cough and a cold.
Saturday, Feb. 1: I continue quite unwell with a cough and cold.
Sunday: Today Abraham Haley and wife came and stayed with us tonight on a visit and John F. came home with them. Today Geo P. and his two sisters went to Elder Havens meeting, this evening my family all went to Elder Sweet’s meeting at the lecture room.
Monday: This morning Abraham Haley and wife returned home and John F. rode with them to his school. Today I and Geo P. drew two loads hay with ox team from Mr. Solomon Owen’s meadow that was in a stack.
Tuesday: I and Geo P. drew two loads hay from said Owens with ox team and this evening I took my cutter and carried my wife over to Hiram Newton’s to see Miriam Newton, for she is quite sick. Today a man from East Nassau came and got the horse that I sold to Clark Vary last fall, this man is a stranger, I was not to home and I have not learned his name. He paid fifty cents for keeping the horse four days. The horse had strayed and came on Saturday last, tonight agoing to Hiram Newton’s my horse got frightened at a buffalo skin on a cutter at Mr. John Russel’s and backed the cutter and broke the hook that was to draw by.
Wednesday: This forenoon I and Geo P. went and got the last of the stack of hay in Mr. Owens meadow. This evening I took my cutter and carried my two daughters over to the lecture room and left them to a temperance meeting and returned home.
Friday: Rufus Kendal returned home and carried the one horse wagon that brother Sylvester left with me last December. John F. returned home tonight from school.