Tuesday, April 1, 1851: I and John F. got out a load manure on the garden and planted a part of the garden. This afternoon I and John F. rode up to Lathumville to town meeting and we returned to Nicholas Gardner’s and took tea. I then fetched my wife home. Geo P. left her there this morning on a visit and he went to town meeting.
Wednesday: I put a parting in my hog house to keep the sows separate.
Thursday: I went to Lebanon and I called into N. Nichols store and got a ten dollar bill changed on Pittsfield Bank, and I got the papers and a letter for Geo P. out of the office. Today Mr. Mann bought Geo P. fat oxen and paid him 155 dollars cash in hand. Mr. E. King came with Mr. Mann. They took dinner with us and Mann paid 25 cents but nothing for oats and hay for their horse. Tonight Edwin Leonard stayed with us and Geo P. agreed to hire him for a short time until we could see his father and make a bargain by the month.
Saturday: I tended to chores, worked a spell in the garden and I am quite lame. Today John F. worked in the garden and Edwin Leonard finished plowing in the garden. Today Geo P. took his fat oxen to Canaan to Mr. E. King’s according to agreement with Mr. Manns. When Geo P. got to King’s he bought six cherry trees and paid one dollar and 12 cents for them. On the way home he called to Tilden’s Store and got one pound and a quarter of tea.
Monday: Today I took my one horse wagon and carried my wife to Pittsfield to F. J. Wylie’s on a visit and stayed ther tonight. I called on J. A. Gold, Esq. to see if there could get a settlement with Ross lawyers as Charlotte E. wrote to him that was one thousand dollars and the cost which was 83 dollars that I had paid to said Gold, and he told me that they would pay the thousand dollars and the cost but I must fetch an order from Charlotte E. Today John F. and Edwin Leonard worked on the widow Wylie farm drawing manure and plowing.
Wednesday: I took my one horse wagon and rode to Pittsfield and carried an order from Charlotte E. to J.A. Gold Esq. and all the money he would pay from Ross was one thousand and eleven dollars and fifty cents. Said Gold fetched in the 30 dollars that he flung off last fall for my paying him down and paying 83 dollars he called the court cost, and then he made a deduction on the cost of 20 dollars, said it was not so high as 83 dollars that I paid him last fall. He then charged Charlotte E. 25 dollars, he called effecting a settlement or Ross’s lawyers paying the money into his hands. This he agreed to do when I paid up all his demand last fall without any further charges