Friday, April 25, 1851: Geo P returned home from Windsor selling trees. He paid 80 dollars for six year old pair oxen and drove home. John F. quite unwell with lame side.
Saturday: This forenoon I helped Mr. Horton raise basement to a barn, I am unwell but I sowed grass seed. John F. continues unwell.
Sunday: Today Geo P. and sisters went to Elder Havens meeting. I sent one dollar by him and he paid it to Jerry Vary, which pays up what I signed for Elder Havens preaching for the year past.
Monday: I sowed grass seed and sowed oats on Wm B. Maxon’s land and Edwin plowed out ground on said Maxon’s land. John F. plowed some and tended to some chores, he is unwell.
Tuesday: This forenoon Edwin plowed the widow Wylie’s garden. Today Geo P. went with my horse and wagon to Petersburgh with 28 dollars worth apple trees, and today John F. helped some about the work but he continues to be unwell.
Wednesday: This forenoon I put up leach for soap and mended fence on the river. Today Edwin plowed on my Rodgers farm and John F. and J. Bassett and A. Celinbaum worked on said Rodgers farm chopping and splitting rails, and I put up fence on said farm. This afternoon we all quit before night for it rained. Geo P. returned home.
Thursday, May 1: We worked on my Rodgers farm, I laid up rail fence where we enlarged the meadow. Quite a snow squall towards night.
Saturday: This forenoon I am unwell. Edwin plowed on the widow Wylie’s farm and this afternoon he did not work for he was sick. This afternoon I and John F. put up fence on the widow Wylie’s farm. Today Geo P. worked in his nursery pulling up the scrub by trees and had an Irishman help him by the name of MacFeelee.
Tuesday: Today I went to Lebanon with my one horse wagon and I carried 54 pounds of dried apples and had credited to Gay’s store at six cents and a quarter per pound and traded eggs for molasses and salaratus.
Wednesday: I and J. Bassett mended fence on my Rodgers farm. This morning at two o’clock John F. and his two sisters started for Troy.
Thursday: I am quite unwell and took phisic. Today John F. and his two sisters returned home from Troy. I paid the expenses which was two dollars and 18 cents. John paid nine dollars for a broad cloth coat and the girls paid four dollars piece for their silk hats and paid four dollars for their Mother’s silk hat but it was not made, and paid eight dollars and fifty cents for 25 yards home made rag carpeting that was left to James Bushes for sale by Mrs. Cotwell. On the way home they stopped to Rufus Withees and took up a note of thirty dollars given July 18th, 1848, one year interest paid two dol and ten cents and now paid thirty three dollars and eighty cents that said Withee held against me.
Friday: I sowed some grass seed and John F. plowed sward for potatoes on the widow Wylie’s farm. Geo P. worked in his nursery and Jimmy MacFeelie helped him. This morning Joseph Brown partly cut his throat and then hung himself.