Thursday, June 5, 1851: I hunted a young cow in my swamp that had a calf.
Friday: I this forenoon went with my one horse wagon down to the south west part of New Lebanon and got nine hundred of plaster at 37 cents per hundred to Mr. Barnabus Smith’s plaster mill. One hundred of said plaster the widow Eliza Wylie sent for and the rest was for myself.
Saturday: This afternoon Geo P. took his horse and wagon and fetched 17 bushels ashes from Geo W. Glasses.
Monday: Today Geo P. went to Canaan to try to buy W. King’s nursery but did not make a bargain.
Friday: I took my wagon and carried my wife and daughter Sarah over to S. Wylie’s and left them to have dresses fitted, and at night I went after them. Today Silas Gardner called and I signed one dollar for a bell to the Baptist Church in Hancock Village. I am 60 years of age.
Saturday: Today Geo P. and John F. sheared the sheep that Geo P. bought of Wm B. Maxon, and this evening said Maxon came and got the fleeces as it was in the bargain he was to have the wool, 34 sheep or 33 and one killed washing.
Tuesday: Today an Irish boy by the name of John Coslo came and wanted to work and I told him he might stay and I would see his people and make a bargain. He lives near the Shaker Mill in New Lebanon.
Wednesday: John F. and John Bassett sheared my 20 sheep and Geo P. did up the fleeces.
Friday: I and Alexander Celinbaum and Irish boy John half hilled corn on my Rodgers farm, and then John F. took my one horse wagon to Hancock Village to Gustus Landon to paint, that we paid him for painting last fall.
Saturday: I this forenoon took my horse and wagon and fetched 17 bushels of ashes from Geo W. Glasses for Geo P. that is paid for in wood. I am unwell part of the afternoon.
Monday: Today I went with my one horse wagon to Lebanon Springs to young Adams Mill with a grist of three bushels wheat.