The Eastwick Press Newspaper

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Typhus Comes To Stephentown

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Wednesday, July 9, 1851: We hayed and built a clover stack. Today and tonight Geo P. watched with Joseph Anthony Gillett, he has the typhus fever.
Thursday: We hoed corn on Wm B. Maxon’s land and got in some hay on the widow Wylie’s. One lad to home, and a hard thunder shower, today J. Bassett and A. Celinbaum and John Coslo worked for us and after the shower J. Coslo piled wood in the wood house. I paid 19 cts to a peddler for a pocket book, tonight John F. watched with J. A. Gillette.
Friday: I and my two sons and J. Coslo worked at haying to home and on the widow Wylie’s land.
Saturday: Today A. Celinbaum had a daughter born, and I paid him two dollars in cash.
Monday: I and my two sons and John Coslo worked at carrots and dug potatoes.
Tuesday: Geo P. took his carriage and carried his Mother to the funeral of Joseph Anthony Gillett at the house of Jeremiah Gillett. Today John F. went to Pittsfield with a load of one horse and wagon of new potatoes and sold them for 1.25 cents and one dol per, my two daughters walked to the funeral of said J. A. Gillett.
Wednesday: This forenoon we all dug potatoes for J. F. on the widow Wylie’s land, and this afternoon we hoed corn for J. F. on my Rodgers farm.
Thursday: Today I and John F. went to Pittsfield, each a one horse load of Johns’ new potatoes and John F. sold them at one dollar and one dollar 25 cents per, and I rode to Lenox and paid the lawyer Bishop 25 dollars and took a receit in full for his services at the appeal of Charlotte E. suit against M. Ross, which makes fifty dollars that I have paid said Bishop, and on the return home I called to L. Humphrey’s limehill and paid 25 cents for one bushel of lime.
Friday: We all six of us worked at haying and digging my potatoes on the hill in the young orchard.
Saturday: My self and John F. we went to Pittsfield with each a one horse wagon load of my new potatoes. We sold them at one dollar per bushel excepting a few John sold at 1.25 cents per bushel. Today I gave five bushels and a peck of new potatoes for one barrel of super fine flour, and I paid in cash to Elder Sands apothecary store 27 cents for high —- whiskey and medicine.