The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

Geo P. Does A Brisk Business In Apple Trees

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Friday, April 23, 1852: I took my one horse wagon and carried my side hill plow to J. B. Maxon’s shop and old Mr. Farrington repaired it and I paid him 25 cts and Bliss Maxon soldered my lead pipe. Today Geo P. drew manure on the Maxon farm, and the Irishman that lives there helped him.
Saturday:  I took my one horse wagon and carried four bushel wheat and one of corn to Lebanon and left to be ground to Joseph Adams mill and Mr. Sloane put a new shoe on my horse and it pays for the turnips he had last fall. I came home by way of Gay’s store and looked our accounts over and found that he owed me one dollar and 68 cts. I then bought nine yards calico at 7 cts per and two pounds batting 24 cts. Today I hired a stranger for one month at ten dollars, he is Irish by the name of Daniel. Today he dug a ditch and filled it from the cheese house to the barn yard. Geo P. carried the pipe to John Mantle and he soldered it over that came apart where Wm B. Maxon soldered it.
Thursday: I measured up twenty bushels of John F. carrots to Lord’s hired man, carrots when paid for to be 25 cts per. Towards night John F, and Hiram burning a brush heap fire by accident got in the old hay and burned part that I spread from the stack for foddering. Tonight I paid James Runnals two dollars cash for his four days work.
Saturday, May 1: I took my horse and wagon and carried two hundred grafted trees for Geo P. from his Pierce nursery and delivered to Doctor E. Graves at eighteen dollars per hundred but not paid for. This afternoon Geo P. and his two sisters went to Daniel Rows on a visit. today John F. measured up two loads carrots and turnips, 57 bushels at 25 cts per and took his cash of the Church family Shakers.
Sunday: Geo P. and his two sisters returned from Nassau from Dryden and Daniel Row’s
Monday: I took a one horse wagon and went to Geo P.’s nursery and helped  put on a one horse wagon load apple trees and he went to Petersburgh and Hoosic with them and from his nursery I went with Geo P. horse and wagon to Hancock for him  to Wm Lapum’s and got three bushel of the June potatoes at 50 cts per.