The Eastwick Press Newspaper

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George Turns 62

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Friday, June 11, 1852: I took my one horse wagon and returned to Smyth plaster mill and got eight hundred weight of plaster and paid three dollars for it. Today I gave fifty cents for two brothers that went to States prison by the name of Winkles and were reprieved. They were anti-renters.
Saturday: I plastered corn and potatoes. An Irishman, a stranger that had shortly or within two days moved into Doctor Graves house, what is called the Russel Palmer house, he came and I trusted him two dollars for a pig and he agreed to come in a week and pay me.
Sunday: Today I am 62 years old.
Monday: Today a New York man called on me to know what I would sell my land for by the acre if the railroad came across. I did not give a direct answer. Today Chauncey Baldwin took dinner and bated his horse and paid in two glass tumblers.
Tuesday: I this forenoon partly cleaned out the celler and carried out potatoes.
Wednesday: I went to Pittsfield with one horse wagon and sold 7 1/2 bushel potatoes at 50 cts per and sold three pecks of onions for 44 cts. I sold the potatoes and nearly all the onions to Cooley’s store and paid him two dollars for two small jerkins mackerel and paid 50 cts for eight pounds sugar and 28 cts for two pounds coffee and 28 cts for one pound chocolate. On the way home I called to Nichols store and paid N. Nichols three dollars and 79 cents which is in full for sawing 1144 feet hemlock and 300 feet ash at 31 cts per and this morning Geo P. rode up to Elder Nathan Sweet’s and bargained and took a lease of a certain quarry of stone for eighteen months by paying  –.
Thursday: Towards night I went with Geo P. and got his sheep home to sheer from P. Hatch’s pasture. Today John F. hired an Irishman and went with him and they dug stone in the quarry the Geo P. had got a lease of Elder Nathan Sweet.
Friday: Some rainy this morning. Today we sheered our sheep, and Geo P. and I had 139. Mr. Broadway sheered all day and we paid him one dol and 25 cts, and Daniel Collins and Alexander Ostrander sheared in the afternoon. We paid them each 75 cts. Today Mr. Phineas Palmer came and I trusted him for a pig three dollars and he agreed to pay in two weeks. Tonight cousin Rufus Kendall stayed with us with a horse and wagon. He is a selling paints.