Mid-Summer Visiting

Saturday, July 3, 1852: Today I and John F. and Irish John hoed on the hill potatoes on the Maxon farm. Tonight I paid my hired man Irish John one dollar  and twenty five cts cash and he walked into Lebanon and bought him a pair shoes.
Sunday, July 4: Today I and John F. took the one horse wagon and rode to Lebanon to the Shakers to their meeting and this afternoon my family went to the Lecture Room to meeting.
Monday: I hoed in the garden and mended fence and the Irishman John hoed John F. potatoes on the Maxon farm. Geo P. and Charlotte E went to Berlin to picnic and in the evening Geo P. and Sarah O and Miss MacMurray, they went to Pittsfield to the fireworks.
Thursday: Today I took my one horse wagon and carried my wife to Pittsfield on a visit, we stayed to brother F. J. Wylie’s tonight. Today John F., my son, and Irish John began to hay. Today an uncommon hot day.
Saturday: I and my wife returned home from Pittsfield. We called in the village and I paid two dol 34 cts for a keg mackerel and I paid to Benjamins and Hands twenty cents for two faucets, fourteen cents for one pound coffee and twelve cents for one pound tobacco, and we called to Lebanon to N. Nichols store and paid 12 cents for one pound ginger. We got home at four o’clock and I worked getting up hay a spell.
Monday: I this forenoon ground a new scythe for the Irishman John and I mowed and he mowed with me and we cut up and carried in our turnip seed what we had a poor crop, it was too dry weather. This afternoon brother F. Jay Wylie from Pittsfield visited us, he fetched his two oldest daughters and left them on a visit. He left Cornelia to Simeon’s and Elizabeth to my house and he returned home this evening, and this evening my sister Miriam Campbell and her son Henry came on a visit from New Hartford. They came on the cars, and Henry walked from Lebanon and Geo P. went to Lebanon with a one horse wagon and fetched his aunt Miriam to my house.