The Eastwick Press Newspaper

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A Big Sale Of Wool

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Friday, July 16, 1852: John F. and my hired man Irish John and the two Runnals hayed on my Rodgers farm and I spread and raked hay on said farm. This morning I carried my wife and sister Miriam Campbell to Hiram Newton’s on a visit and left them through the day, and at night I fetched them home.
Saturday: Today cloudy and poor hay weather. My horse kicked John F. on his leg and he is quite lame. John F. and cousin Henry rode to Lebanon, cousin Henry answered a letter for me to cousin Beriah Wylie and put it in the post office today, and today I took my lumber one horse wagon and carried my wool and Geo P. wool to Pittsfield to Colt’s, there I delivered it to Daniel Gardner’s according to contract, which was 436 pounds at 40 cts per pound and took a check on the bank. Said Daniel Gardner had paid 20 dollars in advance when contracted and I got the balance one hundred and fifty four dollars and forty cents out of the bank which was pay in full. I took dinner to brother F. Jay Wylie’s and then I called up to the stores, and I paid to West’s store one dollar and eighty eight cents for a sack of liverpool ground salt and I paid to Chapin’s one dollar for 20 pounds brown sugar, and paid  one dollar and 20 cts for a linen coat in a clothing store up North Street. When I got home I reckoned with Geo P. and found we had one hundred and twenty eight fleeces and to average the whole it was one dol and nineteen and a half cents apiece, which makes my share 97 dol and 95 cents and Geo P. share 76 dol 44 cts.
Sunday: Geo P. and his two sisters and their two cousins Cornelia and Elizabeth Wylie and cousin  Henry Campbell, they all went to Shaker meeting in two one horse wagons. Today I paid Irish John one dollar.
Monday: I dug three bushels new potatoes and this evening John F. carried them to Lebanon Pool Hill and sold them to Parsons for one dollar per bushel. Today John F. and Irish John and the two Runnals hayed on my Rodgers farm and finished haying there, and Geo P. and his hired man John Merrils hayed on the Maxon Farm.