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Irish John Finishes Working For George

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Sunday, August 22, 1852: Today I paid Irish John two dollars cash and he went down to the village to Lebanon. Today Mehitable Jolls died.
Monday: Today John F. went with one horse wagon and got a barrel ashes to old Mr. Perkins that he owed me towards a pig, and he bought ashes to Aaron Merrils and John F. put the ashes on his turnips, and tonight Geo P. returned home from Pittsfield and Spencertown. I paid the Irish wash woman 25 cts for washing today.
Tuesday: I took my one horse wagon and carried my wife and the widow F. Wylie and child to the funeral of Miss M. Jolls.
Wednesday: I only tended to chores and it was quite rainy this afternoon. This forenoon brother Simeon and brother F. Jay Wylie came and visited.
Thursday: Today I and John F. went onto my Rodgers farm and drove home our lambs, 44 of them, and two of the ewes with them.
Monday: Today two men laid wall or stone fence for us, their names are Thomas Whiting and Samuel Macklenen; I did not make a bargain with them which way they worked, they said they would make the usual at 37 cts per rod or one dollar per day. This morning I reckoned with John the Irish man that had worked for me two months at ten dollars per month and found I owed him 13 dollars and 63 cts and I paid him up and he quit.
Wednesday, Sept. 1: I cut and split chestnut timber to put into a stone fence and repaired rail fence on the line joining James M. Glass. Today John F. rode to Richmond with Simeon Wylie Jnr to a vendue and today those two men Samuel whiting and Thomas Macklenon continued to lay wall for us.
Thursday: Today at two o’clock this afternoon Samuel Whiting and Thomas Macklenon finished the wall they were laying, there were nearly thirteen rods of it, and I paid them six dollars and fifty cents, that is four dollars and fifty cents cash and two dollars for a pig last spring to Samuel Whiting. This afternoon I and John F. went with Mr. Merrick and his son in law Mr. Macklenen to look at sheep and lambs we have to sell. they bought my lambs at one dollar and 50 cts per head, 38 in number and Geo P.’s ewes 43 in number at one dollar and 12 cts per head.