Geo P. Returns With His Wife

Wednesday, January 19, 1853: John F. went to Hancock with his colt and my lumber cutter. On the way coming home the traces unhooked and the horse ran and left the cutter and run about a mile and got stopped and John F. left his cutter to John Gardner’s and rode his colt home, and this evening John F. took my horse and cutter and carried his two sisters to Elder Havens to donation, he gave one dollar and the girls gave fifty cts apiece and today Patrick Rafter threshed oats.
Thursday: this evening John F. went to Hancock after the cutter he left yesterday when his colt ran away.
Friday: Today John F.  went with his ox team and drew out saw logs from my swamp and drew home a load of wood. Patrick Rafter worked in said swamp helping chop and saw and tonight said Patrick months work is completed and he has got his pay.
Saturday: This forenoon John F. and Patrick Rafter went onto my Rodgers farm with ox team and sled load of small stone for a ditch and fetched home a load wood from the swamp. This afternoon John F. took Geo P’s horse and my lumber cutter and went to Canaan Depot and there got Geo P. and his wife, they had been west on a visit. I sent as a present to my brother Beriah five dollars and Geo P. made him a present of three dollars. They got home at seven o’clock this evening.
Monday: This evening Geo P. and his wife and two sisters attended the singing school at the lecture room.
Tuesday: Today Geo P. and wife and Sarah O. rode to the Shakers.
Wednesday: This morning Mr. Sylvester Carpenter called and I and Geo P. signed each of us one share on the New Lebanon Railroad and we each of us paid ten dollars apiece on our shares into the hands of said Sylvenas Carpenter. Today John F. drew two loads stone onto the Rodgers farm and two loads of wood home from the swamp, and Patrick Rafter chopped in said swamp.
Friday: This evening Geo P. and wife and Charlotte E. went to Hancock village to the Church Basement to Festival, and I gave Charlotte E. 25 cts for admittance.
Saturday: Today Geo P. took his horse and cutter and went to Lenox with his wife to her father’s.
Sunday: Today I walked down to see old Mrs. Lydia Landers for she is quite sick and considered dangerous.
Monday: This forenoon Gardner Green came and butchered a pig, eight months old, judged to weigh one hundred and fifty pounds. I had paid Green in turnips one bushel for butchering. This evening Geo P. returned home from Lenox to carry his wife home to her father’s, and the old widow Lydia Landers died. This evening the widow Lucy Pierce was taken sick with the lung fever, she was taken apuking and tonight Charlotte E. watched to the widow Pierce’s.