George & Son Both Have A Tooth Pulled

Tuesday, January 11, 1853: I went with my wife to Elder Havens on a visit and I gave the Elder Haven one bushel turnips. While my wife was there on a visit I rode up to John Deballs near Latham Village, the collector, and paid my taxes, ten dollars and eighty one cents, and paid Geo P.’s taxes which was one dollar and thirty three cents, and Sylvenas Carpenter sent the cash and I paid his tax, 22 dollars and 41 cts, and I paid Alexander Ostrander’s 45 cts, he sent the cash to pay, and I sold two bushels turnips on the way, 50 cts cash, and Mr. Cornelius paid me for one bushel he had before 25 cts.
Wednesday: I and Patrick banked up the house again for it froze the first banking, was carrot tops and now we bank it with chip dirt.
Thursday: A hard snow storm, it commenced yesterday and snowed moderately all day and last night and today it snowed. I and Patrick worked in the wood house chopping, sawing, splitting and piling wood.
Friday: This afternoon I took my cutter and rode to Lebanon. I called to N. Nichols post office and paid up for the Budget to the first of April in advance, which was ten cts. I called down town to Doctor Wright’s and paid him 18 cts to draw a double tooth for me. I put a letter into N. Nichols post office for John F. and he paid the postage three cts to sent to Cincinnati Ohio to his cousin.
Saturday: John F. took Geo P. horse and my lumber cutter and carried three sacks of ears of corn to Adams mill to be ground. John F. came by way of Doctor Wright’s and had a tooth drawn, and this afternoon Patrick Rafter chopped wood.
Sunday: I paid Patrick Rafter five dollars cash.
Monday: I took my cutter and rode over to Russel Palmer’s and John F. drove over my fat steer and said Palmer butchered the beef for me and cut up three quarters and charged 87½ cts. Palmer and I reckoned and found I owed him 20 cts and I paid him the cash and our deal was even. I carried the hide to Randall A. Brown and he paid the cash, four and a half cts per pound, 66 pounds. I then came home with the beef. This evening Alexander Ostrander came and got a hind quarter beef, weight one hundred and nineteen pounds, and paid me the cash, six dollars. This evening John F. and his two sisters went to singing school over to the lecture room.