The Eastwick Press Newspaper

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An Early Cough Syrup

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Monday, March 21, 1853: I rode with John F. to Elisha Broad’s to the funeral of his grandfather, Amos Broad, the Reverend Mr. Day preached and Geo P. chopped to the door up to his Maxon house and his wife cleaned house and put up her furniture and Charlotte E. and Sarah O. helped her. I lent Philander Hatch 40 dol on interest for one year.
Wednesday: I went to Edwin Adams mill with a grist of corn, and I called down to John Merrils to see if he wanted to hire a house but he was not to home. I left word with his wife to have him come over to my house. Geo P. fetched his wheel to his one horse wagon from Dwight Jones shop that was repaired and he fetched his wife from Aaron Sackett’s she had been there on a visit.
Thursday: I tended to scalding over brine and pack over beef. I and Patrick tended to Geo P. chores on his Maxon farm, today Geo P. and his wife went to her Father’s in Lenox and stayed tonight. Charlotte E. rode with them to Pittsfield and stayed to Brother F. Jay Wylie’s. Today John F. started and walked, he went to Vermont to buy cattle and Patrick worked at the wood pile, and this afternoon aaron Merril’s wife came and let us know that our cattle had got away from the Rodgers barn and on the way home  and I and Patrick met the cattle in Joshua B. Maxon’s lot and took them back and put up the fences.
Saturday: This afternoon Geo P. and wife and Charlotte E. returned from Lenox and Pittsfield. While they were in Pittsfield at their uncle F. Jay Wylie’s, Geo P. took the cars and went to East Chatham and back to Pittsfield, he went to one Mr. KIng’s in Canaan and engaged the remainder of King’s nursery of fruit trees that was fit for market and while to King’s he paid one dollar for one bottle schenck’s Oykminic Syrup that I paid him for, my wife to take.
Sunday: My wife quite unwell with a cough.
Monday: I am quite lame today, Patrick tended to the chores to home, today Geo P. tended to putting up his goods or furniture for keeping house and his wife and Sarah papered his parlor. My wife is no better, the cough.