George Turns 62

Wednesday, June 8, 1853: I took my one horse wagon and went to Canaan to Curtis MIll and paid three dollars and 37 cents for nine hundredweight of plaster. I took dinner with said Curtis and returned home
Thursday: I plastered potatoes and corn.
Saturday: I worked on my Rodgers farm, I cultivated and hoed corn and potatoes. Today brother Wm Holcomb came from the west on a visit. He came today from Hoosic, he lives in the town of Collins, Erie County south of Buffalo.
Sunday: I went to the funeral of Elisha Broad at his own house. A Methodist by the name of Smith preached. John F. carried me and brother Wm to funeral with his young horse, and Geo P. carried his wife and Charlotte to funeral.
Monday I took my one horse lumber wagon and carried sister Hannah Twitchel to Canaan Depot to take the cars for home. I paid six cts for beer while I was at the depot, and from the depot I went four miles south west on the Hudson turnpike to what is called Lovejoy’s plaster mill, now called Curtises Mill, and paid three dollars for eight hundred and waited three hours for the plaster to be ground. On the road home I sold two hundred pounds of said plaster to the widow of Elisha Broad for the same as I had paid, that is 75 cts for the two hundred. I am sixty two years old today.
Wednesday: Towards night I was fixing Geo P. horse on the wagon and the fills dropped down and frightened the horse and he jumped and broke one of the fills and I fell over back, the horse came partly on me and bruised me a little, but not bad.
Thursday: I this forenoon and Patrick with me went on to my Rodgers farm and tried to drive my bull home, but could not drive him, returned him back in the pasture. I was quite lame. I plastered the corn north of the barn the second time.
Friday: I and Geo P. and Patrick worked making a new rail fence on the line joining Alonzo Rodgers, we worked a little over half a day and a thunder shower broke us off from work, and towards night we set out cabbage plants.
Saturday: Today I went with my horse and wagon and carried brother Wm Holcomb on his way to Hoosic, I carried him to Petersburgh to the Worthington Tavern. I paid eight cents for a rum sling and parted with brother Wm. On the way home one old Mr. Tiphony rode with me a few miles. I called in Berlin to Culvers store and paid six cents for a gimlet and bated my horse.