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Berlin Man Tries To Sue Geo P.

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Friday August 25, 1854: Today Daniel Millard sent a constable from Berlin to serve a summons on Geo P., MIllard says for doging his cow. Geo P. was not to home and the writ was not served. Today Geo P. fetched his wife to my house for the first after being confined and they both stayed tonight.
Saturday: This morning John F.  went up and got Geo P. horse and wagon and load potatoes and came to my house and then Geo P.  took the team and load and went to Pittsfield. Tonight he returned to my house and stayed with his wife. John F. went a spell this afternoon to help Mr. Thomas Horton raise a barn or shed.
Wednesday:  I tended to chores and doctored my horse’s head where the rope hurt it by tying him head to foot.
Thursday:  Today Geo P. went to Berlin to tend to Daniel Millard’s trying to sue him for doging his cow, and today John F. started with his two horse team and his two sisters for Pittstown, and I gave my two daughters 21 dollars.
Sunday:  My horse got out of my meadow and I looked in other people’s lots after him but could not find the horse.
Monday: Today I found my horse in Joshua B. Maxon’s swamp pasture. Today John F. and his two sisters returned from Pittstown. Today Geo P. went to Pittsfield with part of a load of potatoes and he went to Lenox. Today a man from Lenox called and drove away Geo P. oxen and left word that his brother had bargained for them for one hundred and ten dollars and would see Geo P. in Lenox today and pay him for the oxen.
Wednesday: Today Geo P. starts to go north to buy sheep.
Friday: I am some lame, and I picked plums  and Thomas picked plums.
Saturday, Sept 16: Today I and John F. went to Pittsfield by way of Stern’s Factory and sold nearly eight bushels plums at one dollar and one dollar and fifty cts per bushel, I traded to Cooley’s store, I got one pound black tea, two pounds coffee and the balance in sugar, which was 14 pounds. Charlotte E. went with us and went to Doctor Cluff’s office and had Doctor Chiles draw a tooth and had another tooth filled with gold and paid him one dollar twenty five cts.
Monday: I knocked the mortar from the brick that came out of the chimney that John Merrils took down in the cheese house. Today Geo P. returned home from Vermont with 160 sheep.