A Trip To Cow Court

Thursday, October 26, 1854: I am quite lame, I only tended to some chores. Today Charlotte E. and Geo P. wife went to Pittsfield with my horse and Geo P. carriage to have their teeth doctored. John plowed for Geo P. with two yoke oxen.
Friday: I tended to chores and worked at the turnips and my wife and Charlotte E. and Michael Lynch wife pulled and cut turnips and John F. pays Mrs. Lynch 50 cts for helping. Today John Merrils worked a spell and his daughter  Louisa all day, they cut 20 bushels for two bushels, or for every tenth.
Saturday: I am quite lame. I carried 26 bushels turnips from the wagon to the celler and pulled one bushel and cut. Today the Shakers sent Smith Glass and got twenty five bushels of turnips on Geo P. contract of 100 bushels. This afternoon I stabled Edward Manning cow, she broke into my orchard at night. He sent his boy with a promise to pay the damage and I let the boy drive the cow home.
Tuesday: This morning John F. plowed a spell for Geo P. then took his two horse team and carried myself and E. Ostrander  and Edward Manning to Berlin to Streeters to Geo P. and Daniel Millard cow court, we went as witnesses. Geo P.’s wife and Sarah went with him. We all had supper and paid one dol 75 cts and paid for Smith Straits supper. Judgment was not given in tonight by Squ Schuyler Green, inquiring my testimony to Berlin to Daniel Millard’s court, I walked up that morning, I guess between 8 and 9 o’clock to see Geo P. on the road near the widow Wylie’s, I see Daniel Millard’s cow did not see she was injured, I took but very little notice, the cow going but when I returned home I notice the cow more particular, I did not discover any mark of injury on the cow and the reason I was more particular to examine said cow that Geo P. wife told me that Geo P. had dogged the cow that morning , when I got home it was nine or a little after nine, after dinner I see Rastus Rowley Dog and another dog chasing said cow and the cow came past my house towards home but I was not near the cow and did not discover any marks of injury. It was eleven o’clock when we got home this evening.