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Geo P. Loses In Cow Court

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Wednesday, November 1, 1854: Today I and John F. only tended to some chores for both is unwell.
Thursday: This forenoon Geo P. and John F. tended to dividing their sheep and John F. got his oxen out of the Rodgers barn, they had got to the corn for the door was left open by some one. This afternoon John F. unwell. Today some of my family sewed some to John Merrils wife sewing bee.
Friday: This forenoon John F. drew two loads, that is 55 bushels of carrots that John Merrils raised to the halves, and then John F. went to Jonathan Harrington vendue up on the Wheeler farm.
Monday: Today Geo P. carried a fat hog to Capt. Tanner and today John F. drew in two loads of turnips of 59 bushels, they were pulled and in heaps.
Tuesday: Quite rainy. I do not tend to any chores for I am quite lame. John went to A.P. Rollo to Mr. Davises and paid two dollars for a dog puppy.
Thursday: I walked to Michael Lindsay’s but his wife could not come and help us pull turnips. This afternoon John Merrils and Edward Manning butchered a cow for Geo P. at my house. I had one fore quarter, which pays for the one I let Geo P. have a year past. Today old Mr. Lindsay called and John F. paid him 25 dollars cash for his son Thomas work and 15 dol remains unpaid.
Friday: I remain quite lame, and John F. pulled and cut turnips. Geo P. went to Pittsfield with two quarters beef and tub butter. He got five dollars per hundred for his beef and 25 cts per pound for butter.
Wednesday: Geo P. and wife and wife’s sister returned from Lenox and Geo P. fetched me two bushels of lime from Lenox and I paid 64 cts for the lime and he paid me 20 dollars for the eighty pounds of butter he carried to market to Pittsfield.
Thursday: I went to Lebanon with my horse and wagon, I called to Doctor Bates and paid him 16 cts for a vial of eye wash and then left word to Capt. Tanner to have him come next Monday and skin my three hogs.
Monday: I carried turnips into the celler and in the afternoon I was taken lame for my breach was worse. Today Geo P. went to Berlin to Squ Taylor Green’s, he found that said Green had given judgement against him of eight dollars and lost on the suit of Daniel Millard concerning dogging his cow, and today Russel Palmer butchered six pigs for Geo P.