Geo P. Makes Lucrative Apple Tree Deals

Monday, January 29, 1855: This morning a rain and a thaw.
Tuesday: This forenoon the constable Elisha Bennet and son Jackson came to my house and took dinner with us, he came to see if John Merrils was moving out of our house that is near James M. Glass’s and said Bennet found that John Merrils moved out while he was at my house and Bennet returned home without any further ceremony. I learned that said John Merrils and family is moved into our house  that Edgar Brown lives in with him.
Friday, Feb. 2: I this forenoon went with John F. up to the school house near Mr. Rollo’s and helped load a black oak saw log that he drew off Geo P. hill and he drew it to Adams mill. He went with his two horse team  and bobsled and left his team to the saw mill and walked to the constable Elisha Bennet’s and told him to come and give possession of the house that John Merrils moved out of.
Tuesday: I did but a few chores for it is extremely cold weather. John F. only tended to the chores, it being extremely cold. Patrick did not work, he quit and went home.
Wednesday: John F. and Michael Manning sawed logs in the swamp half a day, John F. found that my spotted heifer had a calf at the Rodgers barn. The weather moderates a little.
Thursday: Today high wind and some snow. John drove home the heifer and calf and another heifer  from the Rodgers barn.
Saturday: On this evening Geo P. returned home from Vermont, he has bargained over five hundred dollars worth of apple trees to sell at 25 dollars a hundred and has bargained  to buy a thousand or more trees  at eleven and ahalf cents apiece in Cambridge, Washington County.
Monday: John F. unwell and did not go out. I this evening walked down to see elder Mathew Jones for he is considered quite dangerous sick. Today Geo P. went with my horse and his horse on the sleigh and drew two loads of ice from John Conklin mill pond.