The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

Cutting Ice

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Tuesday, February 13, 1855: I carried the dinner to Geo P. and John F. and Patrick, they are drawing ice. Geo P. drew four loads on the wagon with my horse and his horse and John F. drew four loads  with his horses on his bob sled and Patrick drew two loads with the ox team. Edward Manning sawed the ice and helped load it.
Wednesday: Geo P. and Patrick packed ice in Geo P. ice house this afternoon.
Friday: I did not tend to any chores, I am quite lame. Patrick chopped wood to the wood house and tended to the chores morning and night, to Rodgers barn and Geo P. barn. While foddering to the Rodgers barn, John Merrils came and fetched his brother in law Calhoon and said Calhoon insulted and threatened Patrick very highly as Patrick tells. This morning John Cooney sold John F. a young cow and drove her here and John F. paid him 18 dollars cash for the cow.
Saturday: Today John F and Patrick Rafferty drew pine logs to Eldridge saw mill. They went twice apiece, they drew seven logs in all. Today John Merrils moves out of my Rodgers house into Benjamin Nichols Carpenter house.
Monday: John F. and Patrick drew logs to Eldridge’s mill, they drew 11 logs. This evening John F. went to the debating meeting at the school house.
Tuesday: I did a few chores, I am lame with boils. Today my two sons and Patrick drew saw logs. They drew 15 logs from the Rodgers farm  to Eldridge’s saw mill.
Friday: Today Mr. McMurray called and our hired man Patrick Rafferty measured him up ten bushels  of what is called early June potatoes at 50 cts per bushel.
Saturday: John F and Patrick and Geo P. went twice apiece to Adams saw mill and  carried 12 logs in all. John F had one butternut log and one hard maple and Geo P. had eight chestnut, they all fetched back one hundred chestnut fence posts.
Tuesday: I am quite lame with a boil on my ankle, I had a flax seed poltice on it. This forenoon John F. drew a load of wood from the swamp for Michael Manning to our tenant house near James M. Glasses, said Manning has not moved in yet but has bargained to pay his rent in cash 15 dollars for one year.