The Fruit Tree Business

Monday, April 16, 1855: This forenoon Geo P. rode one of John F. horses to the Shakers to count the fruit trees he had bought of them, and this afternoon Geo P. starts for Troy to buy fruit trees to carry on north where he has engaged a selection of fruit trees. He is going from Troy to Cambridge to take up a nursery that he had bought.
Tuesday: I this morning walked down to see Elder Jones, he is failing fast.
Wednesday: This morning I and my family was called to James M. Glasses, Elder M. Jones died (age 75). This forenoon John F. tended to some chores and piled up rails where the hovel was for the sheep and this afternoon he was unwell.
Friday: Quite rainy. I walked down to James M. Glasses and tended the moving of the funeral procession of Elder M. Jones. Elder Sweet attended to prayer and then they moved on to the Baptist Church and Elder Sweet preached. John F. walked to the funeral. I am quite unwell with a numbness of my left side.
Saturday: John F. and Patrick this forenoon drew timber from Geo P. hill with ox team and bob sleigh. Patrick’s brother John Rafferty beat manure to pieces in the meadow and picked up stone. This afternoon John F. is unwell.
Sunday: Today Geo P. returned home from Cambridge digging up and packing fruit trees in Mr. — nursery, he went to Cambridge by way of Troy and dug a variety of fruit trees in Wynantskill, and on his way through Troy he called to the Budget office and paid one dollar, which is in full for one year for the Budget from the first day of April 1855 to first day of April 1856.
Monday: This forenoon John F. took his two horse team and wagon and fetched fruit trees from John Cranston’s the Geo P. had fetched from Wynantskill by Mr. Jones, and this afternoon John F. was unwell, he did nothing today. Geo P. went to the Shakers and dug trees and fetched them home with two horse team.
Tuesday: I helped take banking from the house and helped load manure up into the young orchard. This afternoon I and John Rafferty loaded the manure. John Rafferty took banking away from the house this forenoon. Today Geo P. took up apple trees in his nursery on my farm to home, his wife labilled the bundles of trees and Michael Manning and brother helped Geo P. dig up his trees, and today John F. is unwell, he did not work.
Wednesday: I am lame, the work I did yesterday was too hard for me, but this afternoon I covered potatoes on the hill in the young orchard and John Rafferty dropped the potatoes.  This forenoon John F. plowed in said orchard with his horses. This afternoon John F. went with his two horse team to Hancock for Geo P. and got harness mended, he fetched home a writing desk he bought of Gustus Landon, price 6 dol 50 cts.