The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

The Barn Foundation

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Wednesday, June 27, 1855: I walked over to Mr. Pease to find out where his horses got in my meadow on the Rodgers farm. He told me the horses got out of his meadow into mine and he would take care of his horses. On the way home I called into my Rodgers house that Patrick Rafferty lives in. Today a woman called by the name of Nigh and sold us a bushel basket and took her pay in potatoes. This forenoon John F. got our sheep home to shear from Lathum’s land. John F. rode to Lebanon with Geo P. wife and bargained with Henry Hull for our butter at 20 cts til fall. John F. walked home and Geo P. wife went in pursuit of a hired girl. This afternoon Alexander Ostrander and Dwight Jones sheared sheep for us, and John F. sheared five of them himself. This evening John F. carried H. Hull 83 pounds of butter and strawberries. Today Patrick and E. Hatch dug under the barn.
Thursday: This forenoon John F. drove thirteen sheep to pasture on the Fairbanks lot and Allen Smith helped him. E. Hatch and Patrick dug under the barn.
Friday: John F. unwell but towards night he went with his horse and wagon to the widow Wylie’s and  got ten bushels of oats and carried them to Hull’s and he carried both field and garden strawberries also, they paid him ten cts per quart for field and fifteen cts per quart for garden strawberries.
Monday: At eleven o’clock the two brothers by the name of Baileys from Petersburgh came and began to build the wall under the barn. John F. and Patrick  worked at the barn a drawing in stone. towards night I went with my horse and wagon on to Pool Hill and sold H. Hull 1 quarts of strawberries at 15 cts.
Tuesday: John F. and Patrick  and the two Baileys worked at the barn leveling and drawing stone. Geo P. and wife went to Lenox.
Wednesday: John F. drew stone this forenoon with ox team to build wall under the barn, and in the afternoon he was sick. At noon Edward Hatch came and he drew stone and Patrick Lynch mixed mortar and the two Baileys laid up wall under the barn. Quite rainy this afternoon. This evening Geo P. and wfe returned from Lenox.
Thursday: Today Geo P. drew two wagon loads  stone from Nathan Sweet’s quarry with my horse and his horse, and today brother Samuel Beers and wife visited us.