The Life Of George Holcomb – Fixing The Barn

Thursday, July 5, 1827: Today I took the cart and oxen and borrowed Mr. Hazard Morey’s screw to hoist the corner of our barn.
Friday: We underpinned the barn in a number of places and raised the corner with said screw, and sawed some posts and put under and brother Wm helped.  I had the posts of him, two long ones and one short one, and today brother Sylvester worked for me a laying over part of the barn floor, and for the same I credit him seventy five cents towards his rent.  On this day Philander P. Holcomb came on a visit from the City of New York on account of his health, on his way to his father’s to the westward.
Saturday: Garret Hires butchered a calf for me and I paid him in cider.  This forenoon I took the single wagon and carried the Shakers 36 feet hemlock bark.
Monday: This forenoon I hilled corn and in the afternoon I began to mow on my Rodgers farm on what is called the beaver meadow. This afternoon brother Wm took my mare and plowed out Amos Chapman’s potatoes, part of them, and I Newton’s corn that they do plant on my land on shares, and said Chapman pays Wm in making a pair of shoes for Mother and I find the leather to answer against Wm getting them made.
Tuesday: We hayed on my Rodgers farm and finished the beaver meadow.  I took the single wagon and carried my son George Pease to Doc Wos and had his foot measured for a pair of shoes, and to Wm Post’s and had his head measured for a hat.
Wednesday: Today we hayed on my Rodgers farm, and this afternoon Wm rode my mare to the west part of this town and hired a boy by the name of Cleveland to work for three dol and 50 cts and tonight I kept an Irish dry goods peddler and a Yankee peddler with books and print.