The Life Of George Holcomb – George Is Chosen As School Trustee

Tuesday, October 7, 1828: I racked cider and made out a load of nearly five barrels, and brother Wm carried it with my wagon and horses for me to N. Nichols distillery and said Nichols had bargained to pay me in tallow at ten cts per pound and give 50 cts per barrel for cider.  Wm fetched a chest of cake from Bull’s to carry to training to sell tonight.  Platt Wylie put his horse to my wagon and we rode to Doc Right’s and he gave me a writing to carry to Doctor Graves to clear me from military duty on account of deafness.
Wednesday: This morning Mr. John Russell rode with me to Doctor Graves to see if he would give me a discharge from military duty.  He wrote certificate to have my neighbors sign that I was deaf in one ear.  I like got all my neighbors to sign it. I carried it back this evening and said Graves gave me certificate, and I carried the said certificate to Capt Sylvester Gardner and he signed it.
Thursday, October 9, 1828: I went to Berlin to Doc Hammond’s old stand to Nicholas Harrington’s to muster training peddling.  I cleared about 8 dols. Hiram Beers went with me and peddled for me.  I gave him fifty cts for his day’s work.  Brother Wm went with me to training peddling.
Friday: I peddled in our own town to Simon Cranston’s to muster.  Said Beers helped me the same as yesterday.  I cleared or made about eight dols today again.
Saturday: This morning after we tended to some chores I took the covered wagon and carried my wife and daughter went with me to Pittsfield on a visit to Mr. Joseph Fairfields.  I called in the village and left Henry H. Strong three bushels of apples towards my newspapers.  I carried my big bible to Pittsfield to be bound at $1.37 cts.  We called up to Pontoosuc and stayed to Mr. Joseph Fairfields.
Sunday: today I went to a Methodist meeting at a school house near said Fairfield’s, and this afternoon we came home.  I handed said Fairfield 14 cts to pay the pasturing of my horses to a man nearby or said landlord to Fairfield, his name I do not remember.  We came home through Lanesborough.
Monday: Today quite a high wind.  We dug potatoes and I gathered apples and I gathered walnuts.  Tonight I went to school meeting.  I was chosen first trustee and Adam Brown the second and Zachariah Chapman the third.  The wind blew off the roof to my hovel.
Tuesday: We dug potatoes and mended our hovel.