Saturday, July 18, 1829: This evening I went and paid Edward Carr one year’s interest on a note of 202 dol which was 14 dol and 14 cts, and I paid him 20 cts compound interest, and I went and paid Adam Brown one year’s interest on a fifty dollar note, which was three dollars and 50 cts.
Saturday, July 25: On this day I took the covered double wagon and carried my wife and Mother Spring to Richmond to brother Jay Wylie’s on a visit. We carried Charlotte and Geo P. and the babe Sarah Orselia (b. 25 March ’29) and I paid said Jay one year’s interest on the three hundred dollars I had borrowed of him, which was twenty one dollars. I carried Mother Holcomb to the widow Hunter’s on a visit until we returned, and I carried a grist of rye and corn to the Shakers’ mill and had it ground and took it at night when we returned.
August was a hard-working month, mostly haying. Toward the end of the month he digs potatoes and picks apples, and again begins to go on marketing trips to Pittsfield and Troy.
Tuesday, September 1: We made cider and got ready for to go to Commencement. We fenced stacks. Russell Pierce held plow a spell and I am to carry him to Commencement.
Wednesday, Sept. 2: This morning at midnight I started for Williamstown with cider and cake to peddle. Brother Wm and Mr. Newton went with me and peddled. I sold about five dollars, and we got home about 9.
Sunday, September 6: I took the single wagon and carried my wife to the Methodist quarterly meeting at the meeting house near Bigalow’s in Lebanon. This evening I walked over to Elder Mathew Jones, Isaac Newton’s and Francis Buten’s collecting school tax.
Monday, Sept. 7: I went with the single wagon to the west part of this town to Robert Tifft’s peddling cake and cider. I cleared four dollars peddling. I left a keg to John Babcock’s with cider in it and he paid me 39 cts and agrees to send the keg to Barnum Clark’s shop by Saturday.
Saturday, Sept. 12: This morning I rode over to Elijah Goodrich’s to see if he would come and fix our cider mill, and I paid up a note of nine dollars and interest to Lydia Stone and today we gathered apples and got in rowing too. This evening we made cider.
Sunday: This evening I went up to brother Wm and he took his horse and came home with me and stayed, to be ready to go to training.
Monday:Today brother Wm put his horse with mine to my wagon and went to Canaan to General Training peddling. I made about five dol and a half.