Wednesday, April 28, 1830: Today I tended to a young colt that my bay mare had this morning, but her milk did not come and I had to feed it.
Monday, May 3: We plowed sward and I sowed grass seed. Our young colt died and my hired boy skinned it.
Tuesday: I walked to Pittsfield to training and peddled cake, cider and apples. We got home about nine this evening
Saturday: We got ten bushel of potatoes on to the hill for Mr. Danford to plant to the halves, and he dig them. This evening I carried my colt skin to Mr. Abraham Winston’s to be tanned.
Sunday, May 16: This afternoon I and my wife walked up to Mr. Waner Marels to see their child that has the canker rash and scarlet fever and Mr. Philander Hatch child with the same complaint.
Monday: Today quite rainy. I tended to chores. Towards night I went to H. Platt’s mill with a grist of corn. While it was grinding, I rode up to the milliners, Mrs. Swan to see if she had whitened my wife’s hat and have her wait until I could go to Pittsfield for trimmings.
Tuesday: I took the single wagon and went to Pittsfield with applesauce and sold it at 40 cts per gal. I got about two dol and thirty cts for the sauce. I carried one bushel of potatoes and sold them for 25 cts. I bought at the milliners a straw band. I paid 75 cts and a half yard straw braid 9 cts and three yards blue ribbon 63 cts, all to trimming my wife’s hat. Old Mr. Caleb Sheldon rode over and back with me.
Thursday we planted corn, and hoed corn in the garden. This morning Mr. Philander Hatch had a son die with the canker rash, age 2½ years.
Friday: We went plowing a sward on my Rodgers Farm and I came home at noon and went to the Presbyterian meeting house to the funeral of P. Hatch’s child.
Saturday: We plowed on my Rodgers farm. At noon I came away to Mr. Zachariah Chapman’s to raising a wagon house. I only stayed a few minutes and came home to get Mr. Chapman a half gal of cider brandy. I lent it to him for his raising.