Sunday, June 13, 1830: On this day I am thirty-nine years of age. Today rainy.
Thursday: We came home from Sand Lake (after a trip to Troy to buy and sell). Mr. Rufus Withee’s wife came with us and fetched her child to wash in the pool for the salt rime. On the way home we called to cousin Chancy Rowes and took dinner. On this evening I rode to the pool and got a jug of pool water to wash Mrs. Withees child
Friday: Today brother Sylvester helped me at my Rodgers barn altering the stable and laying stable floor. Today my wife took the single wagon and carried Mrs. Withee to the pool with her child.
Saturday: This forenoon I went to my Rodgers Farm and looked some time and found my two year old bull lay east, he was alive, weak and poor. I went and got Aseneth Newton and she doctored said bull. I told her that if she would raise said bull half of him should be hers. She agreed that she would try.
Tonight Mr. Rufus Withee came and stayed with us. He came after his wife and child. My wife paid Mrs. Withee one dol for a crepe handkerchief, a new one. Sylvester worked at the barn part of the day.
Sunday: Some rainy. Today Mr. Withee and wife left here with their child for the pool and today I am quite unwell with a cold and diarea and bad pain in my head and eyes, breast and side. I took phisic oil and put my feet in hot water.
Monday: Today rainy. I am some better. This afternoon my cattle broke into my meadow on my Rodgers farm and we went with the ox team in the rain and drew stacks and rails and mended it. I worked till some time after dark at said fence.
Tuesday: We chopped split rails and stacks and drew from home onto the Rodgers farm and mended fence.
Sunday, June 27: Today hard thunder shower.
Monday: this forenoon we hoed corn and at the middle of the day a hard hailstorm came within two miles of us. It came streaking through Lebanon and did thousands of dollars damage cutting down crops, gardens and breaking window glass, and especially the Shakers destroying their gardens.
Sunday, July 4: Towards night I rode over to I Newton’s and my wife with our babe. It is unwell.