Saturday, March 19, 1831: Some stormy. On this evening I took the cutter and carried my wife to Stephen Sheldon’s to see the Gardner girl that has agreed to work for us this season. I do agree to pay her 75 cts per if we are suited on both parties. She agrees to do any work we set her about.
Sunday: I took the single wagon and carried my wife to the school house up Goodrich Hollow to the funeral of old Stephen Wheeler. Elder Jones preached. The old man died in the west part of town
Monday: Today I walked up to Lebanon. I talked with Lias Dike about coming to look at my calves to see if we could make a bargain. He did not give me encouragement over two dol 50 cts – and this same day I sold them at three dol 17 cts per head and part of them at two weeks old. Said Dike told me if he had them I must keep them four weeks old. The two men that bought them live in Schodack. I did not learn their names. This evening I sent Sylvester Swan to let said Dike know that we sold the calves and got more than he talked of paying. I called to Mr. Dean’s to see him about living in my house. I called to Dr. Right’s to get a strengthening plaster to put on my breast, for I hurt it with a binder the other day. I called to Elem Tilden’s store and paid six cts for camphor gum and three cts for pitch begunda to make a plaster to put on my breast.
Thursday: This forenoon I had a bee prying up my cheese house (to work on the foundation) or the building we drew for that use. Mr. Zach Chapman helped, and Frederick Russel and Platt Wylie. This forenoon Francis Buten worked for me at the said building.
Monday: I laid up the wall on my line joining E. Pierce where I drew my building through, and picked up stone heaps that we scattered in said Pierce’s meadow drawing my building, and worked some at the gates fixing them up again near the building I drew. Today Mr. Dean chopped wood to my door and agreed to take his pay in potatoes. This evening I borrowed F. Buten’s two inch auger to repair my gates, we tore down to draw said building.
Tuesday: I worked fixing up said gates and dug and laid a corner underpinning to my cheese house.