Wednesday, March 30, 1831: This morning I borrowed E. Pierce’s cheese press of Harry Wheeler to pattern after, and then I drew two loads of rails off the hill and it was quite a rainy day.
Thursday: This forenoon F. Buten came and sawed out the timber for my two cheese presses. This afternoon I went to Brother Wm to have him come and get measure to make irons to my cheese presses.
Friday, April 1: Today we tended to trying getting a cow up, she got cast calving. I went and got Mr. Harry Wheeler to tend to said cow and other neighbors. I borrowed Barnum Clark’s ox slings, but we could not get said cow to stand. I got trusted to Henry Platt’s store 30 cts for cheese press rope. Today said Buten and brother Sylvester worked for me at my cheese presses. At night I walked to Simeon Wylie’s to get him to turn me four pulley blocks for my cheese press.
Saturday: Today F. Buten and his hired man worked for me at my cheese presses. We tended to our cow today a-nursing her.
Sunday: On this evening I took the single wagon and went to Hancock on the Car Briggs farm after Cynthia Gardner to work for us. She came, she was contented as we were satisfied.
Monday: I tended to my lame cow and underpinned my cheese house. Today some rainy.
Thursday, April 7: I wagoned one load of boards home from E. Goodrich’s sawmill. Today noon I bargained with Sylvester Swan to live with me one year and I am to school him four days in each week for four months, and I am to let him have July and August to work for himself and I am to pay him 20 dollars.
Saturday, April 9, 1831: I carried Brother Sylvester work bench to him. He moved out of my house on the sixth of the month into Henry Stanton’s house up Goodrich Hollow in Hancock
Sunday: I paid Cynthia Gardner for her week’s work 75 cts and I sent a boy home with her. On this day I walked up to cousin Samuel Holcomb and I called up to Mr. Watson’s to see if I could hire a girl but I could not. I called to Mr Dabolls to see if I could hire a girl but the Griffin girl was not there
Wednesday: This forenoon Peres Swan came to my house and took breakfast with us and then he helped make a windlass, and we sewed two bags together and we slung up our lame cow, but she could not stand, and we let her down again. I told said P. Swan the bargain I made with his son Sylvester and he consented to it and told me that I must pay him one-half of the boy’s wages.
Friday: Today we tried to raise our cow by digging a pit and a windlass but to no use. This evening I went to my Rodgers barn to tend to my cows that was calving, and I called to Mr. Newton, he is failing fast.