Sunday, October 16, 1831: Today my wife went to the Baptist meeting house to meeting. My two oldest daughters and Lucinda Morton went, but when they started to come home the fills broke and the horse got loose and ran. My wife fell out and hurt her bad all over, and Lucinda Morton got some hurt. I put my horse to Platt Wylie’s wagon and fetched my folks from Simeon Wylie’s.
Monday: Today I gathered apples and this evening I took my wagon and horses and went to Hancock, near the Baptist meeting house and got my single wagon that broke down yesterday with wife and children. Grinman Stafford rode with me from Hancock and helped me getting my single wagon home.
Tuesday: We cut up and drew in corn and pumpkins.
Saturday: Today Wm Lapum came and bargained for my cheese at six dollars per cwt and he agreed that if I would come up to his store this evening he would advance me three hundred dollars, and I agreed to pay him back five dollars for paying before I delivered the cheese, and I went to said Lapum’s and he handed me the three hundred dollars, and I went with said money this evening and took up a three hundred dollar note to Robert Stanton, and gave a note for the interest eleven dol and 11 cts, payable the 31st day March next with out interest and I bargained with said Lapum today for my pork at five dollars per cwt pork to weight what they would.
Monday: Today quite rainy. We tended to chores and today I paid my summer’s schooling, which was three dollars and 64 cts, part the time a man’s school by the name of Henry Douglass and part of the time Harriot Doulittle.
Monday, October 31: Today I wagoned up two loads of cheese to Lapum’s, weighing twenty six hundred and 44 pounds, delivered according to contract the 22nd this month. On the way home I called up to Joel Goodrich’s and paid one dol for twenty bushels of coal, and I bargained for the rest at the same price, take them away next spring as I wanted them.
Thursday November 3, 1831: We gathered apples, and at night I took my wagon and carried Mrs. Harriot Dean to Squ Nathan Howard’s and she entered complaint that Mrs. Lucinda Clark had threatened her life.
Saturday: Today I went to Squ Nathan Howard’s to Mrs. Lucinda Clark’s trial for threatening Mrs. Dean’s life. The said Mrs. Clark pled guilty and the court let her go on these conditions – she promised to quit the state in four days.