Sunday, June 26, 1831: Today our hired girl Fanny Roberts rode one of my horses and went home. I paid her two dollars in cash.
Monday: We hoed in the garden and piled wood in the wood house. Today I sent thirty dollars by Ephraim Pierce to Stephen Van Rensselaer to pay rent. Some rainy today.
Tuesday, June 28: Today I reckoned with Rachel Hall and she quit. I paid her up at 62 days per.
Wednesday: This afternoon I took the wagon and my wife rode with me. We went to see Esther Sheldon and to Mr. Nilses to get his daughter but not made a bargain with none.
Saturday, July 2: This morning I walked to Lebanon and engaged cake of Squ John Bull for Brother Sylvester to peddle to Independence. From there I went to John Smith’s to see when he would come and build the chimney in my cheese house. He would not agree to come certain. We drew stone for the foundation.
Sunday: Today I took the single wagon and carried my wife and two eldest daughters to a Universalist meeting at the Select School house near Doc Elijah Graves. We came home by the way of Isaac Newtons and took tea. I called up to Grindman Stafford’s and bargained with Martha Kittle to come and work for us.
Monday: We began to hay, and Asa Sheldon began his month’s work for his rent.
Thursday: We worked at our hay drying and got in two loads and some showery. Said Sheldon worked in the forenoon and this afternoon Row Danford took said Sheldon with an assault and battery pretending said Sheldon struck Harriot Carr, but said Danford and Sheldon settled their difficulty by said Sheldon’s paying the cost, which was two dol and fifty cts.
Wednesday, August 3: Today my wife started for Rome. Andrew Clark carried my wife to Troy and I paid him 59 cts and then she took passage in the canal boat with her brother Simeon and wife.
Monday: We hayed on my Rodgers farm and finished mowing but we did not get it in. It was rainy and tonight high wind, it blew off fruit.
Saturday: We hayed and open and spread spring rye to dry that was wet last Tuesday.
Sunday: I was necessitated to bibe my rye and get it into the barn for fear it would take damage again.
Thursday: We hayed it. This evening my wife returned home, her journey from Rome. She came from Troy in the Lebanon Stage, and her expenses was five dollars.
Friday: This evening I took the single wagon and rode to Lebanon to Amos Broad’s and got my wife’s baggage that she left the stage returning home from her journey.