Wednesday May 16, 1832: We planted corn and furrowed. Today old Joseph Simpson moved into my house and is to have it till April next, and agrees to give a month’s work in haying. If he failed in doing a good day’s work as any man that works for me, he agrees to make up the difficiency and this evening I walked to one of the poor masters, Jonathan Carpenter and reported him and wife, and I call to Squ Nathan Howard’s and took a summons against Rowland Danford in case of trespassing for filling up the spring of water near my tenant house in the highway.
Thursday: This forenoon I carried Mr. Amos Chapman ten bushels of potatoes at 25 cts and I credit him the same for shoemaking, and said Chapman took part of my clock and carried it to Hancock to Delanoe’s and had a wire put in. I paid six cts for Delanoe’s doing it.
Wednesday, May 23: This afternoon Mr. Amos Chapman draws wood with my team from my lot, which pays him for cleaning my clock the other day.
Thursday: I took my single wagon wheels to brother Wm and had the old tire taken off and my horses shoes part new set. I carried Squ Nathan Howard one bushel pink eye potatoes for his giving me a fowl, a cock that the breed is lately imported, and to have Samuel Holcomb answer my name in a suit against R. Danford as is before mentioned. A snow storm. Today I paid two dol to S. Holcomb for priest tax.
Friday I took my single wagon wheels and carried to Wm Gay to be new rimmed, price agreed three dollars, and I fetched home his empty barrel to fill him a barrel cider towards the work.
Saturday: I carried my wife to Hancock and got her bonnet that was whitened and lined to a milliners, I paid one dol and 32 cts cash. We sold five pounds ten ounces butter at 14 cts per pound for cash to Geo Babcock. We returned by way of Mr. Sweet’s to see if his wife had money to lend. She said that she had and I must call to her father, Thomas G. Carpenters for the money. Today Samuel Holcomb answers to my suit against R. Danford.
Tuesday: This afternoon I went to Thomas G. Carpenter’s and borrowed sixty dollars of his daughter Cornelia Sweet, payable in one year on interest. I paid brother Wm up for a cow I bought this spring 22 dols. I called to Squ Nathan Howard’s to know how my suit was managed against Danford.