Thursday, February 19, 1835: This evening I took my one-horse sleigh and carried Hiram S. Thayer’s wife a peck of potatoes, for he had gone and left her without provision. This morning a tinker by the name of Wallace took breakfast with us. He stayed with us last night and he soldered tin for to pay his bill.
[private] Sunday: Today I took my wagon and horse and carried my wife and part of my family to Elder Jones Meeting House, and Elder Jones preached. On this day Mr. Stephen Hull of Hancock Village went in to his stone cotton factory and was fixing the water wheel and the wheel turned, which fetched him with his head first under the wheel, which mashed his head and he died instantly.
Friday, Feb 27: Today I went to Alonzo Chapman’s with John Russel and we were sworn before Squ Nathan Howard to inventory and appraise all the property of Laura Mirse, or in other words Laura Cole deceased, left belonging to Charlotte Chapman and Eliza Cole.
Saturday: Today I took my horse and wagon and rode to Williamstown near the College to one Mr. Pratt’s for Henry Ostrander Jnr after a bundle of clothes he had left there. Today quite a cold day, I froze my right ear. Said Ostrander agreed to give me two days works for going to Williamstown.
Sunday: Tonight I watched with brother Isaac Newton, he remains feeble but the bloat is gone down and his legs is painful where the blisters are.
Saturday, March 7: This forenoon I walked up Goodrich Hollow to see Mr. Harvy Wheeler about buying my calf or calves. I met him on the road before I got to his house, he told me he would come on Monday to bargain. I called to Elijah Goodrich Jnr to see if he had money to lend but he had not. Towards night my new milk cow or Sheldon cow lay cast in my barnyard, I run to get her up and a problem, her head bend, she flung her horn onto my foot and mashed my 4th toe, which was very painful through the night.
Sunday: My foot is quite lame, the cow bruised it last night and some painful.
Tuesday, March 17: Today I took my wagon and horse and my wife went and we carried our youngest daughter Sarah Orseley to doctor Elijah Graves and had a stub of a tooth pulled. He slit the gum and got hold of a prong of the root and pulled with his fingers and I paid him 12 cts for pulling said tooth. On the way going we stopped to Mr. Isaac Adams to warm us for it was very windy and chilly. Mrs. Adams had a pair of twins, a girl and a boy, they were five days old. We took dinner at said Adams. [/private]