September 19, 1835: I tended to chores and dug potatoes. Today Peter Surdam had my wagon and horse to go to training to Canaan and Asa Sheldon with him and they do agree to butcher my hogs and beef, for the use of the horse and wagon.
Sunday: High wind and blew off my apples and my stack tops. I gathered apples and put on my stack tops.
[private]Monday: This forenoon brother Sylvester came and morticed my cider creeckers and is to make cider in the mill to pay him for fixing it. I dug potatoes and towards night I took the single wagon and my wife rode with me. We went up to Town to inquire after a girl to hire. We called to cousin Samuel Holcomb and other places and then we rode to Hancock.
Tuesday: I mended fence on the line by my orchard, and this afternoon I went to E. Pierce’s to raising a sheep barn. I gathered apples and carried Mrs. Francis Right about 9 bushels of apples to dry to the halves. On this morning I had another peddler, he paid his bill in essence and salves, his name is Heming, from Williamstown.
Thursday: I tended to chores and went with my wagon and horses onto my Rodgers farm and got a load of potatoes of 25 bushels that Hiram Newton raised on shares. Today Peter Surdam had my horse and wagon to go to Petersburgh to training, and agrees to dig and put the potatoes into my celler that grows in what is called barn yard, and to pay me.
Friday I sorted potatoes and put in the celler and helped my son Geo P dig his potatoes. Today said Peter and Asa Sheldon had my horse and wagon to go to training to Nassau, and they do agree to give me one day and 3/4 for said team and digging potatoes. Tonight Mr. Danford fetched home my full cloth that he took the wool and manufactured to the halves, 17 yds full cloth and 4 yds press, but not the color that the cloth agreed to be.
Saturday: I helped my son Geo P dig his potatoes and finished 29 bushels and towards night I went to the woods and chopped and drew down a chestnut log for shingles.
Monday: This morning I drew water from the brook in barrels to wash for my pump bucket had broken and settled into the well in the pump log, and I walked over to Adam Brown’s and borrowed his cross-cut saw, and today Mr. James Harrington came as he before agreed, to making chestnut shingles for me. The bargain is said Harrington is to help me saw the shingle bolts and then he is to make the shingles and bunch them up and I am to give him one barrel of cider for making each thousand of shingle, and said Harrington agrees to make six or seven thousand and take his pay in cider.[/private]