Wednesday, Feb 10, 1836: I tended to my chores and this afternoon I walked up to Benjamin Carpenters at the house formerly owned by the one hand Nathan Vary. I went there to a society meeting to see about building a meeting house. But a few attended and the meeting was adjourned till next week on Thursday. I called to the post office and I called to cousin Samuel Holcomb’s. I then returned home. I had a very fatiguing walk, for the snow is very deep and drifted, and the path is but very little trod.
[private]Sunday, Feb. 14: Today I started with my two horse team to go to meeting to Hancock Meeting House to hear a Universalist preach with my wife and two oldest daughters but we only went about 3/4 of a mile. We found the snow so deep and my horses crowded very bad and crowded each other out of the path and corked them. We could not get along and we returned home, but my horses crowded so bad that I had to leave the sleigh and load my horses home. I returned with my one horse and cutter fulls and draw my sleigh home.
Monday: Today I tended to carrying and fetching my children to and from school.
Thursday: Today I took my cutter and carried my wife to Nicholas Gardners on a visit. After dinner cousin Nicholas Gardner walked over with me to Mr. Benjamin Carpenter’s to the adjourned society meeting. There were nine committee choose to draft articles to build a meeting house. there was a unanimous vote to build a house and in these articles secured a right to the Christian denomination which gives them a right to have the house secured to them by the Legislator by incorporation, which it did not give the society I belonged to any right to said house. I objected those articles but it was unanimous against me, every man of the committee. I withdrew and left the meeting. I returned to said Gardner’s and took supper and took my cutter and fetched my wife home.[/private]