Friday, September 23, 1836: Today some rainy. I threshed rye and mended my barn door and today brother Beers and wife came and fetched sister Miriam Campbell. Sister Campbell came to brother Beers on Wednesday, she came in the stage from the boat on the canal from New Hartford seven miles from Utica. Today Caleb Chapman buried a girl child.
[private]Saturday: I gathered apples. This forenoon brother Beers carried my wife and Mother Holcomb and sister Campbell to cousin Jessa Egleston’s when he and his wife returned home and this evening I took my covered wagon and went after them. Today I paid six cents for the profile of Martin Van Buren and four cts for a female profile for Sarah.
Tuesday: Today I carried a grist of two bushels of rye and a half of corn to Brown mill and left it to be ground. I rode to the Post Office to see when the stage went to Troy for sister Campbell to return home. Tonight a snow storm, the mountain was white with snow.
Wednesday: This afternoon I carried sister Miriam Campbell to Squ Nathan Howard’s to have her take passage in the stage to go to Troy and then the Canal to go home to New Hartford near Utica. I took on my grists to Brown’s mill. I then returned to said Howard’s and the stage came and it was full and my sister Campbell had to take passage on an extra wagon.
Wednesday, October 5: Today at about noon I and my wife and our daughter Sarah started for Pittsfield. It was quite rainy. We did not reach there until most night. We called in New Lebanon and borrowed an umbrella to Mr. Clark’s. We stayed to brother Jay Wylie’s tonight.
Thursday: Today we tended the fair in Pittsfield. An address given by lawyer Bishop and a few remarks by the honorable Mr. Daniel Webster and then the premiums (prizes for cattle show of previous day) were given, and then the procession moved to Mr. Russel’s and took dinner, and I returned to brother Wylie’s and took dinner and we returned home. Some snowy on the way.
Saturday: I worked on the highway with my team and wagon drawing gravel and for the same I have three days works credited.[/private]