The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

Winter Comes On Early

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Sunday, October 9, 1836: I went to Elder Jones Meeting at the Baptist Meeting house with my covered wagon and carried my family and towards night I took my single wagon and my wife went with me and we carried Fanna Roberts home. [private]I reckoned with her, she said that she worked for us 21 weeks but I could not persuade her to set a price to her work and I gave her my note for twenty five dollars and paid her one dollar in change and other ways, which makes twenty six dollars in all for the 21 weeks, not reckoning any loss time. I did not go quite home with Fanna, I left my wife to carry her along and I called across to brother Samuel Beers on an errand.
Monday: On this evening I tended the annual school meeting in our district. Frederick Russel, Wm J. Brown, and Rowland Danford trustees, Simeon Wylie, Clark H.P. Wylie collector.
Tuesday: I and my two sons dug potatoes on my Rodgers Farm. We dug about twenty bushels. Tonight quite a snow storm.
Wednesday: Today it continues to snow most all day. I chopped some wood and tended to my chores.
Wednesday, October 19: I went up to the Douglas sand bank after a load of sand for Rowland Danford, but the sand hole was caved in and I returned home without getting any.
Thursday: I started to go with Platt Wylie to go to Sand Lake for a witness to the Colonel Spencer to prove his health was not fit for military duty but it started in raining hard and we only went to widow Doty’s and we returned home and this afternoon I chopped and drew a load of wood.
Friday: Today I went with H.P. Wylie to Sand Lake as a witness to Colonel Spencer to remit a fine respecting said Wylie not being an able bodied man and unfit for military duty. Today an uncommon cold day for the time of year. The ground froze quite hard tonight.
Sunday: We dug potatoes on the account of the cold weather coming on and the potatoes spoiling.
Monday: We dug potatoes. On this evening our school district had adjourned meeting and voted that they would build a new school house, but I did not attend the meeting.
Tuesday: We gathered apples and dug potatoes.[/private]