Monday, December 5, 1836: Today I banked up my house.
Tuesday: Today I went onto Adam Brown’s hill after slippery elm bark but could not get any and went to Aaron Sackett’s meadow and he told me to get what I wanted and I got some to make my wife a drink for a cough. Towards night I drew a load of wood for Mr. John Sackett from Hazard Morey’s meadow, which is in part to pay him for helping me cut and draw in my corn.
[private]Thursday: I drew two loads of wood to the school house and brother Sylvester chopped it.
Tuesday December 13: Towards night I took my double wagon and carried hemlock boards to my Rodgers barn to make a barn door and brother Sylvester is to make the door for the use of my horse yesterday. My wife continues to be quite unwell with a bad cold and a cough. Her cough is seated and quite hard.
Friday: I walked over to my Rodgers barn and mended up the stalls for my cows and brother Sylvester has made my new barn door and says it took him one day.
Saturday: This morning a very heavy wind and a snow storm. The cross bar to big doors to my barn burst in and broke. I made a new cross bar to my barn and tended to chores. The wind abated about nine this morning.
Sunday: My cow stable gave out and I put in part new floor and mangers.
Monday: I chopped wood to the school house and went to my Rodgers farm to cut the ice to make water holes for my cows to drink.
Wednesday: Today I was quite unwell with a bad headache and took phisic
Thursday: I drew a load of wood for Mr. John Sackett which makes five loads that I have drawn for his helping me cut up and draw in corn.
Wednesday, December 28: I drew two loads of wood from my swamp. My wife continues quite unwell.
Saturday: I exchanged thirty dollars with Pardie Lapum. He gave me Pittsfield bills for Vermont, Connecticut and New York bills. On this week we had our school house window twice broken in and once went in and stole property, and on the last night Mr. John Russell and son had all their geese and fowls stolen and his horse mane and tail shaved. Tonight a snow.
Sunday, January 1, 1837: Today a snow storm and on this evening a supposed earthquake. It shook so hard as to tumble the hill and bury a number of houses and barns and other buildings under the earth and a number of lives lost as well as the lives of their beasts in the City of Troy and quite a stream of water flows out where the earth parted.[/private]