Tuesday, March 7, 1837: Today I started for Troy with my Mother about ten o’clock and my second daughter Angeline to wait on her grand mother. We called to Squ Nathan Howard’s and got the papers and went on. We called to cousin Chancy Rows and took dinner and went on to Sand Lake and stayed to Henry Withees.
[private]Wednesday: Today I carried my Mother from Mr. Withee’s at Sand Lake to Troy and stopped at what is called Price’s old stand, to Clark’s Tavern and I paid six cts for wine and then I called to the court house to the clerk’s office to see Nathan Howard and have him range the papers for my Mother and to go before the court but he was gone out town and I waited until the day was to far spent before he returned to do the business and when he returned he could not prepare the writings in season and I agreed to be here tomorrow in the forenoon and I had my daughter Angeline go with me into River Street and I paid 88 cts for a handkerchief for her, and I paid one dol for self a silk hat and I paid eight cts for cake and then we returned to the tavern where Mother was and I took them into the cutter and we rode up to Waterford to cousin Samuel Potter’s where Mother’s sister was and we stayed. Some rainy today.
Thursday: This morning after breakfast we returned to Troy and stopped to said Clark’s Tavern and I paid six cts for wine and then I carried my Mother before the court and she gave in her declaration concerning my Father’s services in the revolutionary war and Nathan Howard and myself was sworn concerning my Mother’s veracity, and Squ Nathan Howard of Stephentown is the recorder and he takes the said Elder Jones affadavit on the before-mentioned subject and the court soon closed and we were dismissed and then we returned to Sand Lake to Mr. Henry Withees and stayed.
Friday: This morning after breakfast nearly ten o’clock we started for home. We stopped once on the way home to rest. We stopped to Chancy Rows but only a boy home. I called to Squ Nathan Howard’s and left the papers that we went to Troy and had executed. I fetched a bundle of papers from Troy from Nathan Howard Jnr to his father and I fetched a lease from the clerk’s office to Stephen Van Rensselaer Jolls. We got home about two o’clock.[/private]