Saturday, March 11, 1837: Today I carried a cheese to Nathaniel Nichols and exchanged it for one I had sold him before. He did not like the cheese for said N. Nichols insisted it was a late made cheese got in with the rest of the cheese through a mistake. [private]I paid the cash difference in the weight of the cheeses and fetched the other one home. From said Nichols we rode to old Squ Peleg Spencer’s. I went to see him to know if he knew anything about my father’s service in the Revolutionary War. Said Spencer had some recollection but could not recollect for a certainty how or what.
Wednesday, March 15: I took my cutter and went in pursuit of Revolution soldiers to prove my father’s services in the war. We rode to old Major Bush’s and said Mr. Bush directed me back into the southwest part of my own town in the neighborhood of old Capt. James and old Benj. Grinman. We rode to Mr. James and made inquiry after old Mr. Comings a Revolutioner, but got no information where he was and we returned. On the way I called to old Mr. Bishop’s, there to see Fanna Roberts. She told me I need not pay her the 25 dollars I owed her at present and said she would wait until next fall.
Saturday. March 18: I went to Squ Nathan Howard’s and carried my Mother’s old Bible which contained her marriage with the other papers to Washington for trial for a pension for her.
Thursday, March 30: I tended to my chores and chopped some wood to the door and tapped about twenty sap trees. Mr. Amis Chapman moved out of my house today.
Saturday, April 1: Quite a snow storm this morning. I tended to chores and tapped twelve more sap trees.
Monday: Today gathered sap and tonight I boiled sap all night in the cheese house in the potash kettle.
Tuesday: Today I went to Town Meeting to Simon Cranston’s. The Republican ticket got the majority, Elbridge Gree Supervisor, and Hosey Brown Town Clerk, same as last year, and the other town officials nearly the same as last year. Tonight my wife and I boiled sap.
Thursday: We got some wood and sap from the woods. This afternoon my wife rode to Hancock to Wm Hadsell store and sold six pounds lard at 16 cts per.[/private]