Saturday July 8, 1837: We hayed it on the hill and we drew down some hay with one horse on a one horse sled. Today Mr. Daniel Kites returned and fetched his family and goods to my Rodgers house and he returned home with the wagon and team.
[private]Monday, July 16: Today Mr. Daniel Kites began his month’s work for house rent.
Most of the month is spent
haying with Mr Kites and
other additional farm hands
Tuesday July 24: Today I went with my double wagon and carried rising of 4 hundred feet maple timber for Mr. Holister from Adam Brown’s to Canaan and delivered it to Calvin Carr’s factory to Mr. Betts, and said Betts paid six dollars for the timber and I paid it to said Holister, and to pay me for carrying said load, said Holister let me have a set of Windsor chairs and his son mows half a day today.
Friday: We hayed on said Rodgers farm and said Kites helped. Today the family of Mr. Holisters moved out of my Rodgers house, but his goods remain yet.
Sunday: Today I went to the Methodist quarterly meeting to the west meeting house in Lebanon. I went with my covered wagon and carried all my family excepting Charlotte and she went to the Shakers with cousin Rows. Towards night I took my single wagon and my wife rode with me to see cousin Samuel Holcomb. He is quite sick with a lung complaint. Today the daughter of Claudius Moffitt was married without his consent to the grandson of old Abner Bull by the name of Stephen Bull, was married to Sarah Moffitt, she privately escaped from the Methodist quarterly meeting to the west meeting house in Lebanon and went away with said Bull unknown to her connections.
The first week of August
was all haying on the
Rodgers farm with Kites.
Friday, August 4: We had the bad luck to mire my team and load of hay and left them till morning.
Sunday: This morning we got the load of hay out of the mire.
Monday: This afternoon I took my single wagon and carried my wife to see cousin Samuel Holcomb. He continues quite sick, and I called to Howard’s post office and paid six cts for a letter from sister Twichel.[/private]