A Cold Winter – George Is Chosen VP Of Debating Group

Saturday, January 27, 1838: I chopped wood to the door. Today Mr. Claudius Moffitt came to my house and I signed a petition to send into the Chancelor to have our rights granted us that we owned the largest share in the meeting house that was taken from us.[private]Tuesday: This forenoon I and my wife went from Brother F. Jay Wylie’s to Windsor to Cousin Samuel Minor’s on a visit.  We got there about one o’clock after we left the county road when we were near cousin Minor’s. The road was drifted and we went in the lots and it was severe cold and my wife suffered considerable with the cold the last mile before we reached Cousin Minor’s going up the mountain. Cousin Minor informed us that their son Ransford Minor was fetched home a corpse on Sunday the 26th day November last. He was on a return from the west looking for a farm and died a few miles from Albany. He was sick but about one day with the billows cholic. A severe cold day.
Wednesday: We returned from Windsor to Pittsfield and took dinner at brother F. J. Wylie’s and then we returned home.
Thursday, February 8: I chopped and drew two loads of wood from my swamp and this evening I took my cutter and carried my two oldest daughters to the debating meeting near Hosey Brown’s Store. Silas Gardner was chosen President and myself and Platt Wylie were vice-Presidents and the questions that were debated were whether female influence was greater than male influence. We decided in favor of male influence.
Monday: I went with my two horse sleigh and my wife with me with nearly eight hundred weight of cheese and we went to Troy and sold it from eight dol to nine dollars per cwt and I carried two sacks of apples and sold them at 25 and 37 cts per bushel.  We went up to Waterford to cousin Potter’s and stayed on a visit. When we got there we found that cousin Samuel Potter had died October last, and cousin Marian Fullington died December last at Fort Edward.[/private]