The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

Angeline Lets School Out Because of Illness

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Tuesday, May 8, 1838: This forenoon I took my double wagon and carried 23 hemlock boards measuring two hundred and 58 feet that I borrowed of Mr. John Russel.
Friday: This evening I took my wagon and horses on my Rodgers farm to have Mr. Kites load up his goods and I returned home.[private]
Saturday: I went and carried a load goods to Dalton for said D. Kites. We bated twice, and we got to Dalton about three o’clock. I took dinner to one Mr. Stevens and I returned home. I started at 5 o’clock this afternoon and I got home  at nine this evening.  On the way home I paid twelve cts for a shad. Today my daughter Charlotte and son John rode out to the west part of the town to brother Samuel Beers after my daughter L. Angeline. Mr. Seth Cole carried her there on Monday last to keep their district school at one dol per week.
Sunday: Towards night I took my single wagon and carried Angeline to her school. I left her to Brother Beers.
Monday: Today I moved Kites family and the remainder of their goods to Dalton. I reckoned with said Kites and he gave me his note for six dol and twelve cts. I got home about nine this evening.
Friday, June 1, 1838: I worked on the highway with my team and plow and my son Geo P drove the team and I had four days works credited. Quite rainy, this evening we borrowed an umbrella of said Nichols.
Saturday: I got butternut bark to color cotton cloth and I mended brush fence on my Rodgers farm, and this afternoon I rode out after Angeline. She was sick to brother Beers and dismissed her school on Wednesday last. On the way I called to Hiram Brown’s to see the school inspectors about getting another certificate for my daughter that is keeping school and I have another one from Mr. Hand, the first Mr. Cole refused to give up to my daughter on account of his having trouble with the rest of the district. On the way home I called to Dr. Graves but he was not to home. We did not get any medicine.
Sunday: Doctor Right was passing and we called him to Angeline and he gave her a puke.
Monday: I chopped and drew chestnut timber and helped Mr. James Harrington saw shingle bolts. Today said Harrington began to make me the five thousand shingle that he bargained to make for a hogshead of cider.[/private]