Cider For Shingles

Tuesday, May 1, 1838: I made garden and sowed onions, we harrowed sward.
Wednesday: I this morning reckoned and paid James Harrington for making me nearly six thousand chestnut shingles at one dol per thousand. [private]I paid him five dollars and seventy five cts in cash and a cotton pocket handkerchief. I paid twenty one cts to H. Platt’s store for him, which pays him up in full for making said shingle, and I bargained with him to come the first Monday in June and make me five thousand of shingle of chestnut timber and help me saw the timber and I do agree to pay him in a hogshead of cider to take it as it is when the shingle is made, the one hogshead being more or less which is to pay him for making the five thousand of warrenteed shingle.
Thursday: Today the wife of Mr. Zach Chapman died.  This evening on my way home I called to said Zach Chapman’s and bought one bushel ashes of him.
Saturday: Today quite windy and some rainy. Today I tended the funeral of the wife of old Mr. Zach Chapman at his own dwelling house, Elder Jones preached.  This afternoon I took my single wagon and carried my second daughter Angeline to Hiram Brown’s to be inspected for a school teacher. Mr. Wm Hand inspected her and agreed to give her a certificate in a short time, as quick as he can see one of the other inspectors to get his name on the certificate.
Monday: Today I took my double wagon and carried some shingle onto my Rodgers farm and then we chopped and drew eleven rafters from my swamp to the house on said Rodgers farm and today Mr Daniel Kites began to work at my house putting on new rafters on the back part over the kitchen and buttery. Said Kites employed brother Sylvester to help him. I bargained with said Kites to carry him two loads goods to Dalton for the shingling the west side of the roof to said house and the extra work  putting on new rafters and board in the roof. I do agree to credit him on account.[/private]