Daughter Angeline Gets a Job

Monday, April 16, 1838: Today I walked over to Claudius Moffitt store and there I met with James Harrington and bargained with him to come tomorrow and make me chestnut shingles at one dollar per thousand. At Moffitt’s store I paid six cts for myself and James Harrington and brother Samuel Beers each a drink of rum. I then went to one of the trustees of that school district by the name of Finch to see if they wanted my second daughter Angeline to teach school. He agreed to consult with the other trustees and give me an answer on Saturday.[private]Saturday: This morning I called on Rowland Danford to pay his school bill but he said that he had not got the change by him and I told him that he might give me credit on book towards my blacksmith account to the amount of his school bill, which was eighty eight cents. My wife came with me to H. Platt’s store, I paid 3/4 for a file to replace the one I lost for Caleb Jolls. We went to brother Samuel Beers. Tonight Mr. Finch called there and told me that he had seen the other trustees and they had agreed to hire my daughter L. Angeline and give her one dollar per week.
Sunday April 29: We took four dry cows, a bull and a yearling steer on to my Rodgers farm to pasture. On this evening I took my single wagon and rode to Hancock and hired a watch for the season and agreed to pay one dollar for the use for my second daughter Angeline to keep school. I called to James Chapman’s, on the way a going up I took Sylvenas Carpenter’s watch to have said Delano see if he could set it running. He told me it would not keep time and I am to return said watch at any time. Today Fila Nigh began work for us, and today the funeral of Mr. Smith’s wife near the pool in New Lebanon, she died in four days after the birth of her child.[/private]