Saturday, August 4, 1838: We hayed. On this week my hired boy Wm Howard Koon was quite unwell with a cold and some of the time he did not work. Monday, August 6: This forenoon we mowed and this afternoon it was rainy. Tonight my hired boy, Howard Koon returned. He rode my horse away yesterday and promised to return last night Friday: We hayed on said Rodgers Farm. Towards night Howard Koon let my horses run away with the wagon and broke it and broke the hayrack. Saturday: Quite rainy. We mowed some on my Rodgers Farm. Moss Kent Hadsell worked all day mending up my wagon and hay rack.
Saturday, August 18: Today Wm Howard Koon finished work for me.
Monday, August 20: This morning I paid Howard Wm Koon nine dollars and fifty cts in cash and he credited me 50 cts for horse ride which pays him up in full for labor.
Thursday August 30: This morning about eight o’clock I got into Troy. I sold my cheese at 7½ cts per pound and butter at 18 cts per pound. I put my team into a shed and bated at a tavern in Congress St. I had bitters and coffee and paid nine cts. I then went to Tammana Hall to a County Convention as one of the delegates but did not stay through the meeting. I started out of Troy at five o’clock this afternoon. I called and bated to Calvin Sliters at Sand Lake. Today I took my single wagon and carried my wife and daughter Sarah to Canaan on a visit to Calvin Carr’s.
Wednesday, September 5: I went to camp meeting on Gale Hill in New Lebanon. I went with my covered wagon and carried my wife and oldest daughter. I paid about 30 cts for cake and beer.