After spending the last week of September visiting relatives in Western New York, George starts for home on Oct. 1
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Tuesday, October 1, 1839: This morning we started from brother John Campbell’s for home, cousin Grosvenor and wife and John Campbell Jnr and wife and sister Miriam they all went with us to Utica. We called to Crosby’s tavern in Utica and I paid twenty five cts for brandy sling. I then engaged our passage on the boat Ottawa, the Troy and Otsego Line, Capt Jessa H. Branch. I agreed to pay one dol and twenty cents apiece for our passage to Troy and I paid twenty four cts for sugar and tea to take on the boat and at noon we went aboard of the boat. Our connections went on to the boat and there they parted from us and we passed on from Utica.
Wednesday: Today at noon we had got half way from Utica to Troy. Today I paid one cent for candy and one cent for a quill and fourteen cts for fifteen ounces of honey.
Thursday: At eleven o’clock we got to the four locks near the Cohen’s Falls, there we were stopped for a lock gate had broken. I stayed until four o’clock this afternoon and then I paid Capt Branch for our passage seventy five cts and I walked on into Troy and left my wife and Angeline to come along with the boat and Capt Branch agreed to see our trunks and baggage delivered to Mr. Thomas Withees. I paid three cts for my ferrage (?) in a small boat, and I paid twenty five cts for a crystal to our watch that I broke this morning by letting the watch drop. I then walked to Thomas Withee’s and changed my boots and put on a pair of thick boots and left Troy at sunset for home. I walked about two miles and a man by the name of Smith overtook me and I rode with him to the gate near Mr. Henry Withees. I paid the first gate from Troy six cts for my passage. I left said Smith and called to Rufus Withees and took supper. I then borrowed their umbrella and then walked home by one o’clock tonight. Tonight when I got home I found cousin Chauncy Row and wife and son Daniel to our house. They were returning on a journey from the east.
Friday: This morning we loaded in seventeen bushels of apples and started for Troy. Jane Wylie went with me and my youngest daughter Sarah is going with me. She rode home with cousin Row and waited until we came along. We went on to Nassau to cousin Row’s and took tea and bated. We took Sarah on and we drove into Troy by seven this evening. I put my team to Miles Tavern and we all lodged to Thomas Withees, and I carried said Withees one and a half bushels of apples.
Saturday: This morning I gave one and a half bushels of apples for my horse keeping and bitters to said Miles and I sold two and a half bushels at 44 cts per. [/private]