Thursday, February 20, 1840: I chopped some wood on the hill with one horse and Pung or one horse sled and I tended to Platt Wylie’s chores. [private]Friday: I chopped wood on the hill and tended to Platt Wylie’s chores. Today Dryden Row called and took dinner with us. He lives in Connecticut State.
Saturday: I drew wood from the hill with the two-horse team and I tended to Platt Wylie’s chores.
Sunday: I this morning only did part of Platt Wylie’s chores for he is able to get out to the barn and fodder and today he walked to my house.
Tuesday: I chopped wood to the door and I walked over to Joshua B. Maxon’s tenant house and engaged one Mr. Oins to come and mend shoes for me. I called to see Randolph Harrison for he had a wound on his knee or a little above. Today Manuel Buten moves into John Russel’s house and forfeits his word for he had bargained for my Rodgers house too. My two daughters rode to singing school with D. Sackett.
Wednesday: I chopped some wood to the door and I carried 15 hams and shoulders and put into H.P. Wylie’s smoke house to be smoked. Cousin Dryden Row called and took dinner with us. On this evening I took my two horse lumber wagon and carried my wife and daughters to singing school and three of Calvin P. Sackett’s and two of James Adams’ children and others rode with us to singing school.
Friday: Today I took my two horse pleasure wagon and carried my wife to Jay Moffitt’s on a visit. We got there about eleven o’clock and this afternoon Guy Moffitt and wife visited with us and this afternoon said Jay Moffitt requested his brother Guy and myself to look at his stock of cows. We found them all in high order and to the appearance the cows all would be ready for the dairy early in the season for making cheese. We found five tons good hay in stacks and we looked at the hay in the barn and it was first rate quality and we heard the parties agree that the sheds contained five tons of hay but we did not see the hay in the sheds, and we see a horse in good order by no means poor but was suitable for hard work. Now all that we have took a view was to see when the year was up that George Hirse returned those things as good as he took them of said Jay Moffitt. We returned home at dark or daydown. Tonight Peter Surdam stayed to my house and took supper and breakfast. He is from Salsbury, Connecticut and has worked there for five months since he left here.
Saturday: Today the shoemaker Oins came and mended shoes about three fourths of the day and he was taken unwell and he returned home and agreed to come on Monday and finish and today his boy came and chopped a walnut down and he agreed to make it into helves to the halves.[/private]