Friday, October 9, 1840: We gathered winter and fall apples. Saturday: We gathered apples. [private]Today I had three peddlers put up to stay over Sunday, two with each a horse and one trunk peddler. Their names are Sears and Williams, they have stayed with us before and the other a stranger, his name is Mr. David Bigelo.
Sunday: Quite rainy.
Monday: This morning the three peddlers that I mentioned on Saturday they paid their bill, which was two dol and sixty two cts. They paid it in silk handkerchiefs, one at one dol and 12 cts and the other two at 75 cts apiece. Today we gathered apples and shook apple trees and towards night I took my single wagon and carried my wife to Lebanon to Frederick Everett’s store and we bought a gallon of molasses and other small articles. This evening we went to school meeting to our school house. I was chosen trustee. Tonight Wm Chamblain hired Humphrey Broadway to move him unbeknown to anyone or we may call it he ran away. He is a blacksmith and hires James Glass shop.
Friday, October 23: Today I and my wife and my son John F. went to Troy after or to meet Charlotte from off the canal from the west. We called to cousin Row’s and took dinner and went into Troy and stayed to Mr. Peck’s a merchant up on the hill. I gave him two large pumpkins and two large cabbage and 25 cts cash for our trouble for staying and we had our own victuals.
Saturday: This morning we went down to look for a boat for Charlotte but she had not come. My wife went up town to Mr. Treworthy and stayed and my son John went with me across the river and we walked up the canal about five miles and met the boat that Charlotte and Hannah Sackett was on and we went on the boat and rode back to Troy. We slept part of the night. The boat got to west Troy at day light on Sunday morning.
Sunday: This morning we left the boat and crossed the river in a skiff and I paid one shilling and six pence. We all four went up to Mr. Treworthy’s and took breakfast where my wife stayed and then we came to the tavern where my team was and I paid fifty cts for keeping and then we started for home. We got home at sundown. On Saturday when John and I went up the canal, Charlotte fetched me the note of sister Lucretia Wylie’s by paying six dollars more than the thirty four dollars that I sent to Sidney Grosvener. Tonight quite a snow storm, a foot deep. [/private]