Monday, Dec 28, 1840: Today Peter Surdam and wife left the factory and came to my house and Mrs. Surdam stays with us while Peter goes to Salisbury to find a place to move to.
Thursday, December 31: Today Asa Sheldon and two boys came and took my team and fetched Mr. Sackett’s fanning mill and fanned up the oats that he thrashed on shares and I measured them up and drew them to the chamber of the cider house. We had one hundred and five bushels and said Sheldon had nine bushels for his share. Tonight my children went to singing school to Benj. Goodrich’s with my two horse sleigh and tonight I borrowed eight dollars of Platt Wylie. Today Mr. Franklin Bull came and bought eighteen sheep at one dollar per head. He takes them and agrees to pay in one or two days.
Friday, January 1, 1841: Today I paid Rufus Withee twenty one dollars interest, which pays up to Oct 20, 1840, and gave a new note from that time. Today some stormy. The said note is the same I took up which is three hundred dollars dated back to Oct 20, 1840, on interest.
Saturday: This morning we broke road and chopped wood to the door. Today Mr. Franklin Bull came and paid me the cash, eighteen dollars, for the sheep he bought on Thursday.
Monday: Today I took my two horse sleigh and carried my wife and daughter Charlotte E. and Eliza Wylie to the funeral of Old Solomon Goodrich at his own house in Hancock. A man preached that is called a Jew. On this evening my children went to singing school with my sleigh to Mr. Benj Goodrich’s. Today I paid H.W. Wylie the eight dollars that I borrowed last Thursday evening. Tonight Kent Harrison paid me five dollars that he owed for house rent in 1838.
Tuesday: Today I took my cutter and I and my wife rode to Hancock Village and we took dinner to Mr. Amos Chapman’s and I called in the Village to a number of places to try to market beef, but could not engage any.
Thursday: Quite rainy and the thaw continued at night. I walked over to the school house and had my daughter Sarah come home and I took her in my arms where I come to water that flowed in the road. Today I tended to my chores. I do learn that this freshet has come quite a damage in many places.