Monday, February 13, 1843: Today I and my two sons took our one horse pung and rode up onto Lebanon West Hill at the late residence of Capt Spencer Carr’s to the vendue of all the personal property of the late Spencer Carr and Edward Carr Administrator. Today I bought at public sale an old cross cut saw 53 cts and eight chisels 73 cts and two wooden bowls and ladle eleven cts and towards night we returned home.
Tuesday: Today I and my son Geo P walked up to said Edward Carr’s vendue. I bought a warming pan 59 cts. Today a hard snow storm. Today Russel Palmer worked for me shoemaking.
Thursday: I walked up to said Carr’s vendue and my son Geo P with me, and paid up for the articles I had bid off which was one dollar and ninety six cents and took a receipt of Pardie Lapum, a deputy clerk.
Friday: Today I took my cutter and carried Mr. Russel Palmer one bushel of corn and one bushel of barley to mill and got ground and fetched to him, which pays him up for all the work he has done for me. I then rode to cousin Verona Holcomb’s to see her son Orra, but he was not to home. I called to Nicholas Gardner’s to see if the school money was ready that was due and I called to R. A. Brown’s and other places to dun for money.
Monday: Today I took my cutter and rode to West Stockbridge three miles southwest of the Depot to the place called the widow Hendricks to Mr. Owens after my dog that Daniel Owens had taken my dog home with him on yesterday without leave. Nathan Sackett rode with me there and home again, he had business to his father Owens. We took dinner at said Owens and on the way home we called to cousin Josiah Egleston’s to warm and we ate cake and cheese. I found my dog and he followed me home but the boy made his escape when I got there and I did not see him.
Tuesday: This forenoon we took a black oak log with the ox team on bobsled to Adams sawmill. This afternoon we drew a load wood from my Rodgers swamp with my ox team. Today Daniel Brady moved into my Rodgers house.
Saturday: We fixed a partition on the barn floor for the sheep that had lambs, and today my son John F. drove my cows home from my Rodgers farm. Today Daniel Brady bought my geese, nine of them, at 50 cts apiece and agreed to pay me the first of June, and he had my horse and cutter to carry them home. On this evening all my children went to Lebanon to singing school near Tilden’s and they rode after a four horse team in company with 25 persons in all.
Monday: Today I took my cutter and a grist of corn and barley to Adams mill and got ground and called to Nicholas Runnal’s shop and had a brace made to my cutter knee and while I was there the constable Calvin Huntington subpoened me for a jury on a case between Benjamin Gardner and George Brown. From said Runnal’s shop I went to Randal A Brown’s and he paid me 16 dollars and sixteen cents which was for part of the school bill of Angeline L, and I called to Nicholas Gardner’s and his wife handed me seven dollars and seventy five cents more of said school money which only leaves nine cents due to make up the 24 dollars for the 16 weeks teaching school. Then I rode to Simon Cranston’s to tend as a jury but the court was adjourned for witnesses. I had six cts paid me for tending court, and then I returned home. On this evening all my children attended Mr. Savage’s last singing school at the Seventh Day Meeting House.