George’s First Anti-Rent Meeting
Monday, October 9, 1843: Today Mr. John Matthews began to build a chimney in my cheese house and to set a kettle and build an oven and I tended mason. My boys tended mason part of the time and gathered apples.
Wednesday: I tended mason and said Mathews finished my chimney and I paid him the cash for the three days works four dollars and 50 cts.
Thursday: I laid the hearth in my cheese house and we cut up and drew in corn.Today the widow of Washington Carpenter and her hired man Robertson took dinner with us. This evening we husked corn.
Friday, October 13: I laid brick under pinning and board up part on part of one side of our cider house. Today Orra Bush took dinner with us and tonight brother F. Jay Wylie and wife and son stayed with us.
Saturday: I paid F. Jay Wylie 12 dollars interest on a note.
Wednesday, October 18: This afternoon I went over to Hiram W. Brown’s to an anti-Van Rensselaer meeting and joined the association and paid 25 cts. I rode over and back with Philander Hatch.
Friday: I gathered winter apples. this afternoon brother Reuben Morton and wife came from Rome. Geo P. took the shay and carried Sarah and Belinda Pierce to Lebanon and fetched sister Deborah Morton from Lebanon. I sent ten cents and bought one pound sugar.
Saturday: I gathered apples for sale and at night I took my single wagon and went after my wife and Mr. Morton and wife to Simeon Wylie’s and this evening I went to School meeting. I was chosen for trustee for two years. Today my four children went to the shows of animals to Lebanon to Ludwick Babcock’s and I paid one dollar.
Sunday: Tonight a snow storm began.
Monday: Quite stormy most all day. I tended to chores and shook off apples.
Thursday: Today I went to Pittsfield and I sold six bushels of apples and took my pay at Pomeroy’s Store. On the way home I took on the tomb stones for Angeline L. Holcomb, my daughter, and fetched them home and my account is square with Mr. Belnap.
Saturday: This morning I took my one horse wagon and brother Reuben Morton with me and I carried the tomb stones of Angeline L. to the grave and returned home. Today we gathered apples.
Sunday: Today I took my two wheel carriage and carried my daughter Charlotte to the chapel to Elder Smith meeting. John Conkling was baptised. On this evening I walked over to Joshua B. Maxon’s to engage his son Sylvenus to teach school. He stands ready for 12 dol per month and be boarded providing that the trustees all be agreed.