Monday, May 15, 1843: We drew manure on the corn ground with the ox team and harrowed with the horses on the corn ground and towards night a gale of wind a little rain and some fences blew down. Nearly night I went onto my Rodgers farm to look for a young cow that had got a calf but could not find her there. I put up some fence that had blown down in the gale. Today H. P. Wylie butchered a veal for us.
Tuesday: This forenoon I went to the Shakers to Jonathan Wood’s office and sold one veal skin I then bought two pounds of saffron seed to the North Family for two half bushels of barley. On the way home I called to Gay’s and Madison’s store and got trusted for four quarts lime whitewash.
Sunday: I rode with my wife and called to Philander Hatch while I went with my wagon and carried my daughter Charlotte part of the way to meeting. My wife’s health improves a little and this evening I rode to Hancock Village to see Pardie Lapum if I could bargain with him to buy my old cheese but could not. I offered to sell it at six dollars per hundred, but he could not bargain until he went to Boston and saw what the price of the market.
Tuesday: Today Nathan Sackett moved out of our house to Pittsfield. He moved in the first of April and had bargained for a year and agreed to pay his rent a months work in haying and begin when I call for it and work the month all together excepting three days out to be worked after haying and he is to find his scythe when he works for me but he denied the bargain and he said it was no bargain for he came and I agreed on Sunday evening. I then told him he had no right to the house and he must move out if he would not fulfill proposed bargain.
Thursday: Today I worked at my railway stove to fix it from smoking. I could not and I rode over and fetched brother Simeon Wylie and we took the stove apart and cleaned it.
Tuesday: Today I went with my one horse wagon with 12 cheese to sell. I went to Chatham to Malden Bridge and then to Union Village and to Schodack and sold out. I got six pence per pound for nearly all my cheese which amounts to fifteen dollars and a few cents. I returned home tonight by traveling all night.
Friday: I started for Albany with my single wagon with twelve cheese. I went to the Van Rensselaer Road and sold out when I got to the River at Bath and stayed to the tavern of Dearstyne
Saturday, June 3: Early this morning I went over into Albany. I paid one dollar for 12 pounds cut tobacco for old widow Landers
Tuesday: Today Henry Lyons bargained for my house.
Wednesday: I cut and drew and partly hewed two runners for to draw my cheese house on and my boys plowed and scraped off the ground to set said cheese house on.
Thursday: I finished said runners and cleared away to draw said building and towards night I took my one horse wagon and rode around to invite help with their ox teams to draw my building, and this afternoon we drew our cheese house nearly two rods above our well but did not get it to the spot into four feet.
Saturday: I put up fence where we pulled down yesterday to draw the building, and I chopped and drew two logs to new sill my cheese house. Towards night a few neighbors came and we tried to pry and slip said cheese house off from over the well but could not move it any for we had not help enough.