by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Finishing The Two Wheel Carriage
Wednesday, May 29, 1844: I stayed three hours in Albany to see the funeral procession of the Colonel who fell in the battle at Sackett’s Harbor in the late war which was 30 years ago and his remains were fetched to Albany and interred in the front of the Capitol. I returned across the river to Bath. Ferrage both ways, 4 cts.
Thursday: Towards night I and my son John F., we went up to the burying ground and we sat in the tomb stones to the grave of my daughter Lucinda Angeline. Some rainy tonight.
Saturday, June 1: Today we dug out and stoned up the celler to the house on my Rodgers farm where the wall tumbled in under the front door. George P. helped me.
Sunday: This morning I went over to Elisha Clark’s after my two wheel carriage. His price for painting it was three dollars.
Monday: This morning I walked to Lebanon to James Henry Rich’s smith shop and returned a dash iron and had it cut down low for it was too high and said J. H. Rich fetched me home and bargained with me to finish of a two horse pleasure wagon in a first rate fashionable style all ready to hitch on my team. I paid him as follows for finishing said wagon, I paid him ten dollars in cash and a part of a set of blacksmith tools that I called to be worth 35 or 40 dollars and I am to pay him two dollars in cash more and I let him have a cheese today 23 pounds and he credits me one dol and 44 cts on account.
Tuesday: I laid up celler wall on my Rodgers farm and I walked up to Gillet Goodrich to notify him that the part of a col he put in on the front side of my rodgers house does not answer, nor is not as the bargain was when he did the job in 1840. Today my two sons worked on the highway with the ox team and had eight days works credited to my account.
Friday: This morning we took the single wagon and carried fodder over to Mr. Russel Palmer to keep up the bull for he is breachy, and I mended fence a spell on said Rodgers farm.
Saturday: This morning I took my young horse colt and walked to Hancock village to Barlett’s blacksmith shop and had his lampers burned out and he did a small job to my two wheel carriage. On this day the wife of Benj Kittle died very suddenly.