A Journey To Vermont Is In Vain
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Monday, July 8, 1844: On this morning I and my son Geo P we started for Vermont to look for a match colt that we were recommended to look of by John Covey. We went with a two horse team, the colt that we wanted to match and a gray mare. We went through Berlin, there we tried to match for a four year old colt that one Mr. Davis owned two miles on the road from the village at Streeters to Worthington but we could not agree, he wanted one hundred dollars for his colt or forty dollars to boot and he take my gray mare. From there we went on through Petersburgh to Hoosic to John Covey’s and stayed tonight. We got there at half past four o’clock, we did not make any stop only to bate our team by the way, not to make any call.
Tuesday: Today I and my son Geo P went from said Covey’s at Hoosic to Cambridge through White Creek and Jackson into Vermont to Arlington to Hawley’s Tavern and we bated and I paid four cents for a drink of gin and we went on to Wm Runnals in Sandgate and looked at the colt for a match that John Covey had recommended us to but the colt would not match and we called to the next neighbors to said Runnals that is Aaron Covey’s a brother of John Covey of Hoosic. There we stayed tonight with Aaron Covey. I offered to pay him for our keeping but he would not take any pay.
Wednesday: This morning we started from off Sandgate mountain from Aaron Covey’s on the return for home.