Sarah Is Injured
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Thursday, June 11, 1846: Today Aaron Merrils and Hiram Newton helped my two boys sheer sheep. They all sheered 74 sheep and I did up the fleeces. I paid said Merrils for his days work in cash one dollar and Hiram helped in the way of changing works, Geo P. fetched plaster for him from Albany.
Friday: I this morning started after Doctor Thomas for Sarah and met him at Jerry Vary’s and I returned with him. He came and bled her. Sarah had fallen going down celler and bruised and jarred her badly and said Doctor left some medicine for my wife for she is quite unwell, and said Thomas bought a young cow of me and agrees to pay me twenty dollars by the first of January 1847 and the interest. Hiram Newton drove the cow away for said Doctor Thomas. The cow had a calf by her side one week old. Today my boys finished sheering sheep, 41 of them, which makes 115 in all. I drove Mr. J. B. Maxon’s horses and oxen out of my meadow and went over and told him to come and mend his line fence.
Saturday: Today Doctor Thomas came again to Sarah.
Sunday: Today said Doctor Thomas came again to Sarah, she is better, said Doctor only left some pills for physic.
Thursday, June 18: Today I half hilled corn and Geo P with me and on this forenoon John F. took the oxen and went and helped Benj. Goodrich draw a barn, and fetched a load of plank and joists from E. Goodrich sawmill and he weeded carrots this afternoon. Tonight I paid Stephen Palmer 37 cts for his three days weeding carrots, he is a small boy (age 7).
Thursday, June 25: This morning early I took my one horse wagon and rode to Lebanon to Mr. Pomerly’s to fetch him home with me to do some mason work but he had sent a hand by the name of Earl and I missed him on the way, but I returned and overtook him at Andrew Clark’s and fetched said Earl home with me and he did my mason work by six o’clock this afternoon and I paid him one dol and 12 cts. This forenoon I tended mason and Geo P. tended mason. This afternoon said Earl plastered a bedroom and a clothespress and some in the buttery and some in a recess.