by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
All Democrats But The Anti-Rent Governor
Saturday, October 31, 1846: Today I took my one horse wagon and carried my wife to Jerry Vary’s. I left her on a visit, and went on to Henry Cranston’s store, I was summoned there for a jury of a court between Edward Carr and David Clifford but I was not drawn on as a juryman, and I went to old Mr. Alfred Clark’s and got boots and shoes to the amount of 25 cts and agreed to pay in turnips.
Tuesday, November 3: I went to Elections and Geo P with us, we went by the way of Alfred Clark’s and carried him a bushel of turnips. The election was to Daniel Allen’s. I voted the Democrat ticket all but the Governor. I voted for the Anti-rent Lewis Masquier.
Wednesday: Today I took the horse wagon and went to Hancock and carried Allen Bartlett one barrel of cider and he credits me one dollar and he shod my span of horses for the first time by the year for seven dollars. He took them barefoot and is to leave them barefoot at the end of the year, and I let Mr. Mason have five bushels of turnips, which pays him for Sarah’s boots I got the other day, and I carried Geo Clark a 40 gallon cask of cider at one dol per barrel and two bushels of turnips at 25 cts per. I took dinner with Mr. Bartlett while waiting for my horses shoeing.
Thursday: I helped unload corn that my boys had husked on my Rodgers farm, and we loaded up a load of apples for market.
Friday: This morning at One o’clock I and my son Geo P started for Troy with the two horse wagon and we got into Troy at eight this morning and this forenoon we sold our apples. I sold 14 bushels of my apples at 37 cts per and Geo P sold his grafted apples at 50 cts, eight bushels of them. I went to West Troy to pay Mr. Gorton interest money but did not see him and returned without paying it. We came out of Troy at four o’clock and got home at eleven this evening and paid 50 cts for gates and four cts for ferry.
Monday: Today noon a German peddler left here after dinner. He stopped with us on Saturday night, his bill was one dollar and paid in goods out of his one horse wagon. I paid him 2/6 pence for a French handkerchief, and I paid him 15 cts cash to balance on the articles my family had for his staying with us.