Trips To See The Rev. E.C. Hughes
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Thursday, January 28, 1847: This forenoon and this afternoon I and my son John F. walked over to the Presbyterian Meeting House and heard a discourse delivered on Rechabites by the Rev. E.C. Hughes. I contributed 20 cts and my son 12 cts, and this afternoon I took along a bag of boosums that my family is continually making for Mr. Bacon of Troy, and left them with William Potter as he went to Troy to carry them to said Bacon, four dozen of them.
Monday, February 1: Today I took my horses to Hancock to Bartlett’s shop and had their shoes sharpened on the job. I went with the sleigh and from there I called to the Irishman that works in the runnals shop and had a nail put through the rave and cross bar to my cutter. The nail is in the place of a rivet that he put in a few days past and it came out. From there I went to Squ Wm Pitters and got my wife’s boosum bag and four dozen boosums that he got to Bacon’s in Troy to make, and fetched Eliza Russel’s boosum bag.
Wednesday: Today a thaw and rainy. I only tended to chores. I am unwell with a hard cold.
Monday, Feb 8: Today I took my cutter and carried my daughter Charlotte E. to Pittsfield and left her to brother F. Jay Wylie’s on a visit and I took dinner to said Wylie’s. I carried six half dozen eggs and sold them for one dol and ten cts for John F. and I carried a donation to the Rev. Mr. E.C. Hughes, a cheese of 16 pounds and a box of lard of 8 pounds and two bushels of oats, and I fetched from Mr. Hughes a bundle of Philanthropist papers for Wm. Clark of this town. Today as I was going to Pittsfield I called to J. Bull’s post office on Pool Hill and took out a letter from my son Geo P. and paid for it five cents.