Geo P. Comes Back Home
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brook
Sunday, March 7, 1847: I walked to Pool Hill Post Office but no letters.
Monday: I this forenoon put sap troughs to soak. Today I got money signed for the bell. This evening we picked over apples for market and John F took a letter out of the post office from Geo P. to have us meet him in Troy to come home.
Tuesday: Today I went to Troy with my one horse wagon and carried twelve bushels of apples. John F went with me and carried part of my load on the one horse sled over the drifts up near Adams mill, and then I took load onto my one horse wagon and walked all the way for the road was quite rough. I got to Troy at eight this evening and stayed to Pearl’s Tavern in Congress Street.
Wednesday: On this morning I took breakfast to Pearl’s and took my load and went into the street and sold my apples for 75 cts per, the apples all but one bag, the little small mandrakes, and I returned to Pearl’s and left my team and walked to Bacon’s and returned one dozen of boosums and we have three dozen yet to carry in, and when the other three dozen is returned they will owe my wife and daughter 25 dol 54 cts. It was there in Troy to Pearl’s I met my son Geo P., and I paid Pearl my bill, 68 cts and then we started out of Troy at four o’clock for home. We got home at eleven this evening.
Thursday: On this evening I went to school meeting at our school room and six dollars was voted to paint over the house and then a committee was voted in to collect the bell subscription and buy a bell and build a bellfrey, myself and Simeon Wylie and Frederick Russel were the committee chosen. Joshua B. Maxon paid his subscription, which was ten dollars, and Silvenas Carpenter 2nd his five dollars in to my hands the money.
Monday: Towards night I walked over to Henry Cranston’s and carried two dozen boosums and two dozen for cousin Wylies and left for said Cranston to carry to Troy to Bacon’s. On the way home I called to Jerry Vary’s and he paid one dollar for the bell.
Tuesday: I this forenoon chopped and split appletree wood in orchard where the trees had decayed, and this afternoon I walked over to Hiram W. Brown’s to the nomination anti-rent meeting to nominate town officers.