Shearing The Sheep
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Friday, June 9, 1848: This morning I took my one horse wagon and carried 17 fowl to Lord’s on Pool Hill at 1/6 apiece and I carried Ludwick Babcock one bushel corn.
Sunday: Today I and my son Geo P. rode to Lebanon to a six o’clock meeting in the Baptist Church, the Rev E.C. Hughes preached, I put in 16 cents contribution and paid two cents for a glass of beer to Ludwick Babcock’s. Tonight brother Fred J. Wylie stayed with us on his way home from Canada. Today my family went to Elder Jones meeting.
Monday: This morning I drove my sheep home to sheer from my Rodgers farm. Hiram Newton helped sheer sheep in the way of changing works, my two sons and Abraham sheered.
Tuesday: I hoed potatoes and my two sons finished sheering and marking the sheep this forenoon. Today I am 57 years old.
Friday: I and Geo P. made board fence and John f. and Abraham weeded carrots. Hosey Moffitt took dinner with us and had oats for his horse.
Saturday: Today I took my one horse wagon and rode to Pittsfield and carried three and a half bushel of potatoes and sold for 75 cts per and sold three pecks of dried apples to Buckleys and Benjamin’s store for 94 cents and took ten pounds nails at five cts per and the remainder in white sugar five and a half pounds. Today Abraham McGowan finished his two months work for Geo P. and he quit tonight. Today the boys dug ditch and Abraham with them.
Sunday: This afternoon I and my wife and part of my children went to meeting to the lecture room in the school house. Elder Haven preached. Old Jacob Cole died, age, it is supposed, 120 years.
Tuesday: Today some rainy, we cleaned out the drain that carrys the water from the sink and nailed on board to the back part of the house and sprouted potatoes and put up oats for market and partly cleaned out the celler.
Wednesday: I went to Pittsfield, my wife with me, I went with two horse team and carried twenty seven bushels of oats to Tryon and Granger to the Exchange and they paid me fifty cts per bushel.
Today I and my son Geo P. rode to Lebanon to a six o’clock meeting in the Baptist Church, the Rev E.C. Hughes preached, I put in 16 cents contribution and paid two cents for a glass of beer to Ludwick Babcock’s. Tonight brother Fred J. Wylie stayed with us on his way home from Canada. Today my family went to Elder Jones meeting.
Monday: This morning I drove my sheep home to sheer from my Rodgers farm. Hiram Newton helped sheer sheep in the way of changing works, my two sons and Abraham sheered.
Tuesday: I hoed potatoes and my two sons finished sheering and marking the sheep this forenoon. Today I am 57 years old.
Friday: I and Geo P. made board fence and John f. and Abraham weeded carrots. Hosey Moffitt took dinner with us and had oats for his horse.
Saturday: Today I took my one horse wagon and rode to Pittsfield and carried three and a half bushel of potatoes and sold for 75 cts per and sold three pecks of dried apples to Buckleys and Benjamin’s store for 94 cents and took ten pounds nails at five cts per and the remainder in white sugar five and a half pounds. Today Abraham McGowan finished his two months work for Geo P. and he quit tonight. Today the boys dug ditch and Abraham with them.
Sunday: This afternoon I and my wife and part of my children went to meeting to the lecture room in the school house. Elder Haven preached. Old Jacob Cole died, age, it is supposed, 120 years.
Tuesday: Today some rainy, we cleaned out the drain that carrys the water from the sink and nailed on board to the back part of the house and sprouted potatoes and put up oats for market and partly cleaned out the celler.
Wednesday: I went to Pittsfield, my wife with me, I went with two horse team and carried twenty seven bushels of oats to Tryon and Granger to the Exchange and they paid me fifty cts per bushel.