The Two Wheel Carriage Is Painted And Geo P. Takes Off In It
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Thursday, June 22, 1848: I called to Barnes shop to see if I could get my two wheel carriage painted, but could not at present. I met Elisha Clark and engaged him to paint it. I hoed corn this afternoon and my boys weeded carrots.
Friday: This afternoon my two sons went to Pittsfield to sell our span of horses that the man who keeps the Washington Hotel offered me to buy them. He offered 225 dollars and a horse that he valued 25 dollars for them and as I was coming home I met him on the mountain. He told me he would give the same as he offered when I met him in Pittsfield but he was not home and my two sons returned home.
Saturday: I washed up our two wheel carriage and took it to Elisha Clark to be painted and then washed up our two horse pleasure wagon. Said Clark agreed to paint the two wheel carriage for one dol and fifty cts. Today Eliza Wylie finished Geo P coat, she made it in four days.
Sunday: I walked over onto my Rodgers farm to see if the oxen got out. I found them not out of the pasture. My family all went to Elder Sweet’s meeting this afternoon at the lecture room.
Tuesday: I took the one horse wagon and went to Adams mill with a grist of rye, one bushel and one bushel of corn and got ground and I went to Elisha Clark and carried a bottle varnish for him to put onto my two wheel carriage and I paid him one dollar in cash towards painting.
Friday: Some rainy. This afternoon I and Geo P. rode up to Roswell Pierce’s vendue but we did not buy anything. We returned home in time for me to take my two horse pleasure wagon over to Elisha Clark’s and left to be painted, price agreed one dol and fifty cts, and I handed the wife of said Clark fifty cts in cash which pays up for painting the two wheel carriage, I came home with it.
Saturday: Today Geo P. went with the two wheel carriage, he says to Hoosic.
Tuesday: I laid a stone step to the stoop door and I mended the hearth to the kitchen fireplace and cleaned out. I got into the barn about half a ton of hay that was out through a rain. Today Geo P. took the two wheel carriage and Henry Allen with him. They went to Chatham and stayed tonight.