Getting Ready For Charlotte’s Court
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Tuesday, December 26, 1848: This noon Geo P. returned home from Pittsfield and fetched his sister Charlotte from brother F. Jay Wylie’s and today Geo P. got returns from his second lot of turkeys that he sent to Boston. He got ten cents and a half per pound and got fifty for them and he handed me the twenty one dollars and fifty cents that I let John F have when he went away, and paid me eight dollars and fifty cents for the corn that the turkeys ate.
Wednesday: This forenoon I and Geo P. finished threshing wheat and Geo P. took the pung and went to John Russel’s and got the fanning mill and we fanned up the wheat, nearly twelve bushels.
Thursday: This forenoon I cut up the tallow for trying up.
Saturday: This forenoon I and Geo P. threshed oats and fanned up 18 bushels of oats and this afternoon I carried them to the cider house and prepared a place and emptied them.
Monday, January 1, 1849: This morning at two o’clock I started for Troy with a cutter and my two daughters. They carried boosums to Bennets and Bacons and got more boosums at both places, and got their pay up to this date. We came out of Troy at three o’clock pm and got home at eleven. We took supper at Daniel Rows. I paid 12½ cts for gate and Charlotte paid 16 cts gate. I paid 94 cts for a bottle Brant’s Indian Punerary Balsom.
Tuesday: Today quite cold. Geo P. took the cutter and rode up to James Sweet’s store and I sent the money and paid my taxes to the collector Henry Runnals, which was eleven dollars and eighty three cents.
Tuesday, December 26, 1848: This noon Geo P. returned home from Pittsfield and fetched his sister Charlotte from brother F. Jay Wylie’s and today Geo P. got returns from his second lot of turkeys that he sent to Boston. He got ten cents and a half per pound and got fifty for them and he handed me the twenty one dollars and fifty cents that I let John F have when he went away, and paid me eight dollars and fifty cents for the corn that the turkeys ate.
Wednesday: This forenoon I and Geo P. finished threshing wheat and Geo P. took the pung and went to John Russel’s and got the fanning mill and we fanned up the wheat, nearly twelve bushels.
Thursday: This forenoon I cut up the tallow for trying up.
Saturday: This forenoon I and Geo P. threshed oats and fanned up 18 bushels of oats and this afternoon I carried them to the cider house and prepared a place and emptied them.
Monday, January 1, 1849: This morning at two o’clock I started for Troy with a cutter and my two daughters. They carried boosums to Bennets and Bacons and got more boosums at both places, and got their pay up to this date. We came out of Troy at three o’clock pm and got home at eleven. We took supper at Daniel Rows. I paid 12½ cts for gate and Charlotte paid 16 cts gate. I paid 94 cts for a bottle Brant’s Indian Punerary Balsom.
Tuesday: Today quite cold. Geo P. took the cutter and rode up to James Sweet’s store and I sent the money and paid my taxes to the collector Henry Runnals, which was eleven dollars and eighty three cents.
Sunday: Today Geo P. took the first letter from Lebanon post office from John F., dated Dec. 20 from Cincinatti.
Monday: Today I and Geo P. chopped and drew each two loads of wood from my Rodgers swamp with the horse and ox teams.
all week they continue chopping wood in the swamp
Tuesday, January 16: Today I went to Pittsfield to council with J. A. Gild concerning Charlotte E court at Lenox or law suit with Marsellus Ross, and I sold two bushel turnips for 50 cts and I gave half a bushel turnips to E. C. Hughes, and I got home at dusk.
Wednesday: This forenoon I rode over to Elder Mathew Jones and got his certificate that he married William Ross to Edna Adams on July 25th, 1821, said Ross from Illinois and said Edna is of this town. We called to old Mr Delevan and got two letters of his daughter Emogene from her sister Charlotte Tooley from Pittsfield, Illinois. We wanted to know if these letters spoke of M. Ross suit with us at Lenox. We found they did mention it. On this evening Samuel Beers did walk over to Squ Strait’s with me. I went to Squ Strait to have him come and take the widow Landers testimony different from what he took it or put the questions different according to Squ Gold’s directions or directions of court.
Today Geo P. took the first letter from Lebanon post office from John F., dated Dec. 20 from Cincinatti.
Monday: Today I and Geo P. chopped and drew each two loads of wood from my Rodgers swamp with the horse and ox teams.
all week they continue chopping wood in the swamp
Tuesday, January 16: Today I went to Pittsfield to council with J. A. Gild concerning Charlotte E court at Lenox or law suit with Marsellus Ross, and I sold two bushel turnips for 50 cts and I gave half a bushel turnips to E. C. Hughes, and I got home at dusk.
Wednesday: This forenoon I rode over to Elder Mathew Jones and got his certificate that he married William Ross to Edna Adams on July 25th, 1821, said Ross from Illinois and said Edna is of this town. We called to old Mr Delevan and got two letters of his daughter Emogene from her sister Charlotte Tooley from Pittsfield, Illinois. We wanted to know if these letters spoke of M. Ross suit with us at Lenox. We found they did mention it. On this evening Samuel Beers did walk over to Squ Strait’s with me. I went to Squ Strait to have him come and take the widow Landers testimony different from what he took it or put the questions different according to Squ Gold’s directions or directions of court.