Geo P.’s New Nursery Business
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Friday, April 13, 1849: This afternoon John F. went to Pittsfield with one horse wagon and carried over a hundred grafted apple trees but did not sell them. I borrowed ten dollars of Geo P. and John F. paid the ten dollars to J. Gold to carry on Charlotte E. law suit. John F. stayed to his uncle F. J. Wylie’s tonight.
Saturday: Today Edmond Beers called and took dinner and bated his horse and I bought of him forty five clams and twenty four oysters. Tonight John F. returned home from Pittsfield but did not sell the before-mentioned grafted trees that Geo P. took from said R. G. Pierce’s nursery and Geo P. and his hired man worked in said nursery every day this week. Today freezing and snow squally.
Thursday: Stormy, snow and rain. This afternoon Geo P. and hired man were called to their nursery by Mr. Foot from Williamstown but the kinds of trees he wanted Geo P. had not got.
Friday: Today Geo. P. hired man Abraham Haley went with the one horse wagon to East Nassau with over a hundred of Geo P. grafted apple trees. Today young Simeon Wylie helped Geo P. in his nursery.
Saturday: This forenoon Abraham sold out the trees and at noon returned to his work at the nursery where Geo P. and Mr. Benj. Butterfield were to work. Today the old widow Nancy Hunter died.