Brother Sylvester Is Injured
by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks
Saturday, December 8, 1849: I called to Nichols Store and paid the postage on November and December Ladies Repository, which was nine cts. I handed Nathaniel Nichols two dollars and he enclosed it in a letter and mailed it to A. Tompkins of Boston, which pays for the Repository for 1849 up to July 1850. Clark King presented me with an account of one dollar and 15 cents in favor of the widow Elizabeth Pierce which was the wife of Fleetus Pierce deceased, and I denied the account and fetched the bill of the articles home and my family said they had not got such articles charged.
Monday: Today Geo P. took the cutter and carried the cooper Wade nearly two bushels turnips which pays him up for a bucket. Today brother Sylvester came to stay with us a few days for he got hurt by falling from his horse.
Tuesday: Today Geo P. and his two sisters went to Pittsfield in the two horse sleigh. Geo P. carried a few bushels of grafted fruit and the girls bought them velvet hats, cost to Mrs. Stevens for each hat 4 dol 50 cts and the trimmings ninety cts apiece. Geo P. sold his apples at 85 and 90 cts per.
Wednesday: I took my cutter and called up as far as Lanson Carpenter’s and he told me that David Clifford and Tylor Whitman were chopping and drawing off my timber from my Fairbanks lot and from there I left Randal A. Brown’s umbrella at his store with him, my wife borrowed it last Sunday, and then I called to John Wylie’s and left word with his wife that I was to drive the fat cow to Russel Palmer’s on Friday and wished him to meet me there and get his half of the beef.
Thursday: I took my cutter and Geo P. with me we went onto my Fairbanks lot to see if we could catch anyone getting off timber but we did not find anyone on there but Lanson Carpenter was on his wood lot joining mine and he told me he saw Tylor Whitman chopping on my land.
I called to Nichols Store and paid the postage on November and December Ladies Repository, which was nine cts. I handed Nathaniel Nichols two dollars and he enclosed it in a letter and mailed it to A. Tompkins of Boston, which pays for the Repository for 1849 up to July 1850. Clark King presented me with an account of one dollar and 15 cents in favor of the widow Elizabeth Pierce which was the wife of Fleetus Pierce deceased, and I denied the account and fetched the bill of the articles home and my family said they had not got such articles charged.
Monday: Today Geo P. took the cutter and carried the cooper Wade nearly two bushels turnips which pays him up for a bucket. Today brother Sylvester came to stay with us a few days for he got hurt by falling from his horse.
Tuesday: Today Geo P. and his two sisters went to Pittsfield in the two horse sleigh. Geo P. carried a few bushels of grafted fruit and the girls bought them velvet hats, cost to Mrs. Stevens for each hat 4 dol 50 cts and the trimmings ninety cts apiece. Geo P. sold his apples at 85 and 90 cts per.
Wednesday: I took my cutter and called up as far as Lanson Carpenter’s and he told me that David Clifford and Tylor Whitman were chopping and drawing off my timber from my Fairbanks lot and from there I left Randal A. Brown’s umbrella at his store with him, my wife borrowed it last Sunday, and then I called to John Wylie’s and left word with his wife that I was to drive the fat cow to Russel Palmer’s on Friday and wished him to meet me there and get his half of the beef.
Thursday: I took my cutter and Geo P. with me we went onto my Fairbanks lot to see if we could catch anyone getting off timber but we did not find anyone on there but Lanson Carpenter was on his wood lot joining mine and he told me he saw Tylor Whitman chopping on my land.