Friday, June 21, 1833: I took my young horse and one old one up to brother Wm and had them shod. I helped make some new shoes and had my wagon mended some, and today I went to Orsemas Holcomb machine a bundle wool to be carded, but they told me they did not do any custom work, and then I fetched the said wool to Cherevoy’s factory and got it carded, ten pounds at six cts per, and I bargained with said Cherevoy and Brown to fetch them a barrel soap, price agreed, four dollars. Today continues rainy.
Saturday: I worked on the highway with my boy, team, and tools and worked out my assessment, 10¾ days in all.
Sunday: This evening I rode over to my Rodgers Farm and Miss Right paid me the sixteen dollars for the house rent.
Monday: I plowed and hoed potatoes in my old onion yard, my hired boy is not returned, he went home yesterday.
Tuesday: This afternoon my hired boy returned.
Wednesday: I met with the other assessors to see if the taxable inhabitants was satisfied with the assessment. We found that it was proper to make some little alterations.
Sunday, June 30: On this evening I took my single wagon and rode to the pool and brother Wm went with me. We went to see if the Caravan of Animals had got there and we likewise went to try to make a bargain for our families to see the caravan, but we did not make any bargain for the overseer had not got along.
Monday July 1: This forenoon I rode up to Randal A Brown’s our Supervisor. There we three assessors out of four met together with the town clerk Elijah Graves, and the other two assessors was Rufus Rose and Levi Culver. We drew from our list of taxable inhabitants all the men that was competent, capable of being jurymen and witnessed to send to our county clerk, and at noon I returned home. I took my two horse team and carried my wife and five children and our hired girl Fanna Roberts and our hired boy Charles Booge all on to Pool Hill and I paid one dol and 75 cts for us all to go into the caravan shows.
