Wednesday, January 27, 1830: (George is in Pittsfield) This morning my bill was 25 cts, I only had lodging and coffee with my breakfast and stabling. Today I sold out the remainder of my load, and I paid fifty cts for one bushel salt, and I bought eight pounds paper tobacco at eight pence per pound. I paid 62 cts for the Life of the Rev. Thomas Scott and I paid 59 cts for three pamphlets of Lorenzo Dow writing. We got home about midnight.
Sunday, Feb. 21: Towards night I walked over to Doc Elijah Graves and got some medicine for my daughter L. Angeline, she is quite unwell and a pain in the stomach.
Monday, 22: I tended to chores and chopped some wood to the door. This afternoon I started for Troy with the double wagon and horses, with the load of apples I got to Mrs. Booge’s on Saturday evening. Tonight by nine this evening I got to Philip Frilmer’s within seven miles of Troy.
23, Tuesday: This morning I went into Troy and sold the remainder of my load, what I did not sell on the road going. I got half a dol per bushel. I bought my two daughters each Charlotte and Angeline a vial filled with smelling powder. I paid 25 cts for both, and I paid four cts for liquorish and pepper mints. Tonight I came on to Sand Lake and stayed to the old stand of Kilmer’s where Mr. Thomas Withee now keeps tavern.
Wednesday: This morning I offered to pay said Withee for my lodging and breakfast and horsekeeping but he would not take pay. I then came on home. Today Doc Elijah Graves was called to my daughter L. Angeline.
Tuesday, February 16, 1830: This morning I started for Albany with a double sleigh and carried my load of apples. We got into Albany about 10 o’clock. I sold out part of my load by the bushel at 50 cts per, and some by the penny, and tonight we stayed in Albany on the hill to Wormer’s old stand.
Friday: This forenoon I mended an ox sled and this afternoon I took the single wagon and carried my wife and daughter Charlotte to Elder Jones Meeting House to Mr. Billings singing concert.
Thursday, March 11: I chopped wood to the door and on this evening I went to the Widow Booge’s and got eight bushels of grafted apples for one dol and 50 cts.
Friday: I took the double wagon and went to Pittsfield and carried ten bushels of apples and sold them to Mr. Dewey at the high school for 42 cts per bushel. I sold four gallons of apple preserves to Mr. Baldwin, the bookbinder, at 40 cts per gal. I left him two small books to be bound for 25 cts each, one book Lorenzo Dow’s writings and the other Amos Mory’s Mustard Pit. We got home about nine this evening.
