George Holcomb

Saturday, March 11, 1837: Today I carried a cheese to Nathaniel Nichols and exchanged it for one I had sold him before. He did not like the cheese for said N. Nichols insisted it was a late made cheese got in with the rest of the cheese through a mistake. [Read more…] about Pension Research

Tuesday, March 7, 1837: Today I started for Troy with my Mother about ten o’clock and my second daughter Angeline to wait on her grand mother. We called to Squ Nathan Howard’s and got the papers and went on. We called to cousin Chancy Rows and took dinner and went on to Sand Lake and stayed to Henry Withees. [Read more…] about To Troy to Apply For A Widow’s Pension

Monday, February 27, 1837: Today I called to Old Jacob Coles and inquired of him if he was in the Revolution with my Father, but he was not.
Wednesday, March 1: Today I tended to my chores and chopped wood to the door and carried and fetched my children to school. [Read more…] about Still Seeking A Pension

Tuesday: This morning I came on to Mr. Rufus Withees and took breakfast. I then paid said Rufus Withee forty two dollars, which is the interest up to last October on a note of three hundred dollars, and then I came home. On this evening I rode down to Judah Rowley’s to inquire where his Uncle Nathaniel Warren lives. Rowley told me he lives in Berlin. I want to make proof by Mr. Warren that my father was a revolutionary soldier for my Mother to draw a pension. [Read more…] about Seeking A Pension

Friday February 10, 1837: On this evening I took my cutter and carried my two daughters to what is called West Hill School House in Lebanon to a debating school. Joseph Cole presided as president of the meeting. [Read more…] about Midwinter – Selling Cheese

Monday, January 30, 1837: I tended to chores and moved straw in the barn and this afternoon I took my double sleigh and carried a grist of rye and corn to the Shakers’ mill and left to be ground. My two oldest daughters and Jane Wylie went with me for a sleigh ride. [Read more…] about A Thaw Makes Sledding Difficult

Wednesday, January 25, 1837: This morning I and my wife started on a visit. We went with the cutter and old sorrel. The roads were drifted and we had to go round by the Douglasses to get on to the turnpike. [Read more…] about A Winter Journey With Northern Lights

Sunday January 8, 1837: Today I  took my double sleigh and carried my two oldest daughters and Jane Wylie to the funeral of Rufus Rose. [Read more…] about Midwinter Brings A Rash Of Suicides

Monday, December 5, 1836: Today I banked up my house.

Tuesday: Today I went onto Adam Brown’s hill after slippery elm bark but could not get any and went to Aaron Sackett’s meadow and he told me to get what I wanted and I got some to make my wife a drink for a cough. Towards night I drew a load of wood for Mr. John Sackett from Hazard Morey’s meadow, which is in part to pay him for helping me cut and draw in my corn. [Read more…] about Getting Ready For Winter; A New Year’s Day Earthquake

Friday, October 28, 1836: We gathered apples and dug potatoes.

Saturday: I shook walnut trees in my meadow for my children to gather them and dug potatoes. Tonight I took three horses out of my corn field for the third time in the night and tonight I went to Ephraim Pierce to have him take care of them. [Read more…] about The Cows Fell Down