George Holcomb

Monday, November 19, 1855: I am not so well, did but a few chores, and John F. went onto the Rodgers farm and selected out 25 of his meanest sheep and sold to Zenas Goodrich for 32 dollars and then selected the best wethers and drove home.
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Monday, October 29, 1855: I am better today of my gravel complaint. This afternoon at or nearly four o’clock Geo P. starts to go up to Vermont after cattle and sheep and Edwin A. Carpenter with him, and pays fifty cts per day for his passage.
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Wednesday, October 10, 1855: This forenoon John F and Edward Hatch worked with the Shakers’ jack on the cider house and this afternoon John F. returned said jack to the Shakers and paid 75 cts for the use.
Thursday: This forenoon I walked up to Alexander Ostrander and paid 37½ cts for three pounds lard.
Friday: I am quite lame and today is quite a rainy day. John F. and John Rafferty husked corn in the barn.
Saturday: Rainy. I got James M. Glass to butcher a sheep and had a half a forequarter of the meat to pay him. John F. unwell today.
Sunday: Today Geo P. returned from Vermont, he found his lost sheep. He bought four head young cattle but did not drive them nor the sheep. Today John Rafferty had my horse and wagon all night.
Wednesday: I am quite unwell. This day I offered John F. Holcomb one thousand dollars for his services or labor, what he has done for me from the time he was of age up to the time he took my farm off my hands and I give up having any concern of my business and he accepted my offer and I gave him a note to be paid out of my estate at my decease. Today John F. unwell but he tended to his work.
Thursday: I am quite unwell as before with the gravel and today all day John F. unwell, and E. Hatch and John Rafferty gathered apples and drove home from the Rodgers farm our one yoke oxen for they had got the fence down and got into the meadow and got to the corn, and they drove home two dry cows.
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Saturday, September 29, 1855: This forenoon John F. fetched two horse wagon loads pumpkins from the Rogers farm, and this afternoon he went with my horse and wagon onto the Fairbanks lot to see to the sheep and drove them home, 12 of them, and one lost today.
[Read more…] about Trying To Fix The Cider House

Tuesday, September 11, 1855: I got some worm wood  to the widow Eliza Wylie’s to bathe my wife’s stomach where she was bruised falling into the wagon to the chapel when the horses started.
Thursday: this morning I drove the cows to pasture on the Rodgers farm, some rainy. John F. went with my horse and wagon out to the Fairbanks lot. He looked for his sheep that had got out of the pasture but could not find them.
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Tuesday, August 7, 1855: This morning at two o’clock John F. went to Pittsfield with my horse and lumber wagon  and carried 11½ bushels of potatoes at 75 cts per bushel, this afternoon he went with a butcher by the name of Warner from Pittsfield and sold him 22 lambs at 2 dol 25 cts per head.
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Wednesday, July 25, 1855: This forenoon Geo P. began to do our haying, he and Edward Manning and his brother Michael Manning mowed and quit mowing at noon for today the weather is cloudy and starts raining. Edward Hatch worked at the shed boarding it up where the barn was taken away. This forenoon John F. helped some to work at the shed, and this afternoon John F. not very well. Today Samuel Morse fetched his sister Mehitable to work for Geo P.
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Monday, July 16, 1855: This forenoon John F. drew blocking with Geo P. ox team from the barn and this afternoon he did not work, he was unwell. Today Geo P carried his wool and John F wool to Daniel Gardner at 40 cts per pound, came to 43 dollars, and said Gardner paid for John wool 48 dol and 40 cts.
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Friday, July 6, 1855: Edward Hatch drew two loads slate stones from R. Jolls hill with ox team and Geo P. drew one load slate stones with the horse team and today John F. and Patrick Rafferty and the two Baileys and E. Hatch all worked to the barn. The rain stopped them two hours or more.
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Wednesday, June 27, 1855: I walked over to Mr. Pease to find out where his horses got in my meadow on the Rodgers farm. He told me the horses got out of his meadow into mine and he would take care of his horses. On the way home I called into my Rodgers house that Patrick Rafferty lives in. Today a woman called by the name of Nigh and sold us a bushel basket and took her pay in potatoes. This forenoon John F. got our sheep home to shear from Lathum’s land. John F. rode to Lebanon with Geo P. wife and bargained with Henry Hull for our butter at 20 cts til fall. John F. walked home and Geo P. wife went in pursuit of a hired girl. This afternoon Alexander Ostrander and Dwight Jones sheared sheep for us, and John F. sheared five of them himself. This evening John F. carried H. Hull 83 pounds of butter and strawberries. Today Patrick and E. Hatch dug under the barn.
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