Friday, March 11, 1853: Geo P. bought a second handed cook stove of Sylvenas Carpenter and paid seven dollars with the cooking utensils, it was a stove that the widow Landers had used up to her death, and Geo P. paid J.M. Glass one dollar for a copper tea kettle and he bought crockery and other things of him that was the widow Lucy Pierce’s, the whole amount was five dollars and 50 cents, and Geo P. paid Wm B. Maxon three dollars and 31 cts for articles to keep house.
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Geo P. Getting Ready To Keep House
Sunday, February 27, 1853: Tonight Geo P. and wife returned home from Lenox.
Monday: This forenoon John F. drove his fat steers to new Lebanon to Lyman Matthews for 90 dollars, John F. bought them of Patrick Murphy last fall. Today Geo P. lent seven hundred dollars in good bankable money to John Jay Moffett and took a note for three years.
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Two Months Pay For A Suit
Friday, February 18, 1853: I took the one horse wagon and carried my daughter Charlotte E. to Lebanon to Doctor Right’s and paid him 12 cents for pulling a tooth for her. We then called to Nichols store and post office and paid one cent for what is called a valentine letter. [Read more…] about Two Months Pay For A Suit
The Widow Lucy Pierce Dies
Wednesday, February 2, 1853: I am lame today. Geo P. started to go north into Vermont to buy cattle, He went on horseback. Today I walked down to see the widow Lucy Pierce, she continues quite sick. Tonight Sarah O. watched with the widow L. Pierce and Laura Newton watched with Sarah.
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Geo P. Returns With His Wife
Wednesday, January 19, 1853: John F. went to Hancock with his colt and my lumber cutter. On the way coming home the traces unhooked and the horse ran and left the cutter and run about a mile and got stopped [Read more…] about Geo P. Returns With His Wife
George & Son Both Have A Tooth Pulled
Tuesday, January 11, 1853: I went with my wife to Elder Havens on a visit and I gave the Elder Haven one bushel turnips. While my wife was there on a visit I rode up to John Deballs near Latham Village, the collector, and paid my taxes, ten dollars and eighty one cents, [Read more…] about George & Son Both Have A Tooth Pulled
Looking For The Use Of A Male Hog
Monday, December 27, 1852: I went to Sylvenas Carpenter’s to see if he would have the use of his swine but he would not have the hog took from home. On the way I called to Simeon Wylie’s and got a few red peppers and I drove home a pair two year old steers and a cow and yearling heifer from my Rodgers farm that Mr. Aaron Merrils had foddered for me. [Read more…] about Looking For The Use Of A Male Hog
Geo P. Takes A Train Trip
Monday, December 20, 1852: I rode up to Hancock village to the Union Store to the quarterly meeting of said store, and I called to old Mr. Whitman’s and got the cash 37 cts for one and a half bushel turnips that I had left..
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John F. Continues To Be Ill
Saturday, December 11, 1852: Today Doctor Bates tended to doctoring John F. and he is no better. On this evening Geo P. returned home from Windsor collecting money for fruit trees
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John F. Gets Sick – A Bad Cough
Thursday, December 2, 1852: Geo P. drove his heifer and my yearling bull over and Russel Palmer butchered them at 50 cts per head and we agreed to pay him in turnips and said Russel Palmer cut up my beef and agreed to pay him one bushel turnips and I carried the two hides to Randal A. Brown’s, my bull’s hide weight 62 pounds at four cts per and Geo P. hide 46½ at 4½ cts per and said Brown paid the cash. [Read more…] about John F. Gets Sick – A Bad Cough