George Holcomb

Saturday, October 23, 1852: Today Geo P. sold 74 sheep at one dol 75 cts to Joseph Runnals and Rufus Sweet and is to keep them two weeks.
[Read more…] about Harvesting Turnips

Thursday, October 7, 1852: I went to Pittsfield with my one horse wagon. I paid six dollars for a Parlor Pyramid Stove and fifty cts for an elbow pipe to Backus Stove and I got trusted to Peases Harness Shop for a leather cover whip and buckskin lash which was eighty seven cents which I have agreed to pay in turnips, and Sarah O. rode home with me from Pittsfield.
[Read more…] about Trading Turnips

Friday, September 24, 1852: I chopped and split some chestnut timber for wall. Today my two sons drew large stones into the wall with their three yoke of oxen. This evening John F. drew five loads stone by moonlight.
[Read more…] about Big Sale Of Sheep

Thursday, September 9, 1852: This morning at three o’clock Geo P. starts for Troy to meet his two sisters on their way home from the west on a visit, and he went by way of Union Village that is called West Nassau [Read more…] about Buying And Selling Sheep

Friday, September 3, 1852: Today we begin a piece of stone wall fence in my south meadow joining James M. Glass, and John Merrils worked for us a laying wall 3/4 of a day. [Read more…] about A Medical Emergency

Sunday, August 22, 1852: Today I paid Irish John two dollars cash and he went down to the village to Lebanon. Today Mehitable Jolls died.
[Read more…] about Irish John Finishes Working For George

Saturday, August 7, 1852: Some showery, I and Irish John hoed and weeded in the garden, and I paid Irish John one dollar and at night he went to Lebanon to get his shoes mended and stayed all night. [Read more…] about George Is Taken Unwell

Friday, July 30, 1852: This forenoon I drove Geo P. oxen back onto my Rodgers farm to pasture, and I mended fence where the Scotchman’s cow broke into my meadow, and salted my cattle and sheep. [Read more…] about A Brisk Business In Potatoes

Friday, July 16, 1852: John F. and my hired man Irish John and the two Runnals hayed on my Rodgers farm and I spread and raked hay on said farm. [Read more…] about A Big Sale Of Wool

Saturday, July 3, 1852: Today I and John F. and Irish John hoed on the hill potatoes on the Maxon farm. [Read more…] about Mid-Summer Visiting