Thursday, October 30, 1851: Today I and John F. put up our railway stove. Today one of Geo P. oxen died with a wen in the pipe and Russel Palmer skinned the ox for Geo P. Today a pump peddler took dinner with us and paid 12 cts. Levi Phillips hung himself.
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George Holcomb
George Buys A Fancy Stove
Saturday October 18, 1851: I went to Pittsfield with one horse wagon and carried ten bushels fall greenings and sold them to Barker’s Grocery at 75 cents per, and I paid 16 dollars to the Troy Stove Store [Read more…] about George Buys A Fancy Stove
George Comes Up Lame
Friday, October 3, 1851: (George is returning from a trip to Western NY to visit his relatives) Tonight we stayed in Troy to Wm. Chapman’s in Congress Street, and this evening we went to the shows at the Morris Place view of the ancient cities, I paid 25 cents.
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A Trip To The West
Thursday September 18, 1851: This morning Geo P. took my two horse lumber wagon and carried myself and wife, Sidney Grosvenor and wife and sister Harriet Grosvenor to Troy to go west on the cars. [Read more…] about A Trip To The West
A. Celinbaum Quits Mysteriously
Thursday, August 21, 1851: Today I and hired boy drove a cow that is young heifer to bull to J. B. Maxon’s and said Maxon agreed that I might put his bull in my pasture a spell, that is a few weeks, and John F. turned the bull into my pasture.
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George And Son Sell All Their Sheep
Saturday, July 19, 1851: Quite rainy today. I called to Mr. Clark’s, that takes care of the town paupers, to get my pay for three bushels potatoes, 3 dol, he gave an order on the town. I took tea with him. [Read more…] about George And Son Sell All Their Sheep
Typhus Comes To Stephentown
Wednesday, July 9, 1851: We hayed and built a clover stack. Today and tonight Geo P. watched with Joseph Anthony Gillett, he has the typhus fever.
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Independence Day, 1851
Monday, June 23, 1851: I rode down near the Shaker Mill and bargained with the sister and husband of John Coslow for said boy that is to my house to work for me four months at four dollars and fifty cents per month, [Read more…] about Independence Day, 1851
George Turns 60
Thursday, June 5, 1851: I hunted a young cow in my swamp that had a calf.
Building A New Water System
Tuesday, May 27, 1851: Today Geo P. went to Windsor to collect money where he had sold apple trees, and he carried his two sisters to Pittsfield. They went to their uncle F. Jay Wylie’s and took dinner and then said Wylie carried them to their cousin Rufus Kendall’s and left them on a visit. Today John Bassett ditched to put lead pipe for water.