The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Saturday, September 15, 1838: Today I took my two horse team and carried my two sons to training to Nassau to Brainard’s Bridge and brother Morton rode to training with me. I paid nearly one dollar expense for my sons and what I bought to eat and drink. The training was broke up for General Garrett and Colonel Spencer could not agree on what ground to train.

Sunday: I went to meeting at the Seventh Day meeting house, priest Reynor a Universalist preached, brother Morton rode with me to meeting, and this afternoon I took my single wagon and carried Angeline to Hancock meeting house to hear the same priest preach that we heard in our own town. Today an alarming accident, the bridge near Benj Douglass broke down with a load cotton cloth and drowned the driver.

Sunday September 23: This morning I am quite unwell with the asthma. I sat up nearly all night. Tonight brother F. Jay Wylie and Elisha Tracy stayed with us returning from the west.

Wednesday: I went with my two horse team and carried brother Morton and wife to Troy to take the canal and go home. My wife and Angeline went. Tonight we stayed to Sprague’s tavern in Troy. I paid one dollar and six cts.

Thursday: This forenoon we went through Troy to the stores and traded. I bought two shawls for my two oldest daughters and paid eleven dol and fifty cts, and I paid two dol and fifty cts for a black lace veil for my wife and I paid one dol and 25 cts for ten yards velvet ribbon. I called to the tow boat office and took on two boxes and two bags goods for N. Nichols and he paid me the freightage, two dol and 49 cts. We got home at eleven this evening.

Friday: Today my two sons went to Cranston’s training.

Saturday: I this afternoon went to Pittsfield with my double team and carried Hegden eleven hundred and 23 pounds cheese at eight dollars per cwt and took his note for eighty nine dol til December next and he paid me the 84 cts cash.

Monday, October 1: This morning I took breakfast to Nathan Howard’s and then I rode with him to Troy. Said Howard hired Jury Vary to carry five of us candidates to the county convention. I paid 25 cts for my dinner in Troy to a tavern and twelve cts for bitters and three cts for beer. We returned to Howard’s about twelve this evening and took supper to said Howard’s and then I walked home.