The Eastwick Press Newspaper

A New Suit And A Visit To The Shakers

Saturday, June 6, 1835: I took my wagon and horses and carried brother Twichel and wife and my wife to the Shakers on a visit and brother Simeon Wylie  and wife went to said Shakers with us and returned home with us and took tea.  We took dinner to the Shakers, we went into their machines and gardens.  Today Hiram Newton worked half a day for me with my team and plow on the highway.

Sunday: Today I took my single wagon and carried brother John Twichel to the Shakers to meeting.

Monday: I rode to Hosey Brown’s store and got trusted to the amount of six dol and 29 cts a black velvet vest which was 88 cts and black cambrick lining and six yds bleached shirting at 1/6 per. Then I rode up to Hancock village to the tailor’s Mr Breers and left my vest pattern to be cut out. Today brother Twichel took my horse and wagon and carried my wife and his wife to brother Simeon’s on a visit and lamed my horse by tying a rope to bate him and got his foot hung and galled it.

Tuesday: Today brother Twichel took my span of old horses and carried his wife and my wife to Pittsfield to brother F. Jay Wylie’s on a visit. This evening at nine o’clock I started for Troy and Mr. R. Danford went with me. My loading was one hundred and a half of skim cheese and 3½ bushel oat. We traveled all night in the morning.

Wednesday: This morning we stopped to Knight’s Tavern at the Troy factorys and had tea and bitters nine cts, and then we went into Troy.  I sold my cheese to Henry Herrick for six dollars and I bought of him one barrel of flour, and three bushel salt, two pounds sugar and half pound tea. Eleanor sent 50 cts and I bought her six pounds tobacco. We came out of Troy about three o’clock and came to Sand Lake to Henry Withees and took tea, and then we came home. We got home at midnight.