March 26, 1845 - April 8, 1845

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1845. March 26 Sewed Plant Bed over on
the Branch this day - weather has been
very cold for more than a week. 1845
Our new ground nearly half coltered

27. weather moderate finished sewing oats

28 Went to saw mill paid off Mr
Miller
in full to the 30¢ in my
Debt

31 weather moderate Stripping Tobacco
& hope to finish this day & prizing
Lugs
Yesterday our new ground fence got
burnt say 40 pannels fire got out
from our new ground Saturday

29th monstrous fire in the woods towards
good Hope gathered a good many hands
& stopped it. done no mischief

30. Fire at new ground & burnt
40 panels fence entirely for me

April 3rd Finished coltering new
ground this day - Plowing for corn
Planted snaps and corn in Garden

2nd April, 4th planted snaps, cucumbers
& simlings in garden etc etc
weather dry & warm at this time

8 April commenced making new ground
Tobacco Hills still for Corn ground hard
and very cool every thing Kill allmost Killed
this morning 9th April 1845 Smart - Ice in places

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Trisha

Where it says unclear, I was unable to decipher the handwriting.

Trisha

11-14 at the bottom of the page are the same on the next page, too - it looks like they were scanned in but don't actually relate to this particular page.

fransalman

For 2nd April, "cucumber & [unclear]"— I believe the word is "simlings," which was used for 'squash.' I remember my father using this word, and I would have guess at this spelling, although I found the word 'cymling' in agricultural books dating to the 1800s.