ENFebruary 26, 1850 - March 12, 1850
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26. 27 & 28. Finished malling & began
to Break up Corn ground in Johns field
March 1st Rolled Logs did not get done
2 Plowing Halling wood fixing
Plant Bed on Johns Branch —
shrubing corn Land & cleaning up newground
weathermoderate to day yesterday very windy
sent to Mrs McCullocks last Tuesday to Roll Logs
Halled up stack Oats —————
3 went to Mrs Smiths moderate day —
4 Sett all our log heaps afire fine time
Broke Logan to Plow this day - lent Mrs
Coleman Waxy last Sunday to go to Lynchg
Plowing Tobacco Land yesterday & to day,-
5. Plowing for Irish Potatoes & Tobacco
Halling wood mending up Log Heaps etc
6 Finished striping Tobacco this day & in
evening Rained very hard ——
7 Rolled Logs all Day nearly halled
all Tobacco new ground Barn this morning
Lila Plowing - windy day moderate
Planted Irishes Potatoes 2 or 3 days ago
8 Finished Rolling this morning Halling
up Oats malling & Plowing. waxing
to day & taken sick & give him meeks[?]
vomiter weather moderate
9 Plowing Halling Oats Sewed Plant
Bed On Branch this morning —
10 A fine day for meeting
11 Treading out Oats quite cool
Finishing corn field fence cleaning
up on Branch Johns field —
12 At work at new ground burning log
Heaps etc Plowing
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March 8: JWG does not mention who is sick; haven't seen "waxing" as a chore before and can't figure out whether it's a name? Was there a medicine called Meek's for inducing vomiting? Can't be for his horse, Waxy, because horses can't vomit.
I read "meeks" as "much". Could the sentence be "Waxy today taken sick * given much vomiter"?
that works for me!
And he could be using "vomiter" as a French infinitive "to vomit", so "given much to vomit"?
I don't know whether Graves knew any French, but lots of formulaic language is used in medicine.