December 18, 1851 - December 29, 1851

18th Decr 1851 Owen moved yesterday very
cold weather only set up one Hh^d,
new ground near House — very cold
on the night of the 18th this night some person
broke in my Smoke House drawed the Staple
& opened the Door Only taking out Our
flour Tub & something like ½ Bus flour
& 1 Hogs Head. thats all we ^{back bones & spar Ribs}miss except some

20 Clear & Cold, Halling wood & cutting
Jacob & Jordan gone to mill 2 Turns
wheat carried leave one of them have
the other ground into flour & get one
Turn corn meal at mill – –

21st cloudy & cool day Jacob went to Mr Fitzgeralds

22nd This morning snow about 4 or 5 Inches
Deep Rained last night & hailed & then snowed
all in house to day making brooms spining
etc etc —Picking cotton —

23rd Cutting in new ground Some spining
Sewed Our Lots back of Garden & by
prize barn & Granary in clover seed Timo=
=thy & Herds Grass seed – —

24th Cutting in new ground
Snow melted but little very cold
I am going to Mr Franklins & to see Mr
Smith & Dove about the rent of Mrs Clements
childrens Land -- etc etc —

24 & 25 Went up to Mr Franklins for Lucy Ann
to see about her negroes they are sick 2 of them
then I went to Smiths & Doves to Rent the Land
to Dove took his Bond & to collect of Smith & Dove
got no money at all, stayed at Mr Fitzgeralds

24th at night & come home in Rain 25th in evening

25 Still Raining & Turned warmer

27 Still cloudy & like for Rain or snow, Jacob &
Jerry gone to Mr Fitzgerald

29th Still cloudy & like for Rain weather more
moderate, Nannie gone to Mrs Colemans & a few days
ago to Mrs Hunts, Sent Jordan for my papers —