September 1, 1852 - September 12, 1852

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1852 Sept 1st Engaged Bud Faris to Rive & draw
shingles & find himself at Two Dollars a Thousand
to be paid in wheat & Vinegar or something else.

2nd Went to Colo Dickensons Chalk Level for
Mrs McCullock & to CH for Capt Fitzgerald &
myself etc fine Day ———

3rd worming & succoring Tobacco & cut 23 stacks
out of new ground that was firing

4th worming Lot Tobacco & finished & went
in fresh ground Jordan Lowry & claiborne, Fed
alse Sandy & Kitty sawing from 10 OC till night
Henry went to Raise Barn at Doct Walkups
Lila & Jordan Plowing at mountain field
Something bit Pompeys fore Leg Swelled very
much Stoped him @ 1 OC put Pain Killer on it
& at Bathed it in mullin cloudy all night Rained & also day& [P?] top etc

5th fair & clear quite cool this morning
Pompeys Leg Better 7th got Better & Kate got weddingto F Holys

9th Rain Rain, Rain, nearly every day & we
have a good deal of fodder on the ground & we
have cut about four Hundred stacks in new ground
& to day Rained nearly all dayspining making Baskets etc etc

10th Spining Basket Making & mending Cates shoes
Rained all night last night & this morning
Bud Faris geting shoes & J. Tucker has got a few

11th cloudy & like for Rain this morning we are
Beeting apples for vinegar,- Bet, one of our
Milch cows Died Some time ago, Passing
Blood seeming to be her complaint, last evening
another cow Mary Died in same way Passing Blood.
also one of our sheep Died in clover lot,-
Very wet weather, & like to be so this morning
cows are at mountain field where Mary Died

12th Strait Stone meeting Did not Rain this
day & turned rather cooler & wind from N.W
at night quite cool Fannie W & M F. here

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