July 11, 1857 - August 7, 1857
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1857 July 11th. Choping in corn Laying by at stony pint
Painters Painting on top of House, cloudy & like for
Rain- Nannie complaining with tooth ach etc
16th Nannie sick now with Bowel Complaint
Rainy fine growing weather
17th Cutting Oats to day & Plowing corn at
mountain field. Hilling up & working
Tobacco at new ground
Halled up last stack Oats
Nannie has been sick for nearly
10 days - -
august 1st 1857 - chopingcorn Stoney pint Corn
to day - Sent Jerry Smith to shop with Fillmore
to be shod Jerry my son gone to P.O.
Henry Painting Top of carriage & Jerry PaintedGates
Sandy finishing Harrowing Corn to day -
2nd went to Sunday School went to Mr Dews & mrs Hunts
3rd cloudy, fixing to go to Lynchg, going to Carry
Fannies Tobacco, Balance triming out wheat yd
this morning & then Hilling up new ground Tobacco
Fixing for Lynchg going after machine
carrd Load for Fannie -
wool carrd to Card 1 Bag fine Bag & all 16 lbs
1 Do Coarse Do 17½
wool Left in Lynchg 33½ lbs
to be Carded augt 57 —pRect
7th augt 7th we have been to Lynchg card a
Load of Tobacco for Fannie Fitzgerald, &
Brot wheat machine Home from Mr Whittemore
cost with Band $154.48. pRecd warranted for 12
months,- our folks has been Hilling up new
ground Tobacco Toping it & shoeing making for
ourselves. to day after we got home went to toping
fresh ground Tobacco, left machine at Fannies
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