January 10, 1867 - January 19, 1867

1868 Jany 10th, Lowry moved this evening
where Dalton has been living, Hannah in
the other room till Joe Hunt comes if he
comes at all, very cold & windy to day –

11 Halling wood Broke Ring halled but
little Balance cutting Ell gone to her ^Fathers

12th. went to meeting Saturday & to day
still cloudy & quite cool, tho moderated ^some

13 still pretty day Cutting in new ground
& Halled & Cut dry wood on mountain
for Plant Bed, - Ell went home Saturday ¹¹ 11

14th Started to Burn Plant Bed soon
& about 5 or 6 Oclock began to snow
charles went to Plant Bed till Breakfast
^{Charles worked here 5 days – –}Snowed & Hailed all day Mr Dalton
mended Plow Bridle Lowry made Brooms

15. Sett Log heaps on fire Burn Badly
Cut some in new ground cloudy

16. Cutting in new ground & minding
up Log Heaps & nearly Burnt them up
I went out to Shields good Hunting my Boar
could not hear any thing of him
clear this night & moderate weather
Good deal of Hail on ground yet & ground
hard frozen yet no charles yet nor Joe

17th. This has been a very cold windy &
wintry day Hail & ground melted very little
Halled up Load shucks to Cutting House
put 1 Load straw in Cow rack & 1 in
stack for Cows & halled Cart Load straw
to Mrs Ellender Wyatt, Lowry halling wood
Mr. Dalton Cutting in new ground
Wind North & North West

18th The coldest morning here I ever saw
the Thermometer down to 12 Degrees –
clear weather no wind this morning
Cutting all day in new ground

19th. weather cold but moderated some no wind
stayed at home all day Richard started to court
& rode Bill my horse