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William bought a sow & 5 pigs & 3 others all $21.00 &

Hogs. brought them home put them in Mule stall. They were sold to

the highest bidder belonged to the Estate of Mrs Wingfield.

It has rained the watter is runing in the rode. Verry fine

upon our Wheat.

Tu 5th It is raining too much to do work Some of us are making Axe

rain handles & shucking & sorting the Corn where it is unsound in

the Smoke house dark cloudy & raining sufficiently so to

raise the watter courses

Wed 6 It rained through the night Smith & Jack went & drove a beef

Beef ) home from W Mack Esqr this morning. We commenced getting

Rails ) rails Split some a poplar

Th 7 We killed the beef I got yesterday & weighed it It weighed

524 lbs I paid his son H. C. Mack for it - (7 cts)
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Beef $36.68 It was verry good beef I got it of W. R. H. Mack Esqr

fencing) It rained last night we cut a poplar for saw logs & rails
Spring )
lott ) it broke verry bad, trying to fix up the Spring lott fence.

halling the railes with one Wagon & Mules before them. There

Negroes) was Eleven Negroes & there guns & dogs hunting shooting &c
Hunting)
in our lotts I started them they went It has turned quite

Cold William went to Town I stayed at home
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I stayed at home William went to Town Magga is better She
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was unwell yesterday. We all worked making rails & building
William )
& Maga ) up the lane fence next Jaggers We have got it done Staked

& pined & a good fence one time more