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rest to write with. I got this Quill with others at Nashville

about 20 years ago I have 2 others left I think it must be

a pilious quill it is a greate deal larger & finer than a

Goose quill & beautifully clarified It rights well.
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The weather has turned quite warm a little frost last night
Mon 29
sun rose clear & beautiful. The Wind S. & E. I went to Town
Bugga & )
plows to ) took in the Wagon 3 of my Bugga wheels to get the Tyres taken
git worked )
on ------------) off & put on took 2 plow moles to have new plows made of them,
(
Wilsons ) took 2 old plows & the stocks to be layed & fixed up ) William
wife Died ) (
B. Wilsons Wife dyed to day at 11 oclock I saw Thomas L. in

Thos L. ) Town he trailed Marys Mule several miles but did not git it

come back & quit hunting for it

William I have not heard any thing certain from William since he left

home last Tuesday. I think he will be likely to come home by

land in 24 ) Wednesday I listed my Cedar land in the 24th Dist. 122 acres
Dist )
listed ) at $400. D. H. Hays Esqr.

The Candidates for County offices are working verry hard

electioneering

Tu 30 The Sun rises clear but little air astir & quite warm

Wm & ) William & Harmon has not returned they must have been detained
Harmon )
in finding the horse & Mule of Maryanns. I can get no pen to

write that will do only the quill pen.

William came home this evening he got Maryanns horses did