Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1845 Feby 22 this week Mr Moon has got shingles to cover Old House & he Began to strip tobacco in Big Barn on Hill this day - 21st halled lugs out of Mr Grastys new ground this day.

26th Feby. Beautiful weather allmost like May- Ja^s C. Hunt married yesterday 25th Feby 1845 — Shingling our old House this day Burning log Heaps etc etc Plowing in mountain field Mr Moon left on Thursday 27th Feby & Irby on Friday 28th without finishing

March 1 Children started to school this day -Jeremy at Stony Point & Plowing -Planted Irish Potatoes, English Peas & onions etc etc began to prize Lugs

7 I went to Rice to meeting

8 Raining & we are stripping Tobacco weather changed & a good deal cooler In Jany 1845 made a bargain Mr Ja^s Murphy to Plaster my House & white wash it to be finished off as I want it for $45. But If I think myself this work is worth $47.50$ I am to give him that sum the two Dolls and fifty cents is at my discretion which sum of $45 I am to pay said Murphy March or april 1846 - this is our contract

March [10?] Halled stacks and wood out^{& Piled up trash} of new ground

12 Halled up & getting out oats to sow

1845 March 14th Malissa sick child Born after midnight this morning --

15. Bud Faris sent for help to Roll Logs Could not help him Henry sowing oats. I am going to meeting. Federick cutting gutter for Malissa House to drain the water off -- Phil gone to mill. Just commencing sowing oats this morning tho have been preparing the ground for 2 days.

1845 ^{March 18th} Sewed 15 bushels to this night Fed gone to day to Roll Logs to Mr Neals Set yams this morning for [name?] to plant. Planted goard seed Paid Mr Moon $115 in all the other $10 I dont Know that I shall ever pay him without being compelled because he did not finish my ^houseat all & some he did do was not done workmanlike

¹⁸⁴⁵ March 19, Wednesday Very cold & windy ground hard frozen I am afraid Tobacco plants Killed. My wife & F.W. gone to see ^Coleman Mrs

20 Really a winters morning ground hard frozen. cant Plow. Freezing weather Pull Down old saddle House this morning at 12 Oclock this day the water Freezes in the Porch tremendous cold for March 1845 1845 26th. weather a little moderated Sewed flax seed nearly done sowing oats

1845 June 28th. Mr. Johnson is this day finishing off the Comb of Brick House which Moon & Irby half done. Mr Johnson says he thought they knew how to comb off a House better than they did mine - he took off 4 Courses of shingles & is putting on 4 to stop the leak which is owing to bad shingling. The valley boards between old House & passage which Moon & Irby put up & the weather boarding on passage is taken off & done over by Mr Johnson, who says they were no valley boards at all merely a little thin piece of plank put under the shingles with a little groove on it which is not worth a cent — Chopping over corn this day on mountain Sewed turnips in garden about 26th or 27th Inst.

30. Halling up wheat, finishing laying by corn with plows this day -

July 3 Worked out Tobacco on Branch near house, began to Top tobacco Mr Murphys Nat Spencer & 2 white began to Plaster House or getting lathes this morning, began to cut oats 2nd July

3rd cutting oats tho cloudy & like for rain

1845 Sept 23. Cutting Tobacco, 24th cutting Tobacco in second years ground & new D^o

25 Cutting Tobacco & finished  — over once

26 Housing Tobacco this morning & then for stacking Tops

27 Stacking Tops this day -- began yesterday - Light crop of Tops this year —

29 Finished stacking Tops

30 treading out white wheat to sow & succoring Tobacco

Oct. 1st Sewed Tobacco Lot on Branch ^{1845 in wheat} by the Bridge ^{sewed 1/2 Bushel} & cutting^{on mountain}down corn

2nd Cutting down corn in mountain field & Henry Halling logs to Millers mill

3 cart broke down & axeletree made by abbot at meeting House this year alse getting out flax seed & spreading flax Balance Jinking Tobacco House Wrote to Ja^s. D. Moon this day etc etc

6 cutting Tobacco etc etc housing new axletree made by Mr Myer & old Irons put on by him sent 39 lbs seed cotton to Millers Mill

7 Halling up & Housing Tobacco

8 Put up Hogs Pulling corn & cutting trough to feed Hogs getting up 2 Lots Corn at Home Fine rain Last night ——

9. Wet weather 10th still raining

10 Oct 1845 Rainy day. Bro Webb here on his way to association at Greenfield

11 Still raining & rained all night last night - fanned out wheat yesterday Association commences at Greenfield today

17 Killed a beef - young red steer weighed 240 lbs in all — began to sew wheat at mountain field this day, Diged Sweet & Irish potatoes this day - large frost -

23 Sewed wheat by Mallisa house & Henrys houses —

24 Sewing wheat in second years Tobacco ground, Moon Sued to me to Novr Court 1845, & I defend the suit, weather a little more moderate

Nov. 8th Finished yesterday getting up our corn - make between 40 & 50 Bb^ls Commenced at Stony Point to sew wheat. Federick nearly done making negroes shax——— Broke Waxy & Pompey to plow

11 Finished seeding wheat at Stony Point —

Nov 11th 1845. This morning & very early started to Meadsville to see Mr Richard Waln, who was present when James D Moon