Diary: Ellen Stabler, 1860

11th . A rainy day; Father came home from Baltimore and brought Richard Vaughn, the Shingle machine man with him; Father and I went to the funeral; Warwick Stabler here to supper.

12th. Vaughn went back to Baltimore. Father and mother went to Uncle Samuels to supper; rained in the morning; cleared up in the afternoon.

13th. A pleasant day: a shower of rain in the afternoon. Lucy went to Uncle Samuels: I went to Sherwood a while in the afternoon; Joe went to Charlie Stablers to dinner, brought William Stabler home with him to supper: William went to Rockland, Father called at Sherwood in the afternoon.

17th. A beautiful day: Aunt Nancy and Margaret here to supper: Father and mother went to Bentleys after supper: Father went to R. Down'ses in the morning. Joe went to Washington.

15th. A pleasant day; Father went to Rockville; I called at Bentleys in the afternoon, and went to Sherwood to supper; no one at home there but Annie.

16th. A clear day: At meeting: Father took mother to the Cottage in the afternoon, then went to B. Downses. Lucy and I at Uncle Edwards after supper; Lucy at the store in the afternoon.

17th. A cloudy day: Lucy went to Brooke Grove; called at Sharon in the evening and saw cousin Lizzie Briggs, she got here today.

Father went to B. Downses in the afternoon; I called at Sherwood to see Aunt Sally Gilpin, and at Alban Gilpin's

18th. A cloudy day: Father went to Washington and home again in the evening: I spent the day and night at Cherry Grove: Joe went to Washington; Annie Peirce and Martha Lea called here: Margaret Hallowell went home yesterday.

19th. A beautiful clear morning: a shower in the afternoon: Nicholas Snowden here to dinner; Father went to Henry Harris's in the morning: to Higgins in the afternoon: I called at Sherwood on my way home from Cherry Grove; mother at Aunt Sally Gilpins to tea: Lucy at the Cottage: the boys at a public Debate in the evening.

went with Warwick, to John Halls, after supper.

25th. A pleasant day; father at work on the Baltimore road in the morning; home to dinner, and at the Steam Mill in the afternoon. Sarah Bentley here awhile after dinner; she went with Lucy and me to the Mill to see the Shingle Machine at work: Carrie Bond and Mary Leadbeater here to supper; William walked home with them after tea: then came back to Richard Bentleys to stay all night; there last night too; Richard and Edith both in B. father went to Sherwood to supper, with Vaughn and Abbott.

26th. Cloudy morning; a gust in the afternoon rained for two hours; father went to Ann Downs's in the morning:

and to other places in that neighbourhood; did not get home till night; I called at Sherwood after dinner: Lucy, Joe and I at Harewood after supper: Vaughn and Abbott went home this morning.

27th. A pleasant morning: At Meeting; William Stabler here to dinner. William at Olney, with Mary Leadbeater; Joe went to Annie Peirce; home to supper: Joe at Harewood after supper. Cloudy in the afternoon; a little rain.

28th. A beautiful clear day: Father went to B. Downs's; took me to Clifton on his way; after dinner, Sarah and I went to see Mary E. Moore; then I called with Aunt R. to see Jane Johnson a colored woman who is sick; then I called at Uncle