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Sunday 25 Verry pretty weather Moderated I went to Town expecting

Leftwich to see John Will Leftwich but he had not got back from Hampden

he is on his rode to Washington, I did not git to see him

Mon 26 We dug the ballence of our Irish potatoes We had 22 1/2 bushels

potatoes of White ones & 12 bushels of the red & white potato They

Jack Patton ) favour the pink eye but more read & white Put them in the Ice
& Monk )
house Jack & Monk helpt dig

Tu 27 ) It has rained nearly all day halled up some wood
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It rained extremely hard all last night & has rained nearly
Wed 28
Rain all day I went to the Mill & made a settlement with Spencer

Settlement ) Hyet & Co. for there sawing, what plank they took & for all the
Mill )
Spencer ) plank I had sawed & for the rent of the Mill yard for 10 months
Hyet )
All settled they owed me $96.00 I took the Shed & little hous

credit, then 20.00 for the plank & house & shed
$76.00
Mill with $20.00. They paid me $76, & I recpted them in full.

See my book of Acts Saw Mill for the particulars of settlement,

page 13. Oliver York has bought the Mill & will run it, give

---------------------------- & for it he is a witness to Spencer & Co & my settlement

Th 29 It rained nearly all night verry hard it has been raining

for severl days Watters are all up. We killed our little killing
Hogs )
Pork ) of hogs. 11 that weighed 1840 lbs averaging 167 each. The wind

is in the West & turning cold tho quite cloudy I fear it is
William )
going to rain or snow. William stayed at home helpt kill hogs
Lard
With what old lard we have from last year an of this year we