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----------------- It is extremely cold McCutchen has quit making shingles Fr 28 cold ) has rived & shaved 850 at 18 3/4 Cents pr hundred he quit ( McCutchen ) last night and agreed to work at $12.00 pr month Set in to
work by the month this morning (See entry Sunday Decr 23)
(Wed 12 - 11).(Th 20)
It is verry cold last night I think was the coldest night
yet. We halled up some wood & tryed to live but it is tite Lou sick ) Puss cooking ) work. Louisa is sick - Puss is trying to cook -------------------- This morning is still colder & cloudy it snowed a little Sat 29 Verry cold yesterday every thing froze up William still goes to the office
Wm every morning.
I sent a letter to the post office this morning directed
Jane B. ) to Jane B. Crofford informing her of the death of H. B. Crofford ) Porter. We are doing nothing Christmas week. and verry cold
Boots McCutchen is feeding Cutting wood & making fires Old Boots
declined taking any ground to attend another year & Caleb
Caleb takes his ground at 3 barrels of Corn to the acre for Corn ground
& 1/3 of the fodder & 250 lbs of seed Cotton to the acre & is
Snow to build him a house & keep up the fences &c It is snowing the
Lou sick ground partially covered too cold to Snow. Lou sick 1866 December ) The morning is extremely Cold I think last night much the Sun 30 ) coldest night we have had this Winter the wind is from the N.E. Cold weather & cloudy a little, up to 12 oclock. No news every thing froze
Self up I think my health has been improving for the last 2 or 3
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McCutchen days William has gone to J. W. B. Thomas Mr McCutchen is
cutting wood feeding & keeping fires I pay him by the
Lou sick month (See Contract) (Friday 28) Lou is sick bad cold &c
the weather is too cold to do any thing like work.
Mon 31 The Old Year 1866 is going Out It is Cold & the weather
verry changable We are doing nothing only trying to get
last day) Wood during the day & feeding This is the last day of the year of the ) year ) and near Mid night & it is snowing This day & night is much
like the shiftings & changes of the Whole year The season seems
to partake of the disposition of and character of our political
condition, changing & varying from side to side, Stealing
robing & taking every thing that can be got hold of has been
the order of the day & night We have had extream hard times
to live & but little confidence in but few during this year
hard times We have lost many of our valuable friends & near relatives but
they have died at home & not in Camps Prisons & battle fields
Yet the diseases of the Country have been somewhat fatle.
Good bye Old Year 1866, with all its past troubles & pleasures.
They have been not a few troubles, & some pleasures. We are
thankful that it has been no worse & hope the coming year which
will take place in a few moments may be a year of Jubilee and
that peace & friendship may return once more to our troubled
land & that we may feel thankful to divine providence that we
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have been spared through the rebellion & the last year of
fare well trouble Good bye again to the last year 1866 I shall to 1866 ever feel thankful for its past favours & friendships to me
& my children
It is now Mid night & a snowing (fare [will] for ever)
Lou sick (Lou is not well)
Nimrod Porter
1867 This morning cloudy Wind from the N.E. & verry Cold We done January ) Tues 1st ) nothing only feed & made fires It snowed last night the ground
Self slightly covered with snow No news My health I think still
improving but verry slowly I am oblige to keep within doors
my feeble condition & the extream cold weather Lou is still
sick Not bad off ---------------------- The morning is verry clear & more calm has some appearance Wed 2d of more milder weather The wind is in the West tho verry cold
Our little company is trying to git up wood Richd Plim & Lou sick ) Puss cooking ) McCutchen Lou is still unwell & Puss is cooking
Th 3d The morning is quite Cold but more calm The wind is mostly
from the West Some clouds Lou is still sick & Puss is cook-
Puss ) ing McCutchen is feeding & getting wood Caleb is halling Lou ) with my wagon We are not pretending to work I went to Town I went to Town) not having been there for 2 or more months Cotton is selling
Cotton at $25. pr 100. Election for Atto Genl & Magistrate Noah Hickey
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Election ) & Bullock candidates for Atto Genl & Herndon & Ament candidates for Atto ) Genl & Justice) for Magistrate Herndon was elected Mag went to Town Stayed
Mag all night
Fri. 4. The wind has changed to the S. E. & blows verry cold Mag
Mag did not get home last night from Town.
McCutchen McCutchen went home this morning I let him have $2.00 in part $2.00 pay for his months work I have loaded up our Wagon with our
Cotton to take to Town this morning We halled our Cotton to
Jack Porter ) Town sold it to Jack Porter for $25.00 pr 100 took it to bought ) Cotton ) the Depot but did not git it weighed Jack Patton halled 2 bales
Jack Patton ) of the Cotton to Town I will attend to it tomorrow When I came
Cold ) home from Town I got verry cold in the evening it was the coldest South ) Wind ) day by far I ever experienced from the Wind blowing from S. E.
It blew verry hard & extreamly cold little Felix rode behind
me & he got quite cold & num before we got home. ------------------- Sat 5 I got $2. worth Sugar & $2. of Coffee It has turned quite Sugar Coffee cold The Wind is in the N. W. (continued) 1867 The wind has changed to the N. W. & is verry Cold & clear. Jany Sat 5 I went to Town & closed & collected up the Cotton sales of John
Porter all come to $772.50 With Preston bale of $88.00 which I paid to Preston 82.00 6 Jany paid off Preston. $690.50 leaving to me $690.50 of Cotton. See 24th ) Recd payt 32.00 6 Jany) Decr. for ) $658.50 ) weights ) I had Six bales of Cotton all weighed 2670 lbs I took the
ballence of the rope & Balin back to Harris Freerson & Co. (Pich
& Webb) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Sun 6 This morning is quite cold The wind is N. West & Clear I
have taken a cold yesterday & the day before and am quite
Self unwell from it. I have stayed in doores all day. ----------------- The morning is clear & much moderated We have commenced to Mon 7 gather our Corn to day. I hired Billa Georges Brother-in-law hands at work) to help gather Corn at $.15 per day. I am to find his rations. Billa Patton ) Calebs boy is helping me gather Corn at $ -------------- Richard I am hiring Richd at $.15 Cents pr day & boarding him to
Plim Gather Corn. Plim is sick but with the hands. ---------- McCutchen McCutchen came last night and at work gathering in Corn
My own & Corn) I halled 4 loads out of the Glade lot field to day & Jack Jack. --------- ) halled one for me and 2 for him self out of his field Put
it in Smoke house Crib.
Dun horse I swapt off Stringer dun horse with Thompson who
lives at Caliaca no boot no way I got a Ball face bay horse
6 years old Said to be good Bugga horse -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tu 8th Jany Riminds us of the Battle of N. Orleans in the War of 1812
long may it be remembered by Americans
It was cloudy & the wind from the South nearly all night,
but this morning the wind is changed to West & N. W. and clear
hands at work) & turning cold. All the hands are at work gathering Corn to day to day ) that was working yesterday except Plim has complaining Puss
is still cooking & Lou is better Jack & Press is still halling
out of Jacks Corn out of his field.