-Received of A. Michie 6 bags oats to be returned.
-Received of Robert Phair 7 bags oats to be returned.
All returned.
-Received Isaac Truax 11 bushels potatoes at 20 cents per bushel in pay for 11 bushels oats at 25 cents per bushel
-Received of John Reid 8 bushels potatoes at 25 cents per bushel in pay for hay
-Nov. 20, 1862 Settled with Alexr. Michie in full up to this date
Of crop – 1862 – 1 grist – 8 bushels fall wheat
1 grist – 6.57 lbs. fall wheat
1 grist – 7 bushels fall wheat
1 grist – 6 bushels fall wheat
3 grist – 6 bushels fall wheat
6 bushels spring wheat to Port Perry
12 bushels fall wheat to Greenbank mill
-from Mr. Thomas, shortening for straw, 1 load .50
-from Mr. [Scholes?] for 1 load straw 1.25
-from Mr. [McGuen?] for 2 loads straw 1.00
- from Mr. James Harrington for 1 load straw 1.86
- from Mr. Masson, Prince Albert, 1 load straw 1.15
- from Mr. James Miller, 3 loads straw 3.00
- from Mr. Masson, Prince Albert, 1 load straw 2.00
- Mr. Love, 2 loads straw 3.00
- Mr. Jessie Ireland, threshed hay 2.25
- Mr. Robertson, 1 load 1.00
- Mr. Thomas Duff, threshed hay 2.25
- Mr. Thomas Duff, 4 loads straw
- Mr. Jessie Ireland, 1 load straw 1.00
- Mr. [Taney?], 1 load straw 1.00
- Mr. Dobson, 2 loads 3.00
- Mr. Robt. Dobson, 1 load 2.00
- Mr. Robertson, 1 load due
- Mr. Thomas Love, 1 load 1.40
- Mr. Truax, 1 load 1.00
1861 Creditor
-A. Baker, 3 pairs, 6 boots, $2.50 each pair 7.50
- A. Baker, 1 pair long boots 3.75
- Taxes for 130 acres 8.00
- John Bailie for 4 new horse shoes & bolt 1.37
- Simeon Love for 10 bushels potatoes & sugar 2.50
- Tin boiler repaired 0.50
- A. Ross for Roberts boots 1.10
- Rope, glass & bags at Uxbridge 1.50
- Simeon Love for shanty 10.00
- Mr. Marr, threshing 5.00
- Note on harness to W. Mackie 16.75
- Mr. Formans account 8.99
- Mr. Forman for steel for sleigh shoes 2.65
- Mr. A. Baker by hide 60 lbs. 3.00
- Mr. Wm. Ferguson, quarter beef, 172 lbs. 4.48
- Andrew Gordon for bull 2.00
- Mr. Forman for goods 1.00
- on pump 5.00
- on weaving to Mr. Gibson 2.00
- Mr. Marr, threshing 2.00
- John Leask 10.00
- Mr. Wm. Ferguson, 1 cord wood 1.00
- Mr. Alexr. Horne for weaving 1.50
- Mr. George Gibson, for weaving 2.95
- Mr. Gould for carding, fulling & pressing 2.64
- Mr. Oliver Wilson in full for pump 6.50
1862
-Abner Baker for boots 10.40
- Insurance 5.50
- Registration & postage .10
- Ewing V. Lynch .25
- Mr. John Bailie – 3 bolts, setting 6 shoes, 4 new shoes 2.22
- 11 Feb. Mr. John Shadden on note 34.00
- Mr. George Currie for sundries 1.00
- Mr. T. Forman, ¼ lb. Japan tea .25
- Alexr. Leask for 9 bushels seed wheat at 84 cents per bushel 7.56
- George Leask for oatmeal at $5 per barrel 3.00
- Mr. George Currie for [?] comb .10
- Mr. Hills for 14 trees – apples 3.50
- Calvin Aslin, 1 ½ days work 1.50
- J. Jewett [Boulia?], 2 plow points 1.00
- Emmancy & White for new horse shoe .33
- Ewing & Lynch account 3.70
- George Currie, barrel of salt 2.50
- Wm. Gordon, harvesting 1.50
- John Gordon for beef, 50 lbs. 2.00
- A. Ross for boots, 4 pairs 9.25
- J. & W. Cowan, 1 bunch red [wasp?] bar soap 2.75
- George Currie & Brown, 1 bunch white [wasp?] 3.00
- Mr. Jewett, [Borelia?] Colter Block .37
- Andrew Gordon for cows to bull 2.50
- 12 bushels apples 2.46
- Pain killer, Tomlinsons .25
- Mrs. Martineau for spinning 2.00
1863
-Mr. Bolton’s blacksmith bill 13.00
- Mr. Sanders, waggonmaker, for 26 spokes & 3 [?] to waggon at 25 cents each 7.00
- Mr. Lynch, store bill 8.17
- Pair of boots to Robert 1.00
- Currie & Brown for barrel of salt 2.00
- Mr. Ross on boot account 16.00
- Richardson & Co. for 4 trace chains .87
- Expenses to Brooklin, Tolls 25, Taverns 5 .30
- [?] for plow lines .25
- Collection for taxes 14.45
- [?], Port Perry, for weaving 50 yds. Flannel 12.00
- [?] for William 1.12
- Currie & Brown for jackknife .25
- Cowan & Co., Prince Albert, for sundries 17.66
- Mr. [Lindair?] for broom .20
- Mr. T. Forman for axe .90
- Mr. Gordon, Port Perry, for fulling smocks 13 yds at 5 cents per yard .67
- Mr. Lynch for sundries .90
- Mr. Lynch for rope .40
- Mr. Holyday for knives .75
- Expenses at Brooklin .37
- $ sent through post office to Mr. Jospeh Hale to retire my note 18.00
- Postage and registration, salve to Mr. Jas. Truax, Manchester .12
- Mr. Aslin, note on waggon. 19 months due with interest at 8 per cent 20.00
- Peter Martineau 2.40
1864
- W. Gibbs, Oshawa, note on waggon $ 22.40
- T. Cowan & Co., Prince Albert, for bagging [?] at 25 cents per [?] $ 2.00
- 2 skeins thread .07
- Mr. Armstrong, Manchester, 1 bar soap .20
- Mr. Lynch, cap to Robert .20
- Mr. Armstrong, bale [?] cotton .25
- Temperance fee .25
- William Matthews, threshing $ 1.00
- Mr. T. Forman, for axe $ 6.00
- J. N. Byers, for threshing [?]
- J. Morris, for buttons .10
- Mr. Thomas Love, on note [?]
- Mr. Thompson, Uxbridge, for lamp [?]
- Mr. Thompson for flask, 1 gallon coal oil, chimney [there is a hole in the page here]
- Mr. George Gibson, for weaving 19 yds of full cloth at 12 ½ cents per yd. $ 2.22
- Mr. Gould, for carding $ 4.50
- James McPhail, to buy glass for shanty window .25
- Mr. A. [?], account $ 14.00
- Mr. George Currie, 5 bushels barley $ 4.00
- Mr. George Currie, 2 bushels pease $ 1.00
- Gerrie & Ames, Prince Albert, for [railway?] relief .25
- Gerrie & Ames, course comb .20
- Dr. Holder for ointment for Barbaras hands .37
- Mr. Sinclair, for port wine, 1 gallon $ 3.00
- W. Billings for lease on Sproules place $ 3.00
- lodgings at Whitby, 1 night $ 1.00
- Mr. Laing for 4 ½ lbs. sugar .50
- for ½ inch auger .25
- [?] & chisels 35 cents, brace & bit 60 cents .95
- 3 3 ½ inch bolts $ 1.20
- Tolls to Whitby 25 cents, home again 12 cents .37
- tavern expenses .35
- M. Gould for fulling cloth $ 1.73
- Mr. Laing, 2 barrels plaster $ 2.20
- Mr. Richardson, Prince Albert, new curry combs .35
- Currie and Brown for paint & oil .30
- Ministers salary $ 10.00
- Canada Advocate $ 2.00
- McCowans, Prince Albert, for 2 land [?] $ 1.00
- Mr. McGraw, for strainer .15
- Mr. Sinclair for pot barley, 1 lb. .06
- John Leask for 25 bushels of seed wheat at 90 cents $ 22.50
- Mr. T. Forman for clover seed, 8 lbs. at 9 cents .72
- Plow lines .25
- Mr. T. Forman for sheep shears .45
- Currie & Brown for sundries 11.00
- Mr. Richardson for horse collar .25
- Mr. T. Forman for braces .50
- 2 lbs. turnip seed at 20 cents per lb. .40
- Bolts & nails .19
- Mr. something for hoe .63
- Mr. Joseph Hall, Oshawa, for points and other things 2.90
- Mr. Allen for music book 1.00
- Mr. Jarvis for scythe 1.00
- Mr. Currie for rope .20
- Mr. Thompson, Uxbridge, 1 gallon coal oil .37
- Dr. Nation for ointment .30
- F. Davis for medicine 1.00
- Mr. T. Forman, 3 yds cloth 4.50
- 5 yds. Drill 1.75
- Twist .10
- Buttons .25
- Braid .15
- Boots to Ann .70
- Paint & oil .35
- Mr. Cowan for broom, pail, sugar 1.44
- expenses at Whitby 1.00
- for madder [?] [?]
- Paid Mr. Boltons blacksmith bill 26.00
- Mr. Lynch bill 7.60
- Mr. Lynch, window glass .45
CROP OF 1861
- 20 bushels sowed of fall wheat
- 20 bushels, 20 lbs. to Mr. George Currie at 95 cents per bushel 19.31
- 19 bushels, 32 lbs. to Mr. George Currie at 98 cents per bushel 19.12
- 17 bushels, 54 lbs. to Mr. George Currie at 95 cents per bushel 16.97
- 14 bushels, 21 lbs. to Mr. William Mackie at 85 cents 12.18
- spring wheat, Simeon Love 7.00
- spring wheat, Mr. T. Forman, 80 cents per bushel 12.80
- 21 bushels, Mr. T. Forman, 75 cents per bushel 15.75
- 25 bushels, 40 lbs., Mr. T. Forman, 80 cents per bushel 20.62
- 22 bushels, Mr. T. Forman, 80 cents per bushel 17.60
- 3 bushels, Mr. T. Forman, 90 cents per bushel 2.70
- 21 bushels, 22 lbs., fall wheat, T. Forman,. $1 per bushel 21.33
- 2 bushels Timothy seed, Mr. George Currie, at $3 per bushel 6.00
- 3 bushels timothy seed, A. Leask at $4 per bushel
Received by wheat $7.56 +50 [units?] $8.60
Balance Due 3.94
- 1 bushel timothy seed, John Leask, $4 per bushel
Received by oats, 7 bushels at 50 cents per bushel $3.50
Balance Due
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CROP OF 1862
FALL WHEAT
-4 bushels, 35 lbs., Alexr. Gordon for grist at 85 cents 3.86
- 4 bushels, 30 lbs., Alexr. Michie for grist at 85 cents 3.82
- 2 bushels, 10 lbs., Simeon Love for grist at 90 cents 1.95
- 34 bushels, 25 lbs., T. Forman at 85 cents per bushel 29.55
- 4 bushels, 36 lbs., Simeon Love for grist at 90 cents 4.50
- 20 bushels, George Michie for seed - paid 12 Jan. 1864 17.00
- 4 bushels, 30 lbs., John Reid for grist, 2 bags at 85 cents 3.40
- 23 bushels, Mr. George Currie at 78 cents 17.70
- 25 bushels, Mr. George Currie at 80 cents 20.12
- 16 bushels, 13 lbs., Mr. George Currie at 82 cents 13.20
- 22 bushels, 55 lbs., Mr. George Currie at 85 cents 17.33
- 6 bushels, Mr. Simeon Love, 3 bags at 85 5.00
- 23 bushels, 38 lbs., Mr. George Currie at 85 cents 19.75
- 25 bushels, 50 lbs., Mr. George Currie at 85 cents 21.95
- 25 bushels, 18 lbs., Mr. George Currie at 85 cents 21.50
- 20 bushels, 20 lbs., to Mr. George Currie at 75 cents 15.23
- 28 bushels, 36 lbs. to Mr. George Currie at 75 cents 21.45
- 4 bushels, 15 lbs., Mr. Thomas Love at 90 cents 3.80
- 4 bushels, 50 lbs., Mr. Simeon Love at 90 cents 4.35
- 24 bushels, 45 lbs., Mr. Bickell, Brooklin at 93 cents 23.20
SPRING WHEAT
- 26 bushels, George Currie at 50 cents per bushel 13.13
- 38 bushels, 46 lbs., Robert Darlington, Brooklin, 80 cents 31.00
- 41 bushels, 52 lbs., Mr. Bickel, Brooklin, 24 bushels at 70 cents, 17 at 80 cents 30.50
- 21 bushels, 5 lbs., Mr. George Currie at 77 cents 15.47
- 40 bushels, Mr. Dodge, Manchester at 78 cents 31.12
- 42 bushels, Mr. Bickle, Brooklin, at 83 cents 34.86
- 43 bushels, Mr. Bickle, Brooklin, at 80 cents 34.40
- 20 bushels, 50 lbs., Mr. Bickle, Brooklin at 81 cents 18.87
-15 bushels, 47 lbs., Mr. Shaw pease at 50 cents per bushel 7.37
- 46 bushels, 20 lbs., Mr. Love, oats at 40 cents per bushel 18.00
- 21 bushels, Mr. Shaw, pease at 50 cents per bushel 10.50
- William Tough, 50 lbs. Flour 1.00
- Mr. Phair to 1 field of wheat 10.00
- Mr. Simeon Love to ½ bushel pease at 50 cents .25
- Mr. Charles Truax, 12 ½ bushels of oats at 40 cents 5.00
- Mr. W. Mackie, 4 bushels timothy seed 10.00
- 2 ½ bushels, Mr. James Walker to be returned in 3 bushels
- 2 ½ bushels, Mr. Alexr. Gordon to be returned in 3 bushels
- Mr. T. Forman at 40 cents per bushel 9.20
- Mr. A. Michie, ½ bushel timothy seed 1.50
- Received of Alexr. Michie, 6 bushels potatoes
- 6 ½ days Alexr. Michie, 8 days John Michie put in to A. Michie
- Mr. Thos. Duff, 3 bags spring wheat to mill, returned
- 32 bushels to Mr. Bickle, Brooklin, at 75 cents 24.00
- Mr. Darlington, Brooklin, at 75 cents 31.16
- Mr. Bickle, Brooklin, at 71 cents 30.10
- Mr. Bickle, Brooklin, at 72 cents 30.19
- Mr. Jackson, Manchester, 2 pigs, 532 lbs at $4.25 per 100 lbs. 22.20
- Mr. Amos Stone to [spratle???] 23.50
- 42 bushels wheat to Mr. Bickle, Brooklin, at 78 cents 32.20
OATS:
- 66 bushels, Mr. J. Jackson at 40 cents 26.20
- 85 bushels, Mr. Thomas Myers at 39 cents 33.20
- 85 bushels, Mr. Thomas Myers at 37 ½ cents 30.40
- 23 bushels, Mr. Horne at 40 cents, unpaid $3.20 9.20
- 85 bushels, Mr. T. Forman at 37 ½ cents 31.87
- Received of Alexander Michie the rent of 5 acres of land 10.00
- 40 bushels, Mr. Allison, Borelia, at 40 cents 16.00
- 62 bushels, Mr. Thomas Myers, Manchester, at 40 cents 24.80
- 82 bushels, Mr. Laing, Whitby, at 42 cents 33.17
– Mr. Wright and Richardson, Prince Albert, [hide?] 2.70
- Mr. George Currie, 7 bushels pease at 50 cents 3.50
- Mr. McPhail, beef .50
- Mr. Wm. Bolton, 31 bushels oats at 40 cents 12.50
- Mr. T. Forman, 75 lbs. Timothy seed 3.75
- Mr. Wm. Bolton at 45 cents per bushel 2.73
- 42 bushels, Mr. Scot, Prince Albert, at 45 cents 18.90
- Mr. Chancy Aslin, 2 pigs 2.00
- A. Michie, 3 pigs 3.00
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Reach, November 1863. This is an agreement between Robert Phair, Township of Reach, County of Ontario, of the
first part, and William Michie of the same place of the second part, which is as follows.
[There is no agreement beneath where this was written. Instead John continues this page with Latin/English words.]
Caput the head Cranium the skull
Crinus the hair [Auris?] the ear
Lingua the tongue Gena the cheek
Pericranium the scalp Cerebrum the brain
Oculus the eye Nasus the nose
Labium the lip Mentum the chin
Cervix the neck Pectus the breast
Pulmo the lungs Manus the hand
Pollex the thumb [Coxendix?] the hip
Genu the knee Cutis the skin
Guttur the throat Tergum the back
Lacerlus the arm Digitus the finger
Unguis the nail Femur the thigh
Digitus Pedis the toe Sanguis the blood
Nervus the nerve [?] sight
[Auditism?] hearing Tactus touch
Olfactic smell Degusto taste
Canis dog Rattus rat
Vacca cow Gallina hen
Anser goose Felis cat
Equus horse Porcus pig
Anas duck Taurus bull
Claudus lame Caecus blind
Surdus deaf [?] dumb
Ignis fire Aero air
Agua water Pluvia rain
Nivosus snow Calor heat
Terra earth Nimbus clouds
Grando hail Gelu frost
Ventus wind Frigus cold
1866
Dr. Knowleys to John Michie
900 lbs. hay at 35 cents per hundred $3.15
800 lbs. hay at 35 cents per hundred $2.80
2 bushels oats at 33 cents per bushel .66
23 bushels oats at 33 cents per bushel $7.59
[This page in the diary has disintegrated quite badly. I will transcribe as best I can.]
- Mr. Gould, Uxbridge, for carding, 40 lbs.
- [?] blankets & stuff, 15 ½ yds.
- fulling and pressing, 7 ½ yards
- Mr. Button, for jack knife and jews harp
- Watchmaker, Uxbridge, for clock [bell?]
- Ewing & Lynch for worm candy and pins
- Hon. George Brown, 2 years subscription for Globe
- Registration and postage thereon
- Expenses at Uxbridge
- Note on plow to Joseph Hale with 3 months interest
- Cowan & Co., Prince Albert, 2 plow points
- Mr. Wm. Mackie, Borelia, 1 bushel clover seed
- Mr. Wm. Mackie, Borelia, knife & plow lines
- J. Lynch, scythe, [stone?] & balance on account
- J. Lynch, fine comb
- T. Forman, for spade & [?]
- Mr. Mackie, Borelia, nails
- Mr. Armstrong, Manchester [?]
- Mr. Thompson, Uxbridge, for [?]
- Mr. Thomas Bolster, balance on books
-Mr. Joseph Bigelow
- Paid Mr. Thomas Love for 11 bushels seed wheat at 95 cents $10.45
- Expenses at Brooklin for tolls .30
- Dye stuffs Madden, 2 ½ lbs. At 70 cents, extract of logwort 2 lbs. at
40 cents, 14 lbs. vitriol 15 cents, alum 16 cents 1.42
- Expenses at Brooklin for tolls .30
- Sugar to A. Michie 1.00
- Knife and basket .50
- Mr. Campbell, Whitby, for 1 lb. Tea, braces, handkerchief and [?] 2.12
- Paid to Mr. Black for board and lodging when at jury for 4 days and ½ 2.75
- Expenses coming home .20
- Expenses at Brooklin and Prince Albert for tolls .45
- For sugar $1, for candle cotton 15 cents 1.15
- Mr. Cowan & Co., Prince Albert, for 4 plow points 2.00
- Paid Currie & Brown account for scythes, sugar 6.00
- Ann Real for spinning 20 skeins 1.50
- Registration of deed 1.25
- Mr. Martineau for [?] 1.00
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THRESHING 1863
Mr. Luke and man, team 1 day
Mr. Phair, man and team 1 day
A. Gordon 1 day
James Walker 1 day
A. Michie 1 day
Pascoe Luke 1 day
THRESHING 1864
A. Michie & team 2 days W. Real 2 days
C. Aslin and team 1 day T. Duff 2 days
R. Phair 1 day G. McPhail 1 day
R. Phair & team 1 day T. Love 2 days
Allan Byers & fellow 2 days James Walker 2 days
Williams heifer at bull, 3
rd
July 1863
Lilly cow at bull, 4
th
July, 1863
Punk cow at bull, 13
th
July, 1863
Spotted cow at bull, 18
th
July, 1863
T. Phairs threshing, Wm. & George ½ day; Wm., Geo., & Self 1 day
George at well 4 days
Mr. Lukes, threshing, 4 hands and team ¾ day
Mr. Byers, threshing, 2 hands 1 ¼ days
Wm. At Mr. Byers well, settled by cash, 50 cents, 1 day
Wm., John and team at T. Duffs threshing, 1 day
Mr. Peter Martineau: 50 lbs. flour, 2 lbs. butter; 20 lbs. flour; 2 lbs. butter; 2 lbs. fallow; 1 dozen eggs; 4 lbs. fallow; 2
lbs. butter; 4 lb. Mutton
1862
-William at Mr. Phairs 1 day pulling pease
- John & George at Mr. Phairs, ¾ day, pulling pease
- John at Alexr. Michies, 1 day, raking wheat
- George at Mr. Phairs drawing oats, 1 day
- Wm., George & self, ¾ day at Sandy Gordons threshing
- Wm., George & self, ¾ day at J. Reids threshing
- Wm., George & self; ¾ day at S. Byers threshing
- George, John, self & horses; ¾ day, Samuel Byers threshing
- All hands and team at A. Michies threshing, ½ day
- 2 hands and team at Mr. Phairs threshing; 1 day
THRESHING SPRING WHEAT
Mr. A. Gordon and team 2 ½ days Mr. R. Phair and team 2 ½ days
Mr. Lukes man 2 days Mr. P. Martineau 1 ½ days
Mr. S. Byers & John Byers 2 ½ days Mr. W. Real 1 day
Mr. A. Michie and son 2 ½ days
Wm., John & George at Mr. Byers threshing 1 day altogether
HARVESTING FALL WHEAT 1862
Mr. Robert Phair 2 ½ days John Reid 2 ½ days, pd. 2.50
Alexr. Michie 1 day Alex. Gordon 1 day
Isaac Truax ½ day Wm. Gordon, mowing 1 ¾ days
Wm. Gordon, threshing 1 day John Gordon & team 1 day
John Reid & team 1 day Mr. Robert Phair 1 day
Mr. A. Gordon 1 day Mr. A. Michie 1 day
Mr. John N. Byers 1 day
HARVESTING SPRING WHEAT, OATS & PEASE
Alexr. Michie, cutting pease 2 days Simeon Love at 5/day 9 days
William Love at 6/3 per day 2 days Calvin Aslin at 5/day 1 ½ days
Charles Truax binding wheat 1 day Isaac Truax binding wheat ½ day
Robert Phair cradling wheat 1 day Simeon Love 3 ½ days
Simeon Love at 3/9 day 2 days Alex. Michie raking & stacking ½ day
Simeon Love 12 ½ days work $12.50
Wm. Love 2 days work $ 2.50
Simeon Love 2 days work $ 1.50
Simeon Love $ 5.00
THRESHING 1863
Mr. Luke and man and team 1 day Mr. Phair, man & team 1 day
A. Gordon 1 day James Walker 1 day
A. Michie 1 day Pascoe [Luke] 1 day
Mr. Luke’s man 2 days at oats A. Gordon 1 day at oats
A. Michie 1 ½ days at oats A. Michie and oxen ½ day
A. Michie ½ day at pease
ELECTORS OF NORTH ONTARIO
By a peculiar combination of circumstances you are about to be called upon to select a representative in Parliament
and the responsibility at all times is more than ordinarily. So now the position of [?] and parties is widely different from
what it was when you were last called upon to vote. Important changes have taken place. Two administrations have
fallen and are now succeeded by one which as a Government has no antecedents and the future policy of which is yet
unknown hence challenges neither your support nor condemnation. You have therefore more [?] to deal with the men
who claim your confidence and support and as you know nothing [?] the Policy of Administration. Be more careful
that your representative is worthy of your confidence.
Although somewhat late in coming before you as a candidate for your votes I still feel [?] ought not to hesitate in
taking the position. I am confident in the convictions that the [?] entertain are those of a great majority of electors of
this ridding [riding]. I have been opposed to the late administration. I believed the assumption on the terms they did
was an abandonment of principles that would not be countenanced or sustained and the result justified my opinion.
They fell – they justly incurred the odium that [??]. The policy of the present Administration being yet imperfectly
known is not open to discussion fully but my political are known. I presume to [?] every elector in the riding and of this
there can be no mistake. I am prepared to support any Administration without referent to party whose measures I can
apply.
George Currie, Prince Albert
Fair tree whose curving branches form
A beacon mark to guide my way
While struggling neath the noontide ray
Thy form my willing fingers trace
With memory even finds a place
O may that holy sacred tree
On which the Saviour bled and died
Be [?] both to you and me
Our beacon mark, our only guide
For those who keep the cross in sight
Fail not to choose their path aright
Evil company
Why should I join with those in play
In whom I’ve no delight
Who curse and swear but never pray
Who call ill names and fight
God hath a voice that even is heard
In the peal of the thunder, the chirp of a bird
It comes in torrent, all rapid and strong
In the streamlets soft gush as it ripples along
It breathes in the zephyr just kissing the bloom
It lives in the rush of the sweeping [?]
Let the hurricane whistle or [?] rejoice
What do they tell thee but God hath a voice.
1861
July 21 Collection for [?] fund $1.28
Oct. 20 Collection for infirm ministers $1.65
1862
Jan. 26 Collection for Foreign Mission $2.60
Feb. 12 Collection for Home Mission $5.00
Sept. 21 Collection for French Mission $1.29
Oct. 26 Collection for Widows Fund & Infirm $1.12
1863
Jan. 18 Collection for Mission to Columbia $2.14
Jan. 25 Collection at Communion $5.25
Jan. 28 Collection for Home Missions $7.65
Apr. 26 Collection for Professors salary $3.13
Oct. 25 Collection for Widows & Infirm Ministers $2.38
1864
Jan. 24 Collections for Foreign Mission $4.35
Jan. 25 Collection for Home Mission $5.60
Feb. 14 Collection at Communion $5.70
Feb. 14 Collection for Mr. Kennedys Publications $3.10
Mar. 27 Collection for Professors salary $4.00
Oct. 16 Collection for Widows fund $1.50
1865
Jan. 15 Collection for Foreign Mission $3.50
Feb. 5 Collection for Sacrament $5.53
Feb. 7 Collection for Home Mission $6.35
Feb. 19 Collection for Knox College $2.64
[Remainder of this page in the diary is missing]
MONTHLY COLLECTION AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
12
th
CONCESSION, REACH
1864
Apr. 3 $1.00
May 1 $2.00
June 5 $1.00
July 3 $1.00
Aug. 7 $1.45
Sept. 5 $1.80
Oct. 2 $1.50
Nov. 6 $1.53
Dec. $1.28
1878
Feb. 22 Mr. Jacques, 2 cattle $50.00
Mar. 14 Mr. Worthington, 42 bushels, 35 lbs. wheat at $1.10 $43.25
Mar. 15 Mr. Worthington, 46 bushels of wheat at 1.10 $46.40
Apr. 16 James Walker, 20 bushels oats to be paid in fall Paid
June 1 Mr. George Currie, 42 bushels oats at 30 cents $12.60
June 3 Corrigan & Campbell, 20 bushels potatoes at 30 cents $ 6.00
June 4 Corrigan & Campbell, 15 bushels potatoes at 30 cents $ 4.50
July 6 Mr. McKenzie, 12.70 lbs hay at $10 per ton $ 6.35
July 8 Mr. McKenzie, 17.50 at $10 per ton $ 8.75
Aug. 8 Mr. Bungard, 1 steer $30, 1 heifer $30, 1 heifer $25 $85.00
Sept. 27 Mr. Linton, saddler, Greenbank, for facing horse collar $ 1.00
Oct. 12 Robert Michie $ 4.00
Mr. Morgan for Mothers slippers $ .75
Laing and McHarry for spade $ 1.25
Oct. 15 Mr. Dusty for pair boots for self $ 3.25
Oct. 19 Mr. Wm. Real, Taxes 1878 $14.64
Watson and Somerville, Blacksmith bill $ 7.81
Oct. 25 Pat Calt [Galt?] for 84 bushels turnips at 5 cents $ 4.20
1879
Jan. 3 Mr. [Warrell?]. my cow $17.50
Feb. 4 Mr. George Currie, 35 bushels wheat at 70 cents $24.50
Feb. 5 Mr. Ross, 24 bushels wheat at 60 cents $14.40
Feb. 5 Mr. Ross, 9 bushels oats at 27 cents $ 2.43
Feb. 6 Borrowed from John to pay subscription for Church $10.00
Feb. 15 Borrowed from John to pay Mr. Achisons salary $ 6.00
Feb. 17 Borrowed from John to pay seed wheat from A. Michie $ 9.00
Mar. 27 Borrowed from John to pay seed barley to Robert Phair $ 6.00
May 6 George Currie, 24 bushels oats at 40 cents $ 9.60
July 17 Mr. McKenzie, Port Perry, 12 hundred of hay at $9 per ton $ 5.40
Sept. 11 Borrowed from John to pay threshing $ 9.00
Oct. 7 George Currie, 39 bushels barley at 52 cents $20.28
Oct. 10 George Currie, 38 bushels barley at 52 cents $19.76
Borrowed from Margaret $ 5.00
Oct. 16 George Currie, 40 bushels wheat at $1.18 $47.20
Dec. 5 George Currie, 23 bushels wheat at $1.20 $27.60
Income 1879 $233.67
1880
Feb. 23 Mr. Marquis, 2 steers at 45 dollars each $90.00
Mar. 18 Received from John Leask for wine got 31
st
Jan. $ 2.00
May 5 Mr. Somebody to 13 bushels barley at 60 cents $ 7.80
May 15 Mr. Somebody 37 bushels of oats at 33 cents $12.21
July 14 Mrs. Burton, 1 calf $ 4.00
Aug. 9 Mrs. Burton, 4 pigs at $1.00 each (paid 17 Sept) $ 4.00
Sept. 6 Mr. Ross, Port Perry, 34 bushels old barley at 54 cents $18.36
Sept. 20 Mr. Wright, Port Perry, 46 bushels new barley at 62 cents $28.52
Sept. 21 Mr. Ross, 45 bushels barley at 62 ½ cents per bushel $28.12
Sept. 22 Mr. Wright, 36 bushels barley at 61 cents per bushel $21.96
Dec. 10 Mr. Madill, Port Perry, 42 bushels oats at 30 cents $12.60
Dec. 12 Mr. Trounce, Port Perry, 54 bushels oats at 31 cents $16.84
Income 1880 $246.41
1881
Jan. 12 Mr. J. Stone of Whitby, 4 cattle, 1 at $35, others $30 $125.00
Mar. 30 Received from John Leask for win to Sacrament $ 1.50
Apr. 23 Mr. Wright, 22 bushels wheat at $1.13 $ 24.86
May 5 Thomas Bryant, 1 heifer $28, $4 paid
June 7 Thomas Bryant to heifer $24 paid $ 28.00
June 29 Mr. J. Wright, 37 bushels oats at 35 cents $ 13.50
July 16 Mr. Thomas Bryant, red cow $ 30.00
Sept. 26 Mr. Wright, 40 bushels barley at 88 cents $ 35.45
Sept. 27 Mr. Wright, 38 bushels barley at 89 cents $ 33.76
Sept. 28 Mr. Wright, 46 bushels barley at 91 cents $ 42.60
Oct. 1 Mr. Wright, 26 bushels of wheat $ 34.00
Dec. 20 Mr. [?] , 59 bushels oats at 42 cents $ 24.78
Income 1881 $394.46
1882
Jan. 4 Mr. Briggs, 3 steers at $35 each $105.00
Feb. 22 Mr. Bungard, Prince Albert, 1 heifer $ 38.00
Mar. 4 Mr. Wright, 53 bushels oats at 41 cents $ 21.73
Mar. 16 Mr. Phoenix, loom $ .50
Mar. 27 Mr. John Leask for wine to Sacrament $ 2.00
Apr. 10 Mr. Campbell, Port Perry, 51 bushels oats at 42 cents $ 21.42
May 3 Mr. Joshua Wright, 31 bushels wheat at $1.28 $ 39.68
July 24 Mr. McIntyre, 31 bushels oats at 48 cents $ 14.88
Oct. 14 Mr. Trounce, Port Perry, 60 bushels oats at 38 cents $ 22.80
Oct. 16 Mr. A. Ross, Port Perry, 54 bushels barley at 65 cents $ 35.10
Dec. 13 Mr. [?], 42 bushels oats at 37 cents $ 15.54
Dec. 29 Mr. Jason Stone to one heifer $33.00
Income 1882 $369.66
1883
Jan. 10 Mr. Bungard, 2 steers at $45 $90.00
Apr. 19 Mr. Bungard, Margarets cow at $50, paid $10 $10.00
to be taken away on 19 May
May 15 Mr. Bungard, red 2 year old steer $31.00
Steer came home again & was sent for 17
th
July
May 15 Paid on cow $40.00
June 30 Mr. A. Ross, Port Perry, 36 bushels wheat at 98 cents $35.28
21 bushels potatoes at 30 cents $ 6.30
July 28 Mr. A. Ross, Port Perry, 40 bushels oats at 40 cents $16.00
Oct. 1 Mr. Bungard, 2 heifers at 36 & a half dollars each $73.00
for keeping steer 2 months, to be taken away Oct. 2 $ 3.00
Oct. 20 Mr. Lee, 5 bushels apples at 35 cents per bushel $ 1.75
Dec. 21 Mr. A. Ross, 38 bushels barley at 55 cents per bushel $20.80
Income 1883 $327.23
1884
Jan. 29 Mr. [?], Port Perry, 38 bushels wheat $37.24
Apr. 22 Mr. Wm. Akhurst, 7 bushels barley at 55 cents $ 3.85
July 28 James Walker, 1 pig $ 1.00
July 31 Wesley Luke, 2 pigs $ 2.50
Aug. 9 Thomas Fair, 2 pigs $ 2.50
Sept. 1 Mr. Edward Boe, 2 pigs $ 2.00
Sept. 30 Mr. A. Ross, 36 bushels barley at 48 cents per bushel $ 17.28
Oct. 14 Mr. Lee, 17 bushels apples at 35 cents $ 4.25
Oct. 14 William, for 3 pigs $ 3.00
Oct. 17 Mr. A. Ross, 34 bushels barley at 50 cents $ 17.00
Oct. 18 Mr. A. Ross, 48 bushels barley at 50 cents $ 24.00
Oct. 23 Mr. Corrigan, half pig, 155 lbs at 6 ½ dollars trade $100.70
Income 1884 $215.32
1885
Jan. 14 Mr. Downey, Port Perry, 34 bushels wheat at 80 cents $ 27.20
Jan. 25 Mr. Bungard, Mothers cow $ 40.00
Mar. 17 Mr. O’Neill, 100 lbs. flour $2, bushel of apples 30 cents $ 2.30
Mar. 19 Mr. [illegible...1 steer?] $ 55.00
May 6 Philip Rundel and Pascoe Luke, stack of hay $ 25.00
July 7 Mr. A. Ross, 34 bushels wheat at 84 cents $ 28.56
July 13 Mr. Bungard, 2 steers $ 60.00
Nov. 2 Mr. Bungard, grey heifer $ 22.00
Income 1885 $260.06
1886
Jan. 26 Mr. A. Ross, 35 bushels barley at 58 cents $ 20.30
Jan. 27 Mr. A. Ross, 34 bushels wheat at 60 cents $ 20.40
Feb. 10 somebody in Port, 38 bushels barley at 55 cents $ 20.95
Mar. 6 Mr. Bungard, 2 steers $82, $5 paid when bought, $77 put in bank
Apr. 20 Mr. Parker, 6 bushels wheat at 61 cents $ 3.66
May 3 Mr. Griffin, 12 bushels barley at 58 cents $ 6.96
to be paid in 2 months
May 4 Mr. Parker, 5 bushels barley at 58 cents $ 2.90
May 6 Mr. J. Clemens, 4 bushels barley at 58 cents $ 2.32
May 14 Mr. Buttes, 3 bushels potatoes $ .90
May 31 Drew from bank $ 30.00
July 16 Mr. Wm. Parker, 3 bags wheat at 60 cents, not paid
Sept. 22 Drew from bank $ 30.00
Oct. 16 Mr. A. Ross, 40 bushels barley at 45 cents $ 18.00
Oct. 22 Mr. Ross, 45 bushels barley at 45 cents $ 20.25
Nov. 16 Alexr. Leask, 4 ½ bushels apples at 30 cents per bushel $ 1.35
Dec. 8 Mr. Wheeler, 1 little heifer, $18, $5 paid
$15 [?]
Dec. 14 Heifer took to Mr. Bungards $ 20.00
1887
Jan. 6 Mr. Downie, Port Perry, 41 bushels wheat at 82 cents $ 33.62
Jan. 7 Mr. Downie, Port Perry, 52 bushels at 82 cents $ 42.64
Jan. 24 Paid from Wm. for 3 pigs $ 2.00
Feb. 16 Received from George for wheat $ 11.00
Mar. 17 Mr. John Lee, 7 bushels oats at 35 cents $ 2.45
Mar. 24 Mr. Bungard, 2 steers at $31 ½, $5 paid $ 5.00
Mar. 28 took steers to Port Perry, paid $ 70.00
May 23 Somebody in Port, 20 bushels wheat at 85 cents $ 17.00
May 23 Somebody in Port, 32 bushels oats at 31 cents $ 6.72
Aug. 23 Mr. Bungard, a cow $ 25.00
Oct. 12 Somebody, 43 bushels barley at 50 cents bushel $ 21.50
Oct. 13 Somebody, 35 bushels barley at 52 cents per bushel $ 18.10
Oct. 22 Received from Mr. Griffin for 12 bushels barley, due 1
st
Aug. $ 6.96
Nov. 26 Mr. Bungard for 1 heifer to go away 14 Dec. $ 35.00
Dec. 7 Mr. Ross, 1 pig 250 lbs @ $5.75 $ 74.37
Income 1887 $371.36
1888
Feb. 9 Hugh Jacque, Annies cow at $30, $15 paid $ 30.00
Mar. 6 Mr. Tomands ,Port Perry, 14 bushels oats at 45 $ 6.30
Mar. 15 Mr. Tomands, Port Perry, 64 bushels at 45 $ 29.20
Mar. 19 Mr. Bungard, 1 steer at 5 cents per lb to go away in May $ 5.00
Apr. 3 Drew out of bank $ 20.00
Apr. 30 Wesley Luke, 2 bushels pease at 66 cents $ 1.32
Apr. 27 Mr. Akhurst for 1 bushel barley $ .50
May 14 Mr. Bungard, 1 steer, 1370 at 5 cents per lb. [$5 paid] $ 63.50
May 15 Mr. Somebody, 48 bushels wheat at 76 cents $ 36.48
June 1 Mr. A. Ross, 10 ½ bushels potatoes at 55 cents $ 6.32
July 23 Mr. Bungard, 3 steers at $30 each, paid $10 $ 10.00
Aug. 1 Received payment of the 3 steers in full $ 80.00
Aug. 17 Received from Mrs. Michie, Kingston, for tub of butter $ 7.65
Sept. 11 Mr. Lauder, 37 1/32 bushels barley at 73 cents $ 27.37
Sept. 12 Mr. Lauder, 43 ¾ bushels barley at 73 cents per bushel $ 31.95
Sept. 17 Mrs. O’Neil, 3 pigs $ 4.00
Income 1888 $309.59
1889
Mar. 12 William, 1 cow $ 30.00
Mar. 22 Wesley Luke, 10 bushels wheat $ 10.00
June 6 Mr. O’Neil, 5 bushels oats at 25 cents $ 1.25
½ bushel barley $ .20
Took out of bank $ 20.00
June 11 Received from Mrs. Black $ 6.00
July 25 Sold Mr. Bungard 2 heifers, $65, paid $5 $ 5.00
Aug. 2 Took heifers to Port $ 60.00
Aug. 7 Mr. Ross, 52 bushels wheat at 90 cents $ 46.80
Sept. 15 Mr. Ross, 54 bushels oats at 25 cents $ 13.30
Oct. 16 Took out of bank $ 55.00
Nov. 12 Received from Mrs. Horne on note $200.00
One years interest $ 24.00
Dec. 2 Put in bank $185.00
1890
Jan. 30 Some man, Prince Albert, cow $ 34.00
Mar. 3 Received from Widow Carnegie for wheat $ 2.00
Apr. 1 Loaned John Fowlie $80 payable in seven months $ 80.00
May 17 Received from John Park on note $ 30.00
May 26 Received from Mr. O’Neil for sundries $ 2.65
June 3 Wesley Luke, 15 bushels oats at 33 cents $ 4.95
June 17 Rec’d from James Love, money loaned with interest $ 20.50
loaned to Mrs. Love on 6
th
March, 1890
June 30 Mr. Ross, Port Perry, 63 bushels oats at 35 cents per bushel $ 22.05
July 2 Mr. Ross, Port Perry, 64 bushels oats at 35 cents $ 22.40
July 3 Mr. Ross, Port Perry, 45 bushels wheat at 80 cents $ 36.00
Aug. 20 Sold Mr. Bungard the Ruttenburgh heifer, $40, rec’d $5 $ 5.00
Sept. 6 Robert took heifer to Bungard $ 35.00
Oct. 15 Loaned John Fowlie $150 payable in 12 months at 7 percent $150.00
Nov. 6 Received from Mrs. Horne, interest on $200 $ 12.00
Nov. 20 Received from Mr. Fowlie, 38 lbs. pork at 4 ½ cents $ 1.71
Nov. 21 Received from Mr. O’Neil for 4 bushels barley at 48 cents $ 1.60
Dec. 1 Received from Andrew Horne on his Mothers note $ 25.00
EXPENDITURES
1864
Sept. 9 For barrel of salt at Whitby $ 1.75
Sept. 9 Expenses at Whitby $ 1.00
Oct. 5 Expenses to Brooklin $ .11
Oct. 20 2 barrels of 100 lbs each nails at Whitby $ 7.00
Oct. 20 Expenses to Whitby, tolls .37
Oct. 20 Lodging and lamp $ 1.55
Oct. 27 Mr. [Hugoe?] for making 2 vests at 75 cents $ 1.50
Oct. 31 Currie & Brown on account $ 19.00
Mr. Cowan for sugar, shortening $ 1.54
Joshua Wright for leather $ 2.00
Mr. Gordon for weaving shirting at 25 cents $ 5.12
Taxes, Mr. Sproules land. Yearly tax $4.76 [?] $9.10 $ 13.86
Taxes, Mr. Andersons land $ 5.10
Taxes, Mr. J. Michie $ 3.40
Nov. Bag of apples .40
Nov. 2 William Matthews for threshing $ 7.00
Nov. 14 Renewing insurance for Mr. Walton $ 5.50
Nov. 18 Bunch of screws .50
Nov. 18 Fiddle strings and [?] .40
Nov. 18 Arithmetic note for [?] $ 4.25
Nov. 18 Expenses to Whitby $ 1.45
Nov. 21 Pat Larkins for potatoes at 29 cents per bushel, 30 bushels $ 8.70
Dec. 12 Mr. Adam Gordon for 2 axes $ 2.50
Oil 35 cents, Sugar $1, Soap 12 cents $ 1.47
Currants 9 cents, pencil 4 cents .13
Cap $1, Coat $4.50 $ 5.50
Dec. 14 M. Fawcet & Co., Uxbridge, fur cap $ 2.25
Mr. Cowan, Uxbridge, bells 90 cents, pens 10 cents,
envelopes 7 cents, tea 60 cents $ 1.67
Mr. [?] for carding 63 ½ lbs. wool $ 3.??
Dec. 21 Wm. Matthews for threshing 1 ½ days $ 8.00
Dec. 24 Dr. Knowles for medicine $ 1.30
Dec. 24 J. Lynch for sundries [ ? ]
Dec. 29 For Ayers Sarsaparilla $ 1.00
Fiddle strings .15
Dec. 30 Mr. Bolton, bobsleighs $ 24.00
1865
Jan. 1 Presbyterian Advocate $ 2.00
Jan. 10 Mr. Levi Card, Scot, for lumber, 800 feet flooring $ 4.84
Expenses to Scot .80
Jan. 12 Mr. Ross, Prince Albert, on acct. $ 16.52
Mr. John Gordon, Port Perry, weaving and pressing $ 6.74
Fulling 16 yds at 10 cents $ 1.60
Mr. Cowan, Prince Albert, tea .80
Print [fabric?] at 25 cents per yd $ 1.62
Joshua Wright for boots $ 1.64
Jan. 12 Mr. Forman for stones .22
Mr. Cowan, 1 gallon oil .37
Jan. 15 Expenses to Brooklin tolls .40
Mr. A. Ross, note $16.00
Jan. 15 Mr. T. Forman, file .10
Richardson & Co. For snaps .45
Jan. 20 James Leask for 900 feet boards $ 5.40
Jan. 23 Mr. McGue for weaving $ 2.78
Expenses to Brooklin, tolls .60
Mr. J. Lynch for 1 lb. Nails .10
Jan. 25 Expenses to Brooklin, tolls .50
Square to Mr. Gordon, Manchester .25
Feb. 1 Cloth to pedlar $22.50
Feb. 2 J. Cowan & Co., Prince Albert, for trimmings to coat $ 1.24
T. Forman for plane & gauge & file $ 2.25
Captain Sinclair for wine $ 1.50
Feb. 1 A. Leask for horse $78.00
Feb. 2 Mr. William Real, interest on $80 at 12 percent $ 9.60
Feb. 3 for Mr. McArthurs salary $10.00
for Wm. for Mr. McArthurs salary $ 2.00
Feb. 4 Subscription for Globe $ 4.00
Registration and postage thereon .27
Feb. 16 Mr. Lynch, 1 gallon oil .50
12 screw nails .04
Feb. 20 Mr. Gould, Uxbridge, for dressing blankets $ 1.10
Mr. Bolton, Uxbridge, for saw $ 1.50
Whistle .05
Feb. 23 T. Forman for plane and adze $ 2.50
Jackknife .22
J. Cowan & Co., tea .75
[ladder or sadler??} .10
Feb. 25 Mr. Bolton on bobsleigh $12.00
Mar. 1 Mr. Lynch, jackknife .20
Mar. 29 Cowan & Co., plow points $ 1.00
½ gallon coal oil .17
Currie & Brown, clover seed 8 lbs. $ 1.00
plow lines and paper .50
Mr. Wilson for [caustic?] .25
T. Forman, 4
th
book .25
horse comb .06
Apr. 5 Richardson & Co. For sweat collars $ 2.00
Apr. 5 Mr. Gaw, for clamp, sundries $ 1.05
English Grammar & History .25
May 3 T. Forman for shovel .86
Sundries $ 1.50
May 5 Seeds, one paper .05
P. Martineau, sundries [?]
Aug. 10 A. Spring for threshing 1 ½ days [?]
Henry Hall for ½ day [?]
Aug. 21 David Urquhart for plow $16.00
Sept. 5 I. Wright for shoe bill $19.50
Cowan & Co, 11 lbs. sugar $ 1.00
Currie & Brown, for plow lines, 2 pair .40
Dung fork .75
Screwdriver .15
Sept. 5 A. Gordon, Manchester, paint brush .15
Sept. 15 Currie & Brown, store bill $71.00
Sundries $ 1.00
J. Cowan, plow point .50
Sept. 15 A. Gordon, 15 lb. Nails at 5 cents .75
Tolls & expenses to Brooklin [?]
Oct. 9 Mr. Gerow, taxes $ 14.12
Sundries at Prince Albert $ 9.00
Nov. 9 Gerow, taxes $ 13.54
Mr. John Bailey, bill $ 7.25
Mr. E. [Kivile?] for lathing & plastering $ 35.20
Mr. [?], Prince Albert, for stove & pipes $ 8.00
1866
Jan. 29 Mr. Cash, on pump $ 12.00
Mr. Gordon, Manchester, 12 bags at 45 cents $ 5.40
T. Forman, overcoat $ 5.00
Arithmetic pens [?]
I. Wright, shoe packs $ 2.25
Roberts boots $ 2.25
Mr. Cowan, factory cotton .38
Fine comb .07
Revd. Robert McArthur for Sunday Magazine $ 1.75
Feb. 5 I. W. Cowan, Prince Albert, 1 gal. Coal oil .60
2 lamp glasses for A. Gordon .15
Currie & Brown, bolts & nails .30
Currie & Brown, stove bolts $ 12.17
[?] Cragg, sawing, 228 feet [lumber?] $ 18.68
[?] feet hemlock sheeting $ 5.00
May 12 Wm. Ferguson 1000 hay at 35 cents $ 35.00
James McPhail, 3 bushels barley at 55 cents $ 1.65
James McPhail, 2 bushels oats at 30 cents .60
May 14 Edmund Luke, 2 bushels barley at 55 cents $ 1.10
Jerry O’Leary, 27 bushels oats at 30 cents $ 8.10
Jerry O’Leary, 100 hay at 40 cents $ 4.00
Edmund Luke, 2 bushels oats at 30 cents .60
James McPhail, 1 bushel oats at 30 cents .30
Edmund Luke 2 ½ bushels oats at 30 .75
[?] Edmund Luke, 1 bushel oats at 30 .30
May 22 Dr. Knowley, 2 bushels oats at 33 cents .66
May 24 Dr. Knowley, 23 bushels oats at 33 cents $ 7.59
June 6 Mr. Scott, Prince Albert, 51 bushels oats at 35 $ 24.80
July 14 A. Gordon, Manchester, 16 bushels fall wheat at 1.45 $ 23.20
Andrew [Thom?], 1 bushel potatoes .30
Andrew (Thom?], 2 lb. lard .25
[?] Mr. Graham, 5 lambs $ 8.50
George Anderson, 1 steer $ 36.00
46 bushels barley, Mr. Perry, Whitby, at 64 cents $ 29.44
48 bushels barley, Mr. Perry, Whitby, at 63 cents $ 30.24
52 bushels barley, Mr. Perry, at 58 cents $ 30.16
23 bushels barley, Mr. Gibbs, Oshawa, at 48 cents $ 11.04
28 bushels fall wheat, Mr. Gibbs, Oshawa, at $1.40 $ 39.20
George Anderson, 1 heifer $ 16.00
George Anderson, 6 old ewes and 10 lambs $ 41.00
Adam Gordon, Manchester, 2 pigs $ 34.00
1869
Jan. 12 Amos Stone, 1 cow $ 25.00
Feb. 2 Mr. Gordon, Manchester, 5 bushels pease at 65 cents $ 3.25
Feb. 5 A. Gordon, Manchester, 51 bushels oats at 27 cents $ 13.77
Feb. 21 Messrs. Frances, Kent, Mills, 57 bushels oats at 30 cents $ 17.10
Mar. 11 A. Gordon, Manchester, pease at 62 cents $ 7.64
Mar. 22 A. Gordon, Manchester, 14 ½ bushels pease at 61 cents $ 8.54
Mar. 25 Charles Brown, Strattonville, 33 bushels oats at 30 cents $ 9.90
Received of A. Michie for rent 1866 $ 5.00
Apr. 4 Thomas Duff, 50 bushels oats at 30 cents $ 15.00
Thomas Duff, 2 ewes for 3 years, to double
1
Received payment on T. Duffs note $ 1.54
Apr. 7 Mr. Thomas Myers on Ned horse $ 90.00
Mr. Robert Phair, Yankee plow $ 5.00
Mr. James Anderson, for 800 cedar rails $ 6.57
May 7 Grey horse to somebody $ 80.00
May 22 Mr. John Bailey, 5 bushels oats at 37 ½ cents $ 1.87
May 27 Mr. Robert Phair, 3 hundred of hay at 45 per hundred $ 1.35
June 5 Brown & Christian, 22 bushels oats at 45 cents $ 9.90
June 19 Brown & Christian, 47 bushels oats at 37 ½ $ 17.62
June 20 Brown & Christian, 47 bushels oats at 37 ½ $ 17.62
June 21 Brown & Christian, 49 bushels at 37 ½ $ 18.37
June 26 Colin Miller, 11 bushels oats at 37 ½ $ 4.12
June 28 Brown & Christian, 54 bushels oats at 37 ½ $ 19.90
[?] E. Luke, 2 bushels spring wheat $ 3.45
J. Cochrane, 2 bushels paid with 4/12 bushels wheat
Mr. Gibson, Whitby, 50.36 lbs. barley at 76 cents $ 38.40
Mr. Gibson, Whitby, 52.30 lbs. barley at 72 cents $ 38.00
Brown & Christian, 28 bushels barley at 62 cents $ 17.36
[The pages in the back of the diary are in no real order, so some of the dates are not
chronological. I am transcribing them as they appear in the original]
1
In this case, John would loan 3 ewes to Thomas Duff with the promise that Mr. Duff would return twice as many
in the time period allotted.
INCOME 1864
Sept. 19 Mr. Wilson, 14 lambs at $1.75 $ 24.50
Mr. C. Draper, 47 ½ bushels barley at 87 ½ cents $ 41.50
Oct. 5 Mr. [Bickell?], Brooklin, 36 bushels fall wheat at 87 ½ cents $ 31.44
Oct. 20 Mr. Houck, Whitby, 43 bushels fall wheat $ 40.63
Nov. 17 Mr. Chester Draper, 46 at 90 cents $ 41.47
Nov. 23 Mr. Duff, 3 pigs at 75 per head $ 2.25
Nov. 23 James Gordons oxen to winter [?]
Dec. 12 Adam Gordon, 1 pig 260 lbs. at $5 $ 13.00
Dec. 14 Mr. Bascom, calf skin leather
Dec. 18 Walter Asling, 1 load of straw $ 2.00
Dec. 23 Mr. McPhail, 5 lb. lard .50, 1 lb. tallow .80, 1 lb. butter .80 $ 4.10
Dec. 23 John Leask, 3 pigs at $1 each lumber
Total Income 1864 $205.40
INCOME 1865
Jan. 11 Mr. James McPhail, 3 lb lard at 10 cents .30
Jan. 15 Mr. Gordon, Manchester, 47.56 bushels spring wheat at 80 cents $ 38.32
Jan. 23 Mr. Gordon, Manchester, 47.46 bushels spring wheat at 80 cents $ 38.00
Jan. 25 Mr. Gordon, Manchester, 51.38 bushels spring wheat at 80 cents $ 41.35
Feb. 4 Mr. James McPhail, 3 lb. butter .50
Feb. 4 Mr. James McPhail, 2 lb. lard .20
Feb. 7 Received from Chancey Aslin for 3 cows at bull $ 1.25
Feb. 13 James McPhail, 2 lb. butter .33
Feb. 17 51.16 bushels spring wheat, Mr. Gordon, Manchester, at 80 cents $ 41.00
Feb. 18 James McPhail, 2 lb. lard .20
Feb. 21 James McPhail, 1 lb. butter .16
Mar. 1 James McPhail, 2 lb. lard .20
[?] James McPhail, 2 lb. lard .20
Aug. 18 George Anderson, 7 lambs at 2$ each $ 14.00
Mr. Howard, 2 steers & cow, 1 steer & cow at 22$ each, 1 steer at 16$ $ 60.00
Sept. 13 53.5 bushels fall wheat, Mr. Bickell, Centre Mills, at $1.33/bushel $ 71.00
Sept. 22 Mr. [Chester?] Draper, 54 bushels fall wheat at $1.42 $ 76.68
Oct. 10 Mr. Gibson, Whitby, 55 bushels fall wheat at $1.45 $ 80.00
Nov. 21 Mr. J. Bickle, 43 bushels at $1.30 $ 55.00
Total Income 1865 $534.18
INCOME 1866
Jan. 27 George Luke, 12 bushels barley at 60 cents $ 7.20
Mr. Gordon, Manchester, 1 pig $ 10.00
Mr. Gordon, Manchester, fall wheat $ 20.00
Feb. 1 41 to Mr. Bickle, Manchester, at $1.42 $ 59.00
Feb. 5 Currie & Ross, 29 bushels barley at 48 cents $ 14.00
Currie & Ross, 25 bushels barley at 45 cents $ 11.25
Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, 51 bushels oats at 30 cents $ 15.30
Mar. 23 Andrew Thom to 15 bushels potatoes at 30 cents per bushel $ 4.50
Mar. 30 Andrew Thom, 15 bushels potatoes at 30 cents per bushel $ 4.50
Andrew Thom, 20 lbs. pork at 10 cents per lb. $ 2.00
Apr. 2 Andrew Thom, 5 lb. lard at 12 ½ cents per lb. .62
Apr. 2 46 bushels oats, Currie & Ross, at 28 cents $ 12.88
A. Michie, 4 bushels pease at 50 cents $ 2.00
Apr. 25 David Cragg, 20 bushels oats at 30 cents $ 6.00
Apr. 25 David Cragg, 4 ½ bushels pease at 50 cents $ 2.25
Apr. 26 A. Leask, 19 ½ bushels oats at 30 cents $ 5.85
Apr. 27 Timothy Cragg, 10 bushels oats at 30 cents, 2 bushels pease at 60 cents 4.20
A. Leask for threshing 30 bushels oats at 30 cents $ 9.00
May 1 Currie & Ross, Prince Albert, 14.2 bushels pease at 50 cents $ 7.10
May 9 John Wells, 10 bushels oats at 30 cents $ 3.00
Dr. Knowleys, 900 hay at 35 cents $ 3.25
Dr. Knowleys, 800 hay at 37 cents $ 2.95
1866 EXPENSES
Mar. 15 Joseph Gould, for carding & filling $ 3.96
Mr. George Gibson, for weaving $ 3.57
Mr. Cowan, Uxbridge, for shingles
Three thousand at $5.25 per thousand $ 15.75
John Isaacson, 1520 feet siding at $12 per thousand $ 18.25
756 feet lath at 70 cents per hundred $ 5.25
100 feet clear lumber $ 1.25
Mar. 22 Mr. Plank, Uxbridge, 1000 feet flooring $ 8.00
Mr. Thompson, Uxbridge, wire cloth $ 1.00
Mr. Plank, Uxbridge, 1000 feet boards $ 8.00
Mar. 24 Fawcet & Co., Uxbridge, shingles $ 4.37
Mr. Button, bits, 3 of them .45
Apr. 2 Mr. Richardson, Prince Albert, horse collars $ 2.00
Mr. [Jewry?], Prince Albert, 2 window sashes $ 2.00
Currie & Co., sundries $ 2.00
Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, geography $ 7.75
Barrel of herring $ 8.00
Apr. 20 Plow from Patterson & Brown, Whitby $ 17.00
Apr. 26 4 bushels club wheat, A. Leask, $1.25 $ 5.00
A. Leask, for threshing, 1 ½ days $ 9.00
May 1 J. [Jewry?], Prince Albert, 1 window sash .90
J. [Jewry?] through Wm. Real for doors & window sashes $ 30.15
May 29 4 lbs. turnip seed of Wm. Ferguson at 30 cents $ 1.20
T. Forman, Prince Albert, ½ bushel [?] .15
T. Forman, sundries $ 2.95
Bonnets, Prince Albert $ 2.00
Brown & Christian, sundries $ 25.85
June 25 25 bushels lime of Andrew Thom, 100 cabbage plants paid by work
July 14 A. Gordon, Manchester, grass scythe and [?] $ 3.00
Brown & Christian, 1 lb. tea .90
Currie & Ross, washboard .60
Port Perry for brick $ 1.50
Aug. 6 Mr. Joseph Gould, Uxbridge, 826 feet siding at 70 cents $ 57.82
Oct. 3 A. Leask, threshing 1 day $ 9.00
Brown & Christian, Manchester $ 24.00
Oct. 5 Brown & Christian, Manchester $ 11.15
Oct. 8 Brown & Patterson, 1 plow $ 17.00
Oct. 9 Joshua Wright, Prince Albert $ 28.75
Mr. Barber, taxes $ 24.41
Nov. 12 Brown & Christian, sundries $ 6.53
Nov. 19 Mr. John Bailey, blacksmith bill $ 26.00
Nov. 20 Mr. Chancey Aslin, subscription for Methodist Chapel $ 1.00
Nov. 20 Mr. E. [Kirill?], plastering& chimney building $ 12.84
Dec. 7 A. Gordon, Manchester, Sundries $ 7.00
Brown & Christian, Manchester, for Johns coat & cap $ 5.00
T. Forman, Prince Albert, account $ 4.85
Currie & Ross, Prince Albert, on account $ 7.80
John [Jewry?] for window sash and saw $ 2.46
Dec. 26 A. Gordon, Manchester, gal. Oil .37
T. Forman, Prince Albert, Wms. Coat $ 4.00
EXPENSES 1867
Jan. 8 Mr. Rolph, Prince Albert, lines $ 2.25
A. Gordon, barrel of salt $ 2.00
Brown & Christian, 3 books .45
Tea $ 1.90
R. Wilson, Prince Albert, books .65
Jan. 14 Isaac Cragg, sawing & lumber $ 22.50
Mr. Luke, new axe $ 1.12
Feb. 2 A. Gordon, sugar $ 1.00
Feb. 7 A. Gordon, Manchester, 5 gal. Coal oil $ 1.25
Cane and l lb. tea $ 1.75
Feb. 10 Rev. R. McArthurs salary $ 11.50
Feb. 14 A. Leask, for threshing, 2 ½ days $ 15.00
Feb. 21 A. Gordon, Manchester, 8 feet log chain $ 1.25
Tolls and expenses to Brooklin .40
Feb. 23 Mr. Thompson, door lock .90
Mr. Gould, carding $ 3.20
Mr. Gould, lumber 500 ft. $ 2.50
Feb. 29 Mr. Gould, lumber $ 1.88
Mr. Thompson, nails .40
Mr. [Bolster?], square .60
Mar. 5 Mr. Cowan, sundries $ 1.28
Mr. Currie, 1 [spout?] .20
Mr. McCowan .05
Mr. Gould, pressing dress cloth .98
Mr. Gibson, weaving $ 3.95
Mar. 11 A. Gordon, Manchester, 2 barrels plaster $ 2.75
Nails, 3 lbs. .15
Mr. Wilson, Prince Albert, ½ [?] paper .10
Mar. 22 A. Gordon, Manchester, sugar, 12 lb. $ 1.00
J. Wright for Bible $ 3.25
J. Wright, mending Mothers boots .25
Sundries for J. Anderson .25
Apr. 4 Thomas Duff, 800 cedar rails at 75 cents $ 6.37 ½
Thomas Duff, 150 feet clothes line $ 1.62 ½
Apr. 8 Paid Mr. Wm. Reals note $ 80.00
14 months interest at 10 per cent $ 9.00
Apr. 13 Mr. Cowan, 2 ½ yards cloth at 48 cents $ 1.32
Shirting, 7 yds at 25 cents $ 1.75
Buttons .13 ½
Thread& 2 yds. Factory cotton .45
Tea .70
May 2 Brown & Christian, Manchester, sundries $ 6.48
Currie & Ross, for [?] to Wm. $ 1.43
A. Gordon, Lock and hooks .55
May 11 25 apple trees, 1 cherry, 1 crab, 1 pear, and currant bushes,
Warren Holter, Hamilton $ 7.50
May 23 Paid Mr. J. Wright on shoe bill $ 21.75
Mr. Baird, for school manual .40
Mr. Wilson, for paper .10
Brown & Christian account $ 6.00
Keg nails, 4 double trees $ 4.60
1 barrel plaster $ 1.37 ½
Coat for George $ 6.50
Hammer $ 1.00
May 24 Mr. Michel Morning, for sow $ 8.00
June 5 Anthony [McGee, McGue?] for weaving 28 yds shirting $ 2.80
13 ½ yds blanket twill at 12 ½ cents per yard $ 1.65
12 yds horse blanket at 10 cents per yard $ 1.20
Mr. Welsh, for medicine to black mare $ 1.00
Brown & Christian, Sundries $ 11.67
June 19 Brown & Christian, Sundries $ 6.51
Mr. Gordon, chips hat .20
Mr. J. Wright, 1 pair shoes $ 1.50
June 20 Brown & Christian, plow lines .60
Campbell & Co., Manchester, vest to George $ 1.25
June 22 George Gibson, for weaving $ 2.00
Button & Co., Bobs boots $ 1.20
Razor .50
Mr. Thompson, for [?] .50
June 28 J. Wright, boots to Wm. $ 5.50
July 1 Mr. McCaw for tin work to turnip drill $ 3.00
Currie & Ross, sundries $ 2.90
July 5 John Bailie, plow point & side shoe $ 1.25
John Bailie, horse rake $ 7.50
July 11 Brown & Christian, Manchester, 1 barrel salt $ 2.12 ½
3 yds cloth pants for Wm. at 37 ½ per yard $ 1.12 ½
Sugar $1, tea 75 cents $ 1.75
4 rakes at 20 cents .80
Scythe & [?] $ 1.50
6 scythe stones .65
July 29 Mr. Thomas Paxton, 200 feet board fencing $ 1.30
J. B. Lauer, mending cradle .10
Mr. Allison, Port Perry, 1 lb. tea .80
Mr. Carson, Borilea sugar $ 1.00
Mr. Anderson, Greenbank .16
Mr. Ferguson, sugar $ 1.00
July 31 J. B. Lauer, cradle & scythe $ 4.25
J. Cowan & Co., Prince Albert, sugar 2 lb. $ 2.00
J. Wright, Bible 75 cents, Testament 13 .88
Aug. 2 Mr. Robt. Miller, sundries $ 2.75
Aug. 8 John Belford, one days work at wheat $ 1.50
Sept. 3 Currie & Ross, paint brush .60
Sept. 9 R. Stillwell, 6 bushels fall wheat at $1.60 $ 9.60
Sept. 25 Mr. Gibson, Whitby, 2 lb. madder, 1 lb. alum, 10 lb. sugar $ 1.85
Mr. Allen, New York, ledger $ 7.00
Brown & Christian, 6 bags at 47 ½ $ 1.85
Sept. 25 Block cotton yarn $ 2,85
A. Gordon, bag strings .08
A. Gordon, mustard .37 ½
Oct. 2 Brown & Christian, account $ 5.00
Currie & Ross, account $ 8.75
Papers, Port Perry .20
Brown & Christian, lamp top .15
Currie & Ross, umbrella $ 1.00
Oct. 23 for Sunday Magazine $ 1.75
Mr. Ralph, Prince Albert, horse collars $ 5.00
Mending back board of curry comb .35
Subscription for Ontario Observer $ 1.50
Postage on Ontario Observer .26
Postage on letter & paper .08 ½
Mr. Wagner mending pairing machine on 18
th
October .20
Oct. 29 Insurance of $800 in Canada West, Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. $ 9.50
Oct. 30 Mr. R. McArthurs salary $ 15.00
Wm. To R. McArthur $ 2.00
John to R. McArthur .50
Nov. 6 Taxes for 1867 $ 15.25
Nov. 16 2 Mountain ash trees $ 1.00
Mr. Ferguson, table $ 3.00
Mr. T. Phair, 21 bushels potatoes at 27 cents $ 5.67
Nov. 20 Georges boots $ 4.00
Nov. 26 John Baileys bill $ 20.95
Dec. 5 Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, 2 fur caps $ 15.25
Sugar, 10 lbs. $ 1.00
2 cravats at 20 cents and 75 cents .95
Brown & Christian, 1 axe $ 1.12 ½
Mr. [?] for nut of waggon .10
Dec. 10 Mr. Joshua Wright, shoe bill $ 21.75
Mr. T. Forman, 4 yards carpet at 55 cents $ 2.20
8 yds. factory cotton, 12 ½ cents $ 1.00
Tea $ 1.00
6 bags $ 2.25
Matches & trap .25
Messrs. Currie & Ross, 2 lamp glasses .20
Mr. Bryant, tinsmith, Manchester, 5 gall. Coal oil $ 1.00
Brown & Christian, cow chain & rope .34
Dec. 14 Mr. Gould for lumber $ 6.37 ½
Margaret Michie for 9 turkeys $ 3.00
For gloves to Wm. $ 1.50
Dec. 17 Sundries at Prince Albert $ 4.00
EXPENSES 1868
Jan. 20 Brown & Christian, sundries .15
R. Campbell, 10 lbs. sugar $ 1.00
Axe $ 1.25
Jan. 24 Mr. Rolph [?] for harness $ 25.49
Mr. Dawson, Prince Albert, 5
th
reader .50
First reader .05
Mr. Campbell, Manchester, 2 ¾ lbs. cotton print $ 1.37 ½
Brown & Christian, ½ velvet .15
Jan. 27 Mr. Isaac Craig for lumber & sawing $ 9.11
Jan. 29 Brown & Christian, 3 & 4 readers .70
Dictionary .25
Jan. 29 Currie & Ross, comforter .75
Jan. 29 Currie & Ross, 2 copy books .14
Mr. J. Bigelow, Port Perry, braces .45
Feb. 5 Mr. Joseph Gould, Uxbridge, for fulling & pressing 11 ½ yds cloth $ 1.72 ½
Sewing & [napping?] blankets 13 yds. $ 1.04
Carding 53 lbs. rolls at 5 cents $ 2.65
Mr. Bolster, saw and file $ 1.00
Mr. [?], 4 copy books at 6 cents .24
Mr. Peare, watchmaker .55
6 chairs at 75 cents $ 4.50
Feb. 14 Brown & Christian, 1 lb. tea, English Grammar $ 1.22 ½
3 barrels plaster at 1.37 ½ $ 4.12 ½
Campbell & Co., Manchester, 1 barrel [?] $ 6.00
Feb. 18 J. Nott, Borelia, for furniture $ 3.75
Feb. 20 Mrs. Belford for weaving 26 yds. shirting, 18 yds. dress stuff
at 12 ½ cents $ 5.50
Feb. 26 Captain Sinclair, 3 quarts wine $ 3.00
Mar. 3 Brown & Christian, Manchester, tea 1 lb. .90
Braces .37 ½
Currie & Ross, slate pencils 20 cents, pens 12 cents,
pen holders 4 cents .36
Table cover .05
Captain Sinclair, fire shovel .60
Mar. 11 Currie & Ross, room paper, 15 rolls at 12 ½ $ 1.87 ½
Window curtains .70
Sundries $ 2.30
Mar. 13 George Michie for family encyclopaedia $ 2.00
Mar. 23 Mr. Craig, for weaving 21 ½ yards cloth at 12 ½ cents per yd. $ 2.68
Mar. 35 Mr. A. Leask, threshing $ 16.00
Subscription to Port Perry Church $ 1.00
Apple pairer .40
Mar. 26 Paid Dr. Knowleys bill $ 25.20
Mar. 31 Robert Allen, 10 bushels barley at $1.20 $ 12.00
Brown & Christian, sundries $ 10.35
Plow lines 30 cents, first & second book 10 cents .40
A. Gordon, sundries $ 3.00
John Michie, cash $ 2.00
Margaret Michie, cash $ 1.00
Apr. 7 Mr. Gibson, 23 bushels potatoes at 40 cents $ 9.20
Apr. 11 James Leask, Scott, for pickets $ 2.75
Apr. 17 John Henderson for papering room $ 1.75
Apr. 21 Mr. John Beare, 500 lbs. of bran at 75 cents per hundred $ 3.75
Apr. 23 A. Leask, 5 bushels barley $ 5.00
May 5 for 100 strawberry plants $ 2.50
May 15 A. Michie for iron harrows $ 20.00
June 2 Mr. J. Wright for my book [Cobourg?] $ 2.65
Mr. Currie for [pants trimming ?] to self $ 2.10
Charles Forman for cutting .15
George Michie 5 dollars and 5 dollars in May $ 10.00
June 5 Mr. Ralph, saddler, Prince Albert, for harness bill .50
Mr. Dawson for coarse comb and beet seed .25
Brown & Christian, sundries $ 7.00
June 9 Tolls to Brooklin .20
June 9 Barbara 12 photographs $ 1.00
Mine own 12 photographs $ 1.00
A. Gordon, Manchester, wallpaper at 13 cents per roll $ 1.30
A. Gordon, Manchester, wallpaper at 9 cents per roll .90
Borders, 8 yds 10 cents per yard .80
June 17 Brown & Christian, Margarets hat, trimming and linen $ 2.37 ½
2 lbs. turnip seed .60
grass scythe $ 1.00
Hoe .60
J. Wright, Georges boots $ 2.75
Margarets lace boots $ 2.25
Book pedlar, 10 Nights In Barroom .12 ½
A. Horne, spinning wheel $ 7.50
Book – Norwood $ 1.25
June 19 Mr. [McGuire?], Greenbank, Annies boot .85
for Roberts boots $ 2.40
July 1 Mr. Clemens and his oxen logging 3 days at $1.50 per day $ 4.50
July 3 Mr. Bowman, Whitby, for carding 42 ½ lbs. wool at 5 cents $ 2.13
July 6 Anniversary of Sabbath School tickets $ 1.00
Sundries at Anniversary .30
Charles McClue, Burns Poetical Works $ 1.25
July 7 Brown & Christian, 1 barrel salt $ 2.25
½ lb. yellow turnip seed .12 ½
Mr. Gordon, Manchester, grass scythe $ 1.00
Campbell & Co., grass scythe $ 1.00
A. Gordon, 3 scythe stones .30
Likeness $ 2.50
July 16 Mr. James Scott for 8 bushels potatoes at 30 cents $ 2.40
Aug. 11 Mr. John Ianson, 500 feet common lumber at 80 cents $ 4.00
Aug. 19 Mr. Cottingham, Borilia, for drawing 7 teeth $ 1.00
Sept. 1 Mr. Gordon, Port Perry, for fulling & pressing 20 ½ yds cloth at 10 cents 2.00
Saddler at Manchester for repairing collar .75
Brown & Christian for lamp burner and 2 glasses .65
Sept. 4 Mr. Bigelow, Port Perry, for cheese cloth, 3 copy books, and
dictionary $ 1.70
Sept. 11 Mr. McCaw, Prince Albert, for eave troughs $ 14.00
Sept. 23 Mr. McMillan, Whitby, overcoat $ 9.50
Mr. Allen, Whitby, papers .25
Mr. Goss, Whitby, spade & hangings $ 1.75
Mr. Gibson, Whitby, braces .60
for nights lodgings at Armstrongs $ 1.00
Mr. White for 364 tiles $ 2.28
Tolls to and from Whitby .60
Mr. Gordon, Manchester, for sugar $1, tea $1 $ 2.00
Sept. 28 Mr. White for 474 tiles at 65 cents per hundred $ 3.80
Tolls to and from Whitby .60
Georges lodgings, Whitby $ 1.00
Paid Dr. Knowleys account in full $ 6.25
Oct. 6 Mr. J. Wright for Anns boots $ 1.30
Mr. McCaw, balance on eave troughs $ 2.50
For soldering boiler .20
A. Phair, for tickets $ 1.00
Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, bar soap .25
Mr. Rolph, Prince Albert, [hatter?] & shank $ 1.25
Oct. 13 Mr. McArthurs salary $ 15.00
Oct. 16 Taxes to Mr. J. Nott $ 16.64
Mr. J. Wright for Margarets boots and Roberts $ 4.37 ½
Mr. Tomlinson for itch liniment .25
Oct. 16 Mr. Heal, itch ointment .25
for Ontario Observer $ 1.50
Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, 2 axes $ 2.75
Nov. 3 Mr. Dusty, Barbaras boots $ 2.25
Nov. 13 Mr. Dryden, Whitby, 8 ½ bushels apples at 12 ½ $ 2.12 ½
Nov. 21 Mr. Dusty, Georges boots $ 3.75
Nov. 28 Mr. Bigelow, Port Perry, 500 feet lumber at 70 cents $ 3.50
Dec. 9 Mr. James Gordon for threshing $ 19.00
Dec. 23 Mr. Belford for weaving 21 1/3 yds flannel t 10 cents $ 2.15
Dec. 31 Wm. McMillan, subscription for Globe newspaper $ 1.50
EXPENSES 1869
Jan. 4 Mr. [McGirr?], ½ lb. tea .50
Jan. 5 John Watson, weaving 18 ½ yards cloth $ 2.70
Mr. Anderson, for Dominion linament .50
Jan. 7 Mr. Anderson, Uxbridge, for bottle to black mare $ 1.25
Mr. Aslin, postage of Globe & Observer .26
Mr. Thompson, Uxbridge, for tacks .06
Jan. 14 Campbell & Co., 1 lb. tea $ 1.00
Jan. 19 Bailey & Hall, blacksmith bill $ 12.56
Mr. Robt. Murta for 1 acre of wood $ 13.00
Feb. 3 Mr. Gould, Uxbridge, for half fulling and pressing and topping $ 3.94
for arithmetic to Margaret .25
Feb. 17 Paid Brown & Christians account in full to date $ 34.31
Mr. Wright for own shoe packs $ 3.00
Feb. 20 Isaac Cragg for sawing 584 ft. basswood $ 1.75
Mr. Webb, Greenbank, for wheelbarrow $ 4.00
Feb. 25 A. Gordon, Manchester, box of tea, 14 lbs at 98 cents $ 13.72
Mr. Bryan, half bushel [?] .75
Brown & Christian, sundries .75
Mar. 3 Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, barrel of salt $ 2.10
half inch bits .20
Mar. 16 Mr. Currie, ½ bushel [tares?] $ 1.00
Bag for [?] .25
Mar. 22 Mrs. Michie, Brock, to be paid in seven months, paid in whole $ 25.00
Apr. 3 Indians for basket .50
Apr. 5 Brown & Christian, sundries $ 11.97
Brown & Christian, butcher knife .40, dictionary .30 .70
Mr. J. Wright, Barbaras boots $ 2.75
Mr. McClintock for setting of shoes & one new $ 1.50
Apr. 8 A. McGirr, Greenbank, 2 patent pails .50
1 pair plowlines .80
Apr. 13 Mr. George Boddie, 4 patent pails 20 cents each
1 spade Paid in oats $ 1.30
Apr. 19 Archibald Miller for Wesleyan Church, Scugog Island $ 1.00
Apr. 21 Brown & Christian, Manchester, jackknife .30
Tape line .70, 14 lb. clover seed at 10 cents $1.40, bag 37 ½ $ 2.47 ½
Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, chest lock .20
J. & R. Campbell, Manchester, shovel $ 1.00
Screwnails .03, screwdriver 20 cents .23
Apr. 21 Lamp glass 10 cents, sundries .50
Mr. Bryan, Manchester, plough side 75 cents, point 50 cents $ 1.25
Barbaras fare to Brooklin .50
Apr. 22 Mr. Andrew McGirr, Greenbank, 3 spouls .15
May 6 Mr. Wm. Minto, half dozen knives & forks $ 1.00
Sundries .80
May 10 R. & J. Campbell, Manchester, 5 yards print at 17 cents .85
Coat to George $4, vest to George $1.75, vest for self $3 $ 8.75
Batting 25 cents, Box [collars?] 15 cents, belt buckle 5 cents .45
Brown & Christian, Manchester, shawl to Mother $ 2.50
Black silk handkerchief for self $ 1.40
5 ¾ yds print at 25 cents $ 1.37 ½
May 15 Mssrs. Craig for weaving 34 yds flannel at 10 cents $ 3.40
Mr. McGirr, store bill $ 3.40
Tick exterminator 25 cents, ink 4 cents .29
May 20 R. & J. Campbell, Manchester, 1 block cotton warp $ 2.00
5 lb. clover seed 55 cents, 5 lb. timothy 45 cents $ 1.00
Brown & Christian, Manchester, 3 barrels plaster at $1.30 $ 3.90
2 pairs strap hinges at 7 cents per lb. .84
8 ½ lbs. sugar $ 1.00
June 1 Mr. Joshua Wright, Georges boots $ 6.00
Brown & Christian, sundries $ 5.40
5 lbs. turnip seed Binghams at 30 cents $ 1.50
R. & J. Campbell, sundries $ 5.00
Mrs. Yates, ½ lb. [helibore?] .25
Pellon for hat .40
June 12 William Scott, groom of horse young Revenger .50
June 17 Mr. George Boddie 3 heifers to pasture at 2 dollars per month for 6
bushels potatoes at 50 cents per bushel $ 3.00
June 18 Brown & Christian, Margarets dress, 8 yds. at 21 cents $ 1.68
3 lbs. [Drawbarns?] turnip seed at 30 cents per lb. .90
June 29 Mr. Thomas, Brooklin, 1 barrel of water lime $ 1.75
Scratch awl & stone .22
Mr. Hepenstall for spectacles .50
Mr. Sweetapple, farrier, for blister to black mare $ 1.00
Mr. Dawes, Brooklin, for pencil .10
Mssrs. Brown & Christian, whale bone .12 ½
1 yd. steam loom .15
1 ½ yds. blue ribbon .15
18 lbs. sugar $ 2.00
Tolls to & from Brooklin .20
July 1 Mr. J. Wright for Sunday boots to Margaret $ 2.50
Mr. Walsh for bottle of medicine to black mare .25
Currie and Ross, scythe $ 1.25
Mr. Bryan, tinsmith, for soldering boiler .15
July 5 Anniversary tickets .62 ½
July 6 Traveling tinsmith for mending eave pipes $ 1.25
July 8 Mr. Bowman, Whitby, for 65 lbs [rolls?] $ 3.25
July 15 Mr. Wm. Ferguson, 2 scythe stones at 10 cents .20
July 21 Mr. A. McGirr, Greenbank, 18 lbs. sugar $ 2.00
Mustard jar .20
July 22 Mr. A. McGirr, 4 ½ yds pant stuff at 41 cents $ 1.84
3 yds drill 75 cents, jackknife 25 cents, scythe stone 12 cents,
handkerchief 12 cents $ 1.24
July 31 Mr. Andrew McGirr, sundries and 45 lbs. sugar $ 5.00
Aug. 5 Mr. Saxon, Port Perry, 500 feet common lumber $ 4.00
Pant stuff, 3 yds. at 30 cents per yard .90
Aug. 10 Mr. White, Whitby, 500 tiles at 65 cents $ 3.25
Aug. 10 Tolls and expenses from Whitby .75
Brown & Christian, 6 yds. pant stuff $ 1.40
A. Gordon, Manchester, 2 pairs harvest gloves at 37 ½ cents .75
Aug. 27 Mr. McGirrs account $2.18, 1 lb. wrought nails 10 cents, 12 pins 10 cents 2.38
Mr. John [?] for Canadian Messenger $ 1.00
Aug. 28 George Boddie for 2 pigs at 75 cents each $ 1.50
Sept. 4 A. McGirr for sugar $2, coal oil 80 cents, sundries 43 cents $ 3.23
Sept. 9 Brown and Christian, Sundries including 27 lbs. sugar $ 3.00
Striped shirting and print $ 3.25
3 preserve jars at 40 cents each $ 1.20
Mr. Bryan, tea kettle $1.25, lamp glasses 15 cents $ 1.50
Mr. Dusty, Greenbank, for mending Margarets boots .60
Sept. 13 Mr. Hillborn for cistern pump $ 6.00
Oct. 6 Mr. McKenzie for saw, at Uxbridge Fair .40
Doll for Annie, at Uxbridge Fair .20
Tickets for self and Robert, at Uxbridge Fair .20
Oct. 13 William Gordon for threshing [?] $ 9.00
Oct. 16 Brown and Christian, sundries, 1 lb. camwood, 1 ½ lbs. [fustic?],
2 oz. blue vitriol, 1 oz. copperas, 5/8 yd. [lion?] skin,
½ yd. black cord .90
T. Wright, Prince Albert, 1 pair laced boots $ 2.25
Baird and Parsons, subscription for Observer from 24 Oct 1869
to 24
th
Oct. 1870 $ 1.50
Currie and Ross for chalk line .16
Oct. 25 Mr. A. McGirr for wrapping twine, 2 balls of it .16
Mr. Wagner for mending Wms. compass .10
Mr. Aslin for one years postage on Observer .20
Oct. 28 T. Duff for plowing match .50
Oct. 29 Joseph Sanders for spoking waggon wheel 3.50
Mr. Minty for clothes line .50
Mr. McGirr for ink .15
Nov. 1 John Bailey, blacksmith bill $ 7.72
Robert Phair, 20 bushels potatoes [ ? ]
John McPhail for 4 days at potatoes at 25 cents $ 1.00
Nov. 2 Wall map $ 2.50
Nov. 10 Dugald McPhail, 1 days wages, John ½ day .37 ½
A. McGirr, 2 lbs. pressed nails .20
Nov. 11 James Walker for picking turnips 1868 .50
James Walker for picking potatoes 1869, 1 day .25
Jane Gordon, picking potatoes, 1 day .25
Mary Gordon, picking turnips, 1 day .25
James Gordon, picking turnips, 1 day .25
A. McGirr, account being mistook $ 3.25
Nov. 13 R. & J. Campbell, Manchester, 1 scarf 35 cents, 1 jacket $2 $ 2.35
1 jacket $3.50, 1 cap $1, 1 doz. buttons 6 ½ cents,
11 yds dress goods at $1.20 $ 6.76 ½
1 [cloud?] 70 cents, sugar $1, whalebone 20 cents,
1 ½ yards lining at 10 cents $ 2.05
3 yards trimming at 24 cents, 1 ½ yds. print at 20 cents .54
Brown and Christian, Manchester, 5 gal. coal oil at 40 cents $ 2.00
1 ladies hat $2, 1 flower 20 cents, machine thread 6 cents,
1 hood $1.00 $ 3.26
Nov. 13 8 yds print at 17 cents, ½ bundle cotton warp $1.25,
1 yd cotton 16 cents $ 2.77
6 yds. cloth for pants at $100 $ 6.00
Mr. Leonard, 8 likenesses of self and Mother $ 1.30
Nov. 20 2 crab trees (yellow & red) 1 dollar, 2 George Washington plum
trees $1.20, 1 dwarf 50 cents $ 2.70
T. Bigelow for bar soap 20 cents, glass 43 cents, putty 18 cents .81
Parish & Co., Port Perry, 1 thumb latch .12 ½
Dec. 2 Mr. Wm. Real, for taxes $ 14.40
Dec. 13 Isaac Cragg’s bill. Clear plank for cistern, 424 feet at $1.30 per
hundred $ 5.80
240 feet of scantling for cistern at 6 cents per hundred $ 1.44
plank for stable floor, 172 feet $ 1.03
Dec. 15 Brown & Christian, writing paper 20 cents, saw file 20 cents .40
Dec. 30 George Michie to pay for threshing machine $ 59.27
Dec. 31 Mr. Black for History of Bible & Bible Dictionary $ 9.50
EXPENSES 1870
Jan. 20 Postage for Globe, one year .20
Postage on a letter to Grayshill, Scotland .06
Jan. 28 Currie & Ross, stub file 15 cents, crosscut file 30 cents .45
Envelopes .12 ½
R. & J. Campbell, broom .35
Jan. 31 A. McGirr, new spelling book to Robert .25
Feb. 4 Settled with R. Phair for 20 bushels potatoes at 25 cents $ 5.00
Mr. McArthurs salary $ 15.00
Feb. 14 Mr. Charles Thorn, Port Perry for medicine to black mare .75
Jones and Jones, Port Perry, 5 lbs. flax seed .40
Parish and Shaw for 2 bits 32 cents, gimlet 10 cents, awl 6 cents .48
Craigs for weaving $ 10.15
Robert Dobson for stud horse to red mare $ 5.00
Mar. 23 A. Gordon, Manchester, 2 barrels plaster at $1.35 $ 2.70
Mar. 31 Brown & Christians account to date $ 12.47
One half bushel clover seed at 12 ½ cents per lb. $ 3.75
29 lbs. timothy seed at 10 cents per lb. $ 2.90
½ bushel of [?] $ 1.00
6 lbs. tea $ 6.00
Mr. Joshua Wright for Mothers boots $2.50, own boots $2.75 $ 5.25
Mr. Tomlinson for 1 peck Early Rose potatoes .75
½ bushel Harrison potatoes .50
Mr. Wilcox for medicine for black mare .75
Mr. Walsh for advice and mixing the medicine .25
Apr. 15 Mr. Henry Halls blacksmith bill $ 3.85
Apr. 22 Mr. R. & J. Campbell, Manchester, George hat $ 2.50
Own hat .20
Apr. 26 Canadian Church Harmonist from Mr. Wilcox, Prince Albert .75
Apr. 30 Mr. A. McGirr for Roberts boots $1.40, Annies boots $1.50,
collars 25 cents $ 3.15
May 16 Mr. McKenzie for cockle sieve $ 1.00
Mr. Parsons for wire 5 cents, pliers 25 cents .30
May 24 Mr. Tomlinson, Prince Albert, ½ lb. hellebore .20
Mr. Moggridge for dinner .35
June 7 Mr. McGirr, sundries $ 7.00
June 14 R. & J. Campbell, Manchester, 7 lbs. turnip seed $ 1.75
1 butter tub .40
June 18 John Gordon, grooms fee .25
June 23 Mr. McGirr, 4
th
book 40 cents, slate 12 ½ cents, 2 penholds,
6 pens, ½ quire writing paper .72
Mr. Joseph Williams, Mothers spectacles .45
June 25 John Gordon, grooms fee .25
June 27 for Anniversary tickets .75
July 5 Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, for sugar $ 1.00
2 scythe [snaths?] and 1 scythe $ 2.00
50 lbs. nails $1.75, braces 30 cents $ 2.05
Brown & Christian, 2 scythe stones .20
Campbell & Co., 2 straw hats .40
July 20 Brown & Christian, for sugar, 28 ½ lbs. $ 3.00
Fruit jars $1.15, 13 yds. factory cotton 12 ½ cents $ 1.62
[?] .75
July 22 Wm. Sanders, insurance agent, Saintfield, to insure $800 $ 7.50
July 28 Mr. James McMillan for Colin Miller $ 1.00
Aug. 9 Wm. Minty, pedlar, for 1 pair gloves .50
Aug. 24 C. Young, Port Perry, 31 ½ lbs. rolls at 5 cents per lb. $ 1.58
Fulling 21 yds. for blankets at 7 cents per yd. $ 1.47
Fulling and pressing 11 ¾ yds satinette at 10 cents per yd. $ 1.17
Mr. Thompson, Manchester, for facing horse collar .87 ½
Halter shank .30
Oct. 14 Mr. Parish, Port Perry, for apple pairer .90
Tin boiler $2.75, file 15 cents $ 2.90
Ticket at Fair 10 cents, lamp glass at Gordons 10 cents .20
Subscription for Ontario Observer to 24 October 1871 $ 1.50
Nov. 11 Mr. John Asling, postage on Ontario Observer to 24 Oct. 1871 .20
Nov. 16 Wm. Real, taxes for 1870 $ 9.52
Nov. 24 Wm. Spring for washing compound $ 1.00
Nov. 25 Paid Mr. A. McGirrs account to date $ 10.56
Dec. 1 Mr. A. Gordon, cattle bindings .75
Dec. 3 Brown & Christian, for nails .60
J. & B. Campbell for wrench .75
Joshua Wright for leather and boots $ 4.85
W. Willcox for washing compound .61
Brown & Christian, for braces .55
Parish, Port Perry, one axe $ 1.20
Dec. 7 Mr. Joshua Wright, shoe packs for self $ 3.00
Mr. Curtice, saddler, Prince Albert, for leather to George $ 1.00
Halter $ 1.25
T. Forman, 2 lbs. white lead, ½ gallon boiler oil and jug $ 1.00
Dec. 22 For sawing 1936 feet of elm at $5 per thousand $ 9.68
Sawing hemlock, 733 feet at $3 per thousand $ 2.19
300 feet of common lumber $ 2.10
Dec. 26 Wm. McMillan, subscription for Globe $ 1.50
Dec. 27 Mr. Walker for coverlets 50 cents, tolls 16 cents,
Geography 45 cents $ 1.11
EXPENSES 1871
Jan. 7 John Bailey, blacksmith bill $ 1.50
Jan. 12 Mr. Asling, postage on Globe for one year .20
Jan. 19 Mr. McArthurs salary $ 15.00
Feb. 13 John Gordon for stud horse to red mare $ 5.00
Feb. 14 Brown & Christian, 50 lbs. timothy at 9 cents $ 2.85
30 lbs. clover seed at 8 1/3 cents per lb. $ 2.50
Feb 14 Tea .75
Feb. 21 Mr. Samuel Byers for logging, man and team 1 day $ 1.50
Feb. 22 Mr. Weir, [Soho?] Mills for 1100 feet of lumber $ 6.00
Feb. 23 Mr. H. Bewel for Ed Cragg .50
Mar. 1 For rice at Port Perry $1, dress to Mother 2 dollars $ 3.00
Mar. 30 Mr. Pickle for fixing eave troughs .50
Apr. 1 Mr. Bigelow, Port Perry, small basket 10 cents, plow lines 32 cents .42
Mr. Parish, Port Perry, 3 bits and 2 lbs. nails .84
Mr. James Thompson for hay $ 1.00
Apr. 11 Mr. Adam Gordon, Manchester, 50 lbs. nails at 3 3/5 cents $ 1.80
Mr. Flint, Greenbank, straw hat .25
Apr. 12 Mr. Flint for 17 ½ yds striped shirting at 24 cents $ 4.20
Wm. Real for 10 bushels seed wheat at $1.40 $ 14.00
Mr. Flint for factory cotton .60
Apr. 24 Wm. on Mr. Dustys account $ 5.00
Apr. 25 George to Prince Albert Fair $ 6.00
Apr. 26 Mr. Thos. Duff for 4 bushels of pease at 75 cents $ 3.00
Apr. 29 Mr. Boyd for apple trees $ 3.00
May 9 George Boddie for ½ ton hay $ 4.50
May 17 George Boddie for 400 of hay $ 2.00
Mr. Donald Urquhart for plow point and landside $ 1.00
Mr. Adam Gordon for Margaret $ 1.00
Brown & Christian, 4 barrels plaster at $1.25 $ 5.40
18 lbs. timothy seed at 10 cents per lb. $ 1.80
7 lbs. Skirrings turnip seed at 30 cents per lb. $ 2.10
2 dozen screws at 4 cents per doz., 2 doz. at 5 cents per doz. .18
June 6 Mr. Roberts, Port Perry, 1 barrel of salt $ 2.00
Pant stuff 3 yds. at 50 cents, mounting 17 cents $ 1.67
Sugar at 9 lbs. to the dollar $ 2.52
Mr. Bigelow for shovel $ 1.00
June 13 Mr. Thompson for 1 lb. hellebore 40 cents, paper 20 cents .60
Brown & Christian, butter tub .40
June 26 for Anniversary tickets 50 cents, 1 lb. tea 85 cents $ 1.35
July 1 Mr. Pilkey for stand to sewing machine $7.50, slab 50 cents $ 8.00
July 3 for Anniversary tickets .80
July 15 Mrs. A. Gordon for hoeing turnips .20
July 19 Mr. Allison, oil to sewing machine .15
Fly paper .10
July 28 J. B. Lazier for fixing 2 cradles $ 2.50
Mr. Flint for coal oil .08
Aug. 14 Mr. Parsons, Port Perry, for bit .30
Mr. Worthington for gloves $ 1.10
Aug. 29 Joseph Bigelow, cradle scythe $ 1.12 ½
Mr. something for rolls at 5 cents per lb. $ 2.22
Sept. 12 Brown and Christian, Manchester, plow lines .25
Hat for self $ 1.37
Mr. J. Pilkey, note on sewing machine $ 18.00
Sept. 28 A. Gordon, Manchester, 6 bags $ 2.37
5 lbs. shingle nails .20
Mr. Currie for whitewash brush .60
Joshua Wright for boots to Robert $ 2.70
Oct. 15 Joseph Lee, blacksmith bill $ 12.45
George for blacksmithing charges to him in mistake $ 1.00
Oct. 19 D. Urquhart for plow point .50
Horse halter $ 1.20
Oct. 20 Baird & Parsons for Ontario Observer $ 1.50
Andrew Gordon for music at pairing bee .50
Oct. 21 Mrs. Martineau for spinning $ 3.50
Nov. 6 John Watson, blacksmith $ 2.00
Mr. Wagner for mending springboard and axle $ 1.00
Nov. 7 George Boddie Jun., for picking potatoes 3 days .75
Nov. 11 Joseph Bigelow, Port Perry, 6 cow bindings at 30 cents $ 1.80
Sugar $1, hammer $1, cap 50 cents, soap 25 cents, nails 95 cents $ 3.70
Mr. Parish, 3 lights of glass 10 by 14 .18
Nov. 14 Mr. Bray, taxes $ 13.90
Dec. 11 Mr. George Gibson for weaving 10 ¼ yds striped at 13 cents per yd. $ 1.33
28 yds. plain at 10 cents per yd. $ 2.80
20 ½ yds. [twalled?] blankets at 12 ½ cents per yd. $ 2.56
Mr. Gould for dressing blankets at 8 ½ cents per yd. $ 1.75
Dec. 21 Mr. McArthurs salary $ 15.00
Dec. 31 Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, half doz. knives & forks $ 1.50
1 doz. plates 75 cents, 1 lb. tea $1 $ 1.75
EXPENSES 1872
Jan. 5 Mr. Isaac Cragg, bill for sawing $ 6.09
Jan. 8 Mr. Ralph for harness blacking .50
T. Forman for rope 2 lb. .40
Jan. 11 Mr. Joshua Wright for shoe packs $ 3.25
Mr. Sinclair, Port Perry, for gallon bottle .40
½ gal. wine for Communion $ 2.00
Miss Allen for bow bells .30
Jan. 16 Mr. Flint for postage of Globe & Observer for 1 year .40
Jan. 18 Reuben Stillwell for 4 cows at his bull $ 3.50
Feb. 5 Adam Gordon, Manchester, 2 barrels plaster at $1.30 $ 2.60
Feb. 7 Wightman, Prince Albert, for sugar $ 1.00
Feb. 9 Mr. George Flints account $ 10.00
Feb. 14 George Gibson, Uxbridge, for weaving $ 3.19
Mr. Gould for fulling $ 2.34
Mr. Thompson for lamp glasses and burner .54
Feb. 17 James Gordon for horse Emulator to 1 mare $ 5.00
Feb. 28 Joshua Wright for Margarets boots received May 1871 $ 2.50
Mr. Parish, Port Perry, for spider .45
Miss Allen for pens and Daily Globe .07
Mar. 9 Mr. Joshua Wright for my boots & lace boots $ 2.75
Mothers boots $ 1.25
Mar. 19 George for Wm. Stillwell for 2 sows at boar $ 2.00
Apr. 16 Mr. George Flint, 36 lbs. clover seed at 10 cents $ 3.60
Mr. Adam Gordon, Manchester, 1 bushel timothy seed at 8 1/3 cents $ 4.00
Plow lines .35
Papers at Port Perry .14
May 15 Mr. Thorn for altering colt $ 1.00
May 17 Mr. Joseph Bigelow, sundries $ 12.00
May 22 Mr. Urquhart, plow points .10
June 7 Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, 26 yds carpet at 75 per yd. $ 19.50
1 pair lace gloves 35 cents, 3 yds. cloth at $1.50 yd. $ 4.85
5 yds. print at 17 cents, needles 5 cents, whalebone 16 cents $ 1.06
2 yds edging at 6 cents, 1 yd. cotton 12 ½ cents, 2 yds. cotton
at 11 cents .46 ½
10 yds muslin at 17 cents, 7 rolls of room paper at 22 ½ cents $ 2.60
June 7 Sugar $1, 8 lbs. turnip seed at 25 cents, barrel of salt $1.50 $ 4.50
Paint brush .30
Brown and Christian for gate hangings and paint brush .50
June 12 Mr. Wright, Prince Albert, boots for Robert $ 2.25
Canada Illustrated News .25
On Barbaras beaurew [bureau?] .25
June 24 For tickets at Anniversary $ 1.00
July 1 [too faded to read]
July 4 Mr. Tomlinson, Prince Albert, 2 lbs. of Paris Green $ 2.00
1 bottle of medicine for the black mare $ 1.00
Mr. Parish for trap .35
July 6 Mr. J. Harrison, grooms fee .50
July 10 T. Forman, hoe 60 cents, scythe $1, scythe stones 20 cents $ 1.80
Mrs. Muggridge for dinner .25
July 23 Mr. Adam Gordon, Manchester, for sugar $ 4.00
Aug. 2 Absalom, waggoner, for roller $ 12.00
Aug. 6 Mr. Allan Sexton, 500 feet lumber $ 6.00
Mr. J. Nott, balance on bedstead $ 1.81
Mr. Allen, sundries .30
Sept. 3 Mr. Allen, Port Perry, Testament and Daily Globe .53
Mrs. Muggridge, for hay to horse .20
Oct. 2 Mr. Parish for stove pot .85
Mr. Allen for Daily Globe .03
for tickets at fair .15
Oct. 10 Gilbraith and Byers for threshing $ 12.00
Oct. 16 Watson & Somerville, Blacksmith bill $ 11.70
Oct. 19 Mr. Real, for taxes $ 10.98
Mr. Parish, Port Perry, for boiler .60
Mr. Currie, for sugar, 9 lbs. $ 1.00
Oct. 24 Paid Mr. Adam Gordons bill $ 18.74
Nov. 12 Thos. Phair for ram $ 3.00
Nov. 14 Mr. Wm. Perkins for 6 cows to bull at 50 cents $ 3.00
Nov. 26 Paid Mr. McArthurs salary $ 15.00
Dec. 21 A. Gordon, Port Perry, sundries $ 8.78
Dec. 27 Dr. Knowleys bill $ 2.00
Mr. Flints bill $ 21.31
Mr. Dusty for Margarets boots $ 2.50
EXPENSES 1873
Jan. 1 Andrew Gordon for Globe $ 1.50
Jan. 2 Tinsmith, Port Perry, for lantern .75
Jan. 6 Mr. Flint, Greenbank, for curry comb 27 cents, lamp glass 8 cents .35
Jan. 14 Mr. Parish for grindstone and irons $ 3.15
Jan. 21 Mr. Adam Gordon for overcoat $ 10.00
Sundries $ 5.00
Feb. 3 Agnes Asling for the Wesleyan Missions .60
Feb. 4 Barbara for Upper Canada Bible Society $ 1.00
Andrew Gordon for British Presbyterian Newspaper $ 2.80
Feb. 8 Mr. Geo. Flint for 2 lamp glasses .16
Pens 12 cents, postage on the Globe 20 cents .32
Feb. 11 Brown & Christian, lamp glass 8 cents, Geography 44 cents .52
Feb. 22 Mr. A. Gordon, Port Perry, 50 lbs. sugar $5, 2 barrels plaster $ 8.10
Mr. Parish, 2 kegs white [lead?] $5.50, 3 gals. oil, 3 qts. turpentine $ 9.70
Saw handle .25
Feb. 22 Mr. McCaw for spectacles $ 2.50
Feb. 26 Mr. Thos. Ianson for studhorse to red mare $ 7.00
Mar. 19 Mr. Foy, for plow $ 17.00
Mr. Parish, for spade $ 1.25
for Barbaras chest to Brooklin .25
Dr. Jones for medicine to Margaret $ 1.00
Mr. [Warner?] for mending Roberts boots .75
Apr. 10 Mr. E. Dusty for pair of laced boots for self $ 2.75
Apr. 12 for Home Mission $ 1.00
Apr. 18 Mr. Flint for broom 25 cents, plow lines 38 cents .63
Apr. 30 Mr. Flint for 12 yds. shirting at 23 cents $ 2.76
8 yds. cotton at 12 ½ cents per yd. $ 1.00
6 yds. cotton tweed at 35 5/6 cents $ 2.15
1 lb. tea $1, 25 lbs. clover seed at 9 7/12 cents per lb. $ 2.40
1 hat, straw, for John .25
May 9 Mr. Kellet, Port Perry, for 10 apple trees $ 2.50
Sundries [ ? ]
May 13 Mr. Parish for some wire .17
Mr. Allin for Daily Globe .03
May 19 George Boddie for 500 of hay at 75 cents per hundred $ 3.75
May 21 John Michie $ 16.00
May 30 George Boddie for 6 bushels 7 lbs. wheat at $1.20 $ 7.25
Isaac Cragg Jun., for stone boat $ 1.00
June 3 Mr. Allison, Port Perry, for helebore .50
A. Gordon for pants at 35 cents per yd., 5 ½ yds. $ 1.90
June 12 Mr. J. Harrison grooms fee .50
June 16 Mr. Flint for 10 lbs. turnip seed at 25 cents $ 2.50
Sundries $ 1.75
July 14 Wm. Byers for mowing 6 ½ acres of grass at 50 cents per acre $ 3.25
July 25 A. Gordon, Port Perry, for sugar $3, braces 35 cents $ 3.35
Mr. Courtice for neck yoke straps $1.50, hem straps at 15 cents each
45 cents, harness blacking 50 cents, shoe thread 10 cents $ 2.70
Mr. Parish, 6 bolts 4 ½ inches long .20
July 28 Mr. Flint, postage for ‘Standard’ .20
Aug. 7 Mr. Gould, Uxbridge, for 600 feet lumber $ 5.15
Aug. 23 George Byers for reaping 8 acres of wheat at 60 cents per acre $ 4.80
Aug. 29 Mr. Bowman for carding 79 lbs wool at 5 cents per lb. $ 3.95
Mr. A. Gordon for sugar $2, cloth 12 ½ $ 2.12 ½
Sept. 17 Mrs. Martineau for spinning $ 5.85
Nov. 10 Mr. Cottingham, dentist, for fixing Roberts teeth $ 1.00
Nov. 18 Alex. Michie, Jun., for threshing one day $ 8.00
Nov. 25 Mr. Gordon for sundries $ 7.84
Brown & Ross for 2 baskets $ 1.00
Mr. Parish for brush .64
Dec. 6 Mr. E. Dusty for Margarets boots $2.50, own $3.50 $ 6.00
Dec. 11 Mr. Real, taxes $ 11.90
Wms. taxes $ 15.00
Dec. 20 Brown & Ross for nail hammer $1, 18 lbs. nails at 6 cents/100 $ 2.80
Wax cloth for table 2 ½ yds at 50 cents per yd. $ 1.25
Mr. Parish for axe $ 1.40
Watson & Somervilles account for 1873 $ 13.44
Dec. 23 Wm Byers for 3 cows to bull at 75 cents $ 2.25
Dec. 26 Mr. J. Wright, Port Perry, for Roberts boots $ 3.50
Mr. Worthington, Port Perry, for ground rice at 10 cents .20
Miss Allin, Port Perry, for 1 quid of paper .20
EXPENSES 1874
Jan. 3 Mr. Brown for insurance for 3 years $ 7.50
Jan. 13 Mr. John Nott, for bedroom table $ 2.00
Mr. Parish for apple pairer .90
for the man to Mr. Thompson .20
Jan. 29 Sent for Weekly Witness to Montreal $ 1.00
Postage & registration .05
Postage on Globe for one year .20
Feb. 6 [?] for 1 ton hay $ 17.00
Feb. 7 Mr. J. Real for one cow to bull $ 1.00
Feb. 14 Barbara to Port Perry $ 21.00
Feb. 16 Note for lightning rods $ 25.00
Feb. 27 John Gordon for 10 bus, 40 lbs. spring wheat at $1.12 $ 18.80
Mr. Dusty for mending boots .20
Apr. 9 for 2 barrels plaster at $1.34 $ 2.68
Halter shank .30
Apr. 20 for 1 bushel clover seed at 10 cents per lb. $ 6.00
George Gibson for weaving and cotton warp $ 12.56
June 17 George Flint, 10 lb. turnip seed at 28 cents per lb.
7 lb. Bennie Improved, 3 lb. Laings Improved $ 2.88
Mr. Dusty for mending Roberts boots .30
July 21 Mr. [Horman?] for 3 lbs. Paris Green at 45 cents $ 1.35
July 22 Wm. Byers for mowing at 50 cents per acre $ 3.50
Aug. 5 T. Forman for 12 lbs. sugar $ 1.00
Aug. 10 Mr. Bowman for carding 36 lbs. wool at 5 cents $ 1.80
Mr. Parish for screw driver .35
Sept. 4 D. Urquhart for plow points 45 cents, and land slide 65 cents $ 1.10
Mr. Allin for paper 16 cents, pens 20 cents .36
Mr. Parish for auger bit .40
Sept. 7 Mr. Parish for file .30
Sept. 23 Mr. McCaw for ‘Confession of Faith’ .45
T. Forman for cotton warp, ¼ bunch .45
Mrs. Martineau for spinning $ 2.00
Oct. 12 Paid Watson & Somerrville blacksmith bill $ 9.17
Nov. 12 Wm. Byers for reaping 10 acres at 50 cents per acre $ 5.00
Mr. Flint for axe and handle $2, rope 12 cents $ 2.12
Nov. 20 Alexr. Michie for threshing 1 day and 2 hours $ 9.00
Nov. 31 Mr. Bowman for scouring blankets $ 2.30
Mr. Parish for strainer 10 cents, butt 10 cents, apple pairer 75 cents .95
Brown and Ross, barrel of salt $ 1.50
Dec. 4 Mr. Parish for stove and pipes $ 9.00
Brown and Ross for basket [ ? ]
EXPENSES 1875
Jan. 2 Mr. George Flint for Globe $1.50, Montreal Witness $1 $ 2.50
Mr. Dusty for shoe packs $ 3.50
Jan. 4 McKimmel and Taylor, 2 ½ yds. cloth for pants to Robert at 90 cents $ 2.25
Cap for self $ 2.50
1 lb. tea 75 cents, paper 10 cents, pens 10 cents .95
Jan. 20 Jones Brothers for coat and muffler for Robert $ 7.00
2 bars soap .10
T. Allin for envelopes .10
T. Parish for saw set 50 cents, and snaps .66
Jan. 28 Corrigan & Campbell for braces .30
T. Allin for paper and ink .20
Jan. 30 Jones Brothers, 1 lb. tea .65
T. Allin for geography $ 1.00
Mr. Deerfield, guitar string .20
Feb. 8 Neil McArthur for 450 bricks at 85 per 100 $ 3.82
Feb. 15 Neil McArthur for 400 bricks at 85 per 100 $ 3.40
Feb. 16 Mr. Sexton, Port Perry, 400 feet lumber at 80 cents $ 3.20
Jas. Miller for Mr. McClungs salary $ 6.00
Feb. 20 Barbara to buy sundries $ 8.00
Mr. Parish for 5 gal. coal oil at 35 cents $ 1.75
Shovel $ 1.30
Mar. 23 George Gibson for weaving 23 ½ yds. at 25 cents $ 5.87
Warp $ 2.63
For tuning fork $ 1.75
Mar. 30 Mr. Worthington for 4 bushels Crown pease at 77 cents $ 3.08
2 bushels 17 lbs. Golden Vine at 75 cents $ 1.71
Freight on yarn to Brooklin .15
Apr. 5 Mr. Worthington, 32 lbs. clover at 12 cents per lb. $ 3.84
Mr. Parish, tin boiler $ 2.75
Tea kettle $ 1.15
June 4 Mr. Dusty, for boots to self $ 1.70
June 5 John for clothes $ 12.00
June 11 Mr. Dusty, grooms fees .50
June 15 R. And T. Phair for 2 pigs $ 3.00
June 16 Mr. Horsman, Uxbridge, 3 lbs. bug poison $ 1.20
Saddler for single lines $ 1.25
June 29 Dr. McClinton for attendance on Annie $ 5.50
June 30 Mr. Allin, Port Perry, 12 sheets tissue paper .24
Mr. Forman for ½ lb. soda and ¼ lb. starch .17
Mr. Rolph for waggon lines $2.50, bit 20 cents $ 2.70
July 14 George Byers for mowing $ 4.00
July 28 Mr. Allin for paper .20
Mr. Courtice for harness blacking .80
Aug. 5 George Flint for paint and oil one [?] .44
Crock to hold preserves .50
Sept. 6 Pedlar for cloth & shawl $ 5.00
Sept. 10 Robert Phair for reaping 9 acres wheat at 60 cents per acre $ 5.40
Oct. 12 Robert Watson for threshing ¾ day $ 8.50
Oct. 16 D. Urquhart, Port Perry, 2 plow points $1, land slide 60 cents,
cold chisel 40 cents $ 2.00
Jones Brothers, for boots to Mother $ 1.75
Laing & Co., 2 cattle bindings 60 cents, butcher knife 35 cents .95
Mr. Bowman for carding 20 lbs. rolls $ 1.00
Nov. 15 James Miller for Ministers salary $ 6.00
Margaret Leask for Bible Society $ 1.00
Nov. 22 Watson & Somerville, blacksmith bill $ 13.75
Dec. 1 Mr. Parish, Port Perry, for stove $ 22.50
5 gallons coal oil at 30 cents per gallon $ 1.50
sink to put under stove, file & nails .95
Mr. Wright, leather for mitts .70
Mr. Allison for iodine .15
Barbara $ 10.00
Dec. 11 Mr. Something in the Port for ½ gallon wine for communion $ 2.00
EXPENSES 1876
Feb. 5 Margaret, one dollar twenty five, borrowed money $ 1.25
John, twelve dollars for borrowed money $ 12.00
Feb. 7 Wm. 15 dollars, Robert one dollar, for borrowed money $ 16.00
Jones Brothers, Port Perry, for 6 bags $ 2.00
Feb. 8 Mr. Thomas Love for cows to bull, 4 cows $ 5.00
Feb. 10 Mr. Worthington, Port Perry, barrel of salt $ 1.30
Feb. 11 Mr. E. Dusty for mending Roberts boots .85
Mr. Perkins for tea .75
Feb. 10 John, thirty nine dollars for money borrowed $ 39.00
Feb. 17 Mr. Dusty for stud horse to black mare $ 10.00
Mar. 2 Ministers salary $ 6.00
Mar. 17 George Boddie for 7 bushels oats at 32 cents $ 2.24
Mr. Worthington, for 3 barrels plaster $ 3.75
Mar. 19 Mr. McClung for Knox College, Toronto $ 5.00
Mar. 24 Mr. Worthington, for 30 lbs. clover seed $ 3.39 ½
Mar. 24 Mr. Dusty for my [Coburg?] boots $ 2.75
Apr. 17 Henry Hall for buggie $ 77.00
May 6 Mr. Donald Mackay for apple trees $ 3.00
June 15 Corrigan & Campbell for 8 lbs. turnip seed at 17 cents $ 1.36
Laing and McHarry for scythe $1.35, plowlines 25 cents $ 1.60
Mr. Allison for 3 lbs. Paris Green at 50 cents per lb. $ 1.50
June 18 Jones Brothers, sundries $ 7.56
Mr. Morgan for Mothers boots $ 1.75
July 7 Thomas Phair for 2 pigs $ 3.00
July 30 Mr. Gould, Uxbridge, for carding .90
Mr. S. McKinnel for 2 boxes of collars .25
Aug. 5 Robert Phair for mowing 6 acres at 60 cents $ 3.60
Oct. 17 For wool carding at Port Perry .85
Watson and Somerville, blacksmith bill $ 9.00
Oct. 20 Mr. Parish, Port Perry, for shovel $ 1.00
Oct. 22 Wm. Real, taxes $ 12.75
Oct. 23 Mr. Harrington, store bill $ 12.91
Oct. 24 Mr. George Gibson, for weaving and binding warp of 15 yds. cloth $ 2.82
Mr. Gould for fulling the same .79
Oct. 29 Mr. Dusty for Roberts boots $ 4.00
Oct. 31 Robert Watson for threshing $ 8.00
Nov. 15 Mr. Bowman for carding and greasing wool .63
For plowpoint .50
Nov. 17 Robert Phair for reaping 5 acres at 60 cents per acre $ 2.00
One days work in harvest $ 1.00
Nov. 24 John for boots $ 2.00
EXPENSES 1877
Feb. 23 Mr. Henry Buel for Moody and [Sankey?] book $ 1.75
Feb. 26 Jas. Miller for Ministers salary $ 6.00
Mar. 13 Mr. Ross, Port Perry, for 14 10/60 bus. Seed wheat at $1.50 bus. $ 21.25
Pease $ 1.70
Mr. Worthington, 1 barrel salt $ 1.20
2 barrels plaster at 1.20 $ 2.40
Apr. 20 Mr. Worthington for 30 lbs. clover seed $ 4.00
Apr. 28 Mr. John Watson for present to Mr. McClung .50
Apr. 30 Mr. Alexander Horne for weaving $ 4.25
June 3 Mr. Brown for insurance of $1000 in the Isolated Co. $ 9.00
June 12 Mr. John Brown, Port Perry, for 6 lbs. turnip seed at 17 cents $ 1.00
Laing and McHarry, Port Perry, for screw nails, 2 doz. .20
Aug. 13 Mr. Iansen for plough clavis .40
Laing and McHarry for 6 lbs. nails .24
Aug. 23 Mr. Johnson for plow point .45
Mr. Rolph for mending trace .25
Thread and snaps .40
Aug. 28 Wm. Akhurst for 2 pigs $ 2.00
Sept. 19 for 2 tickets at Whitby Fair .50
Sept. 20 Mr. McCaw, Port Perry, for Mothers spectacles $ 1.00
Sept. 26 John Horne for threshing $ 10.00
Oct. 15 Laing and Meherry, Port Perry, for sundries $ 2.00
Blacksmith bill $6.95, repairing harrows $2.61 $ 9.56
Oct. 16 Wm. Real, for taxes $ 12.43
Oct. 17 Thos. Duff for gang plow $ 8.00
Oct. 22 John for brick $ 3.00
Oct. 25 John Watson for 4 cows to bull $ 3.75
Nov. 2 Mr. Dusty for Roberts boots $ 4.00
Nov. 17 Mr. Worthington for note for Bible $ 8.00
Mrs. Desfield for clock $ 4.00
EXPENSES 1878
Jan. 7 Wm. Ledingham for subscription to Globe $ 1.70
for subscription to Montreal Witness $ 1.10
Feb. 6 Margaret for money borrowed from her $ 3.00
Feb. 10 Mrs. Leask for Home and Foreign Missions $ 1.00
Feb. 12 James Miller for Ministers salary $ 6.00
for repairing manse $ 3.00
Mr. Harrington for 5 gallons coal oil & can $ 1.25
Owed Mr. Harrington .15
Feb. 15 Mr. Worthington, barrel of salt $ 1.15
Paid John money borrowed to fix barn $ 78.00
Mar. 9 Mr. Worthington, Port Perry, 1 bushel clover seed $ 4.00
1 bushel timothy seed $ 2.20
Apr. 2 E. Phoenix for clavis to gangplow .50
Mr. Linton for buckles to harness .25
C. Blackell Robinson, Toronto, for Presbyterian $ 1.00
Apr. 3 Mr. Pentland, Port Perry, for assafedia .20
Apr. 20 Mr. Worthington, Port Perry, for ½ bushel of corn .28
C. Kellet for 10 apple trees at 20 cents each $ 2.00
June 1 Mr. Worthington for 9 lb. turnip seed at 40 cents $ 3.60
June 3 Laing and McHarry, for shovel $ 1.00
June 17 Mr. Brown for repairing boxes of turnip drill .50
Corrigan and Campbell for braces .40
July 8 Mr. Jamieson, Port Perry, for weighing 2 loads of hay at 25 cents each .50
July 16 Mr. Robert Phair for mowing $ 4.00
July 27 Mr. Parish, Port Perry, for cradle $ 2.50
whitstone .10
Aug. 14 Laing & McHarry, Port Perry, pair plow lines .25
Pitch fork 50 cents, dung fork $1.20 $ 1.70
Mr. Ianson, plow point .50
Aug. 17 Dr. McClinton for medicine for knee .50
Aug. 26 Edward Phoenix for 3 gang plow points $ 1.00
Aug. 29 Mr. Johnson for plow side 45 cents, point bolt 5 cents .50
Sept. 6 Laing & McHarry for 1 key white lead $ 3.75
2 gallons boiled oil at 95 cents per gallon $ 1.90
10 lbs. nails at 4 cents per lb., jackknife 37 ½ cents .77 ½
Oct. 12 Robert Michie $ 4.00
Mr. Morgan for Mothers slippers .75
Laing and McHarry for spade $ 1.25
Oct. 15 Mr. Dusty for my boots $ 3.25
Oct. 19 Mr. Wm. Real for taxes for 1878 $ 14.64
Watson & Somerville, blacksmith bill $ 7.81
Oct. 28 George O’Leary for threshing $ 10.00
Dec. 31 Ed. Phoenix for Globe $ 1.75
EXPENSES 1879
Jan. 4 Paid John for Roberts overcoat $ 8.00
Jan. 15 Paid John Watson for 2 cows to his bull $ 2.00
Feb. 6 John Leask, subscription for New Church $ 50.00
Feb. 15 Wm. for Mr. Achisons salary $ 6.00
Feb. 17 Paid Alexr. Michie for 10 bushels bearded wheat at 75 cents $ 7.50
Mar. 11 Robert Phair for 2 cows to bull $ 1.00
Feb. 27 Paid Robert Phair for 10 bushels barley at 60 cents $ 6.00
May 6 Robert Michie for clover seed, 30 lbs. $ 1.90
Ann Michie for 36 lbs. timothy seed $ 1.10
Mr. Currie, Port Perry, for barrel of salt $ 1.35
Mr. Davis for ½ bushel corn .35
Laing and McHarry for shoe thread .10
May 15 Jones Brothers for 8 lbs. turnip seed at 18 cents $ 1.44
McCaw for 14 pens .10
July 17 Laing and McHarry for grass scythe $ 1.25
10 lbs. nails .40
Sept. 11 John Horne for threshing, one day $ 19.00
Oct. 7 Mr. Morgan for boots to self $ 4.00
Medical hall for breast pipe .66
Oct. 9 Wm. Real, taxes for 1879 $ 10.09
Dr. Bingham for medicine and attendance $ 1.00
Oct. 11 Laing & McHarry for lantern .60
Oct. 14 Mr. Allison for breast pipe .40
Ink .04
Oct. 16 Wm., Mr. Achisons salary $ 6.00
Oct. 18 Mr. Anderson for 1 acre of wood $ 7.00
Oct. 20 Mr. Harringtons account $ 1.66
Oct. 21 Paid John in full $ 48.00
Watson & Somerville, blacksmith bill $ 8.32
Nov. 1 Robert Phair for 2 pigs $ 3.00
Dec. 5 Laing & McHarry for axe $1.25, file 10 cents $ 1.35
Mr. Bateman for box of ointment to horse .50
Mr. Allison for flax seed meal, 3 lbs. .30
Dec. 25 Miss Bella Leask for Presbyterian $ 1.65
Mr. Ledingham for Globe $ 1.50
Mr. Dusty for Roberts boots $ 4.00
for 2 tickets at Church entertainment .80
EXPENSES 1880
Jan. 5 Dr. Bingham for medicine and attendance on Annie $ 3.00
Jan. 31 Mr. McGaw for ½ gallon port wine for Sacrament $ 2.00 (repaid)
Laing & McHarry for wrench $ 1.00
Mr. McCaw for paper and pens .15
Miss [Hiscocks?] for 2 loaves bread .15
Feb. 18 Laing & McHarry for 2 lights 10 & 12 cents, putty 3 cents .25
cloud nails 20 cents .20
Feb. 23 paid to John, money borrowed $ 5.00
Feb. 24 Robert Phair for 5 cows to bull $ 5.00
for mowing $ 2.00
Feb. 27 Wm. Michie for Mr. Achisons salary $ 7.50
Apr. 15 Bought of D. Urquhart, Port Perry, Kirby No. 3 B. Reaper for $120
$50 payable 1
st
Feb. 1881 and $70 payable 1
st
Feb. 1882
without interest
Apr. 20 Laing and McHarry for spade $ 1.25
Apr. 24 Mr. John Real for 10 bushels seed wheat $ 13.00
Apr. 27 Paid Mr. David Urquhart on reaper $ 31.60
Mr. Christian, Manchester, for 50 lbs. clover seed at 6 ¼ cents $ 3.12
Apr. 30 Wm. Ledingham for insurance $1000 for 3 years from 2
nd
June $ 9.00
May 15 Mr. Madill for 1 bushel of corn .95
May 15 Mr. Curtis for snaps .30
Mr. Corrigan for braces .20
Mr. Reynolds, setting 4 shoes .40
June 10 Mr. Parish, for wire .70
Mr. Allison for salt petre .10
June 30 Mr. Allison, 2 lbs. Paris Green at 40 cents .80
July 1 for ticket to tea at Anniversary .20
July 10 Mr. Reynolds for setting 4 shoes .40
Mr. Allison for ink .04
Sept. 13 Thos. Scott, for threshing, 1 day $ 9.00
Sept. 20 Mr. Reynolds for horse shoeing .60
Sept. 21 Mr. Robert Harringtons bill for 1880 $ 2.50
Sept. 25 Mr. Bateman for attendance and horse medicine $ 2.00
Mr. Forman for 3 yds. duck for pants at 23 cents .79
Buttons and spool .05
Mr. Morgan for boots to self $ 3.85
McHarry for lamp glass .08
Mr. [Deisfield?] for spectacles 50 cents, case 5 cents .55
Sept. 29 Barley fork at Jas. Hornes sale .15
Mr. Linton for plow harness $ 9.00
Oct. 1 John Lee for lamb $ 2.75
Somervilles blacksmith bill $ 5.57
Oct. 16 Mr. E. Dusty for Roberts boots $ 4.00
Oct. 18 Mr. Achisons salary for six months $ 7.50
Oct. 20 Mr. A. Ross, Port Perry, for 8 ½ bushels pease at 15 cents $ 5.50
Mr. Parish, 4 gallons coal oil at 35 cents $ 1.40
chalk line .15
Laing & McHarry for 2 cattle chains at 35 cents .70
1 pr. Hinges 15 cents, screw nails 2 doz. 10 cents .25
Mr. Wright , hair for Wms. plaster .35
Nov. [?] Mr. Dusty for Roberts boots course $ 3.80
Dec. 1 Mr. Dusty for fine boots $ 4.25
Dec. 22 Laing & McHarry for sleigh bells $ 1.00
Corrigan, sugar $ 1.00
Mr. Wm. Ledingham for Globe $ 1.50
Dec. 24 Annie and Margaret 50 cents each $ 1.00
Through tickets for Mother and me at 40 cents each .80
Miss Bella Leask, subscription for Canada Presbyterian $ 1.50
Mr. W. Ledingham, subscription for Montreal Witness to go to Utah $ 1.10
EXPENSES 1881
Jan. 18 Mr. Harrington for bed cord .25
Jan. 22 Mr. Dusty for shoe packs $3.50, grease 10 cents $ 3.60
Jan. 26 Note on reaper to Harris Son & Co., Brantford $ 18.40
Feb. 4 Paid to George on money borrowed $ 40.00
Feb. 5 Mr. McCaw for ½ gallon wine for sacrament (repaid) $ 2.50
Mrs. Hiscock for 2 loaves bread .12
Mar. 4 Wm., Ministers salary $ 7.50
Mar. 14 Mr. Reynolds for putting new shoes on one bob $ 2.50
Mar. 26 Mr. Bateman for medicine to mare .75
Mr. McCaw for ½ quire of paper 10 cents, pens 5 cents for dozen .15
Apr. 1 Mr. Henry Buel, 48 lbs. clover seed at 8 1/3 cents per lb. $ 4.00
Apr. 6 Mr. Robert Phair for mowing at 60 cents per acre $ 1.60
Apr. 25 Mr. Corrigan for Roberts suit and hat $ 21.75
Mr. Wright for pease at 75 cents per bushel $ 2.50
somebody for 10 lbs. timothy seed at 6 cents per lb. .60
May 7 Mr. Kellet for 5 apple trees $ 1.00
May 12 Laing & McHarry for shovel $ 1.00
Mr. Johnston for 2 bolts to plow .16
Mr. Campbell for potatoes .93
Blacksmith for mending plow brace .90
Mr. Tate for 3 gang plow points .75
Mr. Edward Phoenix for picture frame .75
May 18 Laing & McHarry for razor strop .75
May 24 Mr. Ledingham for ticket to tea .25
Mr. Dusty for shoes $ 2.25
May 27 for 2 return tickets to Portage Road and back to Wick $ 2.00
June 23 Dr. McClinton for medicine to Mother .75
June 28 Mr. Glide for 5 spokes and 2 fillies in waggon wheel $ 2.00
June 29 Laing & McHarry for scythe $ 1.25
Mr. McCaw for hymn book .35
July 1 for Anniversary tickets .50
July 4 Pedlar for haim straps .45
July 5 Laing and McHarry for auger .90
July 13 Mr. Reynolds for setting 4 shoes .40
Harness maker for oil to harness .50
July 21 Dr. Anderson, P. Perry, for medicine and attendance on
Margaret (5 visits) $ 11.00
July 21 Mr. Allison for 1 lb. Paris Green 40 cents, 1 bottle ink 5 cents .45
Laing and McHarry for file 20 cents, whetstone 10 cents, nails 25 cents .55
Aug. 1 Laing and McHarry, razor $ 1.00
Mr. Parrish for fly trap .35
Brandy for Robert and sundries $ 10.00
Mr. Parrish for mouse trap .30
Sept. [?] Reynolds for shoeing horse and clip on whiffletree .50
Sept. 14 for sharping cutter .10
Mr. Johnston for 2 plow points .75
Corrigan for 1 [?] $ 1.75
Sept. 23 Thomas Scott on threshing $ 9.00
Sept. 26 Mr. Corrigan, sundries $ 1.90
Sept. 27 Dr. Anderson for medical attendance on Robert, 17 visits at $2 $ 42.50
Sept. 28 Mr. Allison for coal oil, 3 gallons $ 1.20
Sept. 29 Mr. Corrigan for braces .60
Sept. 30 Thomas Phair for lamb to kill for threshing $ 2.25
Oct. 5 Andrew Peat for waggon, $3 discount, 7 per cent $ 30.79
Thomas Scott, balance on threshing $ 2.00
Mr. Wm. Real, taxes for 1881 $ 8.76
Oct. 12 Wm. for Mr. Achisons salary $ 8.00
Oct. 19 Mr. McCaw for 2 hymn books .70
Mr. Tate, 2 plow points and land slide $ 1.00
Mr. Brock for 1 lb. tea .50
Oct. 21 Laing & McHarry for axe $1, snaps 35 cents $ 1.35
Oct. 24 Paid R. Harringtons bill $ 8.80
Paid Somervilles blacksmith bill $ 6.60
Dec. 20 Mr. [?], 59 bushels oats at 42 cents $ 24.78
Mr. Ross, 1 barrel salt, 2 Globes, 2 tickets $ 4.10
Laing & McHarry, horse brush and cattle comb $ 1.30
EXPENSES 1882
Jan. 14 Mr. Reynolds for setting shoes .80
Dr. McClinton for St. Jacobs oil .50
Mr. Thompson for ink 5 cents, envelopes 14 cents .19
Dr. McClinton, purse .40
postage and letter to Utah 3 cents, letter to [?] 5 cents .08
Jan. 18 George Byers for 2 cows to bull $ 3.00
Robert Phair for mowing 6 acres at 60 cents per acre
2 pigs $3, balance 67 cents $ 3.67
Jan. 19 Alexr. Lee for threshing $ 1.00
Jan. 26 Note on reaper to Harris, Son & Co., Brantford $ 70.00
Mr. Lee for Mr. Achison $ 1.25
Feb. 18 Mr. Somebody for wine to sacrament, $2.50 received, in return $2 $ 2.00
for rope to tie horses, Laing & McHarry .50
Thompson for [?] and hymnal .70
Feb. 22 Mr. Hurd, Prince Albert, for a cow $ 40.00
Mar. 4 Mr. Corrigan for 3 gallons coal oil at 25 cents .75
Mr. Wright for barrel of salt $ 1.10
Mar. 7 Mr. Walker for seeder $50, Mr. Akhurst paying half $ 25.00
Mar. 9 Laing & McHarry for 6 lbs.nails .25
Mar. 24 Tinsmith, Port Perry, 2 dishes 45 cents, mending 5 cents .50
Thompson, for Daily Globe .03
Apr. 10 Mr. Campbell, 30 lbs. clover seed 8 ½ cents per lb or $5 per bushel $ 2.50
24 lbs. timothy seed at 8 ½ cents per lb or $4 per bushel $ 2.00
Apr. 14 Mr. Akhurst for 20 lbs. clover seed at 8 ½ cents per lb. $ 1.67
Apr. 22 Mr. Joshua Wright, 2 bushels pease at 90 cents per bushel $ 1.80
Mr. Corrigan for 3 yds duck at 25 cents per yd. .75
1 yd. factory cotton 9 cents, buttons and thread .23
May 1 Mr. Reynolds for 2 new shoes 60 cents, setting 20 cents .80
May 3 Mr. Corrigan for sugar $ 1.00
Mrs. Harrington for straw hat .20
Mr. Dusty for leather to pump sucker .25
May 13 somebody for bushel of feed corn $ 1.00
Mr. Dusty for Mothers shoes $ 1.20
May 16 one bottle St. Jacobs Oil .50
May 26 Mr. Thorne for medicine for horse .75
somebody for tar .25
June 12 Mr. Somebody, 12 lbs. turnip seed at 18 cents $ 2.16
Mr. Derby, plow point .40
June 22 Mr. Reynolds for setting 4 shoes .40
June 29 Daly and Grange for [tea?] delivered in 1881 $ 9.00
July 3 gave note for sewing machine to Mr. Tupper for $36, payable
17
th
December 1882
July 1 at Anniversary for tickets .50
July 3 Mr. Wesley Luke for 2 lbs. Paris Green .80
July 15 Mr. Charles Tupper, old sewing machine in payment of new one $ 10.00
Laing and McHarry, 2 lbs. Paris Green 80 cents, scythe stone 10 cents .90
July 24 Laing and McHarry for ½ gal. cartorine & [yelat?] iron .85
Mr. Corrigan, coat $3, 3 gal. coal oil 75 cents, barrel 60 cents $ 4.35
Reynolds for shoeing horses .40
July 27 Robert Phair for mowing 5 acres at 60 cents per acre $ 3.00
for all healing ointment .20
July 31 Mr. Weeks, Uxbridge, Psalm and hymn book .75
Mucilage and ink .15
Aug. 29 for fare to Lindsay from Seagrave and back $ 1.20
Sept. 4 Mr. Ackerman, Port Perry, for fixing horse collars $ 2.00
Sept. 8 Mr. Blair for 5 ½ bushels fall wheat at $1.20 per bushel $ 6.60
Sept. 11 Mr. Reynolds for shoeing horses, setting 4 shoes .40
Laing & McHarry for 5 lbs. nails .20
Oct. 14 Mr. Darby, Port Perry, 2 plow points .75
Corrigan for butter tub .30
Oct. 17 Mr. Darby for land side .35
Mr. Thomas Phair for threshing $8 ½, sheep $3 $ 11.50
Oct. 18 Mr. Somerville, blacksmith bill $ 3.92
Oct. 26 Cloth pedlar for pants and shirts $ 1.75
on cloth $11 and note for 30 dollars payable 26
th
Aug, 1883 to
Mr. Gorman at Port Perry Bank $ 11.00
Nov. 14 Margaret $ 5.00
for 3 gallons coal oil .60
Nov. 29 Mr. Reynolds for shoeing horses $ 1.60
Dec. 10 Mr. Charles Tupper, note on sewing machine $ 37.40
Dec. 27 Dr. Anderson, in full up to date $ 5.00
Dec. 28 for binding rope .25
EXPENSES 1883
Jan. 2 George Byers for 3 cows to bull $ 4.50
Jan. 5 T. Corrigan, bill of sundries $ 17.40
Jan. 22 Mr. John Lee for Church debt $ 20.00
Jan. 30 Mr. Reynolds for shoeing horses .40
Mr. McCaw for paper, pens, envelopes & Globe .40
Feb. 6 Mr. James Scott for 2 lbs. black tea at 60 cents $ 1.20
Feb. 25 Laing & McHarry for jackknife 50 cents, tie rope 12 ½ cents .62 ½
Mr. Allison for 3 pints wine to sacrament $ 1.25
St. Jacobs Oil .50
Hiscocks for 2 loaves bread .12 ½
Harness maker, 2 large snaps .20
William, Mr. Achisons salary $ 7.00
Mar. 27 Mr. J. Wright, Port Perry, ½ bushel clover seed at 14 ½ cents per lb. $ 4.25
1 bushel timothy seed at 6 ¼ cents per lb. $ 3.00
Apr. 2 Thomas Phair for ½ bushel clover seed at 11 cents per lb. $ 3.50
2 ½ bushels pease at 83 cents per bushel $ 2.07
Apr. 5 Mr. Reynolds, shoeing horses .40
Apr. 7 Mr. Dusty for Roberts boots $ 4.00
Apr. 28 Mr. Gully & Co. for buggy tongue $ 2.50
May 4 Mr. Reynolds for setting horse shoe .10
May 17 Mr. Parish, Port Perry, 1 shovel $1.10, trap 45 cents, tacks 20 cents $ 1.75
Mr. Corrigan for straw hat .25
Mr. Brock for coat and vest $ 7.00
Mr. Kellet for 6 trees and rose bush $ 1.50
May 19 Mr. Grange for 20 lbs. tea delivered 29
th
June 1882 $ 10.00
May 24 Mr. Wm. Ledingham for insurance for 3 years $ 9.00
ticket to party .20
May 29 Ticket to Woodville from Wick .40
Ticket from Woodville to Uxbridge .75
somebody for oranges .25
Mr. Taylor for ride from Greenbank to Wick Station .25
June 16 Sent by letter to C. Blackell Robinson for Presbytry $ 2.00
June 18 paid note to Mr. Gorman for cloth due 26
th
Aug. $ 30.00
Laing and McHarry for chain to turnip sower .20
plowlines .50
June 22 Laing and McHarry for hoe .50
June 25 Ralph Somerville for neck yoke $ 1.50
July 2 Mr. Markham for 13 ½ pounds of wool at 20 cents $ 2.70
Ticket at Primitive Anniversary .25
sweets .10
July 5 settled with Wm. to date $ 5.00
July 9 Mr. Something, grooms fee for stud horse $ 1.00
July 19 Mr. Somebody at Uxbridge for carding 16 lbs. wool .80
July 28 Laing and McHarry for paint & oil and pitch fork $ 6.30
Aug. 6 Mr. O’Neil for brick at 6 ½ dollars per thousand $ 11.38
Aug. 8 Mr. Harrington for clout nails .18
Mr. S. Dusty for leather to pump sucker .25
Aug. 30 Mr. [blank] for reaper .80
Sept. 26 Mr. Reynolds for shoeing horses .40
Oct. 2 Margaret for her heifer $ 35.00
Oct. 5 Harman and John O’Leary for threshing 1 day $ 10.00
Oct. 6 Wm. George for driving heifer to P. Albert .50
Oct. 10 Mr. John Lee for lamb $ 3.00
Oct. 20 Wm. for Mr. Achisons salary $ 7.00
George on money borrowed $ 20.00
Oct. 31 Annie $ 5.00
Nov. 7 some man for Russian Mulberry tree $ 1.00
Nov. 23 Wesley Luke, new plow $13. Robert pay $7 by reaping in 1883 and
the rest to be paid with reaping in 1884
Dec. 24 S. Dusty for my shoe packs $ 2.40
Mr. Somerville for blacksmith bill .85
Mr. Phoenix for 2 copies of Globe $ 2.00
Mr. Harrington for lamp glass .10
Dec. 26 James Smith for Witness .75
Dec. 27 Annie, to go to Clifford $ 5.60
EXPENSES 1884
Jan. 21 Annie to go to Port Perry $ 2.50
Mr. Reynolds for blacksmith work .40
Feb. 11 J. M. Real for 2 cows to bull $ 4.00
Feb. 21 Mr. Allison for 3 pints unfermented wine for Sacrament $ 1.25
Hiscock for 2 loaves bread .12
Mr. McCaw, paper and envelopes .25
Feb. 25 Mr. Lee to pay debt on the Church $ 5.00
Mar. 11 Wm. for salary to Mr. Achison $ 8.00
Apr. 1 Mr. Reynolds for shoeing horse .40
for coal oil, 4 gallons .75
Apr. 15 Mr. [Curtis?], Port Perry, 35 lbs. clover seed at 12 ½ cents $ 4.38
1 bushel timothy seed at [?] $ 2.25
Apr. 30 Mr. Harrington for plow lines .45
May 1 Mr. Akhurst for 15 ½ lbs. clover and timothy seed $ 1.33
May 8 Borrowed of John, paid 21
st
October $ 20.00
May 9 Mr. Derby, Port Perry, for plow [gaws?] .50
May 22 Robert to get boots at Greenbank $ 5.00
May 24 Annie to go to Lindsay $ 1.00
June 2 Mr. Somerville for mending plow handle .25
other mending .15
June 14 Ross & Sons for 9 lbs. turnip seed at 15 cents per lb. $ 1.35
Hiscocks, for 2 oranges to Lizzie .10
June 27 Miss Leask and Miss McMillan for Jas. Allen .50
Mr. Brown for 1 lb. Paris Green .40
July 1 Mr. Reynolds for setting 3 shoes 30 cents, one new 30 cents .60
Mr. McCaw for pens .10
Annie $ 1.00
self for ticket at Methodist Anniversary .25
July 19 Mr. Samuel Dusty for boots to self $ 1.90
Sept. 5 for mares foot fixing and sundries $ 1.00
Sept. 21 J. Harman and J. O’Leary for threshing $ 8.00
Oct. 13 Mr. Reynolds for shoeing horses, 2 new, 2 removed .80
Mr. Curtice, 4 snaps .20
Oct. 14 Mr. Achisons salary $ 8.00
Nov. 8 Samuel Dusty for my boots $ 2.65
Somervilles bill .45
Nov. 11 Mr. Holman, taxes $ 12.66
Nov. 15 Mr. Dalay, tea man, for tea $ 9.00
left 20 lb. tea in tin can, 45 cents per lb. payable the 15
th
of August 1885 ($9.00)
Nov. 20 Mr. Corrigan, Port Perry, for overcoat $ 10.00
Nov. 27 Mr. R. Somerville for bolt to buggy .05
Dec. 4 Mr. A. Reynolds for sharping 4 shoes .40
Dec. 23 Miss Phoenix for 2 Globes $ 2.00
Mr. Real for cow to bull $ 2.00
Mr. Dusty for mending Annies boots .25
EXPENSES 1885
Jan. 19 John and Robert, $5 each $ 10.00
Jan. 21 John for Mr. James Scott $ 2.00
Jan. 24 John for Thomas Phair at threshing .50
Feb. 5 Dr. for visits to Robert $ 4.00
Feb. 7 Annie to go to Whitby $ 5.00
Feb. 10 John to pay George for money borrowed $ 15.00
Feb. 12 For sawing 2 logs, Mr. Bedford $ 1.95
Feb. 17 Mr. Parks for colt, $23 from John, $10 from Robert, $12 from self $ 12.00
Mar. 7 Mr. Andrew Reynolds for shoeing horses .40
Mar. 20 paid borrowed money to John $ 20.00
Mar. 21 paid borrowed money from Robert $ 10.00
Apr. 9 Mr. Timothy Cragg for boards to stoneboat $ 1.50
Apr. 21 somebody for 40 lbs. clover seed at 11 ½ cents $ 4.50
May 18 Mr. Reynolds for [shoeing horses?] .60
May 19 Wm. for [?] $ 3.25
[writing at this point in the diary is quite faded and almost illegible]
May 25 Mr. Bungard for 2 steers to be taken away about the 20
th
June
$60 received
June 8 Mr. Brown, 10 lbs. turnip seed .70
July 14 Mr. Allison for 1 lb. Paris Green .40
July 17 Mr. Gully for 2 whiffletrees $ 2.00
2 clavises .50
July 20 Annie to pay organ $ 5.00
July 21 Mr. Harrington for scythe $ 1.80
Mr. Linton for [?] bridle .25
Aug. 12 Mr. Sam Dusty for Coburg boots for self $ 3.00
Mr. Harrington for [?] .35
Aug. 24 Robert to go to Whitby $ 10.00
Aug. 26 Mr. Daly for tea, 20 lbs. $ 9.00
Sept. 11 Mr. Curtice for double lines and snaps $ 2.50
Mr. Luke [bushel basket?] .25
Sept. 16 [?] for shoeing horse .10
Sept. 21 Mr. Wheeler for 18 lbs. beef at 8 cents $ 1.44
Sept. 23 Robert Watson for threshing, 7 ½ hours $ 7.50
Sept. 25 Laing and McHenry for axe handle .25
Oct. 2 Mr. George [?] for plow points .90
Mr. Reynolds for sharping coulter .10
Oct. 16 Mr. Holman, taxes $ 12.90
Mrs. Harrington, for rope .19
Mrs. S. Dusty for shoe laces .10
Oct. 19 Revd. Mr. Burns for endowment of Knox College $ 5.00
and to pay $5 on the 30 Dec. ’86, & $5 on 31 Dec. ‘87
paid in full 8
th
Nov, 1988
Dec. 1 Laing and McHarry for jackknife .50
Mr. Allison for 1 bottle white oil .25
EXPENSES 1886
Jan. 27 Barrel of salt, 1 currie comb $ 1.30
Jan. 28 George Byers, 4 cows to bull $ 7.50
Feb. 23 Mr. Allison for wine to Sacrament $ 2.50
Mr. Hiscock for 2 loaves of bread .13
William for 2 bushels pease $ 1.20
Feb. 27 Mr. Andrew Reynolds for setting 2 shoes 20
Mar. 2 Wm. for ministers salary $ 7.00
Mar. 10 John Fowlie for 54 lbs. clover seed $ 4.55
Mar. 11 Mr. Andrew Reynolds for shoeing horses .75
Mar. 27 Mr. Gross for barley fork .75
Apr. 19 Andrew Reynolds for sharping harrows $ 1.40
Mr. Downie for 4 bushels pease at 65 cents $ 2.60
Apr. 21 Wesley Luke for boar to pig $ 1.00
Apr. 24 Wesley Luke for timothy seed $ 1.75
Mr. Bungard for 12 ½ lbs. beef at 7 cents .85
Apr. 29 Mr. Allison for bottle Dr. Chase Liver Cure
2
$ 1.00
A. Reynolds for setting 4 shoes .40
May 12 Curtis & Henderson for 3 bags salt at 65 cents $ 1.95
Flax seed and turnip seed and sundries $ 2.60
May 17 Mr. Somerville for 8 harrow teeth, 10 cents each .80
Mrs. Harrington for ½ lb. hellebore .20
1 pair plow lines each 22 feet long .30
May 31 Mr. Dovenport for John, shirt $1.20, neck tie 40 cents $ 1.60
June 7 Mr. Young for lumber (hemlock) $ 7.50
June 9 Laing & McHarry for nails .95
trounce for lumber $ 4.25
John .75
June 11 Laing & McHarry, nails .25
June 26 Laing and McHarry, grindstone .75
nails and hinges .80
Mr. Allison, Paris Green, 1 lb. .40
Mr. Reynolds, horse shoeing .80
July 16 Mr. Beare, 5 bus. 28 lbs. oats for 76 lbs. oatmeal
July 21 Mr. Minty, subscription for Globe $ 1.00
Laing & McHarry for butcher knife .40
for rolled oat meal .25
Mr. O’Neil for shingles [no dollar amount was entered]
Aug. 12 Mr. McCaw for paper of machine needles .50
Mr. Brock for buttons .10
Sept. 6 Mr. Linton for tie rope and snaps .40
Mrs. Harrington for tie rope .20
Aug. 22 Mr. Brown for main frame to reaper $ 4.00
Mr. Mundy for specs $ 1.00
Mr. Allison for machine oil 10 cents, spec case 5 cents .15
Aug. 27 James Bush for threshing 10 hours $ 10.00
Oct. 25 paid taxes to Mr. Holman $ 12.67
Oct. 29 Laing & McHarry for pocket knife .50
hangings for pigs door .50
Nov. 1 Miss Mary McMillan for present to Mr. Johnston $ 1.00
Nov. 8 paid subscription to endow Knox College $ 10.00
2
According to an advertisement found in The Qu’Appelle Progress of Aug. 24, 1899 “Dr. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills
positively and permanently cure the most complicated diseases of the kidneys and liver.”
Nov. 8 Mr. S. Dusty for boots to self $ 2.75
Mr. Harrington for sundries .50
Nov. 13 Mr. Desfield for cleaning clock .75
Dec. 21 Mr. More for two subscriptions for Witness $ 1.60
Dec. 25 for 2 tickets to supper in Presbyterian Church .70
Dec. 28 for 2 tickets to social in Presbyterian Church .20
[At this point in the diary, John switches to records of his income]
1869
PAID UNPAID
May 25 James Walker, 3 bushels potatoes at 50 cents per bushel $ 1.50
Alexr. Michie, 5 bushels oats at 50 cents per bushel $ 2.50
May 26 Wm. Dusty, 1 bushel small potatoes .40
May 27 received of Mr. R. Phair for bull at 4 cows $ 2.00
June 1 Mrs. Gordon, 12 bushels potatoes at 50 cents .75
Colin Miller, 11 bushels oats at 50 cents $ 5.50
June 2 John Belford, 1 pig (rec’d $4 on 14
th
Oct., $2 19
th
Jan.) $ 6.00
June 5 George Boddie, 6 bushels of potatoes at 50 cents $ 3.00
June 8 Mr. James Cochrane, 2 bushels oats at 50 cents $ 1.00
June 10 Mr. Thomas Love, 2 bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 1.00
June 18 Mr. Craig, weaver, 1 ½ bushels potatoes $ 1.50
June 19 Mr. Luke, 1 bushel of potatoes .50
June 21 Mr. W. Ferguson, 1 pig $ 7.00
Received from Mr. James McPhail all the money he owes me $ 9.00
Mr. William Minto, 1 ½ bushels oats at 50 cents .75
June 23 Mr. John Belford, 3 bushels potatoes at 50 cents, paid $2 $ 2.00
June 25 Received from Colin Miller the sum of 5 ½ dollars being the price of
11 bushels of oats he received on the first of June 1869 $ 5.50
July 1 Mr. James Walker, 1 ½ bushels of potatoes .75
July 2 Mr. Luke, ½ bushel potatoes and ½ bushel on the 26 June .50
July 6 Mr. Love, 2 bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 1.00
July 8 Paid for A. Gordons rolls at Bowmans, Whitby (repaid) $ 1.05
July 8 Paid for G. Boddies rolls at Bowmans Whitby (repaid) .85
July 9 Mr. E. Luke, ½ bushel potatoes .25
July 14 Mr. W. Ferguson, 4 bushels oats at 50 cents $ 2.00
Mr. E. Luke, ½ bushel potatoes .25
July 19 Mr. E. Luke, ½ bushel potatoes .25
July 20 Mr. Love, 2 bushels potatoes $ 1.00
July 27 Mr. E. Luke, ½ bushel potatoes .25
Mr. George Boddie, 6 bushels fall wheat $ 6.00
Aug. 6 Mr. Amos Stone, 8 lambs at $1.90 each. Received thereon 5 dollars $ 15.20
Aug. 13 Mr. E. Luke, 6 bushels spring wheat $ 1.00
Aug. 17 Mr. John Bailey, borrowed $30 for 3 weeks, paid $ 30.00
Sept. 6 Mr. George Boddie, 1 sheep $ 3.00
Oct. 19 Mr. A. Gordon, 7 lbs. salt for A. Michie
Oct. 27 Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, 52 5/6 bushels barley at 50 cents $ 26.40
Oct. 29 Loaned to Wm. Michie $ 5.00
Brown & Christian, 48 5/6 bushels barley at 50 cents $ 24.40
Nov. 26 A. Stone, 1 cow to be kept til Christmas week, $2 paid this date $ 28.00
Dec. 15 Brown and Christian, Manchester, 1 pig, 290 at $8.75 $ 25.00
Dec. 18 Received from E. Luke 5 bushels potatoes for what potatoes he got
from me in the summer
Dec. 20 Mr. Alex. Gordon, 7 bushels spring wheat paid by work
Dec. 24 Received from George, 27 dollars out of 59 dollars for machine $ 27.00
1870
Jan. 28 9 13/54 bushels oats to Manchester Mills for oat meal, received 130 lbs.
Jan. 31 1 bushel pease to A. Gordon paid by work
Feb. 4 Received of Alexr. Michie the sum of 34 dollars to apply on account $ 34.00
Feb. 16 22 dollars loaned to Wm.
Mar. 22 35 42/60 spring wheat, Brown & Christian at 78 cents per bushel $ 27.84
Mar. 23 44 13/60 bushels wheat, Brown & Christian, at 79 cents $ 34.96
Mar. 31 12 ½ bushels barley, Brown & Christian, at 40 cents $ 5.00
Apr. 7 John Belford, 10.2 bushels spring wheat, present price of 79 cents,
this to be paid in fall $ 11.00
Mr. Duff brought home 4 sheep for the two he got on the 4 April 1867
Apr. 9 Mr. George Boddie, 2 sheep to double in 3 years, present value
4 ½ dollars each returned 4 sheep
Apr. 13 Mr. Thomas Phair, 2 sheep to double in 3 years returned
May 2 Mr. Asling, ½ bushel wheat .40
May 12 Mr. Ratenberger, 2 bushels oats at 30 cents .60
May 14 James Walker, 10 bushels wheat at $1.10, paid by hay ½ ton $3.50,
balance due of $7.50 paid 10
th
November
June 14 Mr. Knox, Cassidy cow $ 37.00
June 23 Wm. borrowed $12 $ 12.00
July 5 Adam Gordon, Manchester, 40 [?] bushels at 32 cents $ 13.15
July 16 Thomas Phair, 1 bushel spring wheat $ 1.00
July 20 Brown and Christian, 9 bushels wheat at $1.10 $ 9.90
July 25 Mr. Amos Stone, 8 lambs at 2 dollars each $ 16.00
Aug. 1 Mrs. John Gordon, 2 pigs at $1.50 each $ 3.00
Mrs. James Walker, 2 pigs at $1.00 $ 2.00
Aug. 2 Mr. George Boddie, 2 pigs at $1.50 $ 3.00
Michael Martineau, 1 pig $1.50 paid by spinning
Sept. 21 Brown & Christian, 44 32/48 bushels barley at 68 cents $ 30.37
Sept. 22 Brown & Christian, 45 bushels barley at 68 cents $ 30.60
Sept. 23 Brown & Christian, 21 32/48 bushels barley at 66 cents $ 14.43
1871
Jan. 12 Edward Phoenix, 1 pig 273 lbs. at $6.25 per hundred $ 17.31
Feb. 8 Henry [?], 2 heifers at 36 each, paid $12, to be delivered at
Greenbank 13
th
Feb.
Feb. 13 delivered said heifers and paid in full $ 72.00
Feb. 14 George loaned
Feb. 20 Received from George the sum of 29 dollars $ 29.00
Mar. 16 Received from John Belford the sum of 11 dollars for wheat he
got April 7
th
1870
Apr. 1 Mr. Cochrane, Port Perry, for Mrs. Walker, paid June 20 $ 5.00
Apr. 9 Alexr. [Knor or Knox] mulley steer $ 34.00
May 17 Mr. Akhurst, 10 bushels potatoes at 30 cents $ 3.00
June 3 Henry Cragg, 5 bushels potatoes at 30 cents $ 1.50
July 6 Walter Aslin, 3 bushels potatoes at 30 cents .90
Isaac Cragg, 1 ½ bushels potatoes .45
Mr. Roberts, Port Perry, 15 bushels potatoes at 40 cents per bushel $ 6.20
July 6 Joseph Bagshaw, 6 bushels potatoes at 30 cents $ 1.80
July 7 Mr. Dusty, 3 bushels potatoes at 30 cents paid by work
July 15 Mrs. A. Gordon, paid 60 lbs. flour with hoeing at 3 cents $ 1.80
July 17 Received from George Michie to apply on Alexr. Michies account $ 15.25
July 19 Joseph Bigelow, Port Perry, 2 tubs butter at 21 cents per lb. .79
July 14 Mr. Akhurst, 4 pigs at 75 cents $ 3.00
Mr. Perkins, 3 young pigs at 75 cents $ 2.25
Aug. 2 George Anderson, 12 lambs at $2 each $ 24.00
Aug. 14 Mr. Wm. Perkins, 4 bushels, 16 lbs. of wheat to be returned paid
Sept. 28 Mr. Wright, cowhide, 45 lbs. at 6 cents per lb. $ 2.70
Oct. 10 Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, 29 bushels barley at 50 cents $ 14.50
Oct. 19 Brown & Christian, 51 bushels barley at 50 cents $ 25.50
Oct. 23 Received from Mr. Wm. Akhurst for 4 pigs $3, 10 bushels
potatoes 3 dollars $ 7.00
Nov. 11 Joseph Bigelow, 15 bushels potatoes at 30 cents $ 4.50
Dec. 30 Mr. A. Gordon, Manchester, 2 pigs 282 & 242 at $5.10 per hundred $ 25.77
1872
Jan. 19 John Belford, 2 bags of wheat $ 5.00
Mr. Wm. Perkins for 4 pigs at 75 cents $ 3.00
Feb. 5 A. Gordon, Manchester, 42 bushels, 7 lb. wheat at $1.15 $ 48.83
Feb. 7 A. Gordon, Manchester, 48 bushels, 5 lb. wheat at $1.16 $ 55.75
Apr. 6 John Belford, 5 bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 2.50
22 ¾ lbs. pork at 8 cents $ 1.82
May 10 Wm. Akhurst, 6 bushels pease at 60 cents $ 3.60
1 bushel Early Rose potatoes paid
May 16 James Scott, 10 bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 5.00
May 17 James Bigelow, Port Perry, 24 bushels of potatoes at 50 cents $ 12.00
Mr. Hill, Brock, 13 bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 6.50
John Belford, 7 ½ bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 3.75
May 22 George Michie, 4 bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 2.00
May 23 Mr. Hill, Brock, 7 bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 3.50
Mr. Belford, 9 ½ bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 4.75
Mr. Robert Miller, 4 bushels potatoes $ 2.00
June 7 Mr. A. Gordon, 13 bushels of oats at 50 cents $ 6.50
15 bushels of potatoes at 40 cents $ 6.00
21 lbs. wool at 33 1/3 cents $7, 11 lbs. at 50 cents $ 12.50
Tub of butter at 17 cents per lb. $ 9.52
June 10 Mr. R. King, 1 bushel potatoes at 50 cents .50
June 12 Mr. Adam Gordon, Manchester, 46 7/48 of barley at 58 cents $ 27.10
July 1 Mr. Love, 7 bushels potatoes at 50 cents $ 3.50
July 4 Mr. Wm. Akhurst, 4 lbs. wool at 50 cents $ 2.00
July 5 Mrs. David Cragg, 3 bushels potatoes $ 1.32
Mrs. Love Sen., 1 ½ bushels potatoes .45
July 29 Amos Stone, 8 lambs $ 17.00
Aug. 6 Mr. T. Duff, 2 young pigs $ 2.00
Mr. Akhurst, 3 young pigs $ 3.00
Aug. 19 Mr. Geo. Currie, Port Perry, 39 bushels barley at 60 cents $ 23.38
Aug. 21 A. Gordon, Port Perry, 2 pigs 302 & 273 at $5 per hundred $ 28.75
Aug. 24 Mr. George Currie, Port Perry, 40 bushels barley at 60 cents $ 24.00
Aug. 27 Received from George for coat $ 6.00
1873
Jan. 22 Mr. A. Gordon, Port Perry, 41 bushels 48 lb. wheat at $1.25 $ 51.25
Jan. 28 Mr. A. Gordon, Port Perry, 41 bushels, 33 lbs. wheat at $1.22 $ 50.69
Feb. 6 Mr. Wm. Akhurst to a colt at 120 dollars, payable in 12 months,
paid Feb. 5, 1874 120.00
Feb. 11 Mr. Anderson, steer and heifer $ 55.00
May 7 Mr. Wm. Akhurst, 5 bushels pease at 65 cents $ 3.25
May 10 Mr. Walter Asling, McPhail cow to be paid in the fall $ 30.00
May 12 Mr. [?], Pete steer $ 27.00
June 11 Mr. Christie to Punk cow $ 22.00
July 11 James Walker, 2 pigs $ 2.00
July 15 Mr. Money, Epsom, 7 sheep and 9 lambs, sheep at $4, lambs
at $2 received at time $ 30.00
Sept. 1 received for 8 lambs $ 16.00
Oct. 8 Mr. Wm. Perkins, old mare and colt, payable in 14 months $ 50.00
Nov. 25 Mr. Shaw, Port Perry, 42 bushels, 30 lbs. wheat at $1.70 $ 43.87
Dec. 20 Brown & Ross, Port Perry, 2 pigs 481 lbs at $5.60 $ 27.52
Dec. 26 Mr. George Currie, 34.11 bushels of wheat at $1.10 $ 37.60
[At this point the entries for income and expenses cease and he continues on with ‘Special Memorandums’, which
encompass the final four pages of the diary. Each of these pages are very badly disintegrated. I will transcribe what
is legible.]
SPECIAL MEMORANDUM
[The dates are pretty much missing from these entries.]
Red heifer calfed bull
began to plow
Township Fair at Prince Albert
Logs put on rollway
Lumber piles. Cassidy heifer calfed heifer.
Sheep dam repaired
Planted potatoes in the orchard
Wm. sowed 10 bushels pease and 6 bushels oats
4 bushels barley sown east of the old garden
sowed 3 barrels of plaster
sowed 6 bushels of barley and 6 bushels of oats
McPhail white heifer calved a heifer, 2 weeks and 3 days past time
Sheep shorn
Wool washed. Finished sowing 8 bushels wheat.
Grass seed sown
Punk calved heifer
planted potatoes
got ½ ton of hay from James Walker
Red mare foaled at 11 months and 19 days
[June 11?] began road work
[June 12?] finished road work
[June 17?] planted potatoes
June 18 – Red mare took horse
June 19 – Communion at Brock
June 21 – Cassidy heifer at Lukes bull
June 25 – Wm. Byers and oxen logging
June 27 – Union Sunday School Anniversary
July 1 – Dominion Day
July 2 – sow pigged 13 pigs
July 5 – took 40 bushels oats to Manchester
Began haying
July 11 – drew 4 loads of hay into the barn and 1 into the stable
July 12 – Black mare took horse 2
nd
time; Punk to Lukes bull; Cassidy 2
nd
time
July 13 – drew one load of hay into stable and 1 into the barn; black mare took horse
July 15 – meeting of Union Sunday School
July 18 – sold 7 lambs to A. [Stone?]; Mr. C. Asling cut his [?]; drew 7 loads of hay in [?]
July 19 – drew 3 loads in [?]
July 20 – took 9 bushels of wheat and a tub of butter [?]
July 21 – A. Michie, heifer to [bull?]
July 22 – McPhail white heifer to bull
July 23 – John McPhail here
July 25 – took 7 lambs to [?]
July 28 – George at Oshawa
[remainder of this page is pretty much missing]
Aug. 25,26 – Luke threshing, self and horses at it
Aug. 30 – finishes cutting
Sept. 1 – Drew 8 loads of wheat
Sept. 2 – Drew 4 loads of wheat
Sept. 6 – Drew 3 loads of wheat, which finishes harvest
Sept. 8 – Self at Thomas Phairs threshing; received the Aberdeen Free Press of Aug. 12 and 23
rd
Sept. 11 – At John Gordons threshing
Sept. 12 – at Toronto for school books
Sept. 14 – began plowing
Sept 15 – received 18 bushels of oats from Mr. Boddie to return
Sept. 16 – received Free Press of Aug. 19
th
Red mare shoed
Began to dig potatoes
15 bushels of wheat to mill
George Boddie and Mrs. Walker at potatoes
Fair day at Prince Albert
Pairing bee
20 bushels oats from Mr. Boddie to return
[?] potatoes in cellar, 9 waggon load
Drew [total of 85] loads turnips
Nov. 21 – self and horses at S. Byers threshing
Nov. 22 – bought of R. Boyd 1 Lombard Plum 65 cents, 1 [Green....?], 1 dwarf apple 40 cents, 1 grape vine
Nov. 23 – snow 8 inches deep; James Walker brings 2 heifers
Nov. 24 – bought right for washing [?]
Nov. 26 – George cuts his foot; pigs put in to fat
Nov. 28 – Barbara and Robert gone to [?] Mills and arrives home
Nov. 29 – John comes home from Wm. Ledinghams
Dec. 1 – Mrs. Luke sick. Mother there
Dec. 3 – self and Wm. at Manchester [?] Port Perry
Dec. 5 – Barbara goes to Mr. [Mc???}
Dec. 7 – Self at Prince Albert and Port Perry
Dec. 9 – Took home the sheep
Dec. 12 – Mr. James Baird lectures
Dec. 19 – Mrs. Joseph Lee died.
Dec. 27 – at Brooklin for coverlets
Jan. 5 – received 2 papers from Scotland. The Aberdeen Journal and Peoples
Jan. 12 – Edward Phoenix, 1 pig 273 at 6.25 per hundred
Jan. 30 – James Cochrane brings a ram worth 7 dollars
Feb. 8 – sold 2 heifers to H. Gould for 36 dollars each; great social at Alexr. Leasks, 31 dollars collected
Feb. 13 – at Greenbank with heifers
Feb. 14 – self at Manchester Fair
Feb. 16 – Self, Mother and Annie at A. Michies, Brock
Feb. 17 – Wm. takes the Port Perry Standard
Feb. 20 – Took 38 bushels oats to George Boddie, borrowed in [?]
Feb. 22 – George at Soho Mills, Uxbridge, for 1000 feet of lumber
Mar. 21 – Election of members for local legislature. Paxton and [?] running
Apr. 3 – Census of the Dominion of Canada taken
Apr. 10 – John brings Peter Martineaus calf here
Apr. 13 – Began to plow
Apr. 14 – Ewe lambed 2 lambs, 1 alive, a ewe. James Walkers [?] heifers away, they having been 4 months 21 days
Apr. 15 – Ewe lambed 2 lambs. Ram and ewe.
Apr. 19 – John gone to work on the Toronto and Nipissing Railway
Apr. 20 – Ewe lambed ram lamb; black ewe lambed 2 lambs
Apr. 22 – Ewe lambed 2 rams.
Apr. 25 – Ewe lambed 2 rams & ewe; Punk calved bull.
Apr. 26 – Received 4 bushels of [?]
May 1 – sowed 2 bushels barley in the orchard and [?]; Barbara leaves for Centre Mills
May 3 – sowed 8 bushels wheat in west field. Planted [?]
May 5 – Bought half a ton of hay from George Boddie at $4.50 [?]; received Peoples Journal of Apr. 8
th
, 1870
May 6 – R. Eddy, Assessor, here. Bob Michie here for [?].
May 8 – Sowed 4 bushels wheat and 4 ½ bushels oats; sold mulley steer to Alexr. Knox for 34 dollars
May 10 – Sowed 8 bushels of pease. [?]
May 25 – Sheep shorn without washing
May 26 – Mare foaled
May 28 – Communion at Brock
May 29 – George gone to the Railway; red mare took horse
June 14 – sowed some turnips
June 25 – Sow, 7 pigs
June 26 – Sow, 7 pigs
[remainder of dates on this page are missing]
- Union S. School Anniversary, 130 dollars
- took McPhail white and McPhail red heifers to R. Stillwells bull
- Punk to R. Stillwells bull
- Mrs. Gordon hoeing turnips.
- Mrs. Gordon and Mrs. Walker, ½ day, reckoned 1 day to Mrs. Gordon
- Mrs. Gordon 1 day and Mrs. Walker 1 day hoeing
- Cassidy cow at Mr. Stillwells bull; began haying
- [took?] 2 tubs butter to Bigelow at 21 c. lb.
- Drew 4 loads of hay into barn
- Drew 7 loads of hay in the stable
- Drew 2 loads of hay in the stable and 4 in the barn
- Mr. Akhurst, 4 young pigs. Mr. Perkins, 3 young pigs.
- Stacked Georges hay, 8 loads.
- Began barley harvest
- Polly heifer to Duffs bull
- took 12 lambs to Greenbank for George Anderson
- drew 4 loads of barley from the orchard
- drew [total of 13 more loads of barley]
- stacked 14 loads of pease
- drew 7 loads oats and 2 wheat
- drew 7 loads of wheat and 2 of oats
- drew [total of 11 more loads of wheat]
- drew 5 loads of oats
- drew 2 loads of oats for George
- drew 3 loads of oats and one load of wheat for George
- drew 2 loads of wheat for George which finishes harvest
- began to take up potatoes
- [?] Boddie at potatoes ¾ day
- pairing bee
- took in out of orchard 12 bushels Early Rose and 9 bushels of [?] potatoes
[ remainder of page is too tattered to read.]
[And thus ends the diary of JOHN ALBERT MICHIE]