(page one) May 6th Bought 12 lbs Pork of S Hagan for 9/- -----------------15th---------------- Sow'd 1 1/2 Bushels Pease & 1/2 bushel Flax seed ----------------------17th------------------ Planted in the field before the door about 2 Acres of Corn - -------------------21st-------------- Kept no School from the 21st May 2d June ----------------26th-------------------- My Wife deliver'd of a Daughter at about 11 Oclock at Night -----------------June 14th--------------- Worked on the Roads -------------------18th------------------- My Cow (white back) with Mrs. Reeds Bull -----------------------21st------------------- Worked on the Roads ---------------------July 1st---------------- My Cow (black nose) wih Mrs Reeds Bull --------------------16th---------------------- Paid Stephen Secord 28/- for 4 bushels Wheat by Mr Hamilton -------------------- ------------------ Rece'd 1 Bushel Wheat from David Secord ------------------18th--------------------- Borrow'd a Gammon of Mr. Hamilton 19 lbs {page two} Kept no School from the 20th July to the 18th August 1794 on acct of Harvest & Hay ---------------Aug't.-------------------- Cut my Wheat, had 540 Sheaves 3 1/2 bushels sowing of wheat destroyed by Hogs Cut my Pease & Threshed them had about 10 1/2 bushels fro 1 /2 Sowing Cut my Hay at home about 3 Tons Cut Hay at my Father-in-laws about 3 Tons ------------------------Aug 4th--------------- My Cow (Snupe) with Mrs Reeds Bull ----------------Aug't 27th------------------- Rece'd account from Detroit by an Exprefs that came in three days that the Indians had a battle with Gen'l Wanes army on the 20th. Inst't and lost considerably, among which was Charles Smith (clerk of the Court) and Anthony Lafsell also Dan'l McKellep (formerly a Serg't in Butters Rangers) with 5 Other frenchmen about 40 Indians Kill'd --------------------------Aug't. 28---------------------- Arrived an Exprefs from Detroit informing that Gen'l Wane has retreated back from the Maimies and that the Indians have taken most of their Horses which was all the Provision Whane had to Subsist his Army ~ News likewise received that Lord How has taken a Sail of Frenchmen of War -- and in a battle combined Armies have kill'd 22000 French