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John Jardine Sr. (1836-1905)
1869
Transcribed by Rural Diary Archive volunteers
The original Jardine diaries are confusing. There are pages torn out, pages inserted, and duplicate
pages that he has rewritten. The occasional page has no month or year identified. We have done our
best to reorder them and present them in chronological order in this transcript. Readers wishing to
work with the Jardine diaries extensively or consult the handwritten pages and their irregular
arrangement should consult the original diaries in Archival and Special Collections, University of
Guelph.
January 1869
1 friday we went to pools for dinner
2 Saturday I drawed for Mccart
3 Sunday I staid {stayed} at mccart all day com {come} home at n {night?}
4 Monday I went to the election
5 Tuesday I went to peels and W allen and albert nich
6 Wednesday boby {Bobby?} and I maid {made} my slay {sleigh} rack
7 Thursday I choped {chopped} cordwood
8 friday I shoveled furrowes in the fields at The house and choped three logs off it commence
{Above it reads: to rain} This afternoon about 3 O clock
9 Saturday in the forenoon I choped stovewood in the afternoon I choped cordwood
10 Sunday we stayed home all day
11 Monday I choped cordwood
12 Tuesday I choped cordwood
13 Wednesday in the forenoon I choped cordwood in the afternoon I underbrushed
14 Thursday I underbrushed all day
15 friday I choped and {Above it reads: cord} cordwood and underbrushed
16 Saturday I choped cordwood all day
17 Sunday went to here {hear} forest.
18. Monday I choped again
19 Tuesday sam helped me to {Above it reads: 1209} chop cordwood
20 Wednesday I helped sam to chop cordwood
21 Thursday I helped boby {Bobby} to make timber for a {?}
22 Friday Boby and I cut down stable timber
23 Saturday I had a bee geting {getting} stalbe timber it has been beautiful weather for two weeks
not very
24 We go to hear Mr Jemison? In the morning and Mr Forest in the afternoon
25 Monday cut rafters for the stable in the forenoon and balled? Out timber in the after noon
26 Tuesday I help Boby to get out his shed timber
27 Wednesday help Boby again to day
28 Thursday help Boby agin to day
29 friday I help boby to day it began to rain in the afternoon in the evining {evening} it thundered and
lightened {lightninged?} and rained very heavy about twenty minuts {minutes}
30 Saturday I helped boby to day
31 Sunday went to here {hear} Mr Forrest
{Below it reads: ??? Our to cale $25}
{Margin reads: ???? Tilbury West ???}
Feburary {February}
1 Monday I went and found my pig in the afternoon I helped hugh and sam to chop down trees for
the machine
2 Tuesday boby helped me at stable timber {Below it reads: at 2 oclock} in the afternoon it began to
snow and rain
Wednesday morning rain and sleet in the afternoon snow and rain sam and me fixed the harness
and cut a road {?}
4 Thursday I went to draw for.
5 friday I drawed for mccart
6 Saturday I drawed for Mccart
7 Sunday I walked home home John Jardine
{Date missing edge of page missing} Monday I drawed for Mccart
Tuesday I drawed for Mccart
Wednesday I drawed for Mccart
1 Thursday I drawed for Mccart
12 firday I drawed for Mccart
13 Saturday I came home with the horse
14 Sunday we were at home all day it rained all day
15 Monday I choped {chopped} cordwood in the forenoon in the afternoon I went out to the store and
it rained and snowed very hard mud and water is ankle deep
16 Tuesday I choped cordwood all day
17 Wednesday it has rained and snowed very nearly all day very slopy {sloppy} I choped {chopped}
a little and cleaned a little grassseed
18 Thursday I choped all day began to freeze {Above it reads: to night}
19 friday I underbrushed and choped wood freezing hard {Above it reads: to night}
20 Saturday I choped stovewood all day
21 Sunday stayed home it snowed heavy
22 Monday I went to draw for McCart
23 Tuesday the same
24 Wednesday the same
25 Thursday the same
26 Friday the same
27 Satuerday the same good sleighing
28 Sunday I came and got my dinner
March 1869
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Monday for I worked for McCart
{Tuesday} the same
{Wednesday} the same good sleighing
{Thursday} the same
{Friday} the same
6 satuerday {Saturday} the same came home to my {edge missing}
7 Sunday home all day
8 Monday went back to work
9 Teusday {Tuesday} the same
10 Wednesday very stormy {???} did not work
11 Thursday worked again
12 Friday the same
13 Satuerday the same come {???} with boby
14 Sunday afternoon went back
15 Monday worked for McCart 3
16 Teusday the same good sleighing
17 Wednesday the same
18 Thursday the same
19 Friday the same
20 Satuerday the same came home at night {Above it reads: for good}
27 Sunday I worked for McCart 39 ½ days this winter
21 Sunday I stayed home all day
22 Monday I went to Champain and paid cultivator it has snowed heavy all day
23 Tuesday we went to Mrs pool visiting
24 Wednesday I was drawing cordwood out of the bush pileing at the wood
25 Thursday I was drawing wood to day
26 Friday I was drawing {Above it reads: wood} hugh helped me this {Above it reads: afternoon}
27 Satuerday hugh and me drawed wood to day Richard and Alick choped cordwood to day
28 Sunday we stayed at home the roads was very muddy the snow is all gon {gone} leaves {Above it
reads: the} ground and ditch full of water
29 Monday I did not do much to day
30 Tuesday it rained this forenoon I cleaned up six bushels and ½ of spring wheat in for Richardson
2 ½ for me richardson 2 bushels of beens {beans}
{Written perpendicular across the page it reads: J John Jardine Tilbury West January 10 1875}
Wednesday I took out Richarson wheat and beanes
April 1869
1 Thursday I went to see Mr Nichelson about back taxes on my back hundred akers {acres} of land
2 friday I Just took care of my horses
3 Saturday I took care of my hores {horses}
4 Sunday we were home all day
5 Monday we was looking after that cow
6 Tuesday I was fixing my plough and taking the cover of {off?} my potatoes and triming {trimming}
my apple trees and curn {currant?} Bushes
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{7} Wednesday ploughed in the forenoon and broke the iron rod in the after noon I went to the
Blacksmiths and got it mended,
{8} Thursday ploughed in the forenoon and went to Richard Dodd’s raising in the after noon
9 Friday I ploughed all day
10 Saturday I ploughed all day
11 Sunday we went to hear Mr Forrest
12 Monday I went to H Hendersons Barn raising
13 Teusday {Tuesday} I ploughed all day
14 Wednesday I ploughed all day
{15} Thursday I ploughed all day
{16} friday I ploughed all day
{17} Saturday I ploughed all day
{18} Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest {Forrest}
{19} Monday it is wet
{20} Teusday we picked over the potatoes in the forenoon in the afternoon I went to {???} barn
raising
21 Wednesday the ground is very wet
22 Thursday Alick and me cleaned wheat and {missing}
23 friday I ploughed for E Trembley all day
24 Satuerday {Saturday} I ploughed in the forenoon in the afternoon I went and got my order for
{missing}
25 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest
26 Monday I cultivated my barley
27 Teusday {Tuesday} Alick is harring {harrowing?/harvesting?} barley to day. I have sowed 15
bushels of barley {Between lines it reads: ???}
28 Wednesday I sowed 1 bushels barley and pail of wheat in the little field at the {missing} and alick
and me shovled {shovelled} the to {two} fields to day
29 Thursday we finished shovling about 3 oclock we went over to michel I to harrow
30 friday I sowed 6 bushels of barley and 6 bushels oats and furrow it up
{illegible} May 1869
1 Satuerday it rained very near all day hugh and alick and I went to daniel sale M.
2 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr king
3 Monday I sowed 3 bushels of wheat and 4 bushels of oats
4 Tuesday forenoon I sowed 4 bushels of {missing} in the afternoon hugh and I ploughed over at
michel
5 Wednesday in the forenoon. I handed staves in the afternoon went to plough at Mitchel
6 Thursday ploughed at Mitchels
7 Friday Alick is here I sowed 8 bushels Oats and water furrowed the peice
8 Satuerday I sowed 2 bushel oats and half a bushel of wheat and a little flax seed and finish it all up
Jas Jardine P.P. Office County of Renfrew
9 Sunday lizzy went to here {hear} Mr forest
10 Monday in the forenoon I plowed at Michel in the afternoon I went to charley vinter barn rain
11 Tuesday I finished plowing sowing and harrowing and shovling at Michels to day
{Edge missing}
{12} Wednesday I went and helped hugh to plough
{13} Thursday I helped hughey to plough
{14} friday I ploughed at home for corn
{15} Satuerday I finished ploughing the orched {orchard?} for corn
16 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest
17 Monday I ploughed for hugh to day
18 Tuesday I fixed a yard for the calves and drawed some manure in to the barnyard
19 Wednesday in the forenoon I finished drawing my manure in the afternoon I throwed {down?} my
stable and drawed it into the barnyard
20 Thursday I finished cleaning my stable {missing} in the forenoon in the afternoon I ploughed for
potatoes
21 Friday I finished ploughing about 4 oclock and then I cultivated a little at the corn ground
22 Satuerday I cultivated and harrowed the corn ground frost last night it is beautiful weather .
23 Sunday we went to Church Mr Forrest preached
24 Monday I harrowed and waterfurrowed corn
25 Teusday in the forenoon I marked the ground for corn in the afternoon I went to Ducats Barn
raising
26 Wednesday I got Edward and {Old McKendy?} and planted all my corn got done about 3 Oclock
27 Thursday I harrow my potato patch it rained and I cut my seed potatoes
28 Friday it rained heavy in the morning. I shoveled the cross furrows in the corn ground
29 Satuerday Mr Trembly and me planted my potatoes to day
30 Sunday we stayed home to day
31 Monday I went and got two on das shoes on dan and went to see James Mccart for my money it
raised a good shower {Below in large smudged script it reads: John}
June 1869
1 Tuesday I began to make bridge timber
2 Wednesday I went and helped boby {Bobby?} to plant corn
3 Wednesday I finished my bridge timber about 5 O clock Mr Marchel {likely Marshall} came and
commenced to shear the sheep
4 friday fornoon finished shearing the sheep in the afternoon I drawed out the bridge timber and
harrowed for beans and planted cabbage
{5} Satuerday {Saturday} I choped {chopped} for black salts
{6} Sunday we went to hear {hear} Mr Forrest
7 Monday I went and ploughed for R dood {likely Dodd}
{8} Theusday {Tuesday} I planted my beens {beans} and corn to day
{9} Wednesday I went to fish with sam & alick
{10} Thursday in the forenoon I drawed stable timbe{r} in the afternoon I went to the mill with my logs
for a wagon rack C And got two shoes on kate
{11} friday forenoon I cut {rafters?} and {drawed} them out in the afternoon Mr Trem{bly} and I went
to the crick {creek} and got blocks for my stable
12 Satuerday I bilt {built} a bridge out the road and commence to make a gate for the road
13 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr Forrest
14 Monday I maid {made} a gait {gate} and hung it at the road
15 Tuesday forenoon I piled manure the afternoon I went to the mill my grist
16 Wednesday I piled manure all day
17 Thursday I piled manure all day
18 friday in the forenoon hauled clay in the barnyard in the afternoon I went for my cultivator
19 Satuerday {Saturday} I loged {logged?} for edward all day
20 Sunday we went to Church
21 Monday I got Tomy {Tommy?} Vickerson to ride the horse and I cultivated the corn
22 Tuesday the same
23 Wednesday finished cultivating and had
24 Thursday I had the old man and his little girl hoeing corn finished howing {hoeing} corn to day
25 friday it rained very wear all forenoon in the afternoon I went for my shoveplow {shovel plow} And
rack timber
26 Satuerday forenoon it rained very heavy the ground is very wet the ditches is {full?} in the
evening I was leting {letting?} water the potatoes and beens {beans}
27 Sunday we were at home all day
28 Monday I went to peels paid to him $15 for shingles to hills and hired Orlo
29 Tuesday I cut the brush on the road
30 Wednesday I {Above it reads: did} not do much to day the ground is very wet to hoe
July 1869
1 Thursday I went and helped boby to frame his shed
{2} friday boby Mr cornwell & me maid timber {?} my stable
John Jardine
3 Satuerday went to chatham and sold our wool
4 Sunday we went {Above it reads upside-down: 3994} to here {hear} Mr forest
5 Monday I went and fetched Mr lickman A nicolson to fram {frame} my stable
{6} Tuesday Mr trembly and me hoed potatoes
7 Wednesday Mr Trembly hoed potatoes and went to stonepoint fore my shingles
8 Thursday in the forenoon I helped lickman to make the plates in the afternoon I made blocks for
the stabe {stable}
9 friday I went helped boby to rase his shed {Above it reads: all day}
10 Satuerday in the forenoon raised my stable in the afternoon we went to here {hear} Mr {king}
11 Sunday we went to here Mr king sacrament
12 Monday Mr Trembly and me hoed potatoes
13 Tuesday it is wet I done nothing Bill worked the rack
14 Wednesday hauled 1000 feet of lumber from Daniel in the forenoon, after noon went to Pools for
{curra?}
15 Thursday ground. Two sythes hoed some {smudge} and cut seven dozen wheat
16 Friday I had Edward, Daniel and the {Old} man reaping wheat
17 Satuerday I had Edward, {Shawn?} and the Old man reaping wheat
18 Sunday went to hear Mr Forrest preach
19 Monday I cradled for Edward and the Old man and Edward reaped for me
Tuesday I cradled wheat for Edward
22 Wednesday in the forenoon I fixed the loft in the stable in the afternoon I reaped for Edward
23 Thursday I hired R Marshaw he reap for me {missing} I helped Edward cut down all his wheat had
{missing} in the afternoon I worked at home and had one {missing}
{24} Friday three of us worked in the wheat
{25} Satuerday five of us finish cuting {cutting} my wheat
26 Sunday we went to hear Mr Forrest preach
27 Monday Marshaw and I cut Old man Tremblys wheat it rained in the afternoon
28 Tuesday half a day for the Old man inthe afternoon we mowed in the meadow
29 Wednesday Marshaw and me mowed round the fence in the medow for the mechine {machine?}
in the afternoon we clean out the barn
29 Thursday we mowed round the corn field and round the house in the afternoon we shook hay and
folowed {followed} the mechine
30 friday marshaw and Me drawed in wheat
31 Satuerday {Saturday} the boys and us drawed in wheat in the forenoon in the afternoon we all
drawed in hay into the barn and into the stable
August 1869
1 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest {Forrest}
2 Monday marshaw & Joe fineaf we drawed in all my hay by supper time it came up a big shower
3 Tuesday marshaw and me mowed barley Joe raked the medow {meadow}
4 Wednesday forenoon was wet afternoon marshaw and Sam and me mowed barley Joe jauled clay
to the barn yard
5 Thursday I finished cuting {cutting} barley in the forenoon Joe drawed clay in the afternoon Joe
turned barley
6 friday Joe and me cocked up barley and drawed in one lode {load} at nite {night}
{7} Satuerday Hugh & Alick & Marshaw & Joe and
{Missing pages}
22 Sunday no church to day {Above it reads: knisley} it is freezing very hard Samuel Gracey came
down
23 Monday it is snowing and blowing this forenoon {Between lines it reads: Benjamin} makes it very
cold this afternoon I took 10 bushels of wheat to mill for Mr Jackson
24 Tuesday I am skiding sawlogs it is cold
25 Wednesday I am skiding sawlogs it is cold yet
26 Thursday I was choring in the afternoon I took lizzie home and took Jackson grist home
27 Friday I was cuting {cutting} sawlogs on the railroad
28 Satuerday I went to look at my farm in the eight consesson {concession} south half of lot 13
29 Sunday we stayed home no church to day
30 Monday we went to the Missionary to day
31 Tuesday it rains this forenoon in the afternoon I cut down some trees for sawlogs the snow is all
gon agin {gone again} it is very war this {missing}
{September begins}
20 MeondayI moved John Marnie
21 Tuesday I rained most all day I thrashe[cutoff] my beans I was sick
22 Wednesday I was very sick
23 Thursday the same
24 Friday the same [indecipherable]
25 Saturday Alick x hugh came down and plowed and harrowed for me
26 Sunday I was in bed most all day
27 Monday Hughy + Alick sowed all my fall wheat and harrowed and hartily waterfurrowed it & am
some better to day
28 Tuesday Alick and I shoveling furrow
29 Wednesday Alick shoveled furrowe[indecipherable] I skined the little hiefer
30 Thursday we went to the picnic east
October October 1869 [indecipherable]
1 Friday I went to mill with a grist
2 Saturday I took bill lickman wife flour and mutton it raines hard all day
3 Sunday went to here Mr forest
4 Monday I drawed ashes for sharaw in the afternoon I drawed up some firewood
5 Tuesday Mitchel and I cut corn
6 Wednesday Mitchel and I cut corn
7 Thursday I plowed for Mitchel all day
8 Friday I plowed for Mitchel all day
14 Thursday I plowed for Mitchel all day
15 friday sharone {Sharon?} helped me to clean a load of barley
16 Satuerday I went to crows with a load of barley sold for $1.29 cents 22. {scribble} hundred 17
pounds
17 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest
18 Monday Mr trembly and I cleaned a load of barley in the afternoon mary and me dug {Above it
reads: potatoes}
19 Tuesday we went to the picnic
20 Wednesday dug potatoes marey and me to day
21 Thursday I went to chatham with a load of barley sold for $1.23 cents I had 22 hundred {Above it
reads: 60}
22 friday Mitchel and mary and I finished diging {digging} my potatoes
23 Satuerday it is raining and snowing to day
24 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr king
25 Monday I fixed the hog pen
26 Tuesday I tied corn straw and drawed one load {Above it reads: of corn}
27 Wednesday I husked a little and drawed a load and a half of corn
28 Thursday I took the last of my barley out to Mr crow {crossed out} prise {price} $1.22 cts per bu I
had twelve hundred and sixty pounds
29 friday I loged {logged} at home
30 Satuerday I tied corn straw all day
31 Sunday went to here {hear} Mr forest
A November the 11 monthe of the year 1869
November 1869
1 Monday Mary and I drawed to {two} loads of corn and cleaned up my barley
John Jardine
2 Tuesday Lizzie and me went to chatham and to blenhiem {Blenheim, Ontario} for seed barley
3 Wednesday we stayed in blenhim all day
4 Thursday we came home from blenhim it rained heavey when we were at welsh’s
5 friday it rained and snowed Sam and me cleaned 25 bushels of wheat and I went to {Above it
reads: mill}
6 Satuerday {Saturday} I bought one hundred {Above it reads: bushel} of corn for beatise leanard
{Beatrice Leonard?}
7 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest
8 Monday I banked the house and covered my potatoes Deeper
9 Tuesday I loged {logged} for William cornwell Alick and sam husked corn all day
10 Wednesday Samuel and Alick and me husked corn
11 Thursday Alick and I drawed in the corn straw
12 friday Alick and I drawed in two loads of corn and husked a little corn
13 Satuerday it snowed very hard all day
14 Sunday we stayed home all day snow
15 Monday took two lgs {logs} up to the mill I fixed a place for to feede my pigs on
16 {Below sideways it reads: Alick comence work to day} Tuesday I drawed Mr Trembley hay home
for him it snowed very heavy to day
17 Wednesday it snowed very heavy and rained Alick and me cut of a pice {off a piece} of the stack
18 Thursday I cut wood and Alick drawed it
19 friday Alick cut a little wood and did the chors {chores} it rained hard to day I run around
20 Satuerday it rained this forenoon this afternoon Alick and Me drawed in them shocks of corn to
the barn
21 Sunday we stayed home
22 Monday in the forenoon Alick and me cut hoop poles it snowed very heavy you could hardly see
Alick and me husked corn
23 Tuesday we took hoop poles to henery in the afternoon Alick and me cut hoop poels
24 Wednesday Alick and me took another load of hoop poles to henry the hole was 1;16 poels
25 Thursday Alick and me choped logs of wood
26 friday morning I went and got my horses shod in the afternoon drawed up wood
27 Satuerday Alick drawed wood I choped
28 Sunday we went here {hear} Mr forest
29 Monday I went after albert to fix the stable in the afternoon {Above it reads: it rained} A & me
husked corn {Above it reads: all day}
30 Tuesday the snow is gon {gone} it raines hard Alick and me finished husked corn to day
D D December 12th month of the Year
December 12th Month
1 Wednesday Alick and me fixed the shed for the cows and choped som {chopped some} stovewood
2 Thursday we drawed corn straw into the barn yard commence to chop cord {Above it reads: wood}
3 friday Alick drawed up wood for the machine I choped it
4 Satuerday it snowes and raines very hard {Above it reads: to day}
5 Sunday we went to here Mr king
6 Monday Alick and me drawed up wood for the machine
7 Tuesday hugh sawed stovewood for us
8 Wednesday hugh sawed stovewood for us
9 Thursday we moved logs and burned brush for {Shors?} to ditch
10 friday I nailed the batens on the Stable and the kitchen
11 Satuerday {Saturday} we split wood in the afternoon it rained Alick and I cleaned up 25 bush of
{Above it reads: wheat}
12 Sunday roads is bad it rains we stayed home
13 Monday shours {showers} alick & I kiled to {killed two} pigs split {Above it reads: wood}
14 Tuesday alick & I split wood at the dore {door}
15 Wednesday it rained all day nothing dun {done}
16 Thursday I went to mill with 25 bushels of wheat Alick stayed home and kept batch alone
17 friday I choring and spliting {splitting} some wood at the {missing}
18 Satuerday I went to mill and fetched the rest of my grist home
19 Sunday we stayed at home all day
20 Monday I was choring and spliting a little wood
21 Tuesday forenoon spliting wood afternoon {Alick?} & richard edward & old Mr Trembly put up my
stable
22 Wednesday I was choring and spliting wood
23 Thursday I put dung on my potatoes piled up wood
24 Friday I was spliting and piling wood and choring
25 Saturday – Christmas day – Went to Mrs Gracey’s to dinner. Came home alone and after feeding
the stock went to a raffle at Richardson’s store
26 Sunday – In the evening we went to hear Mr King preach at 7 o’clock
27 Monday – Helped Bobby Vickerman to clean his flax seed & done the Chores
28 Tuesday after helped the booys to say {saw?} {Above it reads: wood}
29 Wednesday I helped samto split wood
30 Thursday I was choring in the afternoon helped Edward Trembly to draw logs for the machine
31 Friday I helped richard dood drawing logs For the machine to day all day
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1869
Transcribed by Rural Diary Archive volunteers
The original Jardine diaries are confusing. There are pages torn out, pages inserted, and duplicate
pages that he has rewritten. The occasional page has no month or year identified. We have done our
best to reorder them and present them in chronological order in this transcript. Readers wishing to
work with the Jardine diaries extensively or consult the handwritten pages and their irregular
arrangement should consult the original diaries in Archival and Special Collections, University of
Guelph.
January 1869
1 friday we went to pools for dinner
2 Saturday I drawed for Mccart
3 Sunday I staid {stayed} at mccart all day com {come} home at n {night?}
4 Monday I went to the election
5 Tuesday I went to peels and W allen and albert nich
6 Wednesday boby {Bobby?} and I maid {made} my slay {sleigh} rack
7 Thursday I choped {chopped} cordwood
8 friday I shoveled furrowes in the fields at The house and choped three logs off it commence
{Above it reads: to rain} This afternoon about 3 O clock
9 Saturday in the forenoon I choped stovewood in the afternoon I choped cordwood
10 Sunday we stayed home all day
11 Monday I choped cordwood
12 Tuesday I choped cordwood
13 Wednesday in the forenoon I choped cordwood in the afternoon I underbrushed
14 Thursday I underbrushed all day
15 friday I choped and {Above it reads: cord} cordwood and underbrushed
16 Saturday I choped cordwood all day
17 Sunday went to here {hear} forest.
18. Monday I choped again
19 Tuesday sam helped me to {Above it reads: 1209} chop cordwood
20 Wednesday I helped sam to chop cordwood
21 Thursday I helped boby {Bobby} to make timber for a {?}
22 Friday Boby and I cut down stable timber
23 Saturday I had a bee geting {getting} stalbe timber it has been beautiful weather for two weeks
not very
24 We go to hear Mr Jemison? In the morning and Mr Forest in the afternoon
25 Monday cut rafters for the stable in the forenoon and balled? Out timber in the after noon
26 Tuesday I help Boby to get out his shed timber
27 Wednesday help Boby again to day
28 Thursday help Boby agin to day
29 friday I help boby to day it began to rain in the afternoon in the evining {evening} it thundered and
lightened {lightninged?} and rained very heavy about twenty minuts {minutes}
30 Saturday I helped boby to day
31 Sunday went to here {hear} Mr Forrest
{Below it reads: ??? Our to cale $25}
{Margin reads: ???? Tilbury West ???}
Feburary {February}
1 Monday I went and found my pig in the afternoon I helped hugh and sam to chop down trees for
the machine
2 Tuesday boby helped me at stable timber {Below it reads: at 2 oclock} in the afternoon it began to
snow and rain
Wednesday morning rain and sleet in the afternoon snow and rain sam and me fixed the harness
and cut a road {?}
4 Thursday I went to draw for.
5 friday I drawed for mccart
6 Saturday I drawed for Mccart
7 Sunday I walked home home John Jardine
{Date missing edge of page missing} Monday I drawed for Mccart
Tuesday I drawed for Mccart
Wednesday I drawed for Mccart
1 Thursday I drawed for Mccart
12 firday I drawed for Mccart
13 Saturday I came home with the horse
14 Sunday we were at home all day it rained all day
15 Monday I choped {chopped} cordwood in the forenoon in the afternoon I went out to the store and
it rained and snowed very hard mud and water is ankle deep
16 Tuesday I choped cordwood all day
17 Wednesday it has rained and snowed very nearly all day very slopy {sloppy} I choped {chopped}
a little and cleaned a little grassseed
18 Thursday I choped all day began to freeze {Above it reads: to night}
19 friday I underbrushed and choped wood freezing hard {Above it reads: to night}
20 Saturday I choped stovewood all day
21 Sunday stayed home it snowed heavy
22 Monday I went to draw for McCart
23 Tuesday the same
24 Wednesday the same
25 Thursday the same
26 Friday the same
27 Satuerday the same good sleighing
28 Sunday I came and got my dinner
March 1869
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Monday for I worked for McCart
{Tuesday} the same
{Wednesday} the same good sleighing
{Thursday} the same
{Friday} the same
6 satuerday {Saturday} the same came home to my {edge missing}
7 Sunday home all day
8 Monday went back to work
9 Teusday {Tuesday} the same
10 Wednesday very stormy {???} did not work
11 Thursday worked again
12 Friday the same
13 Satuerday the same come {???} with boby
14 Sunday afternoon went back
15 Monday worked for McCart 3
16 Teusday the same good sleighing
17 Wednesday the same
18 Thursday the same
19 Friday the same
20 Satuerday the same came home at night {Above it reads: for good}
27 Sunday I worked for McCart 39 ½ days this winter
21 Sunday I stayed home all day
22 Monday I went to Champain and paid cultivator it has snowed heavy all day
23 Tuesday we went to Mrs pool visiting
24 Wednesday I was drawing cordwood out of the bush pileing at the wood
25 Thursday I was drawing wood to day
26 Friday I was drawing {Above it reads: wood} hugh helped me this {Above it reads: afternoon}
27 Satuerday hugh and me drawed wood to day Richard and Alick choped cordwood to day
28 Sunday we stayed at home the roads was very muddy the snow is all gon {gone} leaves {Above it
reads: the} ground and ditch full of water
29 Monday I did not do much to day
30 Tuesday it rained this forenoon I cleaned up six bushels and ½ of spring wheat in for Richardson
2 ½ for me richardson 2 bushels of beens {beans}
{Written perpendicular across the page it reads: J John Jardine Tilbury West January 10 1875}
Wednesday I took out Richarson wheat and beanes
April 1869
1 Thursday I went to see Mr Nichelson about back taxes on my back hundred akers {acres} of land
2 friday I Just took care of my horses
3 Saturday I took care of my hores {horses}
4 Sunday we were home all day
5 Monday we was looking after that cow
6 Tuesday I was fixing my plough and taking the cover of {off?} my potatoes and triming {trimming}
my apple trees and curn {currant?} Bushes
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{7} Wednesday ploughed in the forenoon and broke the iron rod in the after noon I went to the
Blacksmiths and got it mended,
{8} Thursday ploughed in the forenoon and went to Richard Dodd’s raising in the after noon
9 Friday I ploughed all day
10 Saturday I ploughed all day
11 Sunday we went to hear Mr Forrest
12 Monday I went to H Hendersons Barn raising
13 Teusday {Tuesday} I ploughed all day
14 Wednesday I ploughed all day
{15} Thursday I ploughed all day
{16} friday I ploughed all day
{17} Saturday I ploughed all day
{18} Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest {Forrest}
{19} Monday it is wet
{20} Teusday we picked over the potatoes in the forenoon in the afternoon I went to {???} barn
raising
21 Wednesday the ground is very wet
22 Thursday Alick and me cleaned wheat and {missing}
23 friday I ploughed for E Trembley all day
24 Satuerday {Saturday} I ploughed in the forenoon in the afternoon I went and got my order for
{missing}
25 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest
26 Monday I cultivated my barley
27 Teusday {Tuesday} Alick is harring {harrowing?/harvesting?} barley to day. I have sowed 15
bushels of barley {Between lines it reads: ???}
28 Wednesday I sowed 1 bushels barley and pail of wheat in the little field at the {missing} and alick
and me shovled {shovelled} the to {two} fields to day
29 Thursday we finished shovling about 3 oclock we went over to michel I to harrow
30 friday I sowed 6 bushels of barley and 6 bushels oats and furrow it up
{illegible} May 1869
1 Satuerday it rained very near all day hugh and alick and I went to daniel sale M.
2 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr king
3 Monday I sowed 3 bushels of wheat and 4 bushels of oats
4 Tuesday forenoon I sowed 4 bushels of {missing} in the afternoon hugh and I ploughed over at
michel
5 Wednesday in the forenoon. I handed staves in the afternoon went to plough at Mitchel
6 Thursday ploughed at Mitchels
7 Friday Alick is here I sowed 8 bushels Oats and water furrowed the peice
8 Satuerday I sowed 2 bushel oats and half a bushel of wheat and a little flax seed and finish it all up
Jas Jardine P.P. Office County of Renfrew
9 Sunday lizzy went to here {hear} Mr forest
10 Monday in the forenoon I plowed at Michel in the afternoon I went to charley vinter barn rain
11 Tuesday I finished plowing sowing and harrowing and shovling at Michels to day
{Edge missing}
{12} Wednesday I went and helped hugh to plough
{13} Thursday I helped hughey to plough
{14} friday I ploughed at home for corn
{15} Satuerday I finished ploughing the orched {orchard?} for corn
16 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest
17 Monday I ploughed for hugh to day
18 Tuesday I fixed a yard for the calves and drawed some manure in to the barnyard
19 Wednesday in the forenoon I finished drawing my manure in the afternoon I throwed {down?} my
stable and drawed it into the barnyard
20 Thursday I finished cleaning my stable {missing} in the forenoon in the afternoon I ploughed for
potatoes
21 Friday I finished ploughing about 4 oclock and then I cultivated a little at the corn ground
22 Satuerday I cultivated and harrowed the corn ground frost last night it is beautiful weather .
23 Sunday we went to Church Mr Forrest preached
24 Monday I harrowed and waterfurrowed corn
25 Teusday in the forenoon I marked the ground for corn in the afternoon I went to Ducats Barn
raising
26 Wednesday I got Edward and {Old McKendy?} and planted all my corn got done about 3 Oclock
27 Thursday I harrow my potato patch it rained and I cut my seed potatoes
28 Friday it rained heavy in the morning. I shoveled the cross furrows in the corn ground
29 Satuerday Mr Trembly and me planted my potatoes to day
30 Sunday we stayed home to day
31 Monday I went and got two on das shoes on dan and went to see James Mccart for my money it
raised a good shower {Below in large smudged script it reads: John}
June 1869
1 Tuesday I began to make bridge timber
2 Wednesday I went and helped boby {Bobby?} to plant corn
3 Wednesday I finished my bridge timber about 5 O clock Mr Marchel {likely Marshall} came and
commenced to shear the sheep
4 friday fornoon finished shearing the sheep in the afternoon I drawed out the bridge timber and
harrowed for beans and planted cabbage
{5} Satuerday {Saturday} I choped {chopped} for black salts
{6} Sunday we went to hear {hear} Mr Forrest
7 Monday I went and ploughed for R dood {likely Dodd}
{8} Theusday {Tuesday} I planted my beens {beans} and corn to day
{9} Wednesday I went to fish with sam & alick
{10} Thursday in the forenoon I drawed stable timbe{r} in the afternoon I went to the mill with my logs
for a wagon rack C And got two shoes on kate
{11} friday forenoon I cut {rafters?} and {drawed} them out in the afternoon Mr Trem{bly} and I went
to the crick {creek} and got blocks for my stable
12 Satuerday I bilt {built} a bridge out the road and commence to make a gate for the road
13 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr Forrest
14 Monday I maid {made} a gait {gate} and hung it at the road
15 Tuesday forenoon I piled manure the afternoon I went to the mill my grist
16 Wednesday I piled manure all day
17 Thursday I piled manure all day
18 friday in the forenoon hauled clay in the barnyard in the afternoon I went for my cultivator
19 Satuerday {Saturday} I loged {logged?} for edward all day
20 Sunday we went to Church
21 Monday I got Tomy {Tommy?} Vickerson to ride the horse and I cultivated the corn
22 Tuesday the same
23 Wednesday finished cultivating and had
24 Thursday I had the old man and his little girl hoeing corn finished howing {hoeing} corn to day
25 friday it rained very wear all forenoon in the afternoon I went for my shoveplow {shovel plow} And
rack timber
26 Satuerday forenoon it rained very heavy the ground is very wet the ditches is {full?} in the
evening I was leting {letting?} water the potatoes and beens {beans}
27 Sunday we were at home all day
28 Monday I went to peels paid to him $15 for shingles to hills and hired Orlo
29 Tuesday I cut the brush on the road
30 Wednesday I {Above it reads: did} not do much to day the ground is very wet to hoe
July 1869
1 Thursday I went and helped boby to frame his shed
{2} friday boby Mr cornwell & me maid timber {?} my stable
John Jardine
3 Satuerday went to chatham and sold our wool
4 Sunday we went {Above it reads upside-down: 3994} to here {hear} Mr forest
5 Monday I went and fetched Mr lickman A nicolson to fram {frame} my stable
{6} Tuesday Mr trembly and me hoed potatoes
7 Wednesday Mr Trembly hoed potatoes and went to stonepoint fore my shingles
8 Thursday in the forenoon I helped lickman to make the plates in the afternoon I made blocks for
the stabe {stable}
9 friday I went helped boby to rase his shed {Above it reads: all day}
10 Satuerday in the forenoon raised my stable in the afternoon we went to here {hear} Mr {king}
11 Sunday we went to here Mr king sacrament
12 Monday Mr Trembly and me hoed potatoes
13 Tuesday it is wet I done nothing Bill worked the rack
14 Wednesday hauled 1000 feet of lumber from Daniel in the forenoon, after noon went to Pools for
{curra?}
15 Thursday ground. Two sythes hoed some {smudge} and cut seven dozen wheat
16 Friday I had Edward, Daniel and the {Old} man reaping wheat
17 Satuerday I had Edward, {Shawn?} and the Old man reaping wheat
18 Sunday went to hear Mr Forrest preach
19 Monday I cradled for Edward and the Old man and Edward reaped for me
Tuesday I cradled wheat for Edward
22 Wednesday in the forenoon I fixed the loft in the stable in the afternoon I reaped for Edward
23 Thursday I hired R Marshaw he reap for me {missing} I helped Edward cut down all his wheat had
{missing} in the afternoon I worked at home and had one {missing}
{24} Friday three of us worked in the wheat
{25} Satuerday five of us finish cuting {cutting} my wheat
26 Sunday we went to hear Mr Forrest preach
27 Monday Marshaw and I cut Old man Tremblys wheat it rained in the afternoon
28 Tuesday half a day for the Old man inthe afternoon we mowed in the meadow
29 Wednesday Marshaw and me mowed round the fence in the medow for the mechine {machine?}
in the afternoon we clean out the barn
29 Thursday we mowed round the corn field and round the house in the afternoon we shook hay and
folowed {followed} the mechine
30 friday marshaw and Me drawed in wheat
31 Satuerday {Saturday} the boys and us drawed in wheat in the forenoon in the afternoon we all
drawed in hay into the barn and into the stable
August 1869
1 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest {Forrest}
2 Monday marshaw & Joe fineaf we drawed in all my hay by supper time it came up a big shower
3 Tuesday marshaw and me mowed barley Joe raked the medow {meadow}
4 Wednesday forenoon was wet afternoon marshaw and Sam and me mowed barley Joe jauled clay
to the barn yard
5 Thursday I finished cuting {cutting} barley in the forenoon Joe drawed clay in the afternoon Joe
turned barley
6 friday Joe and me cocked up barley and drawed in one lode {load} at nite {night}
{7} Satuerday Hugh & Alick & Marshaw & Joe and
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22 Sunday no church to day {Above it reads: knisley} it is freezing very hard Samuel Gracey came
down
23 Monday it is snowing and blowing this forenoon {Between lines it reads: Benjamin} makes it very
cold this afternoon I took 10 bushels of wheat to mill for Mr Jackson
24 Tuesday I am skiding sawlogs it is cold
25 Wednesday I am skiding sawlogs it is cold yet
26 Thursday I was choring in the afternoon I took lizzie home and took Jackson grist home
27 Friday I was cuting {cutting} sawlogs on the railroad
28 Satuerday I went to look at my farm in the eight consesson {concession} south half of lot 13
29 Sunday we stayed home no church to day
30 Monday we went to the Missionary to day
31 Tuesday it rains this forenoon in the afternoon I cut down some trees for sawlogs the snow is all
gon agin {gone again} it is very war this {missing}
{September begins}
20 MeondayI moved John Marnie
21 Tuesday I rained most all day I thrashe[cutoff] my beans I was sick
22 Wednesday I was very sick
23 Thursday the same
24 Friday the same [indecipherable]
25 Saturday Alick x hugh came down and plowed and harrowed for me
26 Sunday I was in bed most all day
27 Monday Hughy + Alick sowed all my fall wheat and harrowed and hartily waterfurrowed it & am
some better to day
28 Tuesday Alick and I shoveling furrow
29 Wednesday Alick shoveled furrowe[indecipherable] I skined the little hiefer
30 Thursday we went to the picnic east
October October 1869 [indecipherable]
1 Friday I went to mill with a grist
2 Saturday I took bill lickman wife flour and mutton it raines hard all day
3 Sunday went to here Mr forest
4 Monday I drawed ashes for sharaw in the afternoon I drawed up some firewood
5 Tuesday Mitchel and I cut corn
6 Wednesday Mitchel and I cut corn
7 Thursday I plowed for Mitchel all day
8 Friday I plowed for Mitchel all day
14 Thursday I plowed for Mitchel all day
15 friday sharone {Sharon?} helped me to clean a load of barley
16 Satuerday I went to crows with a load of barley sold for $1.29 cents 22. {scribble} hundred 17
pounds
17 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest
18 Monday Mr trembly and I cleaned a load of barley in the afternoon mary and me dug {Above it
reads: potatoes}
19 Tuesday we went to the picnic
20 Wednesday dug potatoes marey and me to day
21 Thursday I went to chatham with a load of barley sold for $1.23 cents I had 22 hundred {Above it
reads: 60}
22 friday Mitchel and mary and I finished diging {digging} my potatoes
23 Satuerday it is raining and snowing to day
24 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr king
25 Monday I fixed the hog pen
26 Tuesday I tied corn straw and drawed one load {Above it reads: of corn}
27 Wednesday I husked a little and drawed a load and a half of corn
28 Thursday I took the last of my barley out to Mr crow {crossed out} prise {price} $1.22 cts per bu I
had twelve hundred and sixty pounds
29 friday I loged {logged} at home
30 Satuerday I tied corn straw all day
31 Sunday went to here {hear} Mr forest
A November the 11 monthe of the year 1869
November 1869
1 Monday Mary and I drawed to {two} loads of corn and cleaned up my barley
John Jardine
2 Tuesday Lizzie and me went to chatham and to blenhiem {Blenheim, Ontario} for seed barley
3 Wednesday we stayed in blenhim all day
4 Thursday we came home from blenhim it rained heavey when we were at welsh’s
5 friday it rained and snowed Sam and me cleaned 25 bushels of wheat and I went to {Above it
reads: mill}
6 Satuerday {Saturday} I bought one hundred {Above it reads: bushel} of corn for beatise leanard
{Beatrice Leonard?}
7 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr forest
8 Monday I banked the house and covered my potatoes Deeper
9 Tuesday I loged {logged} for William cornwell Alick and sam husked corn all day
10 Wednesday Samuel and Alick and me husked corn
11 Thursday Alick and I drawed in the corn straw
12 friday Alick and I drawed in two loads of corn and husked a little corn
13 Satuerday it snowed very hard all day
14 Sunday we stayed home all day snow
15 Monday took two lgs {logs} up to the mill I fixed a place for to feede my pigs on
16 {Below sideways it reads: Alick comence work to day} Tuesday I drawed Mr Trembley hay home
for him it snowed very heavy to day
17 Wednesday it snowed very heavy and rained Alick and me cut of a pice {off a piece} of the stack
18 Thursday I cut wood and Alick drawed it
19 friday Alick cut a little wood and did the chors {chores} it rained hard to day I run around
20 Satuerday it rained this forenoon this afternoon Alick and Me drawed in them shocks of corn to
the barn
21 Sunday we stayed home
22 Monday in the forenoon Alick and me cut hoop poles it snowed very heavy you could hardly see
Alick and me husked corn
23 Tuesday we took hoop poles to henery in the afternoon Alick and me cut hoop poels
24 Wednesday Alick and me took another load of hoop poles to henry the hole was 1;16 poels
25 Thursday Alick and me choped logs of wood
26 friday morning I went and got my horses shod in the afternoon drawed up wood
27 Satuerday Alick drawed wood I choped
28 Sunday we went here {hear} Mr forest
29 Monday I went after albert to fix the stable in the afternoon {Above it reads: it rained} A & me
husked corn {Above it reads: all day}
30 Tuesday the snow is gon {gone} it raines hard Alick and me finished husked corn to day
D D December 12th month of the Year
December 12th Month
1 Wednesday Alick and me fixed the shed for the cows and choped som {chopped some} stovewood
2 Thursday we drawed corn straw into the barn yard commence to chop cord {Above it reads: wood}
3 friday Alick drawed up wood for the machine I choped it
4 Satuerday it snowes and raines very hard {Above it reads: to day}
5 Sunday we went to here Mr king
6 Monday Alick and me drawed up wood for the machine
7 Tuesday hugh sawed stovewood for us
8 Wednesday hugh sawed stovewood for us
9 Thursday we moved logs and burned brush for {Shors?} to ditch
10 friday I nailed the batens on the Stable and the kitchen
11 Satuerday {Saturday} we split wood in the afternoon it rained Alick and I cleaned up 25 bush of
{Above it reads: wheat}
12 Sunday roads is bad it rains we stayed home
13 Monday shours {showers} alick & I kiled to {killed two} pigs split {Above it reads: wood}
14 Tuesday alick & I split wood at the dore {door}
15 Wednesday it rained all day nothing dun {done}
16 Thursday I went to mill with 25 bushels of wheat Alick stayed home and kept batch alone
17 friday I choring and spliting {splitting} some wood at the {missing}
18 Satuerday I went to mill and fetched the rest of my grist home
19 Sunday we stayed at home all day
20 Monday I was choring and spliting a little wood
21 Tuesday forenoon spliting wood afternoon {Alick?} & richard edward & old Mr Trembly put up my
stable
22 Wednesday I was choring and spliting wood
23 Thursday I put dung on my potatoes piled up wood
24 Friday I was spliting and piling wood and choring
25 Saturday – Christmas day – Went to Mrs Gracey’s to dinner. Came home alone and after feeding
the stock went to a raffle at Richardson’s store
26 Sunday – In the evening we went to hear Mr King preach at 7 o’clock
27 Monday – Helped Bobby Vickerman to clean his flax seed & done the Chores
28 Tuesday after helped the booys to say {saw?} {Above it reads: wood}
29 Wednesday I helped samto split wood
30 Thursday I was choring in the afternoon helped Edward Trembly to draw logs for the machine
31 Friday I helped richard dood drawing logs For the machine to day all day
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