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John Jardine Sr. (1836-1905)
1870
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 the first 1870
1 Satuerday I was about the store most all {Above it reads: Day}
2 Sunday was a heavy snow storm
3 Monday Done the choers {chores} and went to the township meeting with boby
4 Tuesday I was choring in the afternoon I hitched up my colt
5 Wednesday I drawed cordwood out of the bush and piled it at the road side
6 Thursday I drawed wood out of the bush
7 Friday I was choring and went to Mr Pool to visit a little to day
8 Satuerday {Saturday} I choring and tok {took} home James shee {sheep} and fetched home
{coler?} {collar, caller?}
9 Sunday went to hear Mr ----------10 Monday I went to henderson for the barl {barley?} and went for {potva?} to kil {kill} my pigs
11 Tusday {Tuesday} I went to tomey atkson {Tommy Atkinson} helpe kil {helped kill} pigs in the
afternoon kiled my pigs comence to rain
12 Wednesday it rains all day the snow is nearly all gon {gone} the water is nearly up a foot deep
13 Thursday it has snoed {snowed} a little it freezing it is windey and cold I am choring to day
14 Friday I went to chaham {Chatham} with my hogs and sold them they weighed 9008 witch {which}
fetched $77.18cts
15 Satuerday it rained hard all day
16 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr raing agin
17 Monday moring raing agin {morning raining again} it is a lake all over the land the ditches is
runing {running} all over my land the water is runing past the house
18 Tuesday I went to William henderson for two pigs
John Jardine
{Upside-down it reads: John Jardine Tilbury West}
19 Wednesday I went to Mr pools {illegible}
20 Thursday I was choping {chopping} and piling brush to day
21 Friday I helped boby to cut sawlogs all day
22 Satuerday {Saturday} I went down backons in the afternoon I fell a big oak in the field at home
23 Sunday we stayed home all day
24 Monday I was cuting {cutting} railcuts and sawlogs
25 Tuesday in the forenoon I was cuting railtimber in the afternoon we commence to saw cordwood
26 Wednesday we sawed wood to day
27 Thursday we sawed wood to day
28 Friday we sawed wood to day
29 Satuerday we finished sawing this forenoon in the afternoon Samuel and me split wood
30 Sunday we went to curch {church} to day
31 Monday Samuel and me split wood
February 1870
1 Tuesday I went to the shop to get two shoes on my hores {horse} they ran away and broke very
near every thing sam split wood
2 Wednesday Samuel and I split cordwood
3 Thursday Samuel and I split wood
4 Friday Samuel and me finished spliting {splitting} wood this forenoon in the afternoon cut a load of
wood for notty
5 Satuerday Sam and I went down to baptest {baptist} creek in the afternoon sam & me took notty
the wood fetched home the sleighs
6 Sunday we went to hear Mr Allen
7 Monday Samuel and me commence to chop {Above it reads: cord}
8 Tusday {Tuesday} we choped cordwood fine weather
9 Wednesday we choped cordwood no sleighing
10 Thursday sam and me quit choping wood
11 Friday sam went home and I put new pins in my bobsleighs,
12 Satuerday I fixed the bridge in front of {Above it reads: the old man}
13 Sunday home to day no minister to day.
14 Monday hugh and me went to the store I bought 1 pair of mockoson {moccasin} I fixed pins to
hang up the harness
Hugh and I settled up about the sawing machine paid all up
15 Thusday {Thursday} I went to goodro {Goodreau?} got my hores {horse} shod up
16 Wednesday I went up to William Alan I got a hayfork mended it is like spring weather
17 Thursday it began to rain about 8 oclock to night it is soft and sloppy
18 Friday I went to a bee at Old Mr Latrilles
19 Satuerday done my chores and hauled some rails
20 Sunday we went to hear Mr King preach
21 Monday we went to the congregation meeting
22 Tuesday I hauled 2 loads of cordwood to Bapteste {Baptist} Creek
23 Wednesday the same very poor sleighing
24 Thursday the same
25 Friday I had a bee five teames very bad roads
26 Satuerday one load for Dick and 1 load for me
27 Sunday it is raining we stayed at home
28 Monday hauled two loads again and began to cut a road through the bush with Dick & Alick
O Erin {dear?}! Beyond the sea, fair country of my {fires?}
March 1870
1 Tuesday finished cuting the road and took 2 loads
2 Wednesday one load for McEwan & 1 load for me
3 Thursday I took down three loads
4 Friday the same
John Jardine Tilbury West January 10th 1875
5 Satuerday {Saturday} I took three loads
6 Sunday we went to hear Mr Armstrong preach
7 Monday I took two load
8 Teusday {Tuesday} the same, very poor sleighing
9 Wednesday I took three loads
10 Thursday the last of what {Above it reads: wood} I have cut took two loads the road is almost bare
the ice on the creek not very safe
11 Friday I choped {chopped} cordwood snowed some in the afternoon
12 Satuerday I choped wood snowed some and rained som sleet is turned colder to night
13 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr armstrong in {Above it reads: the} morn
14 Monday I took two loads of wood to baptist creek
15 Tuesday I took one load for mitchel and one load for me to baptist creek
16 Wednesday I took two loads to baptist creek
17 Thursday I took 1 load and choped {chopped} in the afternoon
18 friday I took one load for Mitchel Trembly in the afternoon choped for my self two cord and a half
19 Satuerday I took to {two} loads to baptist creek it is thawing very fast this afternoon
20 Sunday we stayed home all day it is mudy {muddy}
21 Monday I went to Bapteste creek with Richardson measure my wood I had 85 3/11
22 tusday {Tuesday} I took my cow up to Taylor i got 22,50 cts
23 Wednesday I went to the sail {sale} at gorg hilmon {George Hillman?}
24 Thursday I was spliting sovewood {splitting stovewood} at the doore {door}
25 Friday I went for my new waggon and split the rest of my wood at the door
26 Saturday in the forenoon I cut a few rails in the afternoon I went to the store it rained all afternoon
the roads is very mudy
27 Sunday we was home all day for it rained all day to night it is snowing
28 Monday moring {morning} there is from two to three inches of snow to night it is all gon {gone} the
road is very bad it is cloudy to day
29 Tuesday I drawed railes {rails} with flora and dan in the afternoon i was choping {chopping}
William Allen came I paid him $20 {Above it reads: on my waggon} and gave him my note for the
balance fine weather
30 Wednesday I drawed rails with flora and dan in the afternoon I sold flora for $100
31 Thursday it is a drizzling rain very near all day in the afternoon Mr Trembly and I cleaned 36
bushels {Above it reads: of pato {potatoes}}
{m ewes?} mind the weather but yet {I ut?} of double trouble
April 1870
1 Friday we went up to mr pools with the waggon I think the roads is the worst I ever saw them it is
raining to night
2 Satuerday I went to the store and got my money for my wood
3 Sunday we stayed home to day
4 Monday we went out to the store and bot {bought} some things
5 Tuesday I went and bot the John horse
6 Wednesday furrowed the corn field with Jo & Dan
7 Thursday I went to franks house raising
8 Friday I picked my potatoes took them into the stable
9 Satuerday we went to William Mcdowell funeral to day
10 Sunday home all day to day
11 Monday it rained a little this forenoon in the afternoon I fixed a little pice {piece} of the lane fence
and sold half a tun {ton} of hay {Above it reads: it is fine night}
12 Tuesday I commenced to plow to day
13 Wednesday I plowed in the afternoon it rained a little i fixed som fence
14 Thursday I plowed killed two pigs at night
15 Friday I plowed all day
16 Satuerday I plowed to day
17 Sunday we went to here Mr Armstrong it rained
18 Monday I went to the shop with the harrows to get the teeth it is raining to day the ground is wet
19 Tuesday I choped of to cuts John Benwa comence to ditch this afternoon it is raining the ground
is geting pretty wet the ditches is geting full
20 Wednesday in the forenoon John and I ditched in the afternoon I went to Stony point for Henry
Richardson A load of goods that rods is very bad it is raing
21 Thursday John & I ditched all day
22 Friday John & I ditched all day
23 Saturday John & I ditched in the afternoon I went to the shop for the harow I got two shoes on
John horse
24 Sunday we went to here Mr Armstrong
25 Monday John & I scraped the dirt into the old ditch
26 Tuesday John & I finished scraping this forenoon in the afternoon we drawed rails
27 Wednesday John made ditch I went to stony point for Richardson drawed a few rails
28 Thursday John drawed rails thi Old man Trembly and I put up the fence for the oat field
29 Friday I sowed 11 1/2 bushel of barley
30 Saturday we finished harrowing and furrowing the peice all up -Mr John Jardine Tilbury New Tindel P. Office John Jardine Tilbury West Nov. Nov 21th 1871 {or
1870}
May 1st 1870
1 Sunday we west at home all day no church
2 Monday plowed all round the house
3 Teusday {Tuesday} finished ploughing in the feild {field} at the {house?}
4 Wednesday I sowed 7 bushels of barley and finished harrowing it and furrowed it up
5 Thursday pulled out stumps in the new field
6 Friday I plowed in the afternoon it rained
7 Satuerday I plowed all day in the new feild {field} Johny went to Chatham on his own business
8 Sunday we went to church
9 Monday I ploughed in the new field
10 Tuesday I ploughed John durt {dirt} from the ditch
11 Wednesday I ploughed John Thrawed from the {Above it reads: durt}
12 Tursday {Thursday} I finished ploughing in the new field
13 Friday John B harrowed in oats I sowed
14 Satuerday {Saturday} old Trembly and I planted my {potatoes} John B finished harrowing the oats
to day
15 Sunday I took lizzey to hir {her} Mothers to {took?} Joy to the dokter {doctor}
16 Monday I furrowed the new field I ploughed about two ouers {hours} for Mr tre {trembly?} in the
afternoon Mr trembly and I cleaned about 40 bushels of oats and 22 bushels of wheat
17 Tuesday I went to mill to the blacksmith shop I got two shoes on dan in the {afternoon} finished
ploughing the little field at the {ashery?} sowed som flax and two bushels of oats John Benwa went
to the lawtrel barn raise
18 Wednesday I commence to plough for in the old medow {meadow}
19 Thursday I ploughed for corn
20 Friday ploughed for corn
21 Saturday after dinner it rained a little show ploughed for corn
22 Sunday I went to church lizzy is in Detroit yet
23 Monday I went down to Detroit to sea {see} lizzy hugh is harrowing and plouging {ploughing}
there is a very heavy shour {shower} to day
24 Tuesday I came home to day noon afternoon I went round for money for the society
25 Wednesday noon finished ploughing for corn afternoon John Benwa harrowed Mr Marchel and I
cliped {clipped} the wool of the shee {sheep}
26 Thursday I finished harrowing for corn
27 Friday forenoon I forrwed {furrowed} the corn ground in the afternoon Henery Gracy and his Wife
came to see me I had Just began to plant corn Lizzey is in Detroit yet
28 Satuerday forenoon we finished planting corn in the afternoon I took my plow to the shop get a
new landside and the point shape{d}
29 Sunday I went to here {hear} Mr bottoms no Lizzy
30 Monday I fixed a place for the chickens an and drawed lgs {logs} for two bridges in the afternoon I
made {made} the two bridges
31 Tuesday I roled my corn in the afternoon I went to Truell raising the grainrey {granary}
June 1870
1 Wednesday forenoon J went to the shop for my plough in the afternoon I ploughed for Edward for
corn the ground is very hard and dry
2 Thursday forenoon ploughed Edward Trembly in the afternoon I piled some manure very dry and
hot
3 Friday forenoon piled manure in the afternoon I went to stoney point to meet Lizzey she has come
home from Detroit
4 Satuerday forenoon playing my self in the afternoon I piled up manure washed buggy
5 Sunday we went to church it rained a nice {shower}
6 Monday forenoon piled manure in the afternoon fixed the old fence back of the wheat field
7 Tuesday I piled manure all day
8 Wednesday I went to whitewash the church it bigan {began} to rain about 9 to night it thundred and
lighting {thundered and lightning} {missing} it rained a butful shour {beautiful shower}
9 Thursday I loged {logged} for Mitchel Trembly to day
10 Friday I piled alittle manure it is raining very near
11 Satuerday {Saturday} I loged for hugh Gracy
12 Sunday we went to church tt ten Oclock
13 Monday I pulled weeds & thistles out of the {barn?}
14 Tuesday I puled {pulled} weeds out of the potatoes & oats
15 Wednesday I spread dirt on the lane in the afternoon I pulled weeds out of the oats
16 Thursday I finished piling manure and pulled some weeds out of the oats rain every day the crops
are looking better of the rain
17 Friday spread dirt in the afternoon cleaned wheat
18 Satuerday I spread dirt in the afternoon 4 went to Tomy {Tommy} Atksons to raise a stable
19 Sunday we went to church at 4 Oclock
20 Monday I went to mill with the last of my {Above it reads: wheat}
21 Tuesday I cultivated my potatoes and bean groud {ground} and harrowed the bean ground 3 and
planted my beans
22 Wednesday I comenced to hoe my potatoes
23 Thursday I hoed potatoes to day
24 Friday I am hoeing potatoes to day
25 Saturday forenoon howed {hoed} potatoes in the afternoon we went to here {hear} Mr king preach
26 Sunday we went to church at eleven Oclock
27 Monday champaine and I howed potatoes to day John Jardine
28 Tuesday champain and I finished howing {hoeing} potatoes in the forenoon in the afternoon
howed corn
29 Wednesday Tomey and I cultivted {cultivated} corn champain howed {Above it reads: corn}
30 Thursday champain edward and I howed corn to day to night it rained heavy shower
July the first 1870
1 Friday it is a drizzling rain most all day I done nothing but cut alittle grace { a little grace} at the
door
2 Saturday I went to help boby vickerman
3 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr. Armstrong
4 Monday I commence to cut my hay to day
5 Tuesday I mowing hay round the fence
6 Wednesday cut hay with the machine drawed in on lode {load} of hay comence to rain to night
7 Thursday it rained this forenoon it faired a little while it rained a heavy shower about 5 Oclock
8 Friday Theodore and I {lurned?} over hay till about three Oclock we gathered up four rows of hay
9 Satuerday Theodore and I comenced to draw in hay about 10 Oclock Richard dodd com {come}
with the horse rake and raked up all my hay we drawed 8 lods {loads} of hay
10 Sunday we stayed home to day no church to day
11 Monday it rained heavy all forenoon it rained some this afternoon I went up to Mr pools about my
trees apple trees
12 Tuesday it is raining it is very wet this afternoon we commence to cut my wheat
13 Wednesday we Mitchel and Theodore and me cut wheat all day, Marshall finished cutting my hay
14 Thursday Theodore and I cut wheat all day
15 Friday Theodore and I finished cuting {cutting} wheat to day at supper time we put up a few hay
ricks in the evening
16 Satuerday {Saturday} Theodore and I gathered hay and drawed in 4 lods {loads}
17 Sunday we went to church at 10 Oclock it came up a big shour {shower} it rained a very {missing}
18 Monday I went to east Tilbury in the forenoon in the afternoon we cut brley {barley}
19 Tuesday mowed barley and drawed in two lods {loads} of hay
20 Wednesday mowed barley til supper time after supper we gathered up two row of {barley}
21 Thursday we gathered up 4 acres of barley in winrow
22 Friday we drawed one load of wheat and two lods {loads} of barley till noon it came up a
{missing} wind and rain after the rain shook up barley
23 Satuerday we gathered up barley in the fore{noon} in the afternoon we drawed in 4 ½ lods {loads}
of barley and 1 load of wheat
24 Sunday we went to church it came up a heavy of rain about noon
25 Monday this morning at 2 Oclock a very heavy rain and wind storm Theodore and I got in one
lode of barley after supper
26 Tuesday we raked up last of the barley we wanted to get in the last load of barley but the rain
beat us it did not get dry the rest of the day another big shour {shower} to night
27 Wednesday it rains another shower about Oclock another between 4 and 5 this afternoon great
deal of lighting {lightning} and thunder with the shower
28 Thursday it rains this morning another shower {Below it reads: about} 8 {oclock} 9 oclock another
shour {shower} about half past eleven oclock another shour about 2 clock nothing done {Above it
reads: today}
29 Friday I straitened {straightened} up the wheat and pulled weeds in the corn
30 Satuerday we untied 3 lods {loads} of wheat and drawed 4 lods of wheat 1 load and half of barley
and half load of hay
31 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr Armstrong
Agust {August} the first 1870
1 Monday we finished drawing in my wheat and barley I plowed Theodore cut weeds in the corn
2 Tuesday I plowed Theodore cut weeds in the corn in the afternoon Theodore went to Mitchel to
moe {mow} {Above it reads: hay}
3 Wednesday Theodore mowed for Mitchel in the afternoon cut weeds in the corn I went to the
blacksmith shop got dan shod bought a {missing} from henery richarson for $15
4 Thursday I shovled {shovelled} out the roos furroes {cross furrows} Theodore worked in the corn
5 Friday I cut a few oats I comenced to {missing} agin {again} in the afternoon Theordore in the
{missing}
6 Satuerday plowed agin Theodore in the {missing}
7 Sunday I went to church lizzy stayed home
8 Monday I finished powing {plowing} that pice {piece} Theodore {missing}
9 Tuesday we comenced {commenced} to cut oats to day
10 Wednesday we cut ots {oats} to day
11 Thursday reaped oats to day
12 Friday richard & mitchel & Theodore mowed to day and I reaped oats to day
13 Saturday it rained all day
14 Sunday I went to church at 4 Oclock
15 Monday Theodore & I bind oats to {missing}
16 Tuesday cut som {some} Mitchell & Theodore {missing} in oats Alik and I gathered oats
17 Wednesday Theodore went to help Mitchel stack his oats John B and I reaped {missing}
18 Thursday in the forenoon Theodore {missing} mitchel to finish his oats we reaped in {missing}
19 Friday Mitchel & Theodore & me {Above it reads: finished} cuting {cutting} all my oats we got in
one load it came up a shour {shower} of rain stoped {stopped} us of geting {getting} my mare to day
20 Saturday I finished cuting my flax in the {forenoon} Theodore went to stoney point for to get som
{tobacco?}
21 Sunday I went to church
22 Monday Theodore and I finished binding oats in the barn field and drawed them all in
23 Tuesday Theodore harrowed in the forenoon I bound a few oats in afternoon it was wet
24 Wednesday I went to the poling {polling?} for the {missing} Theodore cut the hay around the corn
field
22 Thursday I went to Dunkens {Duncan?} for one of the {covered} I did not get one of them in the
after{noon}
23 Friday in the forenoon Theodore harrowed I was looking for a girl cannot find one in afternoon we
drawed in the last of the oats and
24 Theodore finished rolling the orchard field SaturdayTherodore drawed manure to day I
25 was looking for a girl all day to day got none Sunday I went to church to day
Monday Theodore manure I went to
26 Ainslie for Maggie I drawed manure in the afternoon
Tuesday Theodore and I drawed manure
Wednesday we drawed manure
27
September 1870
28 Thursday I plowed and Theodore drawed manure {covered} thrash afternoon Theodore drawed
manure {?} Day I plowed in the forenoon and helped {John} doing thrash afternoon Theodore
drawed manure
Tuesday it is raing {raining} I thrashed the flax
4 Sunday we to hear Mr Armstrong
5 Monday I thrashed for maning {Manning} Theodore hauled manure
6 Teusday {Tuesday} I finished at Thrashing for Manning in the forenoon thrashed for Boby in the
afternoon
7 Wednesday I thrashed for Boby Vickerman
8 Thursday I thrashed for Mitchel Trembly
9 Friday I Thrashed for Edward Trembly
10 Satuerday I thrashed for John Jardine
11 Sunday we went to church in the afternoon
12 Monday finished thrashing for me {Above it reads: at} two Oclock
13 Teusday {Tuesday} I plowed for fall wheat
14 Wednesday I plowed all day
15 Thursday I plowed again all day
16 Friday I plowed again Mr Jackson was cutting {Above it reads: corn}
17 Saturday I sowed 6 ½ bush wheat and cultivated it in Mr Jackson finished cutting the corn
18 Sunday we went to church at 10 Oclock
19 Monday I sowed 1 ½ bushels of wheat
20 Tuesday I furrowed it up
21 Wednesday I shoveled the furrowes
22 Thursday I comence {commence} to plow around the house
23 Friday I finished plowing around the house in the afternoon harrowed and in to two bushels of
wheat
24 Satuerday {Saturday} I furrowed it up and shoveled it I bought two calvs {calves} from Richard
dodd and fetched them home
25 Sunday we went to church 4 Oclock
26 Monday I drawed manuer {manure} to day
27 Tuesday I drawed manure to day
28 Wednesday I loged {logged} for Richard dodd
29 Thursday it rained alittle I thrashed my beens {beans} Mr Trembly and I cleaned up the beens I
fixed the buggy
30 Friday it rained all day it was a splendid rain the ground was very dry
October 1870
1 Satuerday I plowed all day
2 Sunday we went to church at 10 clock
3 Monday raining till 10 Oclock I plowed one land this forenoon in the afternoon I went to the society
meeting
4 Thursday in the forenoon I drawed {two?} lods {loads} of manuere {manure} cleaned 6 bushels of
wheat for marchel and 4 for me
5 Wednesday I sowed 3 bushels half of {missing} and harrowed it in and furrowed it and shoveled
the cross furrowes
6 Thursday I went and plowed for Jacks{sons?}
7 Friday I ploughed for Jackson
8 Saturday in the forenoon boby came and altred my pigs and calvs {calves} in the afternoon I
ploughed for Jackson
9 Sunday we went to church 4 O clock
10 Monday I plowed for Jackson
11 Tuesday I dug my peatchblows {Peach Blow potatoes} in the afternoon I cleaned grain for the fair
12 Wednesday we went to east Tilbury fair
13 Thursday we went to our {illegible} fair in west Tilbury
14 Friday I went and fetched home my pig in the afternoon I peened {penned?} them all up {missing}
15 Satuerday {Saturday} I commence to dig my Patoes {potatoes?}
16 Sunday we went to church 3 Oclock
17 Monday I went and plowed for Jackson
18 Tuesday I plowed for Jackson
19 Wednesday I dug potatoes it rains a little this afternoon
20 Thursday forenoon it rains a little I dug potatoes in the afternoon
21 Friday I dug potatoes and drawed one load of corn after sundown
John Jardine
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1870
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 the first 1870
1 Satuerday I was about the store most all {Above it reads: Day}
2 Sunday was a heavy snow storm
3 Monday Done the choers {chores} and went to the township meeting with boby
4 Tuesday I was choring in the afternoon I hitched up my colt
5 Wednesday I drawed cordwood out of the bush and piled it at the road side
6 Thursday I drawed wood out of the bush
7 Friday I was choring and went to Mr Pool to visit a little to day
8 Satuerday {Saturday} I choring and tok {took} home James shee {sheep} and fetched home
{coler?} {collar, caller?}
9 Sunday went to hear Mr ----------10 Monday I went to henderson for the barl {barley?} and went for {potva?} to kil {kill} my pigs
11 Tusday {Tuesday} I went to tomey atkson {Tommy Atkinson} helpe kil {helped kill} pigs in the
afternoon kiled my pigs comence to rain
12 Wednesday it rains all day the snow is nearly all gon {gone} the water is nearly up a foot deep
13 Thursday it has snoed {snowed} a little it freezing it is windey and cold I am choring to day
14 Friday I went to chaham {Chatham} with my hogs and sold them they weighed 9008 witch {which}
fetched $77.18cts
15 Satuerday it rained hard all day
16 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr raing agin
17 Monday moring raing agin {morning raining again} it is a lake all over the land the ditches is
runing {running} all over my land the water is runing past the house
18 Tuesday I went to William henderson for two pigs
John Jardine
{Upside-down it reads: John Jardine Tilbury West}
19 Wednesday I went to Mr pools {illegible}
20 Thursday I was choping {chopping} and piling brush to day
21 Friday I helped boby to cut sawlogs all day
22 Satuerday {Saturday} I went down backons in the afternoon I fell a big oak in the field at home
23 Sunday we stayed home all day
24 Monday I was cuting {cutting} railcuts and sawlogs
25 Tuesday in the forenoon I was cuting railtimber in the afternoon we commence to saw cordwood
26 Wednesday we sawed wood to day
27 Thursday we sawed wood to day
28 Friday we sawed wood to day
29 Satuerday we finished sawing this forenoon in the afternoon Samuel and me split wood
30 Sunday we went to curch {church} to day
31 Monday Samuel and me split wood
February 1870
1 Tuesday I went to the shop to get two shoes on my hores {horse} they ran away and broke very
near every thing sam split wood
2 Wednesday Samuel and I split cordwood
3 Thursday Samuel and I split wood
4 Friday Samuel and me finished spliting {splitting} wood this forenoon in the afternoon cut a load of
wood for notty
5 Satuerday Sam and I went down to baptest {baptist} creek in the afternoon sam & me took notty
the wood fetched home the sleighs
6 Sunday we went to hear Mr Allen
7 Monday Samuel and me commence to chop {Above it reads: cord}
8 Tusday {Tuesday} we choped cordwood fine weather
9 Wednesday we choped cordwood no sleighing
10 Thursday sam and me quit choping wood
11 Friday sam went home and I put new pins in my bobsleighs,
12 Satuerday I fixed the bridge in front of {Above it reads: the old man}
13 Sunday home to day no minister to day.
14 Monday hugh and me went to the store I bought 1 pair of mockoson {moccasin} I fixed pins to
hang up the harness
Hugh and I settled up about the sawing machine paid all up
15 Thusday {Thursday} I went to goodro {Goodreau?} got my hores {horse} shod up
16 Wednesday I went up to William Alan I got a hayfork mended it is like spring weather
17 Thursday it began to rain about 8 oclock to night it is soft and sloppy
18 Friday I went to a bee at Old Mr Latrilles
19 Satuerday done my chores and hauled some rails
20 Sunday we went to hear Mr King preach
21 Monday we went to the congregation meeting
22 Tuesday I hauled 2 loads of cordwood to Bapteste {Baptist} Creek
23 Wednesday the same very poor sleighing
24 Thursday the same
25 Friday I had a bee five teames very bad roads
26 Satuerday one load for Dick and 1 load for me
27 Sunday it is raining we stayed at home
28 Monday hauled two loads again and began to cut a road through the bush with Dick & Alick
O Erin {dear?}! Beyond the sea, fair country of my {fires?}
March 1870
1 Tuesday finished cuting the road and took 2 loads
2 Wednesday one load for McEwan & 1 load for me
3 Thursday I took down three loads
4 Friday the same
John Jardine Tilbury West January 10th 1875
5 Satuerday {Saturday} I took three loads
6 Sunday we went to hear Mr Armstrong preach
7 Monday I took two load
8 Teusday {Tuesday} the same, very poor sleighing
9 Wednesday I took three loads
10 Thursday the last of what {Above it reads: wood} I have cut took two loads the road is almost bare
the ice on the creek not very safe
11 Friday I choped {chopped} cordwood snowed some in the afternoon
12 Satuerday I choped wood snowed some and rained som sleet is turned colder to night
13 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr armstrong in {Above it reads: the} morn
14 Monday I took two loads of wood to baptist creek
15 Tuesday I took one load for mitchel and one load for me to baptist creek
16 Wednesday I took two loads to baptist creek
17 Thursday I took 1 load and choped {chopped} in the afternoon
18 friday I took one load for Mitchel Trembly in the afternoon choped for my self two cord and a half
19 Satuerday I took to {two} loads to baptist creek it is thawing very fast this afternoon
20 Sunday we stayed home all day it is mudy {muddy}
21 Monday I went to Bapteste creek with Richardson measure my wood I had 85 3/11
22 tusday {Tuesday} I took my cow up to Taylor i got 22,50 cts
23 Wednesday I went to the sail {sale} at gorg hilmon {George Hillman?}
24 Thursday I was spliting sovewood {splitting stovewood} at the doore {door}
25 Friday I went for my new waggon and split the rest of my wood at the door
26 Saturday in the forenoon I cut a few rails in the afternoon I went to the store it rained all afternoon
the roads is very mudy
27 Sunday we was home all day for it rained all day to night it is snowing
28 Monday moring {morning} there is from two to three inches of snow to night it is all gon {gone} the
road is very bad it is cloudy to day
29 Tuesday I drawed railes {rails} with flora and dan in the afternoon i was choping {chopping}
William Allen came I paid him $20 {Above it reads: on my waggon} and gave him my note for the
balance fine weather
30 Wednesday I drawed rails with flora and dan in the afternoon I sold flora for $100
31 Thursday it is a drizzling rain very near all day in the afternoon Mr Trembly and I cleaned 36
bushels {Above it reads: of pato {potatoes}}
{m ewes?} mind the weather but yet {I ut?} of double trouble
April 1870
1 Friday we went up to mr pools with the waggon I think the roads is the worst I ever saw them it is
raining to night
2 Satuerday I went to the store and got my money for my wood
3 Sunday we stayed home to day
4 Monday we went out to the store and bot {bought} some things
5 Tuesday I went and bot the John horse
6 Wednesday furrowed the corn field with Jo & Dan
7 Thursday I went to franks house raising
8 Friday I picked my potatoes took them into the stable
9 Satuerday we went to William Mcdowell funeral to day
10 Sunday home all day to day
11 Monday it rained a little this forenoon in the afternoon I fixed a little pice {piece} of the lane fence
and sold half a tun {ton} of hay {Above it reads: it is fine night}
12 Tuesday I commenced to plow to day
13 Wednesday I plowed in the afternoon it rained a little i fixed som fence
14 Thursday I plowed killed two pigs at night
15 Friday I plowed all day
16 Satuerday I plowed to day
17 Sunday we went to here Mr Armstrong it rained
18 Monday I went to the shop with the harrows to get the teeth it is raining to day the ground is wet
19 Tuesday I choped of to cuts John Benwa comence to ditch this afternoon it is raining the ground
is geting pretty wet the ditches is geting full
20 Wednesday in the forenoon John and I ditched in the afternoon I went to Stony point for Henry
Richardson A load of goods that rods is very bad it is raing
21 Thursday John & I ditched all day
22 Friday John & I ditched all day
23 Saturday John & I ditched in the afternoon I went to the shop for the harow I got two shoes on
John horse
24 Sunday we went to here Mr Armstrong
25 Monday John & I scraped the dirt into the old ditch
26 Tuesday John & I finished scraping this forenoon in the afternoon we drawed rails
27 Wednesday John made ditch I went to stony point for Richardson drawed a few rails
28 Thursday John drawed rails thi Old man Trembly and I put up the fence for the oat field
29 Friday I sowed 11 1/2 bushel of barley
30 Saturday we finished harrowing and furrowing the peice all up -Mr John Jardine Tilbury New Tindel P. Office John Jardine Tilbury West Nov. Nov 21th 1871 {or
1870}
May 1st 1870
1 Sunday we west at home all day no church
2 Monday plowed all round the house
3 Teusday {Tuesday} finished ploughing in the feild {field} at the {house?}
4 Wednesday I sowed 7 bushels of barley and finished harrowing it and furrowed it up
5 Thursday pulled out stumps in the new field
6 Friday I plowed in the afternoon it rained
7 Satuerday I plowed all day in the new feild {field} Johny went to Chatham on his own business
8 Sunday we went to church
9 Monday I ploughed in the new field
10 Tuesday I ploughed John durt {dirt} from the ditch
11 Wednesday I ploughed John Thrawed from the {Above it reads: durt}
12 Tursday {Thursday} I finished ploughing in the new field
13 Friday John B harrowed in oats I sowed
14 Satuerday {Saturday} old Trembly and I planted my {potatoes} John B finished harrowing the oats
to day
15 Sunday I took lizzey to hir {her} Mothers to {took?} Joy to the dokter {doctor}
16 Monday I furrowed the new field I ploughed about two ouers {hours} for Mr tre {trembly?} in the
afternoon Mr trembly and I cleaned about 40 bushels of oats and 22 bushels of wheat
17 Tuesday I went to mill to the blacksmith shop I got two shoes on dan in the {afternoon} finished
ploughing the little field at the {ashery?} sowed som flax and two bushels of oats John Benwa went
to the lawtrel barn raise
18 Wednesday I commence to plough for in the old medow {meadow}
19 Thursday I ploughed for corn
20 Friday ploughed for corn
21 Saturday after dinner it rained a little show ploughed for corn
22 Sunday I went to church lizzy is in Detroit yet
23 Monday I went down to Detroit to sea {see} lizzy hugh is harrowing and plouging {ploughing}
there is a very heavy shour {shower} to day
24 Tuesday I came home to day noon afternoon I went round for money for the society
25 Wednesday noon finished ploughing for corn afternoon John Benwa harrowed Mr Marchel and I
cliped {clipped} the wool of the shee {sheep}
26 Thursday I finished harrowing for corn
27 Friday forenoon I forrwed {furrowed} the corn ground in the afternoon Henery Gracy and his Wife
came to see me I had Just began to plant corn Lizzey is in Detroit yet
28 Satuerday forenoon we finished planting corn in the afternoon I took my plow to the shop get a
new landside and the point shape{d}
29 Sunday I went to here {hear} Mr bottoms no Lizzy
30 Monday I fixed a place for the chickens an and drawed lgs {logs} for two bridges in the afternoon I
made {made} the two bridges
31 Tuesday I roled my corn in the afternoon I went to Truell raising the grainrey {granary}
June 1870
1 Wednesday forenoon J went to the shop for my plough in the afternoon I ploughed for Edward for
corn the ground is very hard and dry
2 Thursday forenoon ploughed Edward Trembly in the afternoon I piled some manure very dry and
hot
3 Friday forenoon piled manure in the afternoon I went to stoney point to meet Lizzey she has come
home from Detroit
4 Satuerday forenoon playing my self in the afternoon I piled up manure washed buggy
5 Sunday we went to church it rained a nice {shower}
6 Monday forenoon piled manure in the afternoon fixed the old fence back of the wheat field
7 Tuesday I piled manure all day
8 Wednesday I went to whitewash the church it bigan {began} to rain about 9 to night it thundred and
lighting {thundered and lightning} {missing} it rained a butful shour {beautiful shower}
9 Thursday I loged {logged} for Mitchel Trembly to day
10 Friday I piled alittle manure it is raining very near
11 Satuerday {Saturday} I loged for hugh Gracy
12 Sunday we went to church tt ten Oclock
13 Monday I pulled weeds & thistles out of the {barn?}
14 Tuesday I puled {pulled} weeds out of the potatoes & oats
15 Wednesday I spread dirt on the lane in the afternoon I pulled weeds out of the oats
16 Thursday I finished piling manure and pulled some weeds out of the oats rain every day the crops
are looking better of the rain
17 Friday spread dirt in the afternoon cleaned wheat
18 Satuerday I spread dirt in the afternoon 4 went to Tomy {Tommy} Atksons to raise a stable
19 Sunday we went to church at 4 Oclock
20 Monday I went to mill with the last of my {Above it reads: wheat}
21 Tuesday I cultivated my potatoes and bean groud {ground} and harrowed the bean ground 3 and
planted my beans
22 Wednesday I comenced to hoe my potatoes
23 Thursday I hoed potatoes to day
24 Friday I am hoeing potatoes to day
25 Saturday forenoon howed {hoed} potatoes in the afternoon we went to here {hear} Mr king preach
26 Sunday we went to church at eleven Oclock
27 Monday champaine and I howed potatoes to day John Jardine
28 Tuesday champain and I finished howing {hoeing} potatoes in the forenoon in the afternoon
howed corn
29 Wednesday Tomey and I cultivted {cultivated} corn champain howed {Above it reads: corn}
30 Thursday champain edward and I howed corn to day to night it rained heavy shower
July the first 1870
1 Friday it is a drizzling rain most all day I done nothing but cut alittle grace { a little grace} at the
door
2 Saturday I went to help boby vickerman
3 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr. Armstrong
4 Monday I commence to cut my hay to day
5 Tuesday I mowing hay round the fence
6 Wednesday cut hay with the machine drawed in on lode {load} of hay comence to rain to night
7 Thursday it rained this forenoon it faired a little while it rained a heavy shower about 5 Oclock
8 Friday Theodore and I {lurned?} over hay till about three Oclock we gathered up four rows of hay
9 Satuerday Theodore and I comenced to draw in hay about 10 Oclock Richard dodd com {come}
with the horse rake and raked up all my hay we drawed 8 lods {loads} of hay
10 Sunday we stayed home to day no church to day
11 Monday it rained heavy all forenoon it rained some this afternoon I went up to Mr pools about my
trees apple trees
12 Tuesday it is raining it is very wet this afternoon we commence to cut my wheat
13 Wednesday we Mitchel and Theodore and me cut wheat all day, Marshall finished cutting my hay
14 Thursday Theodore and I cut wheat all day
15 Friday Theodore and I finished cuting {cutting} wheat to day at supper time we put up a few hay
ricks in the evening
16 Satuerday {Saturday} Theodore and I gathered hay and drawed in 4 lods {loads}
17 Sunday we went to church at 10 Oclock it came up a big shour {shower} it rained a very {missing}
18 Monday I went to east Tilbury in the forenoon in the afternoon we cut brley {barley}
19 Tuesday mowed barley and drawed in two lods {loads} of hay
20 Wednesday mowed barley til supper time after supper we gathered up two row of {barley}
21 Thursday we gathered up 4 acres of barley in winrow
22 Friday we drawed one load of wheat and two lods {loads} of barley till noon it came up a
{missing} wind and rain after the rain shook up barley
23 Satuerday we gathered up barley in the fore{noon} in the afternoon we drawed in 4 ½ lods {loads}
of barley and 1 load of wheat
24 Sunday we went to church it came up a heavy of rain about noon
25 Monday this morning at 2 Oclock a very heavy rain and wind storm Theodore and I got in one
lode of barley after supper
26 Tuesday we raked up last of the barley we wanted to get in the last load of barley but the rain
beat us it did not get dry the rest of the day another big shour {shower} to night
27 Wednesday it rains another shower about Oclock another between 4 and 5 this afternoon great
deal of lighting {lightning} and thunder with the shower
28 Thursday it rains this morning another shower {Below it reads: about} 8 {oclock} 9 oclock another
shour {shower} about half past eleven oclock another shour about 2 clock nothing done {Above it
reads: today}
29 Friday I straitened {straightened} up the wheat and pulled weeds in the corn
30 Satuerday we untied 3 lods {loads} of wheat and drawed 4 lods of wheat 1 load and half of barley
and half load of hay
31 Sunday we went to here {hear} Mr Armstrong
Agust {August} the first 1870
1 Monday we finished drawing in my wheat and barley I plowed Theodore cut weeds in the corn
2 Tuesday I plowed Theodore cut weeds in the corn in the afternoon Theodore went to Mitchel to
moe {mow} {Above it reads: hay}
3 Wednesday Theodore mowed for Mitchel in the afternoon cut weeds in the corn I went to the
blacksmith shop got dan shod bought a {missing} from henery richarson for $15
4 Thursday I shovled {shovelled} out the roos furroes {cross furrows} Theodore worked in the corn
5 Friday I cut a few oats I comenced to {missing} agin {again} in the afternoon Theordore in the
{missing}
6 Satuerday plowed agin Theodore in the {missing}
7 Sunday I went to church lizzy stayed home
8 Monday I finished powing {plowing} that pice {piece} Theodore {missing}
9 Tuesday we comenced {commenced} to cut oats to day
10 Wednesday we cut ots {oats} to day
11 Thursday reaped oats to day
12 Friday richard & mitchel & Theodore mowed to day and I reaped oats to day
13 Saturday it rained all day
14 Sunday I went to church at 4 Oclock
15 Monday Theodore & I bind oats to {missing}
16 Tuesday cut som {some} Mitchell & Theodore {missing} in oats Alik and I gathered oats
17 Wednesday Theodore went to help Mitchel stack his oats John B and I reaped {missing}
18 Thursday in the forenoon Theodore {missing} mitchel to finish his oats we reaped in {missing}
19 Friday Mitchel & Theodore & me {Above it reads: finished} cuting {cutting} all my oats we got in
one load it came up a shour {shower} of rain stoped {stopped} us of geting {getting} my mare to day
20 Saturday I finished cuting my flax in the {forenoon} Theodore went to stoney point for to get som
{tobacco?}
21 Sunday I went to church
22 Monday Theodore and I finished binding oats in the barn field and drawed them all in
23 Tuesday Theodore harrowed in the forenoon I bound a few oats in afternoon it was wet
24 Wednesday I went to the poling {polling?} for the {missing} Theodore cut the hay around the corn
field
22 Thursday I went to Dunkens {Duncan?} for one of the {covered} I did not get one of them in the
after{noon}
23 Friday in the forenoon Theodore harrowed I was looking for a girl cannot find one in afternoon we
drawed in the last of the oats and
24 Theodore finished rolling the orchard field SaturdayTherodore drawed manure to day I
25 was looking for a girl all day to day got none Sunday I went to church to day
Monday Theodore manure I went to
26 Ainslie for Maggie I drawed manure in the afternoon
Tuesday Theodore and I drawed manure
Wednesday we drawed manure
27
September 1870
28 Thursday I plowed and Theodore drawed manure {covered} thrash afternoon Theodore drawed
manure {?} Day I plowed in the forenoon and helped {John} doing thrash afternoon Theodore
drawed manure
Tuesday it is raing {raining} I thrashed the flax
4 Sunday we to hear Mr Armstrong
5 Monday I thrashed for maning {Manning} Theodore hauled manure
6 Teusday {Tuesday} I finished at Thrashing for Manning in the forenoon thrashed for Boby in the
afternoon
7 Wednesday I thrashed for Boby Vickerman
8 Thursday I thrashed for Mitchel Trembly
9 Friday I Thrashed for Edward Trembly
10 Satuerday I thrashed for John Jardine
11 Sunday we went to church in the afternoon
12 Monday finished thrashing for me {Above it reads: at} two Oclock
13 Teusday {Tuesday} I plowed for fall wheat
14 Wednesday I plowed all day
15 Thursday I plowed again all day
16 Friday I plowed again Mr Jackson was cutting {Above it reads: corn}
17 Saturday I sowed 6 ½ bush wheat and cultivated it in Mr Jackson finished cutting the corn
18 Sunday we went to church at 10 Oclock
19 Monday I sowed 1 ½ bushels of wheat
20 Tuesday I furrowed it up
21 Wednesday I shoveled the furrowes
22 Thursday I comence {commence} to plow around the house
23 Friday I finished plowing around the house in the afternoon harrowed and in to two bushels of
wheat
24 Satuerday {Saturday} I furrowed it up and shoveled it I bought two calvs {calves} from Richard
dodd and fetched them home
25 Sunday we went to church 4 Oclock
26 Monday I drawed manuer {manure} to day
27 Tuesday I drawed manure to day
28 Wednesday I loged {logged} for Richard dodd
29 Thursday it rained alittle I thrashed my beens {beans} Mr Trembly and I cleaned up the beens I
fixed the buggy
30 Friday it rained all day it was a splendid rain the ground was very dry
October 1870
1 Satuerday I plowed all day
2 Sunday we went to church at 10 clock
3 Monday raining till 10 Oclock I plowed one land this forenoon in the afternoon I went to the society
meeting
4 Thursday in the forenoon I drawed {two?} lods {loads} of manuere {manure} cleaned 6 bushels of
wheat for marchel and 4 for me
5 Wednesday I sowed 3 bushels half of {missing} and harrowed it in and furrowed it and shoveled
the cross furrowes
6 Thursday I went and plowed for Jacks{sons?}
7 Friday I ploughed for Jackson
8 Saturday in the forenoon boby came and altred my pigs and calvs {calves} in the afternoon I
ploughed for Jackson
9 Sunday we went to church 4 O clock
10 Monday I plowed for Jackson
11 Tuesday I dug my peatchblows {Peach Blow potatoes} in the afternoon I cleaned grain for the fair
12 Wednesday we went to east Tilbury fair
13 Thursday we went to our {illegible} fair in west Tilbury
14 Friday I went and fetched home my pig in the afternoon I peened {penned?} them all up {missing}
15 Satuerday {Saturday} I commence to dig my Patoes {potatoes?}
16 Sunday we went to church 3 Oclock
17 Monday I went and plowed for Jackson
18 Tuesday I plowed for Jackson
19 Wednesday I dug potatoes it rains a little this afternoon
20 Thursday forenoon it rains a little I dug potatoes in the afternoon
21 Friday I dug potatoes and drawed one load of corn after sundown
John Jardine
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