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Transcription
{first page}
Mr James Cameron Island
26th of March 1886 John Hamilton Cameron's Birth Day 1876 J Hamilton {illegible} with Tea Kettle 1 Bag of Oats sack of Flour sold 2 Hides over the River gave me 2 Dollars Cash Randolph to McDougalls for the Pot got 15 Buckets set of hames water on the ice under the snow Fine Robins came Blackbirds Hawks Grassbirds
27th E Wind Fine good crust I crofsed to Mr P Purcells mill 60 Boards 1..50 for sawing Paid this T Jack took them Down for me Nicholsons got the Post Office yesterday Old Mr Akins Poorly cutting Sugar Bush Wood thawing
28th Went to Christee Island Randolph and I
29th E Wind crust good Went to{illegible}ngton Bought of Congdon Downs Elixer 25 Doll 25 Hoarhound Candy 2 Bought of spoils 75 Bought of N.G. Boots {illegible}ting 20 snack 10 Bought of G Long Knife 25 Tax 10 {illegible}ls 5 pens 3 pipes H Wines 40 Taking the scow {illegible} of the ice to take to Hopkins Point Tapt 60 Trees to Day stopt at Jo Douquetts all night had supper and {illegible} no hay got a Ride Down from John Plum a {illegible} Lambs came from Jo Douquetts Fine seen Black Ducks
31 Gathered 12 pails of sap Raining
1st of April all Fools {illegible} snow Windy Randolph crofsed to Summerstown Bought of Mr Ward Wormy Candy 12 awls 4 Matches 8 Drawing to Lighthouse {illegible} in sugar Bush cutting Wood Fine Flurries of snow
3 Boiling {cut off} Bush for the First Time made 1 1/2 Gallons John and {torn off}der McDougall here a strange Man came from Lancaster here inquiring the Road to st Regis and {illegible}ck from her his name Alfred Woods
4th Fine crofsed to Summerstown Archy Grant (Bishop) B{cut off} Oxly calved
7th very Stormy Big Storm of snow Wind
8th Boiling Sap
9th Lily Calved a {illegible} to the Sugar Bush Made First sugar 40 lbs
10th in the {illegible}
11th Made 52 lb
12th Horses crofsing {illegible}
{illegible}seen snakes, Pewits yellow hammer {illegible} Lots of shooting at Douquetts {rest of page illegible}
{second page}
to here
Mr James Cameron Island
April 14th 1886 {first line illegible}
16th Brindle calved
17th Made 2 Gallons for the Last Killed a snake
18th Duncan's Birth Day Palm Sunday John G and {illegible} here to night Leander got 2 Rats {illegible} the calf Pasture {illegible}
19th Granadas First Trip Thunder and Lightning Fine Clearing up Wood {illegible} the Door Men Working at th Light House some {illegible} Lights on it to night
20th Taking home sugar Bush Rigging Killed a calf
21 Traveller went Down Taking away the Banking from the house
22nd Hector in Rae's Daughter Departed Maunday Thursday got 4 Pikes John Adams an Indian here gave him stuff for oars Randolph to Summerstown Bought of J Summers 2 Bottles 50 Broom 15 Bought of Mr Ward Worm Candy 24 Pipes 2 got Papers from Da{illegible}
23rd St George Day and Good Friday The Festival of the English West Wind Went to sturgeon Island Randolph shot 2 Ducks Putting Manure on the Yard
24th splitting Rails {illegible}
25th Easter Sunday and St Marks Day the Sun Danced to day East Wind Fine Day
26th Fisherman {illegible} Calvett Dog had Puppies 4 of them
27th Randolph and Narcisse to Fort Covington for Rubber Boots
28th Working at Fences