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w here shall we all be this time twelve-month,
nearer the end of our journey for certain.__
30th Mercury 11 degrees below zero, _ made two
b osoms for father, able to get up before
day light and help get breakfast.____
[pg 9]
12m 1 Levi & Mary went up to Levens for a visit
o
_2n Went to meeting. John Davis wife buried,
d
_3r Alaxander Derbyshire wife & Son here, _
d
_5th I went to meeting, N Swetman & wife here, _
lent Nathaniel John Roberts life . ____
_6th Mary warped her peice [sic],
7th Edward Daly here paid him $ 10._ Cut
out Lydia nightcaps, ____
_16th Monthly meeting, Levi, Mary Vincent & myself
w ent, heard a letter read from E Brewer, __
_18th Erwin Derbyshire died about nine
o clock [sic] in the evening, ____
_24th Christmas-eve a very stormy night
[pg 10]
Levi & Mary been on Picton market with
15 turkeys & 5 geese, got 71b for turkeys and
three shillings for their geese, heard that
Henry Sivetman was married, _all our
family at home & alone, Lydia picking a
turkey for Phebe Jane, Mary opening geese
Carrie finishing her drawrs [sic], _Heard that
E liza Brewer & Rachel Cronkite had got to
John H Mullett’s in Bristol,____
Levi enjoying the company of his two little
nearer the end of our journey for certain.__
30th Mercury 11 degrees below zero, _ made two
b osoms for father, able to get up before
day light and help get breakfast.____
[pg 9]
12m 1 Levi & Mary went up to Levens for a visit
o
_2n Went to meeting. John Davis wife buried,
d
_3r Alaxander Derbyshire wife & Son here, _
d
_5th I went to meeting, N Swetman & wife here, _
lent Nathaniel John Roberts life . ____
_6th Mary warped her peice [sic],
7th Edward Daly here paid him $ 10._ Cut
out Lydia nightcaps, ____
_16th Monthly meeting, Levi, Mary Vincent & myself
w ent, heard a letter read from E Brewer, __
_18th Erwin Derbyshire died about nine
o clock [sic] in the evening, ____
_24th Christmas-eve a very stormy night
[pg 10]
Levi & Mary been on Picton market with
15 turkeys & 5 geese, got 71b for turkeys and
three shillings for their geese, heard that
Henry Sivetman was married, _all our
family at home & alone, Lydia picking a
turkey for Phebe Jane, Mary opening geese
Carrie finishing her drawrs [sic], _Heard that
E liza Brewer & Rachel Cronkite had got to
John H Mullett’s in Bristol,____
Levi enjoying the company of his two little