S m oke-house,____
_14 Done my last knitting in the [kitting?] alone
w ith two eyes, done nothing sin ce, ____
2mo 2n Mary cooked the turkey did not enjoy it much
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h erself, as the man came to look at the house
w ith the prospect of buying, not a very pleasant
f eeling to think of looseing [sic] your home, where
y ou have done so many hard days work, poor
writing done with one e y e , ____
_3r Uncle Arthur & W illie came here, for quarterly
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[pg 13]
meeting also Stephen Cartland & several others
from L eed s, ____
_8th Stephen Cartland & Ell wood Scot here for dinner
I did not get out to meeting at all on account of my
sore eye, _ Uncle Arthur went home & left William
here with a fever or something e ls e , ____
_25th Levi Lydia Carrie & W illie started for Napanee
and so round to see Elizabeth, & Uncle Benjamin, _
29th Got home bringing Elizabeth with them
w ho stoped [sic] with us till the 7th of 3r moth when
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Robert came after her, ____
3m 4th Nelson & Rachel came up, stoped [sic] two
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nights with us, _ Daniel Dorland & wife here
lent her Peter Bedford to read,__
sore eye y e t ____
[pg 14]
3mo 10th 1876_ E Cadman’s birth day [sic] 46
our family in trouble, Old Levet here trying
to buy the place or rather the farm . ____
_11th Carrie gone to Hubb’s for a weeks visit,