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1878
2m 13th Carrie gone down to Amie Sills
o
w edding, a very fine day. W E, Harard
married last evening. ____
_15th Nelson & Rachel brought Carrie home
N & R stoped [sic] with us till the 18th makeing [sic]
a bargain with Levi to work the farm,
which he has conclueded [sic] to do, much against
the family’s wishes, a very imprudent thing
to seperate [sic] a family so late in the d ay. ____
_26th Lydia came home Willie going for her
Walter Morris at our m eeting. ____
When Eliza Brewer was in England in 1875
she stoped [sic] at a friends [sic] house, where they
had killed a fat ox that weighed 1400.
sold it for one shilling & tenpence a pound,
w hich brought him 143.15s shillings_

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1878_ 3m 3r First day mild weather I did not
od
go to meeting, Elizabeth White came back with
our folks, stoped [sic] till fifth day, Went down
to see [Liphet?] Levens, & Emma Lumbard.
_6th Levi & the Carpenter made a hole
in the parlour for another door, to seperate [sic]
& break up the family that has lived
togather [sic] for 43 years. ____
_8th Nelson’s boys came on [sic] to make sugar,
Jacob Peterson died, aged 89 years, Levi &
Mary gone to the funarel [sic] buried the 10th
Saw the first Robin, fine Spring weather
10thof 3r mo_ E Cadmans birth-day [sic] 48 years old,
d
A beautifull [sic] day no snow, sitting with the
door open part of the time. I am