_ 14th Aunt Maria & Lydia started for
Fredericksburgh, Levi & Mary takeing [sic] them
to the boat. _ Sent Kate [Jmpey?] the minuts [sic]
o f the Yearly m eeting. ____
I lm o 9th Lydia got home from Huntingdon
A unt Maria takeing [sic] the Cars the day before
for Whitby, W ille came back with Lydia,
_20th Mary’s birth-day [sic] 43 years old, The first
she ever spent without her Mother, a
sorawfull [sic], thing for a woman to be draged [sic]
about the world by a husband, _
[pg 66]
II /29th 1870 My Birth day [sic] 74 years old,
it seems like a great age, hardly likely
I shall see many more, Oh that I may be
ready when the summons comes,
Levi Mary & the Children came out
in the evening & took tea with Grandmother
& Chrisend [sic] Lydia new dishes. _
1 2 _ lst Gatherd [sic] some rose leavs [sic] at the east
end of the house, Elizabeth came up,
I read two Psalms without my
Spectacals [sic ], ____ Amos Hubbs died in
the evening, on his birth-day [sic] 81 years.
14th Mary was on the market with some
o f her Ducks got brought me five yards of
red flannel at 10 cents a yard.

[pg 67]
12m 25th 1878 Eat [sic] our Christmas dinner
o
all alone so stormey [sic] & the roads blocked up
lm o 1st 1879 New years [sic] day Stephen & Lydia here
for dinner had a turkey & two fowels [sic], Levi and
Mary & the Children, also Nelson & Rachel,