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Garrison Shadd (1839-1892)
1881-1885 Diary
Transcribed by Rural Diary Archive volunteers
{Abbreviations used throughout the diary are: bu - bushel; doz - dozen; ac - acres; No - number; lbs -
pounds; evg - evening; Con - Concession; Z - Zero; mo - month; Tem - temperature; and c - &c.}
The following are random notations on the inside cover. The page number refers to a page in the
diary.
[left side of page on inside cover]
* p 180 Wm to town to see my engine *tried
p 222 Wm's machine
p 1 Rev HL. Simpson's death in Savannah Ga. Mar 9/81
Bloss Calf May 15th
Rose Calf June 13th
Fletcher Calf June 13th
Flower Calf July July 20th
* p 223 Wm's engine brought home
p 38 - $71 to Omaha Nebraska - for land - a section (also p 71)
p 39 - Grandmother's Estate
Dr. Lindsay Box 569, Xenia, Ohio
p 40 - Grandmother Shadd very sick
* p 226 Chas. left for Grenville, Miss.
p 239 Brother Chas died at Windsor May 27/89
p. 246 - Alf started school on plains
271 - Eliz W. Shreve death Aug. 11/1890
282 - John Thomas death. March 11/ 1891
p 206 - Death of Aunt Eunice Lindsay Jan. 1888
p 71 Draft to Nebraska for payment on Land 69.15
�Josiah Henson's funeral - Dresden
p 168 - May 24 - Moved to upper place
p 168 - May 26 - Father changed title to his name
* Feb 11/91 -- Johnnie Thomas dead p 282
p 31 - Louis Johnson & Susie Wallace were married
p 32 - Wm Chandler's funeral
Oct 29 1884 B.M.E. Church
p 121 - Aunt Salina's death in Greenville, Miss
p 16 - Aunt Mary Ann lectured on John Brown at Buxton, Aug 18 - 1887
p 87 - Grandmother Shadd died in Xenia, Ohio*
Sat Nov 3rd 1883 Eunice & Emaline brought body home
p 27 - yr. end school business (Father & E S Dyke)
p 259 - Jefferson Webb died Feb 12 1890
Asthma mixture 34064 34064
p. 32 - A.D. Shadd - died - aged 81 yr 11 mos. 9 dy
Aunt Eunice from Aunt Sarah Xenia
p 34 - "Mother" fell in cattle guards at Drake Rd & severely hurt (walking going to church)
p 36 - Mother went to town again.
Asthma mixture 34064
p 46 - Elder SD.W. Smith baptized 19
p 37 - joined BME on probation (Monday)
p 38 Elder Smith visited again p 73
p 42 - Martha Ellen Kersey's funeral (Lizzie Moore)
239 East 37th St
p 168 & 169 - Move to upper place*
�Percy Houghton 52 Ontario Place Vancouver BC
[right side of page on inside cover]
Mrs Dredgston president of home
Mrs Gregsten president of prodestant home 431 Colbern st London Ont
Mrs. Mary Dorsey 187 Clinton St Detroit Mich.
p 159 Traction engine ordered 1886 Jan. 30
Beets Goads 1939 small 2 large 1
p 162 Shadd Homestead
[left side, vertical, on inside cover]
p 51 - Mr Carter's funeral Sept 4 1882
Several people contribute to the diary entries that follow. It is likely that the first several entries are written
by Garrison as he mentions his sons William, Charles and Joe and his wife Harriet.
{Page} 1 1881 March 1881 March 1st Tues
Tuesday March 1st
Clear Tem 13 Billy and I cut timber for the Barn all day George Charleston came here about 2
Oclock I ordered 3 Early Crawford peach trees and an hundred Col Cheney strawberries for one
dollar
Wednesday 2nd
Clear Tem 16 William and I hauled out timber and cut some and made roads broke the crotch got all
the large timber out but the sills and one plate
Thursday 3
Commenced to hail and sleet about nine Oclock and stormed and blew all day turned to snow about
1 Oclock very stormy I went up to Fathers got a bu apples took them a doz eggs done nothing all
day
Friday 4
Snowy Billy and I cut and hauled up drags of wood for the house
Saturday 5
�Cloudy snowy but soft Billy Harriet and I went to town got 2 bu 12 lb clover seed paid $4.75 per bu
came to $10.65 bag and all
{Given the handwriting and the people mentioned in the entries below, it would seem that William, son
of Garrison, now becomes the regular diarist for the family}
Monday 7th
Clear Father and Uncle Mack hauled ice from the reservoir at Fletcher 3 loads, and 1 load of
sawdust. Jobe Pierce and I cut and helped them load
Tuesday 8th
Clear warm Father went to town fo with Horace Bond to attend on the Miller law case, I hauled
sawdust 3 loads for the ice)
Wednesday 9th
Clear and warm Father finished packing the ice and shelled 10 bu. of Corn, I took Joe to town to the
Doctor he lanced his side roads were very slushy but solid, telegram came of Uncle *Henry
Simpsons death in, Savannah, Ga
Thursday 10th
Clear, warm Father went down to G. Stingers & L. Dragoes to see some horses I took 6 bu of Corn
and 10 bu of Corn and oats to Merlin to Grind,
Friday 11th
Clear warm Father cut and salted 1 pig and then went out to S Dykes to see a horse I helped with
the meat and {page torn}
{Page} 2
March Saturday 12th 1881
Very stormy snow and sleet Father went to town on horseback for medicine I cut wood and fed the
things
Monday 14th
Clear and warm Father and I cut and hauled out some timber but it was too wet so we quit he then
went to Old Mr Coopers to see a horse and I went to Buxton
Tuesday 15
Cloudy I made a head and filled the large maul rings William made a handle and cut wood Mr Bond
was here for a while
Wednesday 15
�Variable I went to Fletcher on horseback William sawed two cord of Wood at the schoolhouse I
sowed clover seed this morning on part of No 8
Thursday 17
Variable I went to Tom Rices sale awhile sister Emma arrived at Buxton with Elders Corpse I then
went over to Fathers and helped prepare the Hall to put him in Elders Brother came with Mr Shreve
Mr Bogart is here organising the Funeral to take place on Sunday at the cemetry Chatham
Friday 18
Variable I sowed clover seed on No 1 while the frost was on Billy cutting wood have got seed on No
8 No 4 and putting it on No 1 the frost and snow is going away gradually saw the first Geese
yesterday
Saturday 19
Rained a bad easterly rain all day very disagreeable day I was up to Fathers part of the day
Sunday 20
Cloudy *Harriet William and I went to Bro H L Simpsons Funeral we left Fathers place near 10
Oclock went to Chatham and then to the cemetry drove Mac Coipers mare and a little horse I bought
of Lenover we got home about 8 Oclock Mac Coiper was with us
Monday 21
Cloudy damn disagreeable weather roads bad we done nothing much all day
Tuesday 22
Cloudy rained some last night Hariet went to town with Mac Coiper I went up to Fathers and got an
hundred Dollars for my Barn Billy took Eggs to Fletcher and I went to Buxton paid Coleridge for
mares to horse $14 in presence {page torn}
{Page} 3 April M M March
1873 Harriett Shadd purchased 50 acres for Emmaline Simpson $1000.00
March Wednesday 23 1881
Clear Father went to town to be sworn in as sencus taker I cut some wood in the wood pile I went to
Buxton to hunt a Kitchen Girl and washed the Buggy
Thursday 24th
Father went to the plains on horseback I cleaned and fixed the tool house up for the chickens and
took out the apples
Friday 25th
�Clear warm Father went to Buxton I hauled out some manure over to the old garden with the Ponies
Saturday 26th
Clear but a cold wind Father and I went to town on the Ponies I got a lesson and Father attended
Census school
Monday 28 March.
Clear & cool Tem 30° Father and Mother went up to Mr Haringtons for a girl I took the fence away
from the hay stack
Tuesday 29th
Cloudy Father and I hauled half of the hay stack and put it in the mow Father got 5 fish for 50¢ from
the fish man
Wednesday 30th
windy and snowing all day I cleaned some harness and Father studied his Census rool Tem 30°
Thursday 31st
Snowing all day Tem from 30° to 38° Father and I cleaned and greased harness Mother sick with her
(Back)
Friday April 1st
Blustry and stormy Father went to town with the ponies on the front pi bob and got his Census
papers and some groceries
Saturday 2nd
Clear I went down to Grandmothers and got Susy to come up and help Mother some in the house
Father went to Tom Clarks and then up to the post office on the Bob
Monday 4th
Clear mostly I took Father out to Thos Drews to begin taking the Census Charley and I hauled up
some {page torn}
{Page} 4
April Tuesday 5th 1881
Clear Father is out taking Sencus Charley and I started to haul hay but it was too windy we hauled
some manure up on the garden and cut some wood
Wednesday 6th
�Clear & windy Tem 22° Father sent John Charleston up with some medicine for Joe & I went down
and took his boots and somethings, and then I mended some harness
Thursday 7
Clear Mother and I went to town in the light wagon I got a lesson and mother got some things for Joe
I had a chill coming home
Friday 8th
Clear and warm Father came home this evening I was not well Charley went up to Buxton on horse
back
Saturday 9th
Clear and warm very muddy Father went to town with Uncle Mack in our Buggie Charley and I cut
wood
Monday 11th
Clear warm I took Father up to the 10th Concession to his sencus work and came and brought
Agnus Martin home with me and then went and got 2 bu of potatoes from Horace Black.
Tuesday 12
Cloudy snowed some last night I fixed up the fences and cut some drags of wood in the woods to
haul
Wednesday 13
Cloudy this morning I hauled up some wood and took Kate and Bet to I. Watkinses and had their
shoes took off John Kersy came with 3 men to hew timber this afternoon
Thursday 14th
Clear Charley and I hauled over some fodder and sawed some wood and I started ploughing
afternoon John Kersy, John Kersy Jr, Watson {G---}, Prince Chaise, Denis Kersey, and Bill Mathews,
were hewing all day
{Page} 5
April Friday 15 1881
Clear I ploughed all day in No 5 John Kersey had 5 men besides himself hewing timber Father came
home done this evening
Saturday 16th
Clear Father and Mother went to town in the buggie Father got 5 bags of brand I ploughed all day, in
No 4
�Monday 18 Lenover sow had 8 pigs yesterday
Cloudy rained some last night we did not do much I trimmed some of the grapevines Father let off
water off of No 1
Tuesday 19th
Clear Father went to town on horse back I hung up some meat spread some manure on the potatoe
patch and ploughed some afternoon in No 4 J.W. Kersey had with 4 men were at work
Wednesday 20th
Clear Father, Charley and I hauled the hay out of No 4 and put it in the mow except a half ton which
J.W. Kersey Sr. sent after Father then hauled the rails away and I ploughed
Thursday 21st
Clear most of the day Father, Mother Joe & Charlie went to town in the buggie Father and Joe
started from Chatham on the 4 Oclock train for the Seminary in Anarbour Michigan. I ploughed all
day in No 4 Father finished sowing Clover seed
Friday 22nd
Clear I ploughed all day in No 4 Charley moved the garden fences with the ponies. Very warm tem
72°
Saturday 23rd
Clear Charley and I hauled the fence from between Nos 3 & 4 and I ploughed some in No 4 Joe
came up from Detroit and Grandmother brought him out home from town
Monday 25th
Clear all day commenced showering this evening I shelled 8 bu of corn this morning and then tried
the ponies on the + {cross} plough they went all right I ploughed the garden
{Page} 6
April Tuesday 25 26th 1881
Showered some this morning clear after I ploughed the potatoe patch with the Ponies and took a
grist 6 bu of wheat 4 bu corn and 10 bu corn and oats to get ground Old Kate had a Colt this after
running 11 mo and 12 days
Wednesday 27th
Clear all day showered this evening I finished ploughing the potatoe patch and ploughed some in No
6 Charley and I harrowed the garden and potatoe patch and planted 4 rows of potatoes
Thursday 28th
�Mostly cloudy Mother commenced gardening yesterday I ploughed some in No 6 J.W. Kersey was at
work today with 2 men Geo. Kersey and P. Chase Charley and I went to Merlin and got a grist 13
bags
Friday 29
Cloudy I ploughed all day in No 6 J.W. Kersey and 2 men were at work on the barn timber
Saturday 30th
Clear Mother went to town with Horace Bond I finished ploughing in No 6
May Monday 2nd 1881
Clear I commenced sowing oats this morning in No 6 Charley harrowed them in Mother and I went
up to Buxton and got 8 peach trees and 50 strawberry plants of Charleston for $2.00 Bet had her
first Colt & running 11 mo 4 days
Tuesday 3
Clear I finished sowing in No 6 sowed 12½ bu Charley harrowed and then I ploughed the strawberry
bed and prepared the waggon for the plains J.W. Kersey and 2 men at work Rev. B. Stewart was
here
Wednesday 4
Clear I went to the plains and commenced ploughing for oats J.W. Kersey and 2 men at work
{Page} 7
May Thursday 5th 1881
Cloudy and misty all day I run out some furrows in No 6 but worked most of the day at Bets Colt and
then it died Kersey and 2 men at work
Friday 6th
Cloudy I ploughed at the plains Grandfathers raised his stable Charley shoveled the oats furrow
Kersey, and 2 men at work
Saturday 7th
Clear I ploughed at the plains with the ponies Mother went to town with Uncle Mack in our Buggie
Monday 9th
Tolerable clear, very warm I got Lenover shod this morning by Watkins and then Charley and I went
to the plains with both teams to plough Crawford came and set out 9 peach trees 3 Early Crawford, 5
late Crawford, 1 Waterloo Mother set out 100 strawberries
�Tuesday 10
Clear Charley and I ploughed all day at the plains Kersey and 2 men at work Agnis Martin left
Wednesday 11th
Clear Charley and I ploughed all day at the plains Elizabeth Moore came
Thursday 12th
Clear I sowed 12 bu of oats and Charley and Alf harrowed them in
Friday 13th
Clear I sowed 8 bu of oats at the plains and Charley and Alf harrowed and then we ploughed some
Saturday 14th
Cloudy and very heavy wind and rain storm blowed fences in every direction Mother went to town
with Uncle Mack in the buggie Father came home Aunt Emma also came I finished sowing oats
sowed 25 bu
{Page} 8
Monday 16th 1881
Clear I went down to the plains and finished my furrows and brought the roller home then Charley
and I harrowed the sod at home
Tuesday 17th
Clear Charley and I cross harrowed the sod and harrowed and rooled the wheat in No 5
Wednesday 18th
Cloudy Charley and I moved some fence back of the stable then I sowed some clover seed on No 1
and Charley and I commenced finished harrowing and rolling wheat in No 1. Polin [Poland] China
sow had 9 pigs
Thursday 19
Cloudy we finished harrowing the wheat and hauled 2 loads of stone for the barn
Friday 20
Clear Charley and I commenced ploughing in the plains for corn
Saturday 21
Clear very warm Chas and I ploughed at the plains Father went to town with Horace Bond.
�Monday 23rd
Clear and hot I marked off and planted the corn at home in No 4 Charley cross marked it
Tuesday 24
Clear and hot Charley and I ploughed and harrowed at the plains for corn
Wednesday 25th
Clear I planted 20 rows finishing No 4 and then we ploughed at the plains for corn
Thursday 26th
Clear and hot Mother and I took Joe and Father took the depot, Chatham they started for detroit I
then came and marked off for Grandmother
{Page} 8
May Friday 27 1881
Clear and warm we finished ploughing and harrowing at the plains for corn
Saturday 28th
Clear and warm until Noon then it poured down rain for a half hour we marked off our ground one
way Mother went to town with Uncle Mack
Monday 30th
Clear Chas & Alf went to the river with H. Bond to wash sheep I planted some corn this afternoon
and Put Bet to Robinhood at Jarvises
Tuesday 31
Signs but no rain Father and Joe came home last night from Detroit Joe Garrol and I planted 12½ ac
for us and Grandmother planted 2 bu on 10 ac
Wednesday 1st June 1881
Cloudy rained most of the day we hauled 3 loads of sand out of the Big ditch for the Barn
Thursday 2nd
Tolerable Clear Chas and I hauled one load of sand I ploughed up front of the house Cultivated the
potatoes and turnip patch Father finished planting potatoes and Chas and I mulched some of the
Currant and berry bushes
Friday 3rd
�Rained nearly all day we fanned the rest of the oats up and baged up 30 bu put Kate to the
Robinhood
Saturday 4th
Tolerable clear Father went and took 30 bu of oats to town got 40¢ Chas went along I hauled stones
for the barn
Monday 6th
Clear I went and got a load of sand hauled some stone Chas and Mother went out and got Ambros
Timbers to dig the holes for the barn Father went to town afternoon and got the lime he also laid out
the
{Page} 10
June Tuesday 7th 1881
Rained all day commenced last night Chas and I shelled 11½ bu of corn Geo Charleston was here
Wednesday 8
Rained all day we done nothing I made a wheel barn
Thursday 9
Tolerable clear very wet Father and I let off water from around the stack yard and Mother and he
went to town after noon I let of water
Friday 10th
Clear Jobe Pierce thrashed our beans Father went to see the corn at the plains and then went to
Merlin with Grist Jobe and I piled some manure
Saturday 11th
Clear Father and Mother went to market I replanted corn in No 4
Monday 13th
Clear Father went to town and brought out Mr Brannen to lay the foundation Chas and I replanted
Fletcher had a Calf
Tuesday 14th
Clear Chas and I finished replanting Mr Brannen commenced laying the foundation Jobe Pierce
helped Chas and I hauled stones
Wednesday 15th
�Clear Mr Brannen finished Jobe helped Father took him to town this evening Joe and Mother went
along
Thursday 16
Clear Chas and I planted the beans in No 4 Uncle Mack sheared the sheep
Friday 17
Cloudy Chas and I went and Ploughed 2 acres at the plains for beans and corn
Saturday 18
Clear Father and Mother went to town Uncle Mack took a load of hay for Father got Paper too Chas
and I harrowed the buck wheat and planted beans and corn at the Plains
{Page} 11
June Monday 20th 1881
Tolerable clear Chas went and rooled the beans and some corn at the plains I cultivated the gardens
and some corn at home Father hoed potatoes I took the mares to Jarvises this Evening Bet took the
horse Robinhood
Tuesday 21
Clear & Cool I cultivated all day in No 4 Father and Chas & Alf hoed potatoes Father went to Buxton
this evening to see after his logs
Wednesday 22
Clear I cultivated all day in No 4 Father and Mother went to town took some Oats Pork &
strawberries
Thursday 23
Clear Chas and Father done road work I cultivated beans in No 4
Friday 24th
Clear I took Joe and Father out to Crows dock where they took the boat for Detroit then Chas and I
hoed corn in the garden and No 4
Saturday 25th
Cloudy rained some Mother and I went to town Father went up to Buxton to see after his logs 'Twas
2 oclock when we got home from the river last night
Monday 27th
�Rained until noon then we hauled up the barn sills up with both teams then Father went to buxton we
hauled up some chips
Tuesday 28
Clear we went to the plains I cultivated and Chas I.D [I.D is his little brother Isaac] & Father hoed
Wednesday 29
Clear I cultivated and Chas Alf I.D & Father hoed corn
Thursday 30th
Clear Chas Alf I.D & I hoed corn Father went to town for medicine for Joe
{Page} 12
July Friday 1st 1881
Clear we hoed corn at the plains Joe was very sick this evening
Saturday 2nd
Clear Father and Mother went to town the rest of us hoed corn at the plains
Monday 4th
Clear we finished hoeing corn and I cultivated the beans and harrowed the white flint corn at the
plains
Tuesday 5th
Clear very hot Tem 95° Father mowed clover at home in No 7 Chas I.D. & I finished hoeing beans at
the plains J.W. Kersey and 2 men at work Spot cow calfed
Wednesday 6th
Clear I finished mowing No 7 and we put some of it up in cocks Father took Alf to Chatham this
evening to the examination J.W. Kersey & 2 men at work
Thursday 7th
Clear mostly but rained this after noon we hauled a load of hay and hauled out some timbers for the
barn Kersey and 2 men at work
Friday 8
Clear we hauled hay out of No 7 and hoed some corn in No 4 Kersey and 3 men at work
Saturday 9
�Clear Father and Mother went to town I cultivated some and cut clover in No 3 it was very hot Tem
at Noon 104°
Monday 11th
Clear very warm we hoed corn until noon and then raked up the hay in No 4 and cocked some
Father went to merlin afternoon to mill
Tuesday 12th
Clear we hoed until noon then hauled in some hay into the mow father went up and hauled bark off
so as to get his logs sawed
{Page} 13
July Wednesday 13 1881
Clear and very warm Father went up this morning and got some logs put in at the mill we hoed some
and Father cut some wheat for Uncle Mack Fa we went up this evening and got 2 loads of lumber
small load Kersey & 3 men
Thursday 14
Clear we went up and got 2 loads of lumber this morning finished cutting around trees in the orchard
and fence corners and cocked them up Father helped Kersey put one bent together for the barn
Friday 15
Clear we helped Kersey put 2 more bents together and hauled out timber
Saturday 16
Clear rained afternoon Father and Mother went to town I finished cultivating beans and helped
Kersey with 3 {bents}
Monday 18
Clear we helped Kersey raise the barn the first bent fell making a delay of a half day Geo Crummell
Dens
Kersey & J. Shreve helped us Chas, Alf & D hoed beans
Tuesday 19
Clear we finished raising the barn J Shreves Ds
Kersey & Louis Johnson helped us Uncle mack drew
up the bents with his team Yesterday & today Chas Alf & D hoed
Wednesday 20th
Clear we cut and bound in No 5 Father cut some for Uncle Mack
Thursday 21st
�Clear Father went to town this morning to get an iron for the reaper and then cut some for Uncle
Mack and finished cutting in No 5 I went to Buxton and got a load of lumber from the mill
Friday 22
Rained this morning but cleared off about noon Father and I got 3 small loads of lumber Geo
Crummell got 2 bu of wheat and we bound wheat after noon finished No 5 and cradled around No 1
{Page} 14
July Saturday 23 1881
Clear we cut bound and shocked up 91 doz of wheat in No 1 Father cut Chas and I bound mostly
and Alf and D raked bun{dles} I took Mother to the plains and she went to town with Grandmother
Monday 25 Kersey & 3 men at work
Clear heavy shower last night we mowed and some fence corners and then went into the wheat
Father cut some for Uncle Mack we bound at home broke the rake head and got Lenovers reaper to
finish
Tuesday 26
Clear Father broke the reaper this morning and got Lenovers to quit finish Kersey & 3 men at work
Wednesday 27
Clear Father went up to Buxton and got the rest of the barn lumber and went to town for some pine
for the barn and machine head got medicine from Kirgar Chas and I finished binding wheat
Thursday 28
Clear we put the rest of the hay in the Barn and covered it up Kersey and 2 men at work
Friday 29
Clear we went to the plains and worked in the corn and beans Kersey and 3 men at work Killed a
veal this evening
Saturday 30th
Clear Father and Mother went to town Chas D & I went to the plains Kersey and 3 men at work
Monday 1st of August 1881
Clear warm Mother and Father went to town Mother was going to Detroit but did not go the Cars
were so filthy Father got some lumber to finish the barn Chas & I hauled up some chips and set up
the wheat shocks we had a terrible rain and hail storm yesterday which dispelled the drouth
Tuesday 2nd
�Clear Father, Chas, Alf D, and I, we went to the plains to work in the corn it looks well but very late
just begining to tassel beans dont look very well
{Page} 15
August Wednesday 3rd 1881
Clear we went down and worked in the corn at the plains Geo & J.W Kersey worked until noon
Thursday 4th
Clear very warm Tem 100° at noon Father cut ½ of the oats in No 6 the rest of us hoed corn at the
plains Kersey and 6 men came to shingle on the barn
Friday 5th
Clear & Excessively hot Tem 100° Father worked at home in the oats Alf, D, & I went to the plains
Chas went but got sick Kersey & 6 men shingling
Saturday 6th
Showered until noon Mother went to town with Uncle Mack in our Buggie Father and I put a
gangway to the barn
Monday 8th
Clear & cool we finished binding the cut oats in No 6 and Father finished cutting Chas and Alf went
to Merlin to mill
Tuesday 9th
Clear we hauled up the sills for the east mow and hauled out wheat out of No 5 this afternoon
Wednesday 10th
Clear we hauled some wheat out of No 1 and finished binding oats in No 6
Thursday 11th hot Tem 98°
Clear we fixed the mow bottom in the east mow finished binding, hauling wheat out of oats in No 6 &
hauled some out of No 1
Friday 12th
Clear & hot Tem 100° we finished hauling wheat out of No 1 Chas raked it and we hauled them in
and hauled some oats out of No 6 Kersey finished the barn at last.
Saturday 13th
�Clear and cool Chas and Mother went to town Flavious [little brother aged 6}] went along Father Alf,
D, & I went to the plains Father cut around the oats we hoed in the corn
{Page} 16
August Monday 15th 1881
Clear we went down and commenced cutting the oats they were down and had to be cut from one
side
Tuesday 16
Clear Father cut at the oats we raked bundles
Wednesday 17
Clear Father finished cutting oats and cut a small piece for Mr Jones and then bound some we
bound all day
Thursday 18
Cloudy we bound until noon when it became too damp and we came home and made a fence
between Nos 4 & 5 and Father, Mother Alf, & I went to hear Aunt Mary Ann lecture at North Buxton
on John Brown. [This was the famous Mary Ann Shadd anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher,
teacher and lawyer. She was the first black woman publisher in North America and the first woman
publisher in Canada.] we went in the Buggie
Friday 19th
Clear we bound until evening and came home and killed a veal for market it weighed 87 lbs
Saturday 20th
Clear Mother and Father went to market got $4.72 for the veal the rest of us bound oats at the plains
yearland calf got in the well this evening
Monday 22
Clear & warm Father cut Uncle Macks oats on Moreheads place this forenoon we finished binding at
the plains
Tuesday 23rd
Clear Uncle Mack stacked Grandmothers share of the oats for us we run two waggons Father
pitched in the field, I at the stack and Chas loaded there is very heavy straw on that 7¾ ac being 329
doz of sheaves
Wednesday 24
Clear we hauled 6 loads of oats home from the plains and 2 last night
�Thursday 25
Clear we finished hauling oats from the plains have 13 loads total of our share
{Page} 17
Friday 26th 1881
Clear Chas raked the stubble of No 5 I ploughed some Killed a veal this evening
Saturday 27th
Clear Father and Mother went town I ploughed in No 5
Monday 29th
Clear I took Father and Mother Joe & Eunice [his sister] to the dock this morning they went to detroit
I came back I & Chas ploughed in No 5
Tuesday 30th
Clear Chas and I ploughed all day in No 5 Tem 100°
Wednesday 31
Clear hot Tem 100° Chas and I ploughed in No 5 at noon I went to the river to meet them they came
home we stoped at Grandma Poindexters and burned the stubbles off Chas set stubbles at home
and burned some fence
Thursday 1st September 1881
Showered some this morning Chas and I ploughed Father put up the fence which burned it rained
quite heavy yesterday
Friday 2nd
Clear Chas and I ploughed in No 5 Father worked in the bush
Saturday 3rd
Clear and warm Mother and Father went to town took the fore wheels of the wagon to get filled I
finished ploughing No 5 and went to Merlin to mill after noon
Monday 5
Clear Chas and I went to the plains and commenced ploughing for wheat have to haul water for the
Horses
Tuesday
�Chas & I ploughed at the plains Father came down to see the ground he then burned in the bush
{Page} 18
September Wednesday 7th 1881
Clear Chas and I ploughed at the plains Father burned in the bush
Thursday 8th
Clear and warm Chas and I ploughed at the plains Father burned in the bush ground very dry
Friday 9th
Cloudy Chas and I ploughed at the plains it rained some about noon Father came down to see the
{ground}
Saturday 10
Cloudy Mother and Father went to town took the No 2 plow to get repaired and brought out the
waggon front wheels I finished ploughing at the plains, butter is 30¢
Monday 12
Clear Chas and I harrowed the ground in No 5 for wheat Father worked in the woods
Tuesday 13
Clear I went for a load of water then Chas and I.D. harrowed and I cut corn Father cleaning out the
bush well
Wednesday 14
Clear Chas and I.D. harrowed I cut corn in No 4 I went for water this evening
Thursday 15
Cloudy and very windy Chas and D harrowed at the plains I went down and cut some corn went for
water this evening
Friday 16
Began to rain last night and rained until about 12 Oclock tonight Father was at Coopers and
Mooreheads near all day
Saturday 17
Cloudy Father and Mother went to market got back at ½ past 9 Oclock Butter 30¢ per lb Chas and I
cut hauled and put logs into the bush well building it 4 logs higher all round
�Monday 19
Clear Chas rooled the wheat ground at home I.D. & I went to the plains he harrowed & I cut corn
Father got 16 bu of {wh} wheat from P.W. Martin
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Sept Tuesday 20 1881
Clear Father went and helped Geo Crummell thrash Mother Chas and I went to Chatham to the fair
Wednesday 21st
Clear we went and commenced sowing and ploughing in wheat on the plains took the rooler and
Chas roolled some
Thursday 22nd
Clear we sowed and ploughed in wheat at the plains
Friday 23
Clear we ploughed in {arrow pointing to above entry - plains} until noon Grand Father [this would
likely be Abraham Dorcas Shadd] commenced to thrash after noon and Father & I went to help him
Chas ploughed on
Saturday 24
Clear Grand Father finished thrashing this morning Chas ploughed I ploughed after noon Mother and
Grand Mother went to town in their buggie
Monday 26
Clear Father Chas and I went to the plains to plough in wheat
Tuesday 27
Cloudy we went to the plains and finished putting in wheat and brought the ploughs and roller home
Wednesday 28
Cloudy rained very heavy last night Chas and I went and got the harrows and stoped and got 16 bu
of wheat from Coopers for seed came home and fanned it then I went to Merlin but got no grist
Father hurt his spine
Thursday 29
Clear we commenced to plough in wheat in No 5
�Friday 30 Clear until evening we ploughed in and harrowed in No 5 it was too windy to sow Father
went to Uncle George Shreves for timothy seed
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October Saturday 1st 1881
Drizzelled rain all day Father and Mother went to town to market
Monday 3rd
Cloudy rained all day yesterday Father went to Joneses to see some cattle Chas and I leveled too
sleepers hewed I hauled a log for the back gangway and cut 18 shocks of corn this evening Father
hewed some stringers
Tuesday 4th
Cloudy & cool we cut the clover for seed in No 3 and altered some pigs and commenced too wean
Kates Colt Bob this evg
Wednesday 5th
Clear and cool Tem 40° we Father sowed and Chas and I ploughed in wheat in No 5
Thursday 6th
Clear heavy frost last night Chas and I ploughed and harrowed all day in No 5 Father sowed some
and then went to see about the machine
Friday 7th
Cloudy we ploughed in No 5 Father sowed damp
Saturday 8th
Cloudy rained a little at noon I finished ploughing harrowing and running out furrows in No 5 Father
and Mother went to town to Market got a set of dishes Chas piled some wood for thrashing
Monday 10th
Clear cool and windy we thrashed today had 213 bu of wheat and 310 bu of Oats D. Bions, Ambros
Timbers, Edd & Father Poindexter, Uncle Mack, John Brown Alex Scott, H. Wilson, Norman Cooper,
Wm Steel & Wm Martin helped us
Tuesday 11th
Clear I got Coopers furrow plough and Father and I cleaned out the furrows and hauled in the clover
this afternoon Chas ID and Flavious finished pulling beans this morning
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�Oct Wednesday 12th 1881
Rained all night we did not do much cleaned up some wheat this evening
Thursday 13
Very wet rained some I went out shooting we did not much Chas raked up some clover I took H
Bonds Bags and crotch [a kind of garden fork] home and got the craper
Friday 14
Cloudy Father took 32 bu of wheat to town got $1.26 Chas and I turned the beans and cut some
corn
Saturday 15
Cloudy and warm rained some this evening Father took 34 bu of wheat to town Mother and I went in
in the buggie Elizabeth and Aunt Mary went along
Monday 17
Cloudy Father and Joe went to Detroit I took them to the boat I then came and Chas and I took
Felixs Engine over to Dennie Hickeys with both teams it was a very heavy lug We then went and got
Joe Father went on to Chatham
Tuesday 18
Rained some this morning I went and got 761 ft of maple plank at Buxton in two load Chas dug
potatoes Father came home this evg
Wednesday 19
Cleared off this afternoon Chas and I cut corn in No 4 Father shook and turned beans and clover
and sowed some timothy on No 5
Thursday 20
Rained some this morning Chas and I finished cutting corn in No 4 and then Mother Chas and I went
to the plains Father sowed some timothy and then went to the plains to cut Buckwheat
Friday 21st
Clear Father and I went to the plains to cut Buckwheat I came home at noon and Mother Joe and I
went to Harvey Kerseys Funeral Chas hauled up squashes and chips Father came home and shook
up clover and finished sowing timothy in No 5
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Oct Saturday 22nd 1881
�Clear Mother and Father went to market Chas and I hauled in the clover and beans Alf cut stalks
and helped
Monday 24th
Cloudy misted rain some we straightened up the Crib Father went to to Merlin to mill
Tuesday 25th
Clear Father took a load 32 bu of wheat to town got $1.26 Chas, D, & I went and husked white flint
at the plains
Wednesday 26
Clear Father took 36 bu of wheat to town got $1.-6 {number smudged} Chas, D, & I husked at the
plains
Thursday 27
Clear Chas ID and I went down and finished husking white flint corn and brought our share 34 bu
home Father went to the sale Allen Coopers
Friday 28
Cloudy Chas D and I went and husked some Father unloaded and went to the Wm Wilson trial at
Forhans Wilson had 8½ $ to pay
Saturday 29
Rained this morning Father and Mother went to town we hauled up wood and filled ticks
Monday 31
Cloudy Father, Chas, I.D and I husked at the plains and brought home 20 bu
Tuesday 1st November 1881
Clear we husked and cut corn at the plains
Wednesday 2nd
Cloudy Father took 48 bu of Oats to to town it weighed 51 bu 15 lbs got 39¢ Chas, D, & I husked
corn at the plains
Thursday 3rd
Cloudy windy & a snow squall we husked some and brought home 30 bu of corn from the plains
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�November Friday 4th 1881
rained some this morning snowed ½ inch last night we put in the stable floor pitted in potatoes &c
Saturday 5th
Cloudy & windy Mother, Father, Alf, & Aunt Sarah Ann went to town to market, Butter 25¢ per lb
Monday 7th
Cloudy we cleaned up the red wheat and were down to help Uncle Mack thrash but they didn't
thrash
Tuesday 8th
Clear Father and Mother and Lizzie went to town took 20 bu of wheat and the wool and 2 bu of
Hicory nuts
Wednesday 9th
Clear we loaded one load of the clover and took it over to Forhans to get thrashed and left it
Thursday 10
Clear we went over got Forhans waggon took the rest of the clover over got it all thrashed had 4 bu
Friday 11th
Cloudy rained this evening we went to the plains to husk corn husked some but the rain [came]
Saturday 12th
Rained all night and some this morning Mother & Father went to market got a hand seed drill $7.00
& sold young pink cow I let out some water and Alf & I went down & got 22 bu of corn Grandpap got
16 bu
Monday 14th
Tolerable clear we husked off the stalk at the plains all day
Tuesday 15
Clear we husked all day Dan Bions came and traded wagons Father is to give him 20$ between his
new & our old waggon
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November Wednesday 16th 1881
�Tolerable clear we finished husking off the stalk and brought home 30 32 bu of corn with both teams
on
Thursday 17th
Cloudy windy & showery we husked 50 shocks completing the husking at the plains
Friday 18th
Cloudy snowed some this afternoon Chas & I got the rest of the plains corn 27½ bu Father culled
some and fastened up the pigs to fatten
Saturday 19th
Cloudy snowed some Father went to town on horseback bought a pair of bobs at Auction for $2.50 &
paid D Bions $20.00 difference between the waggons
Monday 21st
Cloudy Father and I went up to Wards on the 11th to a sale Dock Brown the painter came back
Tuesday 22nd
Cloudy Windy and cool Father and I Blaized the line to chop by and cut some rail cuts
Wednesday 23rd
Cloudy Father and Dock went to merlin to mill got some more paint Chas D & I husked corn in No 4
Thursday 24th
Cloudy & Windy Tem 22 Father & I cut rail cuts & Chas hauled them out
Friday 25th
Cloudy Windy Tem 22° Chas & I hauled in the corn and fodder we husked Wednesday Father
helped Uncle Mack kill a 2 pigs and we Killed a sheep this evg
Saturday 26
Cloudy Father & Mother went to town took the mutton got 6¢ per lb I choped wood in the wood pile
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Monday 28th 1881
Clear Wm Brannum commenced work @ 9$ per month he and Father husked in No 4 Chas & I
hauled 2 loads of fodder from the plains
Tuesday 29th
�Clear Father and Brannum husked corn in No 4 Chas & I hauled the remainder 2 loads from plains
Wednesday 30th
Clear Chas, Brannm
& I hauled some corn and fodder out of No 4 & Father & Brannum husked some
Thursday 1st December
Cloudy we finished husking corn altogether
Friday 2nd
Cloudy Father went for medicine for Joe to Chat [ham] Chas & I finished hauling corn Brannum
chopped some & helped us some with the corn
Saturday 3rd
Clear Father & Mother went to town to market we finished hauling fodder banked the school house
and hauled up some wood
Monday 5th
Cloudy I ploughed the garden Brannum dug some by the railroad gate this afternoon we hauled 2
loads of fodder from Coppers C Flemming brought out a Wheeler & Wilson Sewing machine Father
bought it gaave his old machine in part pay
Tuesday 6th
Clear we went and got another load of fodder and then went back and repaired the line fence and
Bill [William Brannum] split 100 rails this afternoon
Wednesday 7th
Cloudy I ploughed all day in No 4 with Kate & Bet Father went to Travises for an axe handle and him
and Bill sawed some logs Coleman James commenced chopping wood
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Dec Thursday 8th 1881
Clear & cold we scraped and ploughed the line ditch across No 4 I ploughed
Friday 9th
Clear Father took Mother to town she went to Detroit to see the Dr. about Joe Bill and I scraped in
the ditch until noon then I ploughed and Bill chopped wood
Saturday 10
Clear & cold Tem 19° Mother and Father went to town I chopped some rail cuts
�Monday 12th
Rained most of the day Father went to the Council Brannum and I fenced the stack cut some rail
cuts and shod one jumper
Tuesday 13th
Rained nearly all day we ground the axes choped some & fanned some Oats Coley dog was killed
by a falling tree
Wednesday 14
Clear Coleman James & two men chopping Brannum & Father chopped some and made roads I
hauled out rail cuts & wood Chas hauled out wood
Thursday 15
Clear Tem 16° this morning Brannum split 150 rails & Chopped some Father & I chopped & sawed
Chas hauled wood & rails 3 Jameses sawing Connors finished sawing logs
Friday 16th
Clear we bushed out wood until noon then we cut Rail timber P.T. Barry's men commenced making
roads & skidding logs
Saturday 17th
Clear Father & Mother went to town I hauled out an wood & Rail cuts with Kate & Bet Brannum
Chopped & made roads
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Dec Monday 19 1881
Clear Brannum & Father cut Rail cuts & Chas & I hauled them out
Tuesday 20
Cloudy misted rain some Father was out most of the day posting school notices Brannum split rails I
hauled out Rails wood and split some rails too
Wednesday 21
Rained most of the day Brannum & I made some heading Bolts of Basswood & thrashed some
beans Father put A handle in my axe Coleman & his boy chopping
Thursday 22nd
Rained all day I went out to take the census of the school section Brannum went to south Buxton
Father stayed home Brannum & I went to the concert this evening
�Friday 23rd
Very wet Father went to the Examination Brannum and I made baswood heading Bolts
Saturday 24th
Cool & clear Mother and Father went town Brannum and I cut Basswood heading
Saturday 26th Monday 26
Cloudy rained some this morning I went out taking Census Brannum hauled wood & chopped rail
cuts
Tuesday 27th
Cloudy Brannum & I made heading bolts Father setteling up school business E.S Dyke & Chas
Lenover Audited the secretarys Books
Wednesday 28
Clear & very muddy Father & I attended the school meeting E.S. Dyke was Elected trustee in
Father's place Brannum chopped in the bush
Thursday 29th
Clear Father Brannum and I made heading bolts Coleman Jameses three boys sawed a little
Mother Lizzie Elizabeth Chas Brannum & I went to the Concert this Evg
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Friday 30th
Cold windy and snowing some Father studying his papers for the Election to come off on Monday
Brannum & I washed out wood until noon with both teams and then cut some heading bolts Mother
& I went down to GrandMother Poindexters this evg
Saturday 31st
Cold windy & snowing some Tem 24° Father, Mother and Mr Bond went to town in our Buggie
Brannum & I cut wood made roads & hauled out three loads for the house
January Monday 1st 1882
Cloudy & cool Tem 24° Brannum and I built a cow shed & pig scaffold, hauled wood for killing pigs
Municipal Election was held today Father was Deputy Returning officer for our division, returns as
follows. Williams 158, White 415, Irwin 350, Gould 339, Drew 373, Dillon 183, Kennedy 200, Dolson
292, Crowe 242, Tooley 217, Charleston 143
Tuesday 2nd
�Cloudy snowed some Tem 20°, Father killed the pigs he got from Mr Copper & 1 other Making 5
H.D. Kersey, Alex Scott, Wm Moore, & Obod
Kersey helped us and then Brannum & I helped them
kill 8 Father went up and then took the ballot Box down to Stewarts
Wednesday 3rd
Cloudy Tem 6° Father and I shelled some corn I took 4 bu of corn & 4 of wheat to Merlin to mill
Father went to Mr Bond's Sale Brannum chopped some hicory wood
Thursday 4th
Cloudy & cold Tem 10° Brannum & I made Basswood heading Father took the Coopper pork to town
& one small one of ours they weighed 283, 278, 255, 180 lbs & 159 at home
Friday 5
Cloudy Tem 30° Father, Brannum & I made Basswood Bolts [Bolts are pieces of a log which have
been cut to lengths generally less than 8 feet. They were further split and used for shingles,
clapboards, pegs and sometimes firewood (fuel).]
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Jan Saturday 7th 1882
Cloudy thawing Mother and Father went to town I hauled two cords of dry soft wood to the school
house hauled up some wood &c Brannum & Chas chopped in the woods Father settled with
Brannum leaving 92¢ unpaid
Monday 9th
Cloudy cool Tem 32 Father helped us make bolts awhile and then went to Forhans Brannum & I
made bolts Brannum commenced work this morning at $7.00 per month Polin [Poland] China Sow
had 9 pigs yesterday
Tuesday 10th
Cloudy about 6 inches of show fell last night thawing this morning Brannum & I put 1 cord of dry
beech, and 1 cord of dry hicory in the school yard and some green hicory & Brannum bushed out
some Bolts Father helped & sewed some for Mother
Tuesday 10th
Cloudy Brannum & I corded Wintermutes axe handle timber and then made Bolts Father helped
commenced snowing this evg
Wednesday 11th
Cloudy Tem 32° Brannum & I hauled 2 cords of dry Beech & Hicory & some green Hicory to the
school house Brannum Bushed out some Bolts
�Thursday 12th
Clear Tem 34° Brannum & I tried to bush out Bolts but could not keep them on the Jumper so we
went to chopping hicory wood Father went out on the plains
Friday 13th
Cloudy misting rain Brannum did not work I took some green hicory to the school house Father
sawed some and then we put a runner in the jumper and baged up 45 bu of oats
Saturday 14th
Cleared off Windy Brannum helped me fence the stack haul some straw to the stable & chopped
some wood I finished hauling the school wood & made a jumper runner Mother & Father went to
town with Kate & Bet in the heavy waggon took a load of oats
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Jan Monday 16 1882
Clear Tem 26° Father and I commenced making wood rack Brannum commenced bushing out Bolts
at noon he lost a ½ day E.S. Dyke & A. Shreves measured the school wood
Tuesday 17th
Clear Cold & Windy Tem 18° I took Joe & Father to Chatham They went to Detroit on the 8 Oclock
train Brannum chopped until noon, I was home at 10 Oclock A.M. then Brannum and I bushed out
some bolts with Kate & Bet in the afternoon
Wednesday 18th
Cloudy Cold Tem 14° I hauled two loads of Bolts to N Buxton on the waggon with Kate & Bet
Brannum bushed out Bolts
Thursday 19
Tolerable Clear I went to town after Joe and Father they came up at 11 Oclock Alf went along
Brannum chopped hicory tops
Friday 20th
Clear Tem 28° I hauled 3 loads of Bolts to Buxton took about 1 cord at a load Brannum finished
bushing Bolts and some wood & chopped some
Saturday 21
Cloudy & raining some Father and Mother went to town took 43 bu of Oats they weighed 48 bu 28
lbs got 42¢ per bu. Brannum and I corded some of Wintermutes hicory & White ash Brannum
Chopped some maple tops & I hauled up some fire wood this Evg
�Monday 23rd
Cloudy & Cold Tem 7° I hauled 2 loads of Bolts to Buxton Brannum sawed some wood at the school
house & helped me load Father went down to Fletcher
Tuesday 24th
Cold Tem 2° I hauled 2 loads of Bolts Brannum took ½ Cord on the jumper it Broke down and had to
Bring it back on the wagon Father was in the bush
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Jan Wednesday 25 1881 {1882}
Warm rained all the afternoon Father went up to Buxton {Wiler} measured the Bolts there was 9¾
cords Brannum & I hauled one load of straw to the stable shelled 6 bu of corn & fanned the beans
Father went to mill took 6 bu of corn
Thursday 26
Warm rained all day Father went to Fletcher Brannum did not work & I did not doo much
Friday 27
Father went to Tilburry on Jim [horse] Brannum and I sawed 3 cords of wood at the school house
Saturday 28th
Cloudy warm Tem 30° Brannum and I finished sawing the school wood Father & Mother went to
town in the Buggie
Monday 30th
Clear Cool Father went to Tilburry to see about some Bolts Brannum & I made bolts
Tuesday 31st
Cloudy & Cool we Butchered 7 hogs this forenoon Alex Scott & H.D. Kersey helped Brannum did not
work afternoon the sow weighed 375 lbs the others 209, 200, 200, 198, 189, 187 Father
Wednesday 32 1st Feb
Cloudy Cold Tem 30° Father went to town took the sow & two pigs they weighed 717 lbs Brannum &
I made Bolts Louis Johnson & Susie Wallace were married last night Father Mother & I were there
Thursday 2nd
Clear Brannum & I hauled 4 loads of ice from Webs Creek Father sawed it
Friday 3rd
�Cloudy Father went to tilburry Brannum cut some wood in the woods I hauled one load of saw dust
and then Brannum & I hauled up wood with Both teams
Saturday 4th
Clear Mother and Father went to town Brannum split rails I hauled 2 loads of saw dust & made a few
rails
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Feb Monday 6 1882
Clear Brannum and I made bolts Father went to town to attend Wm. Chandler's Funeral
Tuesday 7
Tolerable clear Father Brannum and I made Bolts and wood
Wednesday 8
Clear Brannum & I hauled 2 loads of straw & 1 of hay from the Barn to the stable this forenoon after
noon Brannum did not work I went and got a load of sawdust
Thursday 9
Clear Father helped us make Bolts until noon & cut up the Pork after noon Brannum & I made Bolts
Friday 10th
Clear & cool Father Brannum & I went to tilburry to skin Bolts until noon then went to Fletcher & got
three salt Barrels to salt the Pork in & Father salted the Pork Father measured & paid Pierces for
making 13 cords of Bolts
Saturday 11th
M Clear Mother & Father went to town came back early Brannum made rails I bushed out Bolts with
Kate & Bet *A.D. Shadd (My Grandfather) died this evg at 5.55 Oclock aged 81 yrs 11 mo & 9dys
Sunday 12
Clear Father. Aunt Emma & Uncle Geo. Shreves went to Chatham in our democrat
Monday 13
Clear Mother & I went to town to the store Father was at Grand Fathers Brannum did not work
Tuesday 14
Clear Father went to Buxton twice for Aunt Eunice Aunt Sarah & Mary A. Morgan who came this evg
from Xenia Brannum did not work
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Mr Alfred Shadd Kinistino [written in a different ink]
Feb Wednesday 15 1882
Clear & very muddy Grand Father's funeral took place today left the house at 11 Oclock, we took
Both teams he was Burried in the cemetry Chatham Brannum did not work
Thursday 16th
Rained some last night cloudy Father went to Grand Fathers Brannum chopped some
Friday 17th
Clear Brannum & I sawed some maple & Piled some Elm Brush Aunt's Eunice & Sarah were down
at our house Father Brought them in the Buggie
Saturday 18
Clear & windy Tem 26° Father & Mother went to town Brannum did not work I hauled out 4 loads of
manure cut the wheat By the barn
Monday 20
Cloudy commenced raining this evg Father was at Grand Fathers all day Brannum & I made Bolts
Aunt's Eunice & Sarah, & Mary Morgan went Back home in the evg
Tuesday 21
Rained all day Brannum & I Finished thrashing wheat the beans
Wednesday 22 Mr. Shadd [written in different hand and ink]
Cloudy & windy Brannum & I we bushed out the most of the Bolts this forenoon and sawed some
stove wood afternoon very wet in the Bush Father helped.
Thursday 23
Cloudy Brannum did not work Father & I shelled some corn for a grist Colerich was here looking
after the mares
Friday 24
Clear Father took 6 bu of corn & 6 bu of wheat to Merlin to mill Brannum worked a ½ day sawing
Beech wood I sawed {wood}
Saturday 25
�Clear Cold last night Tem 18° Father & Mother went to town Brannum did not work I hauled up some
wood and moved the stack fence
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Feb Monday 27 1882
Clear & warm very muddy Father Brannum & I sawed & chopped stove wood & hicory cordwood
Tuesday 28
Rained after noon very muddy Father went to town on horseback Brannum & I worked until noon
fixing up the fences and scouring the lane ditch Wm Martin got 2 bu of his wheat
Wednesday, March the 1st
Clear Brannum split rails Father & I put a runner in the jumper & let of some water Brannum worked
30½ dys [Brannum's total work days are written in different ink.]
Thursday 2nd
Clear Father salted the meat & trimmed some fruit trees Brannum and I chopped wood & piled brush
in the wood
Friday 3rd
Clear & very muddy Father Brannum and I went to tilburry to Bark bolts
Saturday 4
Clear Father and Mother went town Brannum & I Sawed some hicory stove wood a half day Uncle
Mack got 2 bu of Wm Martins Wheat
Monday 6
Cloudy Father Brannum & I fixed the front Barn doors then Brannum & I hauled two loads of hay to
the stable on the waggon Brannum worked a ½ day
Tuesday 7
Cloudy Father Brannum & I worked in the woods most of the day Mother & Father started to Church
this Evg and Mother fell in the cattle guard at the drake road and was severely hurt
Wednesday 8
Clear & warm Brannum & I worked in the woods Father tended on Mother
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March Thursday 9th 1882
�Rained all last night and all day today Brannum & I shelled corn 3 bu for homney
Friday 10th
Cloudy & rained some Brannum & I cut up wood in the wood pile ½ day
Saturday 11th
Cloudy snowed a little this evg warm and muddy Brannum did not work Father went to town (this
evg) I scoured the upper lane ditches & took Grand Mother home
[The next two entries are not written by William but most likely by his Father, Garrison, given the
names mentioned and the breakdown of work.]
Monday 13
Cloudy Tem 28 I sowed clover seed on 12 lands in No 5 William and Brannum hauled straw to the
stable until noon afternoon Brannum split rail Willy hauled some wood up
Tuesday 14
Clear snowed about an inch last night I sowed 6 land of clover in the wheat in No 5 William and
Brannum chopped until noon afternoon William and Brannum ditched in the lane
[William now resumes writing the diary entries]
Wednesday 15
snowed about an inch last night Brannum & I fanned and picked beans until noon then we sawed
some elm wood on pattersons line Father finished sowing clover on No 5
Thursday 16th
Cloudy Brannum & I hauled up wood until noon with the ponies then we sawed elm on the line
Father sowed some clover on No 1
Friday 17th
Cloudy Brannum and I chopped and sawed in the woods Father went to Buxton afternoon
Saturday 18th
Rained last night and showered all day thundered & light{ed} Brannum choped in the woodpile until
noon Father went to town on Jim
[Following single entry written by Garrison]
Monday 20
�Variable Wind East I went to the plains and let water off of the wheat Billy and Brannum cut wood
along the line Brannum has put in 47 days this Evening
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March Tuesday 21st 1882
Rained last night very windy and occasional snow squalls today Brannum did not work Father went
to Fletcher
Wednesday 22nd
Tolerable clear & warm very muddy Brannum was not here we did not do much
Thursday 23rd
Cloudy Brannum was not here We finished shoeing the jumper ditched in the lane and chopped
down one of the Poplars in No 4
Friday 24th
Cloudy & windy Brannum & I chopped and sawed up the poplar
Saturday 25
Cloudy snowed about 2 inches this evg Father & Mother went to town Brannum & I went cut the
other poplar along the fence below the house in No 4
Monday 27th
Cloudy Brannum & I finished working up the poplar and then went to work (cutting wood) down the
line next to Pattersons Father went to the plains
Tuesday 28
Clear, & windy afternoon, Brannum & I hauled in 4 loads of straw and then went and cut a couple of
ashes and a big maple and made some wood of them Father went to Rues
Wednesday 29th
Tolerable clear Brannum, Father and I cut a small maple hewed two Bridge pieces & spread some
dirt on the line ditch {B----- B-----}
Thursday 30th
Clear and windy Brannum chopped some hicory along the line & I rooled some in No 1 but got sick
and had to quit Father went to Fletcher Rone died & Father & Brannum skined her
Friday 31st
�Clear frosty last night I rooled some after noon in No 1 Brannum has quit work Father hung up the
pork
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April Saturday 1st 1882
Clear Father and Mother went to town & I finished rolling No 1 & rooled the orchard & dug around
some trees
Monday 3rd
Clear & warm Father Chas & I hauled manure on the garden spread It and I ploughed some of it in
and they cultivated a ridge for onions
Tuesday 4th
Clear and warm I ploughed the garden Chas harrowed & rolled the onion bed and hauled some
Poplar wood out of the field Father planted onions with his new hand drill by the lane in No 1 and
harrowed and rooled wheat in No 4
Wednesday 5
Rained most of the day I shelled 12 bu of corn for mill Father helped me shell cobs
Thursday 6
Showered some about noon Father and I prepared a Grist consisting of 20 bu of corn & oats for
horse feed 4 bu of corn & 2 bu of false wheat I took out the potatoes this afternoon Father went to
Merlin to Mill Chas hauled out some wood
Friday 7th
Tolerable clear Father went down to A. Paterson's & got 5 Brooms Mother went to Church I
ploughed in the lot No 2
Saturday 8th
Clear Father & Mother went to town I rooled a little wheat but is was too wet finished ploughing the 3
cornered lot & took Kate and Bets shoes off
Monday 10th *
Cloudy windy and cool Chas and I ploughed in No 4 all day with Both teams Father chopped some
in the woods I became a member of the B.M.E. Church on probation yesterday Temperature 30 at
Noon
Tuesday 11
Cold cloudy & Windy Tem 26 Chas & I ploughed all day in No 4 Father went to Buxton afternoon
�Wednesday 12
Cloudy Tem 30° I finished ploughing No 4 except the lower headland Chas hauled out wood Father
went to Fletcher after noon we hauled up wood
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April Thursday 13 1882
Cloudy I ploughed all day in No 6 Chas ploughed until noon & then him and Father went to fletcher
took some lard to Barry & got a piece of white ash sawed into double two
Friday 14
Cloudy Father planted some onions Chas and I ploughed all day in No 6
Saturday 15th
Clear Mother and Father went to town Chas ploughed most of the day I fixed the stable & ploughed
a little Wm Martin got 8 bu of wheat
Monday 17
Clear I took Father Joe & Grandmother to Crows dock they took the Boat & went to Detroit I went to
meet them this Evg but they did not come Chas ploughed all day I cultivated some in No 4
Tuesday 18
Clear I finished cultivating in No 4 & ploughed some Chas ploughed all day in No 6
Wednesday 19
Showery all day Chas & I ploughed a little Elder S.D.W. Smith was here
Thursday 20
Cloudy & rained all the afternoon Chas ploughed until noon I went to chatham after Joe and Father
Father came out with me Joe went out with GrandMother
Friday 21
Clear Father and Chas went down to GrandMother P's [Poindexters] for Joe I finished ploughing No
4 after noon Father planted some onions I harrowed & rolled the garden Chas went to Buxton
Saturday 22
Clear I scraped the road from the townline to the Drake road Father and Mother went to town Bought
a draft for $71 15/100 [$71.15] to send to Omaha as payment on the qr [quarter] section of land in
Dawson Co
�Monday 24
Clear I harrowed & rooled the gardens twice harrowed the potatoe patch No 2 Father sowed some
Garden peas Chas was not well
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April Tuesday 25 1882
Clear & warm Father sowed some white side oats in No 4 Chas & I harrowed them in with Both
teams Deacon M. Botter was at our house to dinner he was out on business with Grand Mother
Concerning her Estate
Wednesday 26
Clear Father finished sowing oats in No 4 Chas & I harrowed them in then I run out the furrows &
Chas & I harrowed & rooled wheat in No 5 Father sowed some peas & other Garden seed
Thursday 27
Clear Chas & I finished harrowing & rooling the wheat in No 5 after noon Father went to Merlin took
6 bu of wheat Mother went with him Chas & I hauled out 5 loads of manure out to No 2 potatoe
patch
Friday 28
Clear rained last night Father went to Buxton Chas & I spread the manure on No 2 cultivated it in & I
run out some potatoe rows & Father planted some potatoes Chas & I rolled, & shoveled the oats
furrows
Saturday 29
Clear Mother & Father went to town got 1 Barrel of salt and got 1 Bartlet P pare tree & 100 great
american straw Berries Chas & I finished rolling the oats shoveled the furrows hauled up some chips
& fanned some oats chaff
Monday 1st
Quite showery afternoon I ploughed the strawberry bed in front of the house Chas hauled up some
chips
Tuesday 2nd
Cold heavy frost last night Chas & I hauled the red oak off of the clearing above No 6 preparatory to
ploughing it in with No 6 for ploughing corn loged some & harrowed the garden & Father & I planted
50 Great American strawberries
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May Wednesday 3rd 1882
�Clear we finished planting the strawberries and then logged some in the clearing Father helped &
hoed the straw Berries
Thursday 4th
Cloudy rained a little last night we planted potatoes Mother planted some strawberries Father
planted some sage & radishes Grand Mother Poindexter got her 12 bu of oats
Friday 5
Cloudy we finished loging the clearing & gathering the trash
Saturday 6th
Cloudy Father & Mother went to town Chas & I hauled of some of the fence & commenced laying it
along the Back
Monday 8th
Showery Chas and I finished hauling off the fence between No 5 & the clearing preparatory to
extending No 5 to Lacocq's line Mother planted strawberries I planted the Bartlett pear tree by the
milch house
Tuesday 9th
Cloudy & damp Chas and I ploughed a little in No 5 in the new ground after noon we planted
potatoes in No 2 Father not well
Wednesday 10th
Rained most of the day we started to plant potatoes but had to stop we fanned the oats up after
noon
Thursday 11th
Rained near all forenoon after noon we ploughed some in No 5
Friday 12th
Rained most of the day we did not do much
Saturday 13th
Cloudy commenced raining afternoon Father went to town on Kate I let off water
Monday 15th*
Clear Father and I let water off of the garden and afternoon we made a log heap in the clearing
Grand Mother Shadd is very sick *
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May Tuesday 16th 1882
Clear Chas and I ploughed in No 5 in the new ground with both teams
Wednesday 17th
Clear Father went to town to a liberal conservative convention Chas & I ploughed all day in No 5
Thursday 18
Clear Tem 70° Chas & I finished ploughing No 5 and moved some fence back of the barn I planted
Minnisota sweet corn in potatoe patch
Friday 19th
Clear & warm Chas and I Ploughed a patch back of the barn & harrowed some in No 5
Saturday 20th
Clear Father and Mother went to town I planted sweet corn back of barn and Chas & I harrowed with
Kate & Bet
Monday 22nd *
Cloudy & showery Chas & I harrowed a little in No 5 Father went to Fletcher I went to Buxton on old
Kate Came back and shot some squirrels
Tuesday 23rd
Clear Chas & I harrowed in No 5 with Kate on small harrow & Ponies on large harrows Father
packed the pork in ashes & went to the plains
Wednesday 24th
Clear Chas & I Cross harrowed in No 5 Father Alf, & D piled some Brush Father and I went to A
Concert in the B.M.E. Church at N. Buxton this Evg
Thursday 25
Clear I marked off with Kate and Bet Chas finished harrowing Father worked in the garden
Friday 26th
Clear I planted corn in No 5 Chas marked off Father went to Merlin to mill took 6 bu of corn & 4 bu of
wheat A Meeting was held in the school house this evg to appoint 4 delegates to the Liberal
Conservative Convention to meet tomorrow in Chatham
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�May Saturday 27 1882
Rained all day Father and Mother went to town I did not do much the convention nominated Henry
Smith for Conservative Candidate
Monday 29
Tolerable Clear Chas & I piled manure all day
Tuesday 30
Clear Father Chas & I piled manure in the Barnyard
Wednesday 31st
Father scraped on the road until noon Chas marked off & I planted corn in No 5 until noon rained all
the afternoon
June Thursday 1st
Tolerable Clear Father, Mother, Lizzie Chas & I went to Martha Ellen Kersey's funeral
Friday 2nd
Tolerable Clear Chas marked off & I planted corn in No 5 Father went to Merlin afternoon with 5
bags of corn and oats to get ground for horse feed
Saturday 3rd
Rained almost all day and last night Father & Mother went to town I let off some water Bet had a Colt
at night after running 11 mo & 13 dys
Monday 5
Clear & muddy we hauled up chipps until noon and then commenced cuting a ditch back of No 5
Tuesday 6
Clear Chas and I ditched in No 5 Father attended the sale of Grand Fathers stock & impliments I
went to south Buxton to a political metting this evg put Kate to Marshalls Lois Duke of Argyle today
Wednesday 7
Clear Chas and I ditched all day in No 5 Father then went to N. Buxton on George
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June Thursday 8 1882
�Clear Chas marked off & I planted in No 5 Father took Mother out to Uncle Horace Black's Barn
raising he worked in the garden & took went to a Conservative Comittee Meeting in the schoolhouse
Friday 9th
Clear Chas & I finished marking & planting in No 5 & cultivated the potatoes finished planting
potatoes Father worked in the garden he took Bet to Merlin this morning
Saturday 10
Father and Mother went to town Alf planted squashes I.D. hoed onions Chas & I fixed the lane fence
& piled manure
Monday 12th
Clear I replanted corn in No 5 Chas, D, & Father hoed in the garden Father brought down the old
mower and we took it apart
Tuesday 13
Clear Father took the old mower to town & sold it for old iron got $7.00 for it I replanted until noon
put Bet to Duke of Argyle
Wednesday 14
Clear I ploughed some ground for beans in No. 3 fo with the ponies it was very hard Chas harrowed
it with Kate Father worked some in the garden
Thursday 15
Showered last night I hauled 3 loads of of basswood bolts to Fletcher with the ponies Chas finished
harrowing & replanted corn some in No 5 Father worked some in the garden
Friday 16
Clear & warm I hauled 3 loads of Bolts making the total of what we had at home to Fletcher 6¼
cords Chas replanted corn Father worked in the garden
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June Saturday 17 1882
Clear Father & Mother went to town Chas harrowed the bean f ground and then worked in the
garden I cultivated the potatoes &c
Monday 19
Clear I went down & got Walkers drill & drilled in the beans & rooled the bean ground Chas
replanted in afternoon Chas & I finished replanting corn & I took Henry Parsons planter home
�Tuesday 20th
Clear & warm the Dominion Elections were held today Father acted as Deputy returning officer in
our division Henry Smith was elected for this County by a majority of 162 over James Samsom M.D.,
Father, Chas, Alf, & I went to Chatham this evg to the demonstration, I went to tilburry to haul bolts
but did not haul it was too wet so I & the boys hoed some potatoes
Wednesday 21
Clear & warm Chas & I cultivated Corn in No 5 Father hoed some in the garden Alf & D uncovered
corn
Thursday 22nd
Clear & warm Tem 89° Chas & I cultivated corn in No 5 Father hoed some D & Flav uncovered corn
Friday 23rd
Clear & warm Tem 90° Chas and I cross cultivated in No 5 Father in the garden
Saturday 24th
Very warm Tem 90° we had a heavy wind and rain storm this afternoon Father and Mother went to
town Chas & I finished Cross Cultivating, and hoed some potatotes Alf planted some pumpkins in
the corn
Monday 26th
Clear Tem 86° Chas, I.D. Father and I hoed in the potatoe patch & Garden
Tuesday 27
Clear Chas I.D & I finished hoeing the potatoes Father hoed in the garden
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June July Wednesday 28th 1882
Clear Father Chas I.D. & I hoed Carrots in the Garden
Thursday 29th
Clear Father and I went to tilburry he skined Bolts & helped me to load & I hauled 4 loads Dow
Pierce & Ed Poindexter hauled 4 loads
Friday 30
Rained we bushed out some hicory wood afternoon I whitewashed some
Saturday 1st July
�Tolerable Clear Father and Mother went to town Chas and I finished bushing out the hicory wood
and hoed some onions and cultivated the potatoes and hilled so
Monday 3rd
Clear we hoed in the garden Father and Joe went to Detroit on the boat I took them to the river and
went after them this evg
Tuesday 4th
Clear Father and Chas I.D & I hoed in the garden
Wednesday 5
Clear Father went to town on horse Back Chas & I cultivated Corn
Thursday 6th
Clear Father went to tilburry and hauled Basswood Bolts to Fletcher Chas & I cultivated corn until
noon and then I mowed some in No 1 with the machine
Friday 7
showered some Father and I cut some fence corners & I mowed some more Father sold 8 cords of
hicory for $2.25 per cord in the clearing
Saturday 8
Showered until noon Mother and Father went to town Alf came out from his Examination * Chas and
I cultivated corn after noon
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July Sunday 9th 1882
Clear & warm Mother and I went to Chatham to the Baptising Elder S.D.W. Smith Baptised 19
persons
Monday 10th
Cloudy rained about noon clear after Father Chas and I cultivated corn with 3 horses until noon then
we fixed the mow and raked & cocked some hay
Tuesday 11th
Clear we raked up hay and hauled in 4 loads afternoon & cultivated some corn in the morning Young
Sow had 7 Pigs
Wednesday 12
�Clear we hauled in 11 loads of hay with 2 waggons
Thursday 13
Showered some this evg I cut hay Father mowed fence corners we cultivated corn until the dew was
off I went to a lecture by Rev R.O. Smith at N Buxton Father went to Fletcher
Friday 14
Clear Mother Chas, Alf I.D. and Lizzie went out on the river after cherries I finished cutting hay in No
1 after noon we raked up and cocked some
Saturday 15
Clear Father and Mother went to town Chas Alf D and I went to raked up and cocked some in No 1 &
cultivated some corn afternoon Father came home and we hauled in 3 loads & finished cocking in
No 1
Monday 17th
Clear and warm I Chas and I finished cultivating corn then I mowed the orchard Father mowed fence
corners afternoon we hauled in 5 loads of hay
Tuesday 18
Clear and windy we finished hauling hay out of No 1 and mowed between the trees
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July Wednesday 19th 1882
Showery until noon after shaking and re shaking we succeeded in getting the hay nearly all in out of
the orchard
Thursday 20
Clear we cultivated some beans this morning then hauled in the rest of the hay and afternoon Father
and I went and cut around the wheat at the plains
Friday 21st
We cradeled around the home wheat in No 4 and set up the reaper and Father cut some then he
went down and cut for Uncle Mack Chas, Alf, D, and I bound at home
Saturday 22nd
Clear and warm Mother Father and I.D went to town Chas and Alf bound for Uncle Mack until noon I
finished cutting Uncle Mack's wheat brought the machine home and cut some afternoon Father
came and cut some more and we bound and set it up
�Monday 24th
Clear and warm we finished Cutting, Binding & shocking our home wheat and took the machine to
the plains this evg and cut some
Tuesday 25th
Clear we cut and bound at the plains Uncle Mack helped us to bind
Wednesday 26
Clear and warm Tem 92° we finished cutting and binding at the plains Father cut some for Solmn.
Jones after noon Chas, Alf, D and I Shocked up some
Thursday 27
Clear and warm Father went down and finished cutting Jones'es wheat and took 6 bu of wheat & 2
of corn to Merlin after noon. Chas, Alf, D, and I went and finished shocking wheat and then hauled in
5 loads of the home wheat into the barn
Friday 28
Clear we finished hauling in the home wheat out of No 4 Father cut fence corners and helped us to
unload
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July Saturday 29th 1882
Clear. Father, Mother, and Chas, went to town in the Buggie I went, in the heavy waggon got Bet
shod and three of the tires cut and set Father bought a cutting box and Paid Uncle Mack $10.00 on
his Colt and is to pay a note for $25.00 more
Monday 31st
Clear until noon when it began to rain Father Chas and I helped Uncle Mack to stack his wheat
afternoon it was wet so we did not do much
Tuesday 1st Aug
Rained last night and this morning we did not do much Father went to Fletcher we did not do much
Wednesday 2nd
Very wet Cloudy & some rain we wed some onions and mashed the tops over & cut some fence
corners Robt Hughes Came up on the Excursion yesterday and came over to our place today
Thursday 3rd
�Cloudy and some rain we cut some fence corners and Father Robert and I went down set up the
wheat and on the plains and then went up to O.S Dykes & H Black.
Friday 4th
Showery all day Father went to Fletcher I did not do much
Saturday 5
Tolerable Clear Mother and Father went to town I cut some fence corners Chas, Alf and I.D cocked
them up and hoed some beans
Monday 7.
Clear one shower at noon Father went to cut Morchand oats but did not cut we shook out the
fence Father Alf Uncle Mack and I went down and stacked Grandmothers share of the wheat and
brought home two loads
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Aug Tuesday 8 1882
Rained last night Father and I cut the fence corners and I went to the plains to see about the wheat
this eve
Wednesday 9th
Clear one shower at noon Father went to cut Martins oats but did not cut them we shook out the
fence corner hay but it got wet again
Thursday 10th
Clear we took the fence corners in and then went down and hauled two loads of wheat from the
plains
Friday 11th
Showery we did not do much
Saturday 12th
Clear shower this evg Father Mother and Alf went to town I cut Uncle Mack's oats this morning and
then Chas. D. & I hauled a load of wheat from the plains
Monday 14th
Clear Father cut Mr Thomsons oats and helped us to haul 5 loads of wheat from the plains
Tuesday 15
�Clear we went and got the last two loads of wheat and commenced cutting the oats at home
Wednesday 16
Cloudy and showery all afternoon Father Mother and Eunice went to Detroit on the Boat I took them
out to Crows Dock Mr Hughes and Aunt Maria Black went along
Thursday 17
Cleared off about noon I dug out and cleaned out the trunk at the end of the lane and cut some oats
after noon Chas Alf and D cut thistles in the clearing
Friday 18
Clear I finished cutting oats Chas & D. went to the Dock and Brought Mother Mrs Black Mr Hughes
home Father did not Come Uncle Mack impounded one gray mare & 1 bay mare and Mr peterson
took them out
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Aug Saturday 19 1882
Clear Mother Mr Hughes and D went to town in the Buggie Father came home Chas. Alf & I Bound
some oats
Monday 21
Clear Father went to cut Uncle Macks oats but did not cut we turned and bound some
Tuesday 22nd
Clear I we turned and bound oats all day
Wednesday 23rd
Rained very heavy last night damp this morning I set up some of the oats that were blown down
Father cut some weeds Chas and I bushed out some wood
Thursday 24th
Clear Father cut Uncle Macks oats we turned the rest of our oats
Friday 25th
Clear we bound up the oats at home
Saturday 26th
Rained this morning Mother Father & alf went to town Chas and I logged some out in the Clearing
�Monday 28th
Clear Father and I went to tilburry and hauled the rest of the Bolts Pierce hauled one load we hauled
2
Tuesday 29th
Clear Mother and Father went to town in the Buggie took the wooden plough to get Fixed Chas Alf D
and I hauled in 3 loads of oats they were wet so we had to turn them out and then Bind them up
Wednesday 30th
Tolerable Clear Father helped Horace Bond to thrash Chas Alf, D. and I turned out and hauled in the
rest of our oats sih six loads completing the harvest after a long season of suspence
Thursday 31st Clear Chas hel raked the oats stubble I ploughed afternoon, we fixed the fence
around the garden and got the rakings in then we helped Horace thrash
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September Friday 1st 1882
Clear Father went to Fletcher this morning Chas harrowed and gathered some weeds and burned
them I ploughed all day in No 3
Saturday 2
rained after noon Father Mother and D went to town I ploughed until noon in No 3 with Kate & Bet
Monday 4
Clear Chas and Father hauled out 4 loads of manure and Father brought Hannah Brown down to
sew for mother I ploughed in No 3 with Kate & Bet Father, Mother, Chas and I went up to Old Mr
Carters funeral yesterday
Tuesday 5
Clear Father and Chas went hauled out some manure I ploughed in No 3 ground very hard
Wednesday 6
Clear Father and Chas hauled out some manure I ploughed in No 3
Thursday 7th
Clear I finished hauling out m ploughing in No 3 Chas and F. hauled out some manure Mother
Father went out to the plains this evg
Friday 8th
�(Clear Father and Chas hauled out some manure I went to town took 8 bu of corn to Holmeses Mill
and got 1 Cwt of flour and also got a music lesson)
Saturday 9
Clear Father and Mother and Chas went to town to Market and V.A. Shreveses wife came out to
stay a while on a visit I.D and I ploughed the strawberry bed & hauled out 9 loads of manure and I
took Hannah Brown home this evg
Monday 11th
Clear we hauled out manure with the ponies in the waggon and Old Kate in lenovers cart
Tuesday 12 Clear we hauled out manure all day
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Sept Wednesday 13 1882
Clear we hauled manure all day with old Kate in the cart & Ponies in the waggon
Thursday 14
Clear Father put up a slide gate at the end of the lane this morning Chas and I hauled out manure all
day
Friday 15
Clear Father and I went to town this morning took Cousin Georgie in I did not get a lesson as Carrie
was gone to town to Father seen the Dr
Saturday 16th
Clear Mother Father and Chas went to town Father went to Detroit & did not come Back I hauled out
the rest of the manure back of the stable ploughed, Harrowed & rooled a bed front of the & ploughed
& scraped some by the Barn
Monday 18
Clear Father came back this evg Chas and I ploughed and scraped by some dirt into the Barnyard
Tuesday 19
Clear Father Chas and I ploughed and scraped a ditch up at the East end of the Barn
Wednesday 20th
Tolerable Clear Father Mother Alf I.D. and I went to the Fair in Chatham Mamie Cooper went along
Thursday 21st
�Cloudy and drissled rain after noon this morning Chas Father and I hauled up some wood this
forenoon Afternoon Father and Mother went out to Uncle Horace Black's and got 12 bu of Wheat
and 10 of oats I ploughed the headlands of No 3 for wheat Uncle Mack brought the Colt up and we
weaned both Colts
Friday 22nd
Clear Rained all night Father sowed wheat and Chas and I.D. harrowed it in I cut corn he sowed
scott wheat on No 3
Saturday 23
Clear Father and Mother went to town Chas harrowed in No 3 I cut corn I.D pulled beans
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Sept Monday 25 1882
Clear Mother and Father took Joe up to Chatham and Dr
Springer and he* lanced his leg a little
below the hip Chas. D. and Flave pulled the beans and Chas helped me cut some corn Frost this
morning
Tuesday 26
Clear Father Chas and I cut corn all day
Wednesday 27
Cloudy we harrowed and rolled the Barn yard hauled in the beans Father and Chas cut some corn
and I run out the furrows in the wheat & ploughed some of the bean ground
Thursday 28
Cloudy we finished ploughing and pulling in the wheat
Friday 29
Clear we shoveled out the furrows in the wheat this forenoon afternoon Father went to fletcher Chas
cut some corn
Saturday 30
Clear Father and Mother went to market Alf went along Chas cut come corn I was not well
Monday 2nd
Clear Chas and I ploughed at Grand Fathers for wheat Father cut some corn at home
Tuesday 3rd
�Clear Chas and I ploughed up at Grand Fathers Father went to town with Aunt Emma in her team
Wednesday 4
Clear we finished ploughing Father and Mother went to town this evg to the Dr
for Joe Father cut
some corn
Thursday 5 Clear Father and E.S. Dyke measured some ground at Grand Fathers Chas and I cut
corn
Friday 6th
Clear Chas and I cut corn Father cut corn until Noon when he went with E.S. Dyke to measure
ground
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Saturday 7th
Clear Father and Mother went to market Chas and I cut corn
Monday 9th
Clear we cut corn afternoon Father Mother & Chas went to help Grand Mother Poindexter thrash but
she did not thrash
Tuesday 10th
Rained this evg I finished cutting corn Father and Chas helped Grand Father thrash Annie helped
Grandmother
Wednesday 11th
Clear & cool Father and Mother went to town took 7½ bu of corn to town and Exchanged it for 187
lbs of flour Chas and I helped Grand Father until Noon afternoon we put up the fence between No 3
& 4
Thursday 12
Clear Father & D. went to Fletcher, Merlin & Buxton to post some notices &c Chas & I hauled up
wood with Kate & Bet until 5 Oclock when I went to town and got some medicine for Joe
Friday 13
Cloudy & Rainid after Noon Father & I.D went out on The river to post the notices of Grand Fathers
Real Estate sale Chas and I helped Mr Walker thrash until 2 Oclock when the rain Stoped them
Saturday 14
Clear Father and Mother went to town to market Chas and I helped Walker thrash
�Monday 16
Clear Father went to Fletcher and got a Scraper then him and Mother went up to Carters sale Chas
and I ditched some by the barn and tramped out the beans with Kate and Bet
Tuesday 17
Cloudy rained last night Father Chas and I logged all day with Kate and Bet
Wednesday 18
Clear we finished the ditch by the barn and went to Fletcher to see about the bolts there was no Car
Father sold them to
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Oct Thursday 19 1882
Clear, heavy frost last night tem 30° we culled the potatoes & piled the good ones up and put the
culls in the wood house afternoon we commenced ditching on the line between us and Paterson
Friday 20
Clear, frost this morning we ditched on the line all day Father and I pitted the potatoes at noon
Saturday 21
Clear, frost this morning Father Mother and Aunt Emma went to town in the buggie I ditched on the
line with Kate and Bet Chas Cleared up some trash husked some corn and C
Monday 23rd
Clear Father Dug a hole for a cistern by the house I started to ditch but Dow Pierce came and I had
to go Fletcher to help load a car with Bolts Chas helped after noon Father came down this evg Chas
went over to Mr Thompsons and got 10 bu of Oats
Tuesday 24
Clear frost last night Father went to Chatham and got Mr Branton to cement the cistern he also got
some sand, Brick, lime & cement I scraped on the line ditch with Kate & Bet Chas wheeled out some
dirt from the cistern
Wednesday 25
Clear we finished loading the Bolts this fore noon afternoon Mother and Father went to town took Mr
Branton back got Kate & Bet shod and got some dry goods I ditched with the ponies Chas wheeled
out dirt
Thursday 26th
�Clear Father Chas and I finished the line ditch Father sold the Bull for $22.00
Friday 27
Clear we finished the line ditch before noon afternoon we went down on the Kersey drain and
commenced work
Saturday 28
Cloudy Father Chas and I worked on the Kersey drain back of Aunt Emma's all day
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Oct Monday 30th 1882
Clear Father worked at the Cistern Chas and I toped and pitted the Onions beets and table carrots
Tuesday 31
Clear and Cool Chas Father and I worked on the ditch with both teams
Nov Wednesday 1 1882
Clear & Cool Father Chas and I worked on the ditch with both t{eams}
Thursday 2nd
Clear & Cool Tem 32° we worked on the ditch with Both teams
Friday 3rd
Clear Tem 32° we worked on the ditch with both teams Henry Parsons helped us with his team
today @ $3.25
Saturday 4th
Clear & Cool Mother went to town with Aunt Emma Father Chas and I worked on the ditch with both
teams Henry Parsons worked with his team also
Monday 6th
Cloudy rained this evg Father went out to Thomas Russels to get some sheep got 3 lambs Henry
Parsons Chas & I worked on the ditch
Tuesday 7
Clear Father, Henry, Parsons, Chas & I worked on the ditch Henry worked afternoon
Wednesday 8th
�Clear Father Henry, Parsons, Chas & I worked on the ditch
Thursday 9th
Cloudy rained after noon Thanksgiving day we husked some corn
Friday 10th
Cloudy Father, Henry, Chas and I worked on the ditch
Saturday 11
Rained this morning Father & Mother went to town Chas & I dug the carrots
Monday 13
Sudden change from warm to cold slight fall of snow last night very disagreeable underfoot We
toped and piled the carrots Father went up to Buxton & then down on the Kersey drain he received
took the Contract of ditching Section 10 from Commissioner Fooley (for $120.00)
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Nov Tuesday 14th 1882
Cloudy and damp Chas and I cleaned out the shed back of the stable I was not well he helped us
straighten it up
Wednesday 15
Cleared off about noon Father, Henry, Chas and I worked on the ditch very muddy and wet in the
ditch we finished our own job
Thursday 16
Cloudy Tem 22° Father Henry Chas and I commenced working on the Dunbrook Job very muddy
Working
Friday 17
Cold & wet Father Henry Chas and I worked on the Dunbrook Job
Saturday 18
Cold Tem 22 Henrys horse was very sick last night Father & Mother went to town Chas and I
finished the Dunbrook Job
Monday 20th
Clear Father and I went to town drove Kate & Bet and got a set of harness for them from Hooper
Chas husked corn
�Tuesday 21st Father fastened up the pigs (12) in number Clear Chas and I hauled up some wood
with Kate & Bet and then husked corn, Bill, Moore, Bill Scott & Bill Mathews Came and hewed timber
for the shed Father helped them, Bill Crawford, & Alex Walker husked corn
Wednesday 22nd
Cloudy & warm Wm Moore, Scot & Mathews hewed timber Father helped Chas and I hauled in
(Crawford & Walkers Corn = 33 bu) and then husked some
Thursday 23rd
Cloudy and Windy Wm Moore, Scott, & Mathews finished this forenoon Chas and I husked corn until
noon after noon Twas so Cold and damp that we did not husked
Friday 24th
Cloudy and very windy Chas and I hauled in three loads of fodder and Fixed the logs around the
Cistern Father went to Buxton this forenoon Aunt Eunice was here this afternoon
Saturday 25
Clear Father and Mother went to town to market Chas, Alf I,D and I husked corn 35 bu and hauled it
in Flave husked one shock
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Nov Monday 27 1882
Clear & Cool I hauled out some of the timber for the shed Father & Chas measured the Lacocq line
afternoon Father went away with Aunt Eunice in our buggie Chas and I helped Uncle Mack thrash
his millet
Tuesday 28
Clear Father & Chas helped Uncle Mack thrash I hauled out the rest of the shed timber afternoon I
went down and brought the separator up with Kate & bet They brought the engine with Ponies &
Uncle Macks team
Wednesday 29th
Cloudy & Cool We commenced to thrash about 10 Oclock Uncle Mack, Norman Cooper, Laurenza
Pierce Bill Brannum, Horace bond, John Cribs, Wm Morehead, Louis Grandison, Henry Morton, &
Grand Father Poindexter helped us I got don{e} the wheat had 275 bu
Thursday 30
Cold tem 16° we got done thrashing about 11 Oclock help same as yesterday we hauled the
Separator out to Wm Dostons
Friday 1st Dec
�Cloudy & Cool we hauled up wood this forenoon with both teams after noon we husked corn Father
sold 4½ cords of dry soft wood to J. Lee for $1.25 per cord
Saturday 2nd
Commenced drizzeling about 10 Oclock we commenced we commenced husking corn but had to
quit
Monday 4th
Tolerable Clear Father Chas and I cleaned and baged up and hauled to Fletcher one load of wheat
44 bu got 80¢
Tuesday 5
Commenced half raining {--} afternoon we hauled two loads of wheat to Fletcher had to leave the
second in Barry's shed
Wednesday 6
Cloudy Father and I went down to fletcher and hauled our load of wheat over to the Cars Chas
hauled out some wood After noon we did not do much
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Dec Thursday 7 1882
Cold & very windy Tem 2° snowed some last night Father went to town in the sleigh drove Kate &
Bet got them shod Chas and I hauled out some wood
Friday 8
Tolerable Clear & Windy Tem 6° Father Chas & I hauled sawed some maple logs for the sheds
Albert Smith & Albert Daymon, came out to saw wood Father went up and got them a saw this evg
Saturday 9
Cloudy Tem 12° Father Mother and Chas went town in the buggie Father paid his Taxes I hauled 3
loads of manure on to the potatoe pit and hauled in some corn into the Barn to husk Daymon &
Smith sawed wood
Monday 11
Cloudy and cold Tem 26 Smith and Daymon sawed wood Chas Father and I sawed wood some
maple logs
Tuesday 12 My 19th birth day
Tolerable Clear & windy Father took Joe to town in the sleigh Smith & Daymon sawed Chas D
sawed some logs Spot Cow had a calf
�Wednesday 13
Rained this forenoon froze up this evg Chas and I hauled in some corn this afternoon 51 shocks
Smith & Daymon sawed
Thursday 14
Cloudy & windy Tem 26° Chas and I husked corn f in the Barn Father Smith & Daymon sawed
Friday 15
Cloudy & windy Father Chas and I husked until Noon afternoon Chas and I hauled 50 shocks into
the Barn Smith & Daymon sawed
Saturday 16
Cloudy & windy snowed some Father went to town in the sleigh Chas and I husked corn and hauled
some corn to the crib Daymon & Smith sawed until noon and then took thire saw up to Buxton and
got it sharpened
Monday 18
Cloudy Rained some this morning after noon Chas and I husked in the barn smith and daymon
sawed wood Walker got a load of wood
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Dec Tuesday 19th 1882
Cloudy Father and Mother went down to the Examination Chas and I husked some and hauled up
some Smith and Daymon cut wood afternoon Father measured their wood this morning they had 18
cords
Wednesday 20th
Cloudy Father went up to the town hall to the Council Chas and I hauled in 30 shocks it rained all
afternoon we husked some Daymon & smith sawed until Noon Thomas Paterson came out
Thursday 21st
Cloudy Chas and I husked until Noon Afternoon we hauled in 31 shocks Father was out in the
woods Smith, Daymon & Patterson sawed after noon rained this forenoon Tem 36
Friday 22
Cloudy & warm Chas and I hauled in 42 shocks after noon we husked corn Father went out to the
Town hall to the nomination Smith & Daymon went to town this afternoon
Saturday 23rd
�Father & Mother went to town to market Chas, Alf D & I husked corn in the barn
Sund Monday 25
Warm Tem 36° Xmas day we went to Church & down to the plains
Tuesday 26
Cloudy & warm Father went to town We finished husking what Corn was in and then culled and
hauled up the good corn
Wednesday 27
Cloudy and Warm we school Meetting day we did not do much
Thursday 28
Cloudy & Cool Tem 32 Chas Alf D and I finished husking some corn that was in the barn and culled
and hauled Cloudy and Warm Chas and I hauled in 56 shocks and husked 15 after noon
Friday 29
Chas, Alf D. and I hauled in 5 loads of hay from the barn to the stable
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Jan Saturday 30th 1882
Cloudy & Cool Tem 26° Father and I went to town in the waggon Chas Alf & D husked some in the
Barn
Jan Monday 1st 1883
Cloudy & Cool The Muncipal Election was held to day Father acted as Deputy Returning officer and I
acted as Poll Clerk for polling subdivision No 2 the poll stood at our Polling place as follows. Dillon
36, White 53, Dolson 24 Irwin 66, Goulet 16 Williams 59; Charleston 52, Drew 27, Tolley 32
Tuesday 2nd
Cloudy and warm we finished husking what corn was in the barn and then culled and hauled up what
corn was here
Wednesday 3rd
Cloudy and Cool Chas and I hauled in 52 shocks of corn
Thursday 4th
Cloudy Father went to town in the heavy waggon and brought out a pair of bob sleighs he had
ordered of Pat Shreves price $23.00 Chas and I hauled in 40 shocks of corn snowed some this evg
�Friday 5th
Cloudy Father Chas and I hauled 4 maple logs down to Barrys mill
Saturday 6
Cloudy Mother went to town with Uncle Mack Father Chas and I hauled 5 logs down to Barrys Mill
Monday 8th
Snowed some this forenoon Father went to town with Uncle Mack Chas and I hauled 5 logs down to
Fletcher
Tuesday 9th
Cloudy & Cold tem 6° below Z{ero} Father and I took 2 hickory & two red oak logs and started to
town the shoe came off the front Bob and he had to throw his load off we took the hickorys on in
Wednesday 10
Cloudy & Cold Chas and I sawed 4 saw logs and Father helped us load them on the sleigh to go to
town
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Jan Thursday 26 1883
Cloudy Tem 4° Chas and I took 1 red oak and two black ash into Chatham and got 3 logs off of the
road Daymon & Harrison sawing
Friday 27 Chas and I cut two maples and hauled 3 logs to Fletcher Daymon & Harrison sawing
Saturday 28
Cloudy and warm tem 40° Mother and I went to town in the waggon took 20 bu of wheat got 83¢ per
bu D & H did not saw but were here
Monday 30
Cloudy and warm Chas and I husked corn Daymon and Harrison still here sawing
Tuesday 31
Tolerable Clear and windy I took Mother to town to the 8 Oclock train she started for Detroit Daymon
& Harrison here
Wednesday 1st Feb Feb
Cloudy & Windy snowed a little last night I went to Buxton this morning came back went to Fletcher
took two maple logs and Brought two loads of lumber with Kate and Bet
�Thursday 2nd
Cold and windy Chas and I went and hauled 4 loads of lumber from Fletcher Daymon & Harrison
here but did not saw
Friday 3rd
Cloudy Commenced snowing after noon Chas and I hauled two large loads with Kate and Bet from
Fletcher and took one 12 ft log down
Saturday 4th
Tem 34° rained all day Mother came home last night I took Grandmother home rained so that we did
not do much Daymon & Harrison here
Monday 6th
Cold & Clear Father came home this evg by the C.S.R. I took two red oak logs to town with Kate and
Bet got $8 & $10 per 1000 ft
Tuesday 7th
Clear and Cold I took two red oak logs to town with K & B got $12 per 1000 ft brought the old bobs
home Ben Talbot & V A Shreves put new runners on the front Bob and new shoes on the hind bob
Cost 3.00 & 2.25
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Feb Wednesday 8th 1883
Clear & Cool Tem 20. Chas and I took 6 logs 5 red oak and one black ash into Chatham got $8, $10
& $12 per 1000 ft
Thursday 9th
Clear & windy Tem 6° Chas and I hauled up some wood and cut a large white oak tree for sawlogs
Friday 10th
Clear and Cold Chas and I took two white oak logs to Chatham they measured 1140 ft got $15.00
per 1000 ft
Saturday 11th
Clear and Cold Tem 2° below Z{ero} Chas and I took two white oak logs to Chatham Father helped
us load they measured 973 ft got $12 & $15 per 1000 ft
Monday 13th
�Chas and Mother went to hunt help to kill pigs then we hauled up some wood, Mr Potter was out,
and Joe Walker got a load of green wood
Tuesday 14th
Clear and pleasant Tem 24° we killed Hogs and after noon sawed 8 hicory sawlogs Ambros,
Timbers, Eddy Poindexter Louis Granderson Alex Scott & Jobe Pierce Sr helped us Jobe stayed and
helped us to weigh them Hogs the seven large ones weighed, 273, 291, 269, 221, 245, 287, & 268
lbs respectively
Wednesday 15th
Rained nearly all day Chas and I husked corn until about noon then I took 5 hicory logs which we
loaded last night to Chatham measured 539 ft
Thursday 16th
Cloudy Tem 34° Father took the pork to town 7 hogs weighed 1841 lbs sold to Murray & Co got
$7.67 per 100 lbs I took 5 hicory logs to Vanallen got $4.15¢
Friday 17
Warm and rained some Tem 60° water is very high Father Chas and I went to Fletcher after ice but
could not get any so we got a load of sawdust to cover what we had then I went back and got the
rest of our lumber then we commenced linking the Pork
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Feb Saturday 18th 1883
Cloudy and Cool Tem 30° very windy we hauled a load of hay from the barn to the stable and
finished cutting and salting the pork both sows had pigs yesterday
Monday 19
Cloudy and warm Tem 26° we ground the axes this forenoon and Chas and I hauled up some wood
after noon, Father went down to Aunt Emma's the assessor was here this evg
Tuesday 20th
Clear and Cool Chas and I hauled in some corn Father and Aunt Emma went to town in our buggie
Wednesday 21st
Clear Chas and I finished hauling in the corn Father went to Aunt Emmas
Thursday 22
Clear and Cool Chas and Father & I made a wood rack and Chas & I bushed out some wood
afternoon this evg I went to Pierces for some buckwheat but did not get it
�Friday 23
Clear Cool and windy Chas and I finished hauling in the fodder and cut some wood in the woods
Father took the saw down to H Morton to get it sharpened
Saturday 24
Rained all afternoon Father and Mother went to town in the Buggie Chas and I sawed until Noon
Monday 26
Cloudy windy and snowed some Father and Mother went out to F Blacks Father went to R Rosses
sale and bought a heavy waggon for $34.50 Chas and I did not do much
Tuesday 27
Cloudy Windy and snowed some Provincal Election day Father acted as D.R.O at our polling place
91 votes polled giving Clancy a majority of 27
Wednesday 28 *
Tolerable Clear Father and I went to town Father took the Ballot box I got the first lesson on another
quarter paid $5.00
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1883 Friday 2nd March
Tolerable Clear Chas Father and I worked in the bush until noon after which Father went to Felixes
& Chas and I husked corn
Thursday 1st
Cloudy Chas and I moved some hay in the barn and hauled a load in Father and Chas went down to
Fletcher and then out to R Rosses after the waggon be bought at the sale price $34.50 thermometer
50° at noon
Saturday 3rd
Clear Father Chas and I worked in the woods all day
Monday 5
Snowed some this morning we bushed out wood with both teams all day
Tuesday 6th
Snowed this forenoon warm we did not do much
Wednesday 7th
�Clear and windy Tem 1° Father and I went to town I got a lesson
Thursday 8
Clear Tem 2° Father Chas and I hauled two loads of Ice from Fletcher and packed it in the wood
house Jobe Pierces sawed it Father sold 4 steers coming 3 yrs old to J houston for $105.00
Friday 9th
Clear & windy I hauled two loads of sawdust and put them in the wood house on the ice Chas &
Father chopped some before noon
Saturday 10th
Windy and snowed most of the day Father went to town Chas and I husked corn in the barn until
noon afternoon I went down to Fletcher and got a load of sawdust
Monday 12th
Cloudy Cool and windy Father Chas and I hauled out manure from the stable and put spread it on
the wheat
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March Tuesday 13th 1883
Clear and warm Chas and I took 4 loads of manure out of the Colts shed and put it on the wheat
Wednesday 14
Clear Father and I went to town took Joe in to see the Dr I got a lesson I went to south Buxton this
evg to a consert
Thursday 15
Clear but windy Father Chas & I worked in the woods
Friday 16
Cloudy & Windy Chas and I hauled out 4 loads of manure & shelled 3 bags of corn Father went to
Buxton this afternoon
Saturday 17th
Clear & windy Father went to town Chas and I worked in the woods most of the day Father took 6 bu
of corn to get ground
Monday 19
�Snowed most all day very windy we did not do much but finished cleaning up the wheat about 8
inches of snow fell
Tuesday 20
Clear and Cold Tem 8° below Z{ero} we bushed out wood with both teams all day
Wednesday 21
Clear & Cold Tem 6° below Z{ero} we bushed out wood with both teams
Thursday 22 Flower Cow had a calf
Clear & Cold Tem 2° below Z{ero} Father Aunt Emma & I went to town I got a lesson Father sowed
the lot back of the Barn in clover seed this morning
Friday 23
Blustery & snowing some we cut and hauled some wood out of the woods Tem this morning 2°
below Z{ero}
Saturday 24
Clear and warm we cut and hauled a 16 & a twelve foot maple log down to Barrys Mill to get sawed
and hauled out some logs to saw up into stove wood on the ridge back of the barn Tem 10° this
Morning
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March Monday 26th 1883
Clear Father and I went down to Fletcher and got the lumber 640 ft got Kates front shoes put back
on after noon Chas Father and I bushed out wood with both teams
Tuesday 27th
Clear we bushed out wood with both teams this evg we hauled in a load of hay
Wednesday 28th
Clear we cut down some trees in the bush Chas hauled out some logs for wood. Very wet in the
bush
Thursday 29th
Clear Tem 24 Father Alf and I went to town in the buggie I got a lesson Alf got some medicine for his
knees
Friday 30th
�Clear & warm Father took the short Cross Cut saw over and got Henry Morton to sharpen it Chas
and I piled lumber until noon after noon we all three worked in the Bush Tem 28° this morning
Saturday 31st
Clear and Warm Tem 22° in the morning Father Chas and I slashing timber in the bush all day
April Monday 2nd 1882 {should be 1883}
Clear and Warm Tem 24° Father Chas and I worked in the Bush
Tuesday 3rd
Clear Tem 36° Father trimmed some trees Chas and I husked corn hauled in a load of hay and
Opened the potatoe pitt J.W Kersey brought his tools down to Commence on our sheds
Wednesday 4
Tolerable Clear Tem 36° J.W Kersey George Kersey and Father Commenced Work framing the
sheds today Chas and I moved some timber for them with the ponies and then husked corn
Thursday 5
Rained nearly all day Tem 48° Chas and I husked corn in the Barn all day Father let off some water
&c
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April Friday 6th 1883
Cloudy Tem 34° rained some this evg Father, J W Kersey & Geo Kersey worked on the shed frame.
Chas and I husked corn in the Barn
Saturday 7th
Cloudy rained and snowed some last night Tem 32° Father and Chas went to town took 4 bu of
wheat to get ground roads very muddy I.D & I finished husking corn
Monday 9th
Clear and Warm Tem 42° in the Morning J.W. Kersey George Kersey & Father worked on the shed
frame Chas and I hauled and Culled Corn & put it in the Crib
Tuesday 10th
Clear & warm Tem 40° J.W. Geo & Father Worked on the shed Chas and I hauled up the last load of
corn and Father and Chas haule sawed the shed blocks and I hauled them up
Wednesday 11th
�Clear and warm Tem 40° in the morning JW Kersey & Geo finished framing the shed Father Chas
and I dug post holes &c
Thursday 12
Clear & warm we got ready and raised the shed at the East end of the Barn J.W. Sr & Geo Kersey
and Uncle Mack Cooper helped
Friday 13th
Clear J.W Geo and Father put the rafters on this forenoon, Chas and {I} took out some Carrots,
Onions, and potatoes
Saturday 14th
Clear and warm tem 46° Father and I went to town in the Buggie Father got a keg of 100 nails paid
3¼¢ per lb and rented Pattersons bush for pasture for 5 mo to begin on 15th of May for $20.00
Monday 16th
Clear F and warm Father hung up the meat Chas and I spread the manure in the garden and took
out the potatoes and rest of carrots also took up the parsnips Father went to hunt a girl brought
Adaline Burns home
Tuesday 17th
Clear and warm Father and Mother went to town I rolled the meadow No 5 Chas spread manure in
the garden Mamie Morgan was here Alex Robinson's wife washed for mother
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April Wednesday 18 1883
Tolerable Clear We hauled some manure on to the garden and commenced spreading some of the
manure out in No 1 Father was trimming trees
Thursday 19
Clear & Cool Chas and I hauled out and spread manure on No 1 until noon after noon Chas Father
took Grand Mother and Uncle Horace blacks oats home Chas and I took 2 bags of onions & 3 bu of
parsnips down to J Stewarts got $2.00 for onions & 75 for parsnips for the lot
Friday 20
Clear & Cool Father trimmed trees Chas ploughed the garden I manured the potatoe patch
Saturday 21
Clear Chas and I ploughed a half day in No 5 Chas went up to Felixes and got the harrows and
harrowed the garden this evg we hauled a load of hay from the Barn Father went to hunt a girl
�Monday 23nd
Chas and I ploughed in No 5 Cool all day and windy ice covered the well last night Chas rooled the
garden and Father fixed up too Broken slide gates and planted a row of potatoes this evg in the
garden Cooper Cow had a Calf
Tuesday 24rd
Cold Tem 28° snowed some Chas and I ploughed all in No 5 Father planted some onions in the
garden
Wednesday 25th
Cool Tem 40° Chas and I finished ploughing the East part of No 5 by Noon and ploughed No 2 for
potatoes after noon, Father planted some beets, letus, carrots and potatoes in the garden
Thursday 26
Rained this afternoon Tem 40° Father sowed white side oats until noon in No 5 but had to quit Chas
and I harrowed then in
Friday 27th
Cloudy showery afternoon Father and Mother went to Fletcher I planted 3 crab apple trees afternoon
we cleaned up the oats 66 bu
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April May Saturday 28 1883
Clear & Cool Father and I went to town I got a lesson Father sent draft to *Nebraska for Payment on
land $69.75
Monday 30
Clear & Warm we finished putting in oats in No 5 and harrowed the potatoe patch Willard altered
Bob & Mack Colts this afternoon
Tuesday 1st May
Chas and I run out the furrows in the oats planted 6 rows of potatoes and went down to Zebzes and
commenced ploughing for oats Father went along
Wednesday 2nd
Clear and Warm Chas and I ploughed at Zebzes all day Father took the harrow teeth to get
sharpened and planted some turnips
Thursday 3rd
�Showery Father Chas and I trimmed the grape vines & Black Berries and nailed some sideing on the
shed
Friday 4th
Cloudy Father went to Buxton and got 3 mulberry trees Chas and I planted a few potatoes and
spread some manure in No 1 after noon we went down and finished ploughing front field at Zebzes
Saturday 5th
Cloudy and Cool we started to harrow and rool the wheat but it was too wet Father and Mother went
to Fletcher Chas and I planted 12 cherry trees along the lane in No 5 after noon Father sowed &
Chas and I harrowed in the oats in front field at Zebzes sowed 9 bu
Sunday 6th
Clear Kate had a Colt running 11 mo exactly
Monday 7th
Cloudy rained some last night Father Chas and I worked on the shed some Father went to N Buxton
after noon
Tuesday 8th
Cloudy Father went to dresden to attend Josiah Huson's * Funeral I went to Chatham got a lesson
Wednesday 9th
Cloudy rained some last night We finished sideing the shed at the East end of the Barn
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May Thursday 10th 1883
Showery all the afternoon we went Father Chas and I down to the Zebs place to plough and burn of
fodder &c got caught in the rain and came home after noon Bet had a Colt after running 10 mo 27
days
Friday 11th
Clear & pleasant we sawed wood until noon after noon I ploughed in the sod No 1 with the ponies
Father and Chas sawed some stove wood
Saturday 12th
Clear but Cool Father and Mother went to town Chas and I sawed stove wood most of the day
�Monday 14
Cloudy & Cool rained very heavy this evg we sawed some stove wood
Tuesday 15th
Eliza Jane Done came here this morning to work Cleared off this forenoon Chas and I let off some
water and sawed stove wood Father went to Buxton & helped us some
Wednesday 16th
Clear Father Chas and I took 3 Calfs Over to Chas Done's to pasture went around and let the water
off of the oats at Zebzes then came home and hauled out manure and spread it in No 1 afternoon
Father went to Fletcher
Thursday 17th
Clear Father went out on the plains Chas and I hauled out and spread manure in No 1 all day
Friday 18th
Clear Father put Kate and Bet to the Clydesdale stallion Young Wonder at Stewarts this morning
Chas and I harrowed and rolled the wheat with both teams Chas planted some potatoes
Saturday 19
Rained some last night heavy wind & rain storm this evg Tolerable Clear all day Father went to town
took 6 bu of wheat to get ground I ploughed sod in No 1 Chas planted potatoes
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May Monday 21st 1883*
Rained all day long Chas and I took the straw off of the hay in the barn and hauled a load of hay and
put it in the stable
Tuesday 22nd
Cloudy & showered some Father went to Fletcher Chas and I put a Bridge over the line ditch
between us and Patterson for the cattle and horses to go over to the Pasture
Wednesday 23rd
Tolerable Clear Father Chas and I scoured out the ditch back of the barn along No 4
Thursday 24
Clear Father went to Fletcher Chas and I ploughed in No 1, took a young sow too Henery Parsonses
Pig this morning
�Friday 25
Clear Chas and I finished spreading manure on No1 and ploughed some afternoon Father sold a
Calf to the Butchers this evg for $4.00
Saturday 26
Rained most all day Father Mother Grand Mother and I went to town in the Buggie I got a lesson
Monday 28
Rained some yesterday We finished ploughing the sod in No 1 and let off some water Rained some
this Evening
Tuesday 29
Cloudy Chas and I nailed the sheeting on the shed Father put on some shingles
Wednesday 30
Rained all the afternoon Father went to town and got a 7000 load of Cedar shingles for the shed
paid $3.00 per thousand Chas and I shingled until Noon & shelled some corn
Thursday 31
Clear Father Chas and I out shingles on the shed all day
Friday 1st June
Clear Father Chas and I finished shingling the shed Elder Smith was here*
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June Saturday 2nd 1883
Clear Father and Grand Mother Poindexter went to town in our Buggie I ploughed until Noon in No 5
for corn afternoon I hauled up timber &c
Monday 4
Tolerable clear rained last night I finished hauling up the timber for the stable father went to meet
Elliot and lacocq on the line ditch
Tuesday 5
Rained after noon Father went to town took 26½ bu of wheat Yearling Colt commenced bleeding
from being altered I went to town on old Kate and and told Father of it he got better after dark
Wednesday 6
�Rained after noon Chas and I piled lumber until noon afternoon we worked in the garden I planted
some sweet corn in the potatoe patch
Thursday 7
Clear we planted some potatoes in the potatoe patch after noon Chas and I dug a ditch into the
garden Father went to Buxton after noon
Friday 8
Clear and warm Father Alf and I.D. worked in the garden Chas and I ploughed in upper part of No 5
with both teams I took Kate & bet to the Horse Bet took the Horse
Saturday 9
Rained some this morning Father went to town in the Buggie Chas and I harrowed marked off and
planted 20 rows of corn in No 5 Americus Cooper finished souring oats today yesterday at felixes
Monday 11
Cleared off this Morning Windy Chas and I finished piling lumber Cut the stack away for the shed
and piled some manure
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Tuesday 12th June 1883
Showery afternoon Chas and I ploughed in No 5 for corn Father worked in the garden
Wednesday 13
Clear Chas and I finished ploughing in No 5 this forenoon and planted some after noon father in
Garden working
Thursday 14
Clear Chas and I plo finished planting corn in No 5 this forenoon after noon we ploughed at Zebzes
with both teams
Friday 15
Tolerable Clear Chas and I ploughed in No at Zebzes with both teams Father worked in the garden
Saturday 16
Very hot this forenoon showery after noon Father went to town took 8 pieces Ham, Shoulder, and
flitches, got 14¢ for Ham and flitch & 13 for Shoulder I ploughed at Zebzes
Sunday 17*
�Father went to town for the Dr for Mother she is very sick*
Monday 18
Rained last night Father went to town after a road scraper Dr springer came out to see Mother Chas
and I ground the Cythes and done some Jobs &c
Tuesday 19
We hauled up some wood &c. afternoon Chas and I ploughed at Zebzes Father attended on the line
the Surveyor was on the line ditch between us and Lacocq
Wednesday 20
Cloudy Chas and I ploughed at Zebzes Father packed up the meat and went to see Uncle
Mack ditch sheep that were killed by dogs
Thursday 21
Clear Chas and I.D. harrowed and marked off the corn ground at Zebzes and I planted some corn
with the planter
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June Friday 22nd 1883
Clear I finished planting corn at Zebzes Chas and ID finished Harrowed sod in No 1 Father worked
in the garden
Saturday 23
Clear Father went town took some pork got 14¢ for Ham I harrowed until noon then I went to town
on Old Kate for the Dr for Mother
Sunday 24 Dr Springer came out to see Mother this morning
Monday 25
Cloudy Chas harrowed and I cultivated sod with Kate and bet
Tuesday 26
Cloudy Cleared off afternoon Chas and I Harrowed and Cultiva{ted} sod Father worked in the garden
Wednesday 27
Cloudy & showery we took the cultivator home and got Mr Walkers drill to drill in beans but it was too
wet to drill after noon I ploughed the potatoe patch up with one horse
Thursday 28
�Cloudy Father Chas, I.D, Alf and I hoed potatoes after noon Alf and ID picked strawberries and
Father shot squirrels
Friday 29
Clear I drilled in the beans Chas rolled with the ponies Father in the garden after he took
Grandmother home and I rolled the most of the corn in No 5
Saturday 30
Clear Father went to town us boys hoed potatoes all day
Monday 2nd
Clear Father went to town on George Horse I ploughed at Zebzes very hot Chas Alf & D pulled the
mustard out of the oats
Tuesday 3
Clear & Hot Chas and I ploughed at Zebzes Father Alf and I.D. Hoed in the garden
Wednesday 4
Clear and Hot Chas and I ploughed until noon after noon Father sowed some Buck Wheat and we
commenced Harrowing it in but the rain stoped us
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June Thursday 5 1883
Chas and I cultivated corn and potatoes at home until noon afternoon we went down Chas rooled
corn and I finished harrowing in the buckwheat Father sowed it & hoed some
Friday 6
Clear and Hot I finished rolling corn and Buckwheat Chas harrowed corn and Father Hoed corn I.D.
uncovered
Saturday 7
Showered a all the afternoon Father went to town Chas and I cultivated a little
Monday 9
Clear and Cool Chas and I finished cultivating the home corn this forenoon and then we all hoed
corn the rest of the day Rose Cow had a calf last night
Tuesday 10
�Clear and Cool Chas and I cultivated corn at Zebzes Alf and I.D uncovered Father hoed in the
garden
Wednesday 11
Clear Chas and I finished cultivating corn at Zebzes
Thursday 12
Rained this evg I cut the grass in the Orchard this forenoon with the machine Father mowed with the
Cythe Boys Hoed beans some this morning
Friday 13
Rained this evg we hoed some beans and shook up some hay but it got wet
Saturday 14
Father went town this forenoon we hoed beans afternoon we hauled in one load of hay it was damp
Monday 16
Clear we hoed some beans I cut hay afternoon in No 1
Tuesday 17
I finished cutting in No 1 after noon we hauled in some with Both teams
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July Wednesday 18th 1883
Clear & windy we hauled the hay in out of No 1 & worked some beans in the morning Temperature
pleasant
Thursday 19th
Clear & pleasant we put up the reaper this morning Uncle Mack Cooper got it to cut wheat we
hauled in the hay out of the orchard Alf sulkey raked No 1 and we hauled in the rakings afternoon we
hoed in the beans Father went down to cut after noon but broke the machine
Friday 20th
Clear in the morning Father cut some for Uncle Mack we hoed beans all day Father hoed afternoon
Saturday 21
Drizzled rain this morning until after 10 Oclock Father went to town Chas Alf I.D. and I hoed beans
Monday 23
�Showery and wet poured down rain nearly all night last night I ploughed and harrowed up some
beds front of the house for strawberries and cultivated some beans and we hoed some
Tuesday 24
Raining this morning very muddie Father went over to Martin Dillons on horse back I hauled up
some wood with George we cut around the wheat this evg
Wednesday 25
Clear Father and Mother went to town to the Dr Chas and I mowed fence corners Alf and D cocked
them up turned Loucast Lacocqs bull in among our cattle
Thursday 26
Clear Father cut our most of our wheat and we boys bound
Friday 27
Clear we finished cutting and binding our wheat this forenoon afternoon we shocked it up and hauled
in the fence corners
Saturday 28
Clear Father, Chas and Alf went to town to see barnum's show I did not do much finished cultivating
the beans this evg
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Aug Monday 30 1883
Clear Chas and I cultivated ½ of the corn at Zebzes afternoon we worked in the hay Father cut hay
before noon in No 4
Tuesday 31
Clear and Cool Father cut some more meadow Chas and I cultivated somemore of the corn and
worked in the hay afternoon
Wednesday 1st Aug
Clear we hauled in 13 loads of hay into the barn out of No 4 with both teams finished cutting this
morning
Thursday 2
Clear heavy shower this evening we hauled in hay out of No 4 finished
Friday 3
�Clear Father helped Abe Patterson this morning Chas and I cut fence corners Alf sulkey raked
stubble afternoon we hauled in hay
Saturday 4
Clear Mother and Father went to town Chas Alf ID and I hauled in the wheat and a load of fence
corner hay out of No 4
Monday 6
Clear we finished hauling in the hay and rakings this forenoon and finished working the Zebs corn
this afternoon took Uncle macks rake hay rack home and brought the roller home from Zebzes
Tuesday 7
Clear Chas and I ploughed all day with both teams in the wheat stubble No 4 Father commenced
clearing up the ground for the ditch
Wednesday 8
Clear we all logged and burned on the line between us and Lacocq
Thursday 9
Clear we logged and burned on the line between us and Lococq all day
Friday 10
Clear we finished loging and burning on the line (and we grubed some) after noon Father went to
Grand Mothers I shelled 10 bu of corn
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Aug Saturday 11 1883
Clear Father and Mother went to town Chas alf ID and I grubbed some stumps on the line
Monday 13
Clear we commenced ditching on the line between us and Lacocq
Tuesday 14
we ditched on the line between us and Lacocq
Wednesday 15
Clear we worked on the ditch between us and lacocq
Thursday 16th
�Clear we worked on the line ditch between us and Lacocq
Friday 17
Clear we worked on the Ditch all day very warm
Saturday 18
Clear Father went to town I commenced cutting oats in No 5 and bound some on the ridge
Monday 20
Clear Rained some yesterday we worked some on the Ditch after noon we ditched a little Bound
Oats in No 5
Tuesday 21
Clear We finished binding what oats were cut and I finished cutting the oats in No 5 Father went to
the Tilburry
Wednesday 22
Clear we bound some in No 5 Rained some this evg
Thursday 23
Clear Father went out to the river and got Patience Scott and brought Mother home too after noon
Father went down and took cradled around the oats I took the machine down and cut them
Friday 24
Clear we ditched until noon afternoon we went down and bound some oats at Zebzes
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Aug Saturday 25 1883
Clear Father went to town we hauled in 3 loads of Oats out of No 5 and went down and finished
binding at Zebzes
Monday 27
Clear We finished hauling in our Oats also them at Zebzes
Tuesday 28 drizzled rain this
Drizzled rain this forenoon after noon we worked some on the ditch Between lots 4 and 5
Wednesday 29
�Clear we worked on the Ditch all day with both teams Father Mother Joe and I went down to Aunt
Emmas to Mamie and Johns wedding
Thursday 30
Clear Cool nights Father and Mother went to town Chas and I worked on the ditch with Kate & Bet
Father took 12 bu of wheat to town got $1.10 per bu
Friday 31
Clear we finished the lower part of the ditch as deep as we could scrape it after noon Chas and I
ploughed some in No 4
Saturday 1st
Clear Chas and I ploughed all day in No 4 ground very hard Father spaded out some of the Bottom
Monday 3rd
Rained some yesterday morning Chas ploughed all day in No 4 I ploughed until noon Old Kate got
sick and I had to quit Father spaded on the ditch
Tuesday 4
Clear and Cool I went to town on old Bet got McKerrisher Vetrinary Surgeon to come out to see Old
Kate Chas ploughed in No 4 with Ponies Father Ditched
Wednesday 5
Clear Father and I Ditched on the line with the spade throwing out the Bottom of the ditch Chas
ploughed with Ponies
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Sept August Saturday 11 1883
Clear Father and Mother went to town took 10 bu of corn in the buggie got 56¢ per bu Chas Alf and I
grubbed out some stumps on the line
Monday 13
Thursday 6
Clear Father went to town in the buggie took 6 bu of wheat to get ground Chas and I ditched on the
line with the spade
Friday 7
Cloudy rained some this afternoon, we finished bottoming the lower part of the ditch Father went
too the Kersey drain to see some ditching sold out
�Saturday 8
Clear we hauled the dirt back from the ditch which was thrown out with the spade with both teams
after noon Father went down to Zebzes to see the corn & buck wheat Chas and I hauled out manure
on to No 6
Sunday Monday 9 frost last night
Monday 10
Clear heavy frost last night Chas hauled up wood and hauled out manure with Kate & Bet Father
grubed at a stump on the ditch I helped Dow Pierce to haul his oats from Felixes place down to
Fletcher
Tuesday 11th
Clear & Cool Chas and I hauled out manure with both teams
Wednesday 12
Clear and Tolerable Cool Father finished grubbing out the elm stump on the ditch Chas and I hauled
out manure with both teams
Thursday 13
Clear Father burned in the bush Chas and I hauled out manure
Friday 14
Clear Father helped Uncle Mack Thrash this morning Chas and I hauled some manure and cut the
Buckwheat at Zebzes with the reaper
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Saturday 15
Father and I went to town got the horses front feet shod I brought out a load of brick 500
Monday 17
Clear Father went to town in the buggie Chas and I spread manure after noon we tried to harrowed
in some wheat but it was too dry
Tuesday 18
Clear and Cool we Commenced working on the Kersey drain up back of Joe Robinses with both
teams & henry parsons helped with his team
Wednesday 19
�Cloudy we worked on the Kersey drain with all three teams ours and Henery Parsonses my scraper
bail broke this morning and Chas took it to the shop
Thursday 20
Rained some Father and Mother went to town after noon, Chas and I spread some manure and
helped Horace Bond thrash some
Friday 21st
Cloudy this morning rained some last night Father sowed Clawson wheat (seed last years growing)
in No 4 and Chas and I harrowed it in with Both teams ground very hard
Saturday 22nd
Tolerable Clear Father finished sowing wheat in No 4 Chas and I finished harrowing it in and I
ploughed the headlands ploughed the wheat in on the lower headland
Monday 24
Cloudy and showery all day Father and Chas went and got the plow and got the f off of the ditch and
got it fixed and started to help Horace Bond thrash but it rained I run the water furrows in No 4 and
started ploughing in No 6
Tuesday 25
Cloudy and Cool Father shot some squirrels spread some manure and sold all of the cordwood we
had to the dredge Captain, E.T. Martin Chas and I ploughed all day in No 6
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Sept Wednesday 26 1883
Clear Father and Chas helped Horace Bond to thrash I went to town and got the horse doctor to
come out and see pat Colt he said he had the spasmodic colic after noon I shook out manure alf and
ID harrowed
Thursday 27
Clear Father and Chas helped Horace Bond finish thrash after noon Father stood up the buckwheat
Chas and I ploughed in No 6
Friday 28
Clear We finished ploughing and spreading manure in No 6 Alf and I.D. pulled beans
Saturday 29
Cloudy Rained some this evg Father and Mother went to town I finished harrowing No 6, and Chas
and I hauled up a load of buck wheat from Zebzes
�Monday, October 1st 1883
Clear and Cool frost last night Father went and got 8 bu of Democrat Wheat paid $1.25 per bu Chas
and I finished out the wood piles to be measured after noon we drilled in Democrat Wheat in No 6
with Chas Lenovers drill
Tuesday 2nd
Rained almost all last night very wet We picked the seed wheat afternoon Chas and I hauled up the
thrashing wood and cleaned some seed wheat for Grandmother
Wednesday 3rd
Clear and Cool we finished drilling in the democrat wheat in No 6 and harrowed it over and afternoon
I run the furrows out and shoveled them Father and Chas got a load of buck wheat home
Thursday 4
Clear Chas and I got some barrels and went and hauled a load of water for the thrashing Father
started a well behind the barn afternoon I went out to John Kearnses and got the separator Father
and Chas went and got the rest of the buckwheat
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Oct Friday 5 1883
Clear got up steam to thrash but the skum valve blew out and could not thrash I.D. and I got a load
of water we hauled in some beans and pulled some Father bought the County right to a steam
washing machine
Saturday 6
Cloudy and damp Father and Mother went to town in the heavy waggon and got a set of harness for
the ponies also a barrel of salt and some boards to make a waggon box Chas and I throwed manure
away from the barn door Alf and .D. finished pulling the beans
Monday 8
Clear we thrashed with Johnson and Done's machine John Brown, Robert Harden, Norman Cooper,
Grand Father Poindexter, Americus Cooper, Horace Bond, and John Cribbs helped us we had 57 bu
of scott wheat 40 bu of Buck wheat and 260 bu of oats
Tuesday 9
Clear shower in the evening I hauled the engine down to Grand Mothers and Chas and I got a load
of water Father dug in the well back of the barn after noon we hauled in the beans
Wednesday 10
�Cloudy and damp we recommenced sou work on the Kersey drain back of Robinses Henry parsons
helped us
Thursday 11
Tolerable Clear We worked on the ditch with our teams and Henry Parsons'es
Friday 12
Clear We worked on the ditch with all three teams Ours and Henry's Tollie came this evg and gave
Father an order for $45.00 on the ditch
Saturday 13th
Cloudy and rained this evg Father and Mother went to town Chas and I grubbed out an oak tree on
the ditch & cut some corn out of the way of the ditch
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Oct Monday 15 15 1883
Clear and cool heavy frost last night Father Chas and I finished our part of the line ditch between us
and Lacocq Henry helped us until noon with his team
Tuesday 16
Clear We worked on the ditch with all three teams all day
Wednesday 17
Clear We worked on the ditch with all three teams Henrys and ours
Thursday 18
Cloudy rained a little we worked on the ditch all day
Friday 19
Cloudy showery we worked on the ditch all day
Saturday 19 20
Cloudy we worked on the ditch all day with all three teams
Monday 22
Cloudy and Cool we worked on the ditch all day
Tuesday 23
�Cloudy and Cool we finished our job on the Kersey drain this afternoon
Wednesday 24
Cloudy Father took the ploughs to town to get them fixed we skined a heiffer one of the heiffer
calves we got from Aunt Emma Chas and I pitted the potatoes
Thursday 25
Cloudy rained some this evg Father Chas and I cut a flat ditch through East half of No 1 with the
teams
Friday 26
Rained some this morning we plained and cut out the Boards for a waggon box and fanned up the
buckwheat had 21 bu clean
Saturday 27
Clear Father went to town with the ponies in the buggie Aunt Emma went along I went in with Kate
and Bet and got a load of Brick, 500 Chas alf and D pulled some beans
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Monday 29th 1883
Father and mother went to town in the buggie after some things Father brought out Aunt Maria
Blacks coffin, Chas and I hauled up some wood &c
Tuesday 30th
Clear & windy Father, Mother, Chas, Alf and I went to Aunt Maria's funeral today this evg I finished
putting the waggon box together
Wednesday 31st
Clear Cool and Windy Father and I went to town with both teams after brick got the new waggon box
ironed and got 1100 brick Mother went to Windsor this evg
Thursday 1st November
Cloudy blowing a little snow we hauled the water out of the well back of the barn Father commenced
digging Chas and I hauled the dirt away and pitted the carrots
Friday 2nd
Tolerable clear and cool Father went to the ditch sale on the 4 Con we pitted the apples and scraped
another flat outlet ditch in No 1
Saturday 3
�Cloudy Father went to town in the buggie Chas and I pitted the turnips hauled ½ barrel of water to
the hogs and hauled 2 loads of stone for the stable foundation and one load of sand
Sunday 4th
Clear and warm Father and Chas took Aunt Emma to Charing Cross to meet the Express bound for
Xenia for Grandmothers body
Monday 5
Clear Father went to town in the buggie chas and I dug in the well back of the barn Mother came
home from Windsor this evg
Tuesday 6
Clear and Cool Aunts Emma and Eunice arrived at Buxton* with Grand Mother Shadds Body she
died in Xenia Ohio Saturday evg 3rd of November
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Nov Wednesday 7th 1883
Clear we attended Grand Mother Shadds funeral today she was 76 yrs old and was Burried in the
Cemetry in Chatham Mother was not able to attend
Thursday 8
Clear and warm Father dug some in the well behind the barn Chas Alf I.D and I husked some corn
this afternoon
Friday 9th
Clear except one shower we finished digging the well behind the barn Father walled it up
Saturday 10th
Rained some Father went to town in the buggie I took a grist to Merlin 6 bu of wheat and 6 bu of
corn and hauled in a waggon box of corn in out of the field 20 bu
Monday 12th
Very windy & cool tem 30° Z Father dug out a hole for a cistern Chas went down and brought the
pigs up from the Zebs place I hauled out some manure from the barn onto the meadow by the barn
Tuesday 13
Cloudy windy and cool Tem 28° Z Father went to Chatham and brought out Mr Branton to cement
the cistern I went down to Grandmothers logging bee Chas Alf and D. cut some corn
Wednesday 14
�Cloudy and windy Tem 27° Mr Branton patched the house and cemented the cistern we tended on
him
Thursday 15
Windy and Cold Tem 20° Father went up to Felixes with Aunts Emma and Eunice and Old Man
Potter Chas and I hauled up some wood
Friday 16
Tolerable Clear winday and Cold Tem 16° Father took the Butter down to grand Mothers and worked
some at the cistern Chas and I husked corn
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Nov Saturday 17 1883
Clear Tolerable Windy Tem 27° in the Morning 42° this Evg Father went to town Chas went along I
hauled in some fodder and corn and cleaned up the barn floor
Monday 19th
Clear and pleasant Father Aunt Emma and Aunt Eunice went to town in our buggie Father got some
dry good for winter Chas Alf, I.D, & I husked corn in No 8 all day
Tuesday 20th
Cloudy and showery Father Aunts Eunice and Emma went *up to Grand Fathers place to take an
inventory of goods Chas Alf ID and I husked corn
Wednesday 21
Cloudy and showery Father went to town for the Dr for Mother we poy boys husked some in the barn
and cleaned up the floor
Thursday 22
Cloudy and damp Tem 50° Father went to town and sent Dr Ligh out to see Mother I let off some
water andc {&c}
Friday 23rd
Cloudy and damp Tem 45° Father went over down to fletcher before noon afternoon he went over to
meet Toolie on the ditch Chas alf ID. and I started to scrape a ditch between us and Lacocq across
the front field
Saturday 24
Tolerable Clear very muddy I went to town on horseback to get the Dr for Mother who is very sick
afternoon we scraped out the rest of the ditch between us and Lacocq in No 1
�Monday 26
Rained all night and some today Father went to town in the buggie very muddy forenoon Loucast
Lacocq and I cleaned out the railroad ditches from the line ditch to the culvert and back
Tuesday 27
Clear and Cold Tem 26° Chas and I scraped a flat ditch across the upper part of No 1 Father sowing
on the machine
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Nov Wednesday 28 1883
Clear Tem 28° Father went to Fletcher after noon he hewed the pieces for the well curb and went to
trustee metting this evg, Chas Alf ID and I logged until noon afternoon I fixed the well curb
Thursday 29
Clear and Cool Tem 34° Father Chas and I dug a ditch and graded the dirt up around the school
house after noon Father pumped out the school house well and cleaned it out we boys finished
husking corn
Friday 30th
Cloudy and cool Tem 42° Chas and I hauled in the fodder Father and I measured off the line for the
ditch and fence for the back of the clearing Father painted the waggon box and Chas and I put the
frame down for the well curb behind the barn
Saturday 1st December
Clear one shower before noon Father went to town we put the mower and sulky rake overhead in
the shed by the barn afternoon we logged some
Monday 3rd
Clear but Cool Tem 28° Chas and I hauled up wood Father went to town
Tuesday 4
Tolerable clear Father and Aunt Emma went down to Gerrits in our buggie Chas Alf ID and I logged
some in the clearing after noon Father Chas and I started to dig a ditch from pattersons line accross
back of the clearing towards Lacocqs
Wednesday 5
Clear Chas I.D. and I ditched on the clearing ditch Father went up to Merry Glen as Mr Potter came
out to divide the things furniture
Thursday 6
�Clear and pleasant Father went up as Mr Potter was to divide the p Library I hauled a load of hay for
Mrs White from Rosses place on the 6th concession Chas hauled some things down from Merry
Glen
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December Friday 7th 1883
Cloudy rained some last night and this morning we did not do much I.D. and I went to town this evg
in our buggie for some things for Aunt Emma as Horace is very sick Old Mrs Bond came out with us
Saturday 8th Cloudy Father went to town roads very muddy Chas and I ditched a little Chas Alf and
D. hauled a load of hay from the barn to the stable I went down to Aunt Emmas this evg Father went
down tonight to see Horace
Monday 10 Tolerable clear and pleasant we ditched some in the clearing Horace Bond died today
about 11 Oclock he had been sick about 8 days
Tuesday 11 Clear we did not do much put a curb on the well
Wednesday 12 Clear and pleasant Father, Chas, Alf, Flavious and I went to Horace Bonds funeral
he was burried in the Cemetry in Chatham
Thursday 13 Clear and pleasant Father Chas Alf and I.D. logged in the clearing I was not well and
done nothing
Friday 14 Clear and windy Turned cold this evg we finished the ditch back of the clearing and put up
a log pile
Saturday 15 Cloudy and Cold Tem 17° Father went to town we covered the potatoes and carrots
pits with manure and hauled a load of hay from the barn to the stable
Monday 17 Father Chas and I killed 8 pigs they weighed 72, 74, 78, 80, 85, 90, 100, & 107
respectively
Tuesday 18 Father went down to Fletcher after noon, Chas and I hitched Bob up, hauled up some
wood with Kate and Bet &c Cold Tem 17° snowed some last night
Wednesday 19 Tolerable Clear Tem 20° Father went to town in the buggie got some groceries & 2
bu of corn to feed the pigs paid 80¢ per bu Chas and I cut some wood
Thursday 20 Clear Tem 12° Father went to the Council I took a grist to Merlin to Mill 6 bu corn 4 bu
of wheat and 8 bu of buckwheat but could not get the buck wheat ground
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Friday 21 December 1883
Clear and cold Tem 12° Father went to the school house to help fill out reports Chas and I sawed a
few 4 Elm sawlogs and hitched Bob up and drove him
�Saturday 22 Clear and Cold Tem 8° Father went to town in the buggie we hauled in two loads of
hay from the barn to the stable and drove Bob and bet up to Charlestons
Monday 24 Cold Tem 10° Father went to town Chas and I hauled cut some elm logs and done the
chores up
Tuesday 25 Clear and Cool Tem 10° Sandy Coutts shod Kate and bet this Morning Father Chas Joe
and I went up to Church
Wednesday 26 Clear School Metting was held today Chas Lenover was Elected Trustee in place of
Forhan Father went bought the Contract for putting in the wood. 3 Cords green soft wood @ 165¢
per cord and 3 Cords green hard wood @ $2.70¢ per Cord also putting in a bridge accross the ditch
@ $13.50¢ to be done right off
Thursday 27 snowed all the forenoon Dow pierce and I took our too teams and hauled too loads of
hay for aunt Emma also hauled up some lumber to
Friday 28 Clear Father went to Fletcher Chas and I sawed some logs this afternoon
Saturday 29 Clear Father went to town in the sleigh took 8 bu of buckwheat to get ground Chas and
I sawed some logs
Monday 31 Cloudy & warm Tem 36° Father and I went out to the Town hall to the Nomination There
were 17 Candidates Nominated
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Tuesday January 1st 1884
Cloudy Tem 26° Father Chas and I hewed timber for the schoolhouse bridge
Wednesday 2 Very windy snowing all day Tem 22° we tramped out some beans on the barn floor
with the Ponies
Thursday 3 Very windy Cold and blustry the lane drifted full of snow I baged Henry parsonses oats
up, we did not do much. Tem 7°
Friday 4 Cold and windy Tem 3° below Z{ero} We finished hewing the timber for the school house
bridge and hauled them down J.G. Stewart brought the ballot box up
Saturday 5 Clear and Cold Tem 7° below Z{ero} Father went to town in the sleigh I hauled up some
wood hauled in a load of hay to the stable and took Henrys, oats home
Monday 7 Clear Tem Zero this morning Municipal Election was held today polls stood at our polling
place as follows (Dillon 21 for reve, Goulet 26, Kennedy 3, Morrison 29) for first Deputy Dolson 18,
Irwin 53, Tooley 11,) for 2nd Deputy Crow 34, Drew 20, Councillors, Dyke 70, Foxton 8 Slade 0,
Taylor 5, Ward 0, Williams 27, White 5,
Tuesday 8 snowing all day Father went to town in the sleigh he took 2 pigs down to J.G. Stewarts
this morning got 7¢ per lb Dow Pierce and I sawed Elm logs all day. Dow commenced work for 3 mo.
�Wednesday 9 snowed some Tem 22° Father and Chas hauled some Elm logs to Buxton Dow and I
sawed some afternoon Dow worked ½ day
Thursday 10 Clear Tem 12° Father and Chas hauled two loads of logs Dow and I cut some logs we
also killed 3 pigs they weighed 114 lbs, 126 lbs & 184 lbs
Friday 11 Clear Tem 22° Father and Dow Pierce went with the ponies to help haul Aunt Emmas
stable frame home I hauled 3 loads of Elm logs up to Kerseys (mill) 500 ft, 770 ft & 572 ft
respectively
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Saturday 12 January 1884
Cloudy snowed some Father and Joe went to town in the slaegh sleigh Dow choped some cord
wood I hauled 3 loads of logs to Kerseys mill measuring 824 ft, 649 ft, & 1064 ft respectively, docked
1064 to 700
Monday 14 Clear and Cool Tem 22 Father and I hauled logs to Buxton 3 loads each Dow cut roads
and wood
Tuesday 15 Clear Tem 8° Father and Chas hauled logs to Buxton with both teams 2 loads each
Dow Pierce and I cut some logs and helped them load
Wednesday 16 Clear and Cool Tem 10° Father and Chas hauled two loads of logs each Dow and I
cut some &c
Thursday 17 Clear and Cool Father and Chas hauled three loads of logs each Dow and I cut &
helped them load
Friday 18 Clear and Cool Tem 22° Father and Chas hauled 3 loads each to Buxton Dow and I
cutting
Saturday 19 snowy Tem 24° Father went in to town in the sleigh Dow cut and I hauled up wood we
also hauled in a load of hay & straw
Monday 21 Clear and Cold Tem 6° Father and Chas hauled two loads each Dow and I sawed 12
logs
Tuesday 22 Clear and Cool Tem 18° Father and Chas hauled two loads each Dow worked
afternoon we sawed 2 large logs
Wednesday 23 Cloudy and windy Father and Chas hauled logs Dow and I cut eleven logs
Thursday 24 Cold and Windy Tem 10° Father and Chas hauled one load each and Father went to
Hattie Bond sale Father bought the mounted horsepower $11½ Dow and I cut 8 logs
�Friday 25 Clear and Cold Tem 12° below Zero Father went to town in the sleigh for the Dr for
Mother I hauled 3 loads of logs Dow & Chas cut 2 logs Dow cutting wood
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Saturday 26 January 1884
Clear and Cold Tem 10° Father and Chas hauled 3 loads of logs each Dow and I cut 6 logs
Monday 28 Cloudy and Cool Father took too Elm logs to Kerseys & I took one this evg Dow and I
cut them
Tuesday 29 Cloudy and Cool The Reelection of Smith for M.P for this County took place today our
polls stood smith 51, Samson 43, Father acted as Deputy returning officer and I acted as Constable
for Div No 2 Raleigh Dow did not work
Wednesday 30 Warm Tem 38° showery Father went to town in the Buggie I took 2 logs up to
kerseys mill after noon Dow and I cut some red oak Cord wood Chas helped us
Thursday 31 Cloudy and warm Dow Chas and I cutting Cord wood hicory Father went up to Buxton
Friday 1st Clear and pleasant Tem 34° Dow Chas and I cutting hicory Father went to Buxton Dow
set in this morning to work two 2 months for $10.00 per mo
Saturday 2 Clear Tem 32° Father and Dow went to town in the buggie Chas & I cleaned up some
beans &c
Monday 4 Cloudy and Cool Tem 32° Dow, Chas, and I cut hicory Cord wood Father took a piece of
hicory and went to Travises to get some axe handles
Tuesday 5 Cloudy and Drizzeling rain and sleety Tem 28 Dow did not work Chas and I took the
teams up to Kerseys for lumber stayed all day and only got one load got 4 axe handles Father went
to buxton
Wednesday 6 Cloudy Father went to Fletcher Chas and I went to Buxton got 20 bu of corn @ 75¢
per bu it was shipped from Columbus Neb, to Charleston & Co, Dow cut wood in the wood pile
afternoon we thrashed beans in the barn
Thursday 7 Chas and I finished thrashing the beans and cleaned them up Cloudy Tem 30° Dow cut
wood in the woods we had 18 bu altogether
Friday 8 Cloudy Tem 30 Dow Pierce Chas and I cut hicory Cord wood all day
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Saturday 9 February 1884
Cloudy Tem 28° Father went to Buxton Dow cut wood in the woods I cut up the remainder of the
pork 6 pigs
�Monday 10 Cloudy & misty Tem 26° Dow cut wood in the woods Chas and I hauled up the rest of
our dry Cord wood
Tuesday 12 Cloudy and warm Tem 30 rained some last night Dow Chas and I cut hicory Cord wood
all day
Wednesday 13 Cloudy Tem 30° Dow Chas and I cut Cord wood all day wet in the bush Father not
well
Thursday 14 Clear and Cool Tem 20° very windy Dow and I cut hicory Cord wood Chas helped
Father salt the pork
Friday 15 Clear Tem 26° Dow Chas and I cut hicory all day Father went up to Buxton
Saturday 16 Clear and pleasant U Tem 22° Father went to town in Buggie Dow Chas and I cutting
hicory wood
Monday 18 Clear and pleasant Tem 36° Dow Chas and I cutting wood in the woods Father went to
Buxton
Tuesday 19 Clear and pleasant Tem 40° 7.30 Express going west one car left the track Dow Chas
and I cutting hicory wood
Wednesday 20 Cold and windy Tem 20° Dow did not work we picked beans until noon afternoon
Father went to Buxton Father Chas and I sawed some wood
Thursday 21 Clear and Windy Tem 26° Father and Chas sawed down some Elm and ash trees Dow
and I sawed hicory wood Father settled up with Dow this evening
Friday 22 Cloudy Tem 20° Father went to Buxton Chas and I hauled in 3 loads of hay fixed up some
fence &c Alf and D cut some corn stalks off in No 5 clearing
Saturday 23 Cloudy Father and Ch went to Chatham Chas and I bushed out some wood but the but
the horses broke through the ice in the bush so that we quit and cut some red oak
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Feb 1884
Monday 25 Snowed some windy Tem 20 Chas and I bushed out wood all day
Tuesday 26 Cloudy Tem 36° snowed some we hauled 3 loads about 2 Cords of hicory over to the
Choolhous {schoolhouse} and bushed out hicory Father helped us to make some roads
Wednesday 27 Snowing Tem 36° Father went to town with Gerrit and Chas harris Chas and I
finished bushing out the hicory wood had 17 cords
Thursday 28 Cloudy and windy Tem 4° Chas and I cut some small hicorys before noon after dinner
Father went and got a load of Gerrits furniture things from Felixs and took them down to Harrises
�Friday 29 Cold and Windy Tem 7° below Z{ero} Father went to Chatham to Gerrits trial Felix paid
Costs, Chas and I did not do much
Saturday 1 Clear and Cold Tem 4° below Z{ero} Father took Aunt Emma and Mr Crawford and his
wife to Chatham I took a load of hay sold the load for $5.00 brought 4 Pieces of pine home to make
hay rack side pieces they cost $1.30
Sunday 2 Clear and Cold Tem 4° below Z{ero} Father and I went to the funeral of Nelson
Robinson's Daughter Nancie
Monday 3 Clear and Cold Tem 4° below Z{ero} we cut and hauled 4 Elm logs to kerseys mill they
measured 530 ft we also cut some Cord wood Alf & D picking beans
Tuesday 4 Clear & Cool Tem 16° Chas and I sawed black ash Cord wood for the school house all
day Father was not well
Wednesday 5 Clear Tem 4° Chas and I hauled the remainder of the school house wood over today
Father went to Buxton
Thursday 6 Clear Tem 22°, 36° Father Chas and I hauled 4 wagon loads of Ice from Fletcher
Friday 7 Cloudy Tem 24° Father went to Buxton Chas and I packed the ice and hauled 2 loads of
sawdust from Fletcher
Saturday 8 Cloudy snowed some last night Tem 20° Father went to town in the sleigh Chas
shoveled sawdust into the ice house I hauled up some wood hauled one load of sawdust and we
hauled in a load of hay,
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Monday 10 March 1884
Clear Tem 24° & 36° we shelled 6 bu of corn and cleaned it and 6 bu of wheat up and Father took it
to Merlin for a grist paid 15¢ per bag for grinding corn
Tuesday 11 Showery and windy lightening and thundering this morning Tem 38° & 44° Father let of
water Chas and I washed and oiled Kate and Bets Harness
Wednesday 12 Clear and Cool Tem 34 Very windy Father Chas and I choped down trees all day in
the clearing
Thursday 13 Clear Tem 34° & 48 Chas and I worked in the woods all day Father and mother went
to Grandmothers after noon
Friday 14 Clear Tem 32° & 40° Father went to Fletcher afternoon he helped us in the woods Chas
and I in the woods all day
Saturday 15 Clear Tem 22° & 40° Father and Mother went to town in the buggie we Boys hauled 5
loads of hay from the barn into the stable I cut up 5 hogs heads
�Monday 17 Cloudy & drizzeled rain some Tem 45° Father went up to Charlestons and got 2 bu of
clover seed $5.00 per bu Chas and I sawed some hicory wood and c [&c}
Tuesday 18 Cloudy Tem 30° Chas and I sawed stove wood all day Father and Henry Parsons went
over in Tilbury with the washing machine
Wednesday 19 Cloudy and showery Tem 36° Father Chas and I scoured the ditch back of No 7 and
cleaned out the school stove pipe &c Oliver Higate got the horse power $16
Thursday 20 Cloudy Father Chas and I scoured ditches all day
Friday 21 Clear Father Chas and I finished scouring the ditch from pattersons line up to the house
and commenced the western ditch Dogs killed our sheep (3) this morning or last night H Parsons
and Elliot valued them at $7.00 Each
Saturday 22 Cloudy & warm We sheared 2 of the sheep and skined one and then worked in the
lane ditch
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Monday 24 March 1884
Father and Mother went down to Grand Mothers Chas and I finished scouring the western lane ditch
and split up some hicory Cord wood &c Clear Tem 38°
Tuesday 25 Cloudy Tem 36 showery Father Chas and I loged in the clearing Alf and D helped a
little
Wednesday 26 Rained all night last night and all day today Father Chas and I commenced to build
two hay racks Father sold Bob Colt to Thos Knot for $100.
Thursday 27 Clear and warm we worked all day at the Hay racks Father went to Fletcher to get the
irons made
Friday 28 Clear and Cool Tem 28° Father went to uncle Macks and then went down to Fletcher for
the hay rack irons Uncle Mack got 350 lbs of Hay $4.00 per ton Chas and I sawed wood at the
school house
Saturday 29 Cool and windy Tem 36° & 30° Father went to town Chas alf Id and I finished cutting
the school wood
Monday 31 Tolerable Clear Tem 26° McFadden got 2 loads of hay 1542 & 1700 lbs @ $8.00 per ton
Father went to fletcher and had it weighed on Barry's skales Father got a hay knife $1.50 Chas and I
put in the school house bridge and helped load the hay & sawed some wood
Tuesday April 1st 1884
Rained all day Father went to Lenovers and to Buxton Chas and I worked on the hay racks
�Wednesday 2 Cold Tem 26° & 34° snowed and rained Father went to Fletcher Chas and I worked
on the racks
Thursday 3 Clear Tem 30° Father went to Buxton Chas and I sawed some stove wood after noon
Father Chas and I finished the schoolhouse Bridge & hung the gate &c
Friday 4 Clear Tem 36° & 45° Father and Mother went to town I commenced ploughing sod in No 1
Chas cut some carrots &c
Saturday 5 Clear frost this morning Tem 34° Father repickled the meat and went to Fletcher to see
some hay weighed Chas and I ploughed sod in No 1 all day with both teams
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Monday 7 April 1884
Clear Tem 26° this Morning Father took the little plow cutter and point to the shop Chas
took Cl Mother to Grand Mothers I ploughed some garden, we ploughed sod
Tuesday 8 Cloudy Hattie Bond, Died last Night between 12 & 1 Oclock *Father went to Chatham to
make arrangements for her funeral Chas and I fixed the fence between us and Patterson
Wednesday 9 Cloudy about too inches of snow fell last night Tem 36° we did not do much but clean
up clothes &c
Thursday 10 Tolerable Clear Cool Father, Mother, Chas, I.D, & I went to Hattie Bond's funeral she
was burried in Maple leaf Cemetry
Friday 11 Clear and Cool Tem 36° Chas and I ploughed sod in No 1 Father grubed at a stump in No
1
Saturday 12 Clear and Cool Tem 38° Chas and I finished ploughing sod in No 1 Father
Monday 14 Clear Tem 40° & 58° Father & Old Mr Elliot went to the Council with the ponies I
ploughed in No 1 all day Chas took out some potatoes & apples
Tuesday 15 Cloudy Showering all day I went down to see Grand Father and took the front shoes off
Jim & George also took shoes off Aunt Emma's horses Chas and I curbed the house well
Wednesday 16 Showering all day snowed some I painted furrow plough &c Father went down to do
some writing for Mr Muirhead
Thursday 17 Cloudy Kate had a Colt last night running 2 days short of 11 mo I painted the ploughs
& Chas and I trimmed trees &c Father took Mother down to Grandmothers Katt Kate had Colic
tonight
Friday 18 Tolerable Clear Tem 54° Father went to town sent Hall the T Vetrinary surgeon out to see
Old Kate he said she was all right
�Saturday 19 Tolerable Clear Father went to Fletcher got some hog rings & sent his draft to
Nebraska for his payment on land * Chas ploughed in No 1 I trimmed trees Grand Father Poindexter
Died today Father went down there in the buggie this evg
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Monday 21 April 1884
Clear but Cool Tem 34° & 45 Father Mother Chas Alf and I went to Grand Father Poindexters
Funeral we {rung} the pigs and hauled in a load of hay this evg
Tuesday 22 I trimmed trees Chas ploughed in No 1 with the ponies Father went to Fletcher and
trimmed grapevines
Wednesday 23 Clear Chas ploughed in No 1 Father and I weighed out ½ ton of hay to Joe Rice
after noon Father sowed Clover seed in No 7 I hauled 6 loads of manure on to the garden yesterday
McFadden got 1,7.30 lbs of hay @ $8.00 per ton
Thursday 24 Clear Father sowed Clover seed in No 7 & 4 Chas harrowed wheat with ponies I rolled
it with Kate and Bet
Friday 25 Clear Tem 34° & 72° Father finished sowing Clover seed Chas and I finished Harrowing
and rolling the wheat and put in some Oats in No 1 ground very hard
Saturday 26 Clear & warm Tem 34° this morning Father and I went to (took 4 bu wheat) town to the
spring fair Chas took out the potatoes &c
Monday 28 Clear Father finished sowing oats in No 1 Chas and I hauled them in Tem 47° this
morning 68° at Noon Lewllyn Pierce got ½ ton of hay this morning
Tuesday 29 Clear I run out furrows in No 1 harrowed garden &c Chas ploughed garden &c
afternoon Chas and I ploughed in No 5 for oats Father sowed some Clover seed on wheat in No 5
Wednesday 30 Clear & Cool Chas and I ploughed in no 5 Father planted the Onions, Letus & spring
wheat in the garden Cooper Cow had a Calf
Thursday May 1st
Cloudy but warm I finished ploughing headlands in No 5 Father sowed the Oats and Chas and I
harrowed them in had a shower this Evening after which the wind {rose} Father planted peas &
potatoes in the garden
Friday 2 Cloudy & windy Father planted parsnips Letus & potatoes Chas and I set out currant
bushes James Harris finished trimming trees
Saturday 3 Clear Father went and appraised Elliots sheep and then him & Mother went to town in
the Buggie Chas and I finished the currants and set out some Great American straw Berries
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�Monday May 5 1884
Cloudy and damp Father and Chas loged an Ellm tree that fell out of the line ditch into Lacocq and I
set out 5 Cherry trees along the lane then we loged some in the clearing and got a maple roller log
from Elliot
Tuesday 6 Cloudy Father got Wilson Albany strawberries from Grandma's we set them out
McFadden got 15.00 of hay Afternoon ID harrowed some sod in No 1 after which we loged in
clearing
Wednesday 7 Cloudy & misty Bet had a Colt this morning short 2 days of 11 Mo, Lacocq got ½ ton
hay Mack Cooper got 584 lbs hay We loged some Alf and I went for Hall to come and see Bet's Colt
Thursday 8 Cloudy Hall came to see Bets Colt said it was ruptured We cut some wood in the wood
pile Alf harrowed sod
Friday 9 Clear but Cool ID and Alf harrowed sod in No 1 Chas and I sawed wood finished sawing
the logs in the yard Father sawed trimmed the roller log & Dug around the Black Currants &c
Saturday 10 Clear but Cool Father went to town took 6 bu of wheat to get ground Chas Alf and I put
up fence around clearing
Monday 12 Tolerable Clear Alf & D harrowed some in No 1 sod Chas and I hauled mulch on to the
strawberries Father hoed strawberries &c
Tuesday 13 Showery Chas and I went and got Aunt Emma's cow from D Fletchers this morning
after which we hauled out some mulch, & loged some in the clearing
Wednesday 14 Cloudy ID and I hauled manure on to No 2 potatoe patch Chas Alf and Father loged
in the clearing Dow Pierce commenced working on the line ditch between us and Paterson at noon
spading it out
Thursday 15 Clear *Father went to the school metting the people voted to build two school houses
in the section Chas ploughed the potatoe patch Alf. D. and I loged Dow on the ditch (white Heiffer
Bloss had a calf 16 May)
Friday 16 Clear Father planted some potatoes in the patch Dows ditching Chas and I loged some
Alf & D harrowed sod &c
Saturday 17 Clear Tem 45° Alf finished Cross harrowing sod in No 1 Father Mother Joe Eunice &
Eliza went to town this afternoon Chas D and I loged all day Dow Ditching on the line
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May Monday 19 1884
Cloudy & showery Father planted some potatoes Dow ditched after noon Chas D and I finished
laying the worm off the fence around the clearing and cut white Oak blocks & put under
Tuesday 20 Flower Cow had a Calf
�Clear Father worked in the garden Chas Alf D and I put up fence around Cornfield after noon Chas
and I ploughed in the Clearing with both teams Dow Ditched on the line
Wednesday 21
Clear and warm we planted some potatoes in No 2 then Father worked in the garden Chas and I
ploughed in the Clearing Alf and ID put up some fence &c Dow Ditching
Thursday 22
Tolerable Clear Chas and I ploughed in the clearing Father worked in the garden Alf & D put up
fence and Dow ditching
Friday 23
Clear Chas and I ploughed in the Clearing ID and Alf put up some rails Father gardened Dow
Ditched
Saturday 24
Tolerable Clear We loged in the clearing some Lewllyn Pierce got 560 lbs of hay for Dow this evg
Monday 26
Clear Father Chas Alf & I loged some ID harrowed Father went out to the Council with Mr Elliot
Court Revision
Tuesday 27 planted Cucumber hills 6
Clear Father Chas Alf ID and I loged in the clearing
Wednesday 28
Cloudy & Cool We all loged in the Clearing Both teams
Thursday 29
Clear Bets colt had stoppage of water this morning Father went to town in the buggie took 6 bu of
wheat to get ground we finished the loging with Aunt Emmas team
Friday 30th
Clear and warm Chas and I ploughed all day in the Clearing with both teams Father rolled Oats with
Aunt Emmas team put Kate to Longworths Bank of England horse
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June Saturday 31st May 1884
�Clear Father finished rolling the oats with Aunt Emmas team Chas and I ploughed all day in the
Clearing Both teams
Monday 2nd
Clear very warm Chas and I ploughed all day with both teams D. harrowed with Aunt Emmas team
Father went out to the Council with Mr Elliot
Tuesday 3rd
Clear and warm Father went to town with Ponies took plow points and cutters to get laid &
sharpened Chas worked in garden ID harrowed with Aunt Emmas team I hauled out some rail cuts D
rolled some in the clearing
Wednesday 4
Clear and Warm Chas and I ploughed all day in the Clearing ID harrowed Father worked in the
garden
Thursday 5
Clear and warm Chas and I ploughed most of the day in the Clearing Father spread ashes &c I.D.
Harrowed Betman Crosby split 182 rails & 6 Oak posts today for Father
Friday 6
Clear & warm Mother Joe Chas & Aunt Emma went to town in our light wagon & Aunt Emmas team
to see the Doctor Father marked off with the chain and I planted corn in the clearing ID planted
squashes
Saturday 7
Clear and warm Father and Mother went to town in the buggie Chas rolled in the clearing and I put
up fence &c
Monday 9
Clear and warm but rained this evening Father marked off and Chas and I planted corn D planted
squashes
Tuesday 10
Rained all day Chas and I painted the other rack Bottom &c Father went down to Moreheads &c
Wednesday 11
Cloudy we finished ploughing harrowing Rolling & planted some corn in the clearing
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�Thursday 12
Clear & warm we finishing planting corn in the clearing & planted some mellons I got Lacocq's
double cultivator & commenced cultivating the ground for beans No 1 Father & Boys in garden
Friday 13
Clear but Cool Chas got Walkers cultivator & we cultivated in No 1 with both teams Father D & Flave
in the garden Father warned out the men to do road work
Saturday 14
Clear and Cool Father Mother and Aunt Emma went to town with her team and our Buggie we
finished putting in the beans in No 1 Cultivated it 3 times over Harrowed it drilled in the beans with
Lenovers drill & rolled it drilled in an acre of white flint Corn & planted 4 rows of indian Corn in No 1
Monday 16
Clear and warm Chas and I fixed up the lane fence around wheatfield & Cornfield Father in the
garden hoing
Tuesday 17 rained in Tilbury
Clear Father went to Merlin took 8 bu of wheat to get ground Chas and I Collected stone Wm
Needum came and got a calf he had Bought, Father sold him a white heiffer & 2 calves $27.00
Wednesday 18
Tolerable Clear Tem 90 Father and Mother went to town Chas and I got Lacocq's trucks and took
2 baswood logs up and had them sawed into inch boards at Kersey's
Thursday 19
Clear and warm Tem 90 Father on the road Chas and I hauled out rail cuts until Noon for Betman
Crosby to split after noon I went and got a load of sand
Friday 20
Clear I throwed up some manure & hoed some potatoes Chas hoed some &c Father in the garden
Saturday 21 Tem 95
Father & Mother went to town I cultivated the potatoe patch and then we hoed Put Bet to longworth's
horse
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June Monday 23 1884
�Clear 90 & warm Father Chas & D went and got two Heiffers. he got from Buttler $40 I dug holes for
the stable foundation spot Cow had a calf
Tuesday 24
Father and Mother went to town Tem 95 we worked in the potatoes rained after noon
Wednesday 25
Cloudy & Cool Father went to the Council Chas and I turned Lacocqs Bull among our Cows and
worked on the hay racks in the barn
Thursday 26
Cloudy & Cool I cultivated corn all day Chas & D hoed Father hoed strawberries
Friday 27
Clear & Cool I cultivated corn all day Father went & throwed up a load of sand & hoed some Chas &
D hoed corn
Saturday 28
Clear and warm Father and Mother went to town ID went along I got a load of sand Hived a swarm
of bees & Cultivated some
Monday 30
Clear Father went to the Council I finished cultivating corn in the clearing Chas hoed
Tuesday 1 July
Clear & warm Father hoed strawberries I cultivated beans in No 1 Chas & Alf hoed corn &c
Wednesday 2nd
Clear I cultivated beans until noon afternoon I Father went to town and brought out Mr Branton
Thursday 3
Clear Mr Branton put down stone for the stable foundation we helped him
Friday 4
Rained this forenoon Mr Branton finished the stable foundation and Cistern whitewashed some we
helped him
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July Saturday 5 1884
�rained this morning Father and Mother went to town took Mr Branton Chas & I repacked the ice
finished the hay racks and got a load of sawdust for the ice & took down the mower & sulky rake
Monday 7
Clear I cultivated beans all day and mowed some in the orchard this evg Chas & ID hoed potatoes
Tuesday 8
Clear I cultivated some beans and finished mowing the Orchard this evg we cocked it up
Wednesday 9
Clear I cultivated beans this morning and we hauled in the hay out of the Orchard 2 loads into the
stable
Thursday 10
Clear & Cool I finished cultivating beans Chas ID Flave and I hoed some this afternoon
Friday 11
Clear we cut hay in No 4 this forenoon raked and cocked it up this afternoon
Saturday 12
Rained this morning Father and Mother went to town Chas D and I hoed some beans and cleaned
out the barn for hay &c
Monday 14
Clear we finished cutting hay in No 4 & raked and cocked some up
Tuesday 15
Clear we hauled in hay out of No 4 with both teams all day
Wednesday 16
Cloudy damp this morning we finished hauling in hay out of No 4 Father took Rev S DW. Smith and
family to town this afternoon
Thursday 17
Clear we hauled in the rakings out of No 4 and cut some wheat in No 5 & bound it up
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Friday 18
�Clear we cut and bound wheat in No 5 all day
Saturday 19
Clear & warm Father and Mother went to town Chas Alf D and I finished binding some and cut fence
corners around No 5
Monday 21
Clear we finished cutting in No 5 & binding and cut some for Aunt Emma this evening Father took
Aunt E to town for the doctor for the baby
Tuesday 22
Clear we finished binding for aunt Emma' and cut and bound some at home in No 3 Father took 8 bu
of wheat to Merlin to get ground
Wednesday 23
Clear we cut and bound all day in No 3 Father not well
Thursday 24
Clear we finished cutting wheat this morning and bound some rained this evening
Friday 25
Rained some this morning I mowed some fence corners this and we shocked what wheat was down
Saturday 26
Rained heavily this forenoon Father and Mother went to town
Monday 28
Clear Father went to town to prepare for the funeral of Latties babie which died this morning Chas
Alf D. & I hauled in wheat
Tuesday 29
Clear Father, Mother and Aunt Salina went to the funeral of Latties Babie we finished hauling in
wheat
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Aug Wednesday 30th July 1884
Rained this evg we cut some fence corners and hauled them in and raked up some wheat rakings
Thursday 31
�Cloudy and rained some we cut some weeds and C [&c]
Friday 1
Cleared off we finished raking and hauling in rakings &c Aunt Salina and Mother went over to Mr
Thompsons this evg
Saturday 2
showered after noon Father and Aunt Salina went to town we turned out Aunt Emma's wheat to dry
and had to shock it up again
Monday 4
raining and wet Father and Chas went over to Wm Drews I piled some rails finished the hay racks
&c
Tuesday 5
Cloudy & showery I took Father to Chatham to go to Anarbour for to see some doctors we hoed
some in the garden &c
Wednesday 6
Clear we hoed some weeds in the garden cleaned up the lane and C [&c]
Thursday 7
Cloudy Alf and D cut thistles in the clearing Chas and I mowed fence corner weeds until noon after
noon we all went down and helped stack Aunt Emmas wheat {Mr peel?}
Friday 8
Clear we cut some oats in No 1 and bound some
Saturday 9
Clear Mother Eliza Done and I went to town in our Buggie Mamie Cooper went along Father went
to came back from Anarbour Chas bound oats Alf & D cut thistles
Monday 11
Clear we finished cutting oats in No 1 & bound some
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Tuesday 12
Clear Father Mother and Chas went to town in the Buggie Aunt Mary Ann Cary Came out with them
Alf ID & I bound oats in No 1
�Wednesday 13
Clear we finished binding oats in No 1 & cut some in No 5
Thursday 14
Clear and Warm Tem 90° we piled some in the clearing and tramped out some rakings & cleaned up
the barn floor
Friday 15
Clear and warm Father went to town with Aunt Emma we hauled in oats out of No 1, raked the
stubble
Saturday 16
Clear & warm tem 95 Chas & Father went to town Alf D and I turned & bound oats in No 5
Monday 18
Clear and warm we bound up some oats in No 5 & finished cutting Father went to town
Tuesday 19
Clear and warm tem 95 we ploughed in No 1 some after noon I helped Abe Patterson & Walker
thrash Chas ploughed
Wednesday 20 (Aug)
Clear and warm Tem 95 we turned oats in No 5 and hauled in some Father Mother and Alf went to
town Chas Eliza & I went out to Shrieveses lawn social this evg
Thursday 21
Clear and warm Tem 98° we finished binding oats & shocking
Friday 22
Clear & Cool Tem 80 we ploughed and harrowed in No 1 with both teams
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Saturday 23
Clear and Cool Father Mamie Cooper and I went to town in our buggie Chas ploughed with Kate and
Bet
Monday 25
�Clear and Cool shower after noon we finished ploughing harrowing and rooling in No 1 and ploughed
some in No 5 I took Iron plow & points down to sansburrys to fix
Tuesday 26
Clear Chas and I ploughed all day in No 5 with both teams
Wednesday 27
Clear we finished ploughing harrowing and rolling oats stubble in No 5 I took Joe to town and a box
for Aunt Amelia this afternoon in the buggie
Thursday 28
Cloudy rained all the afternoon, we hauled out some manure this forenoon on No 1
Friday 29
Clear we hauled the wood out of the clearing afternoon we hauled out some manure
Saturday 30
Clear we Mother Father and Chas went to town Alf D, Flave and I hauled out manure on to No 1
Monday 1st September
Clear & Cool Chas Alf D. & I hauled out manure on to No 1
Tuesday 2nd
Clear and warm Father Mother Alf, & D & Eliza Jane Done went to the show Chas and I hauled out
manure and piled it on the garden
Wednesday 3rd
Clear Chas Alf D and I finished hauling manure out of the barnyard on to the garden
Clear very Thursday 4th
Clear & very warm Tem 95° Father & Mother went to town Alf & D pulled some beans Chas and I
fixed up the barn gangway &c
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September Friday 5 1884
Clear & warm Tem 94 Chas Alf D & I pulled beans all day in No 1
Saturday 6
�Clear and warm Tem 95° Father and Mother went to town Chas Alf D and I pulled beans
Sunday 7
Clear & warm Father Mother Grand Mother and I went to Chatham to the general conference,
Bishop Campbell & {El--} Thomas preached
Monday 8
Clear Tem 88° Father went to Town took Ross wagon to get tires set Chas Alf D Flave & I pulled
Beans in No 1
Tuesday 9
Clear and Cool Chas Alf D and I pulled beans
Wednesday 10
Clear we pulled beans until noon and then hauled some in
Thursday 11
Clear we Alf D and Flave finished pulling beans Chas and I hauled in beans Father and Mother went
to town
Friday 12
Clear we hauled in beans I went for the Thrashing machine this evening but did not get it
Saturday 13
Clear we finished hauling in beans burnt some in the clearing and I went and got the machine this
evg Father went to Chatham
Monday 15
Clear we commenced to thrash boiler foamed and we had to haul water Rube Miriam, Cash Rhue,
James Travis, Walter Dean, Jim harris, Robt Harden, Wm Scott Charlie Simpson helped us
Tuesday 16
We finished thrashing had 250 bu wheat 280 bu oats
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Sept Wednesday 17 1884
Clear Father and Chas helped Aunt Emma thrash I took the machine out to Uncle Horace Blacks
and then ploughed some in the after noon
�Thursday 18
Cloudy and Cool Father and Mother went to town Father Borrowed $350 from Henry Allinor I
ploughed all day in No 5 Chas cut some corn
Friday 19
Clear and Cool Chas and I ploughed in No 5 Mr Branton re coated the cistern with cement this
forenoon
Saturday 20
Cloudy and Cool Father and Mother went to town with Aunt Emma Chas D and I finished ploughing
harrowing and I drilled 3⅓ bushels of Clawson wheat in upper part of No 5
Monday 22
Cloudy shower about Noon we hauled the corn off the upper part of No 1 and moved the garden
fence L. Lacocq got 4 bu red wheat
Tuesday 23
Cloudy and windy Chas and I ploughed in No 1 for wheat second ploughing Alf and D diging
potatoes
Wednesday 24
Cloudy heavy rain this evg Chas and I finished ploughing ID harrowed & rooled some and I
commenced drilling red wheat in No 1
Thursday 25
Clear damp this morning Father Alf and D took flower Cow to stocktons Bull this Morning we finished
putting in wheat in part of No 1 tried to plow in No 1 corn stubble but it was too dry
Friday 26
Clear We cleaned up 42 bu of Clawson wheat and baged it up for market after noon Chas and I cut
corn
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Oct Saturday 27
Rained this morning Father and Mother went to town I put a bottom in the old wagon box &c after
noon Chas and I cut corn
Monday 29
�Cloudy Chas and I ploughed some in No 1 upper half with both teams Edd Poindexter got 10 bu of
Clawson wheat to sow Father Mother Chas and I went to a metting held in the B.M.E. Church North
Buxton Concerning the Union with {AM-}
Tuesday 30
rained a little this morning Chas and I ploughed most of the day in No 1 with both teams
Wednesday 3 1
Cloudy Chas and I ploughed most of the day in No 1 with both teams Alf and ID diging potatoes
Thursday 2
Rained all the fore noon we put up Chaff off of the Barn floor and took Reaper Mower and Sulky rake
down and put them up overhead in the shed by the Barn
Friday 3
Clear and warm Tem 76 Chas and I finished Ploughing in No 1 Alf and D harrowed some in the evg
afternoon Chas and I cut corn
Saturday 4
Clear Father and Mother went to town in the Buggie I took in a load weighed 36 bu 20 lbs got 70¢
per bu
Monday 6
Clear Alf and D harrowed until noon after noon D harrowed alone as ponies had to go to take Mother
and Eliza Done to meet the Cars at Chatham Mother going down to Windsor Father got 1 doz bags
for grain @ $2.75
Tuesday 7
Clear Chas & I finished harrowing and I drilled about 4½ acres of No 1 in Democrat Wheat 1¼ bu
per acre
Mary Hace
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Wednesday 8
Rained most of the day we Cleaned up wheat & oats most of the day baged up 72 bu for town had
250 bu in all
Thursday 9
�Clear heavy frost this morning Tem 34° I finished drilling wheat in No 1 and then Father and I took 2
loads of wheat to town got 70¢ for white & 74¢ for red wheat
Friday 10
Clear D finished harrowing No 1 after drill and I run out the furrows Chas and I cut some corn & took
20 squashes to B.E Harrises $1.00
Saturday 11th
Clear Father went to town in the Buggie got his Ticket to Columbus Neb & return for $34 Chas and I
shoveled out the furrows in No 1 & then we cut corn
Monday 13
Clear and Cool Chas D and I cut corn Mrs Washington washed for us Grand Mother Cooked
luncheon for Father he started for Nebraska this evg from Fletcher
Tuesday 14
Clear we cut corn all day frost last night
Wednesday 15
Clear and Cool I took 4 bu corn to Chatham to grind got $100 from Felix & $100 from B.E. Harris
came back and hauled up 2 wagon loads of squashes and 2 of Pumpkin
Thursday 16
Clear and Cool Chas D and I finished hauling up Squashes had 6 loads and 9 loads of Pumpkins
Friday 17
Clear Chas D and I finished husking the white flint Corn and and hauled it in had 30 bu
Saturday 18
Clear and Cool D and I went to town in the Buggie took 18 squashes got $1.50 for the lot Chas
husked some corn
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Oct Monday 20 1884
Clear & Cool I took Joe to Chatham to the doctor this morning after noon we graded up the Crossing
Tuesday 21
Clear we finished the Crossing this forenoon after noon we commenced husking corn
�Wednesday 22
Rained last night Cool and windy we husked corn most of the day turned horses and cattle into
Pattersons woods for one month for $5.00 from yesterday
Thursday 23
Cold Snow squalls Tem 38° Chas I.D. and I husking corn
Friday 24
Cold Cloudy and windy we husked some corn
Saturday 25
Clear & Cool Tem 42° Joe and Chas went to town in the Buggie I hauled in 50 bu of corn cleaned
cribs hauled water I.D & Flave dug some potatoes Chas got 1.00 from Ambros Timbers for squash
Monday 27
Cloudy Tem 42° we had to take the horses out of Pattersons pasture so Chas and I fixed the wheat
field fence until noon commenced weaning the colts afternoon we husked some corn
Tuesday 28
Cloudy but warm Chas and I made two polks for the colts & husked some corn
Wednesday 29
Clear but cool I.D. cut and Chas and I husked corn
Thursday 30
Clear and warm I had to go to Chatham after Mother and Mrs Hughes Chas and I.D cut and husked
Friday 31
Rained all day I fixed the wooden spring waggon seat and culled some corn out of the crib &c
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November Saturday 1 1884
Rained all the afternoon I went to town R Grandmother went along took some squashes got 6¢ & 8¢
a piece for them got a quarter of beef $2.10
Monday 3
Rained Cloudy all day We fixed the troughs in the stable hauled over some staves from Marcuses
pitted 45 Bu of Potatoes
�Tuesday 4
Rained all afternoon we hauled over some staves got out some Oak pieces for pig pen sills and I
went up and got 158 ft of Maple lumber at Kerseys Mill @ $9.00 per 1000 ft
Wednesday 5
Cloudy & Cool we hauled out some pumpkins and C Chas and I took two sows over to
pattersons boar this evg
Thursday 6
Cloudy & Cool Tem 28° Chas and I moved all the old pig pen and put down the bottom for a new
one and brought the sows home this evg
Friday 7
Tolerable clear we finished The pig pen and built a cull crib on top of the old pig pen
Saturday 8
Clear we fastened the pigs up this morning 12 small ones in the old pen & 3 sows in the new one
Mother and Chas went to town I.D and I hauled in 55 bu of corn and some pumpkins &c
Monday 9 we f
Clear and warm Chas D and I hauled in 125 bu of corn took a sow over to pattersons Boar this
morning finished pitting potatoes and beets today
Tuesday 11
Cloudy and warm Chas and I husked corn all day I.D cut
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Wednesday 12
Clear but cool Chas Alf Mother and I went to town took 4 bu wheat got changed at Beaver mills took
18 lbs wool got $1.95 for it got a suit of clothes for each of us boys for $15.00 $10.00 & $7.00
Thursday 13
Clear Alf and I went to town we hauled a load of water from Fletcher gathered some squashes from
garden hauled some hay to stable & gathered the rest of the Pumpkins 2½ loads to Barn & pig pen
Friday 14
Clear Alf and I went to town took 25 bu wheat got 71¢ got 1500 Brick from Cornhill in north Chatham
Saturday 15
�Clear I took in 40 squashes got $2.00 for them Mother Chas & Grandmother went in together we got
1500 brick @ $5.00 with Both teams Reeves shod Jim & George in front
Monday 17
Cloudy and Cool Thorps husked corn for us at 3½¢ per bu Chas and I unloaded Brick hauled a load
of water hauled up old rails &c and finished roofing cull corn crib fastened Old bute & spot cows up
to feed this evg
Tuesday 18
Cloudy and Cool tem 28 this morning Chas and I hauled up some old rails &c for wood hauled in a
load of fodder on the hayrack hauled a load of hay to the stable and hauled in a load of corn 40 bu
making 260 bu of our own husking in the crib Thorps husked today
Wednesday 19
Clear Cool Tem 26° this Morning Father came home on the mail train Chas and I dug and pitted ½
the carrots &c & got a load of water this evg
Thursday 20
Clear we hauled in 60 bu of thorps husking took a sow to Pattersons Boar this morning Robinses
sale today Grandmother bought a house $93.00
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Friday 21
Clear and pleasant we hauled in 40 bu of thorps husking hauled water &c
Saturday 22
Clear and pleasant we hauled in 51 bu of Thorps husking dug some carrots hauled up backlogs
hauled a load of water &c Father went to town in the buggie
Monday 24
Cool and wet we fixed up the stable some for Colts &c
Tuesday 25
About 2 inches of snow fell last night snowed a little all day we hauled up some wood &c
Wednesday 26
Windy and Cool Tem 24° we packed a barrel of squash for Cousin Minty to take home she went to
Fletcher & took the mail for Windsor this evg
Thursday 27
�Cloudy misting snow most of the day we hauled 2 loads of hay into the stable hauled some water &c
Friday 28
Cloudy & Cold Tem 26° we hauled up some logs for wood with the teams hauled water
Saturday 29
Cloudy Tem 22° & 26° Chas and I hauled in 3 loads of fodder &c Mother & Father and went to town
bought quarter beef 3 cts per lb
Monday December 1
Clear and Cold Tem 6° We commenced to dig a well along the fence on East side of the Barnyard
this morning
Tuesday 2
Father and Mother went up to Stones & Simses in Buggie Chas and I digging in the well got it 7 ft
deep
{Page} 120
December Wednesday 3 1884
Clear and warm Tem 32° Father went to town got 3 pairs of felt boots from Mr Murray for 2.25 per
pair Chas and I digging in the well Chas and D hauled in 14 bu of thorps husking
Thursday 4
Clear and warm Chas and I digging Father took a doz squashes up to Charlestons & Chas Johnsons
Friday 5
Clear and warm we dug some in the well and hauled a load of water
Saturday 6
Rained all day Father went to town we did not do much but fix rails for well digging &c
Monday 8
Cloudy and windy 24° we commenced walling up the well the first section 12 ft deep & 68 in wide
Tuesday 9
Cloudy Tem 36 we finished walling & dug some Father sold old Beaut Cow to Johny {Larck} for
$20.50
Wednesday 10
�Cloudy Tem 24° we husked corn 36 shocks Chas Father ID and I
Thursday 11
Cloudy Tem 38° we husked 51 shocks of Corn
*Friday 12
Cloudy & cool we husked 36 shocks of corn My 21st Birth day (Wm A Shadd)
Saturday 13
Cloudy Tem 24° Father and Mother went to town Chas and I hauled in 2 loads of corn & a load of
hay into the stable
{Page} 121
December Monday 15 1884
Cloudy and cool we hauled in the rest of the corn that we had husked 135 bu
Tuesday 16
Cloud Cool and blustry Tem 22 we did not do much
Wednesday 17
Cold snowed some last night about 4 inches we got 4½ bu of corn from Uncle Mack shelled fand
and baged it up for a grist Tem 16
Thursday 18
Clear and cold Tem 4° Chas and I hauled in 2 loads of hay and one load of oats straw to the stable
hauled some backlogs &c
Friday 19
Clear and Cold Tem 9 below Z{ero} Chas and I covered the potatoe pits with manure Father took a
grist 6 bu of corn to Merlin to mill paid 30¢ for grinding
Saturday 20
Cloudy Tem 2° south wind turning warm Commenced snowing this evening Father and Mother went
to town in the sleigh. Chas and I cut wood in the wood pile got dry goods of J Wall $23.80 paid
$10.00
Monday 22
Clear and Cold Father went out to the townhall for the school monies I took Kate and bet down and
got Sandy Coutts to shoe them Came back and hauled up some wood I made a wood rack
�Tuesday 23
Clear and pleasant we killed 2 of the small pigs they weighed 166 & 171 lbs & hauled some water
from up the railroad Aunt Emma brought news of the death of Aunt Salina in Greenville, Miss. *
Wednesday 24
Cloudy snowed most of the day Father went to town Mother Chas Alf and I went to the Consert this
evg
{Page} 122
December Wednesday 3 1884
Clear and moderate Tem 32° Father went to town got 3 pairs felt Boots of Mr Murray $2.25 per pair
Chas and I digging Chas & ID hauled in 14 bu of thorps husking
Thursday 4
Clear and warm muddy we dug some in the well Father took some s
Thursday 25
Clear and pleasant Xmas Tem 16°
Friday 26.
Clear and Cold Tem 2° Chas and I Commenced to haul our hicory wood to Buxton made 3 trips with
both teams
Saturday 27
Cloudy Tem 2° Raining this evg Chas and I finished hauling our dry hicory wood to Buxton had 17
Cords Father picked his chance into town
Monday 29th
Cloudy and warm rained some last night the lower part of the new well we dug caving so we had to
draw the water out of it and dig it out and wall it up leaving it 14 ft deep
Tuesday 30
Cloudy and warm very muddy Mother and Father went up to Melson Robinsons for a girl did not get
her Chas took some potatoes out I salted up two pigs
Wednesday 31
Windy turning cold annual school metting held today ES Dyke & B Woods Elected school
trustees Chas and I hauled in a load of hay and a load of straw
�Thursday 1
{Page} 123
January Thursday 1st 1885
Cool and windy Tem 22 Father went to Buxton Chas and I hauled up some wood
Friday 2nd
Cloudy and Cold Chas and I hauled up some wood for the fires with the teams
Saturday 3
Cloudy and Cool ground very rough frozen Father went to town Chas and I hauled in a load of
fodder &c
Monday 5
Municipal Elections held today Father acted as D.R.O. at th No 2 polling place I acted as poll Clerk
polls stood Crow 49, Morrison 47, Drew 25 Goulet 28, Williams 33, Bennet 8, Dyke 69, Foxton 13
Marshall 9, Tooley 13 White 14, at this poll
Tuesday 6
Rained some this morning muddy Chas and I husked 15 shocks of corn and hauled it in
Wednesday 7
Cloudy and muddy Chas and I hauled in a load of hay and husked 10 shocks of corn Father not well
Thursday 8
Clear and pleasant Father Chas, D. and I husked 54 shocks of corn
Friday 9
Cloudy Father Chas D and I husked 36 shocks being the remainder of what we had to husk
Saturday 10
Clear & cool Father went to town in the buggie Chas and I hauled in 100 bu of corn
Monday 12
Cloudy and Cool Chas and I took a sow over to Pattersons Boar this morning Father went to
Fletcher afternoon we hauled two loads of hay into the stable
{Page} 124
�Tuesday 13
Cloudy and Cold we finished hauling in our corn 50 bu and brought the sow home this evg
Wednesday 14
Cloudy & Cool Roads very rough Father and I went to Merlin to Division Court Father, P Walker, two
Kearnses J Donnohew sat on the Jury on the Dillon & Oneil horse suit
Thursday 15
snowed about 4 inches last night Tem 26° scott act Election held today Father as scrutineer against
the act at this pooling place Chas and I Commenced bushing out Basswood Bolts
Friday 16
Cold Tem 10° windy also snowed some more Chas and I bushed out some p bolts
Saturday 17
C Blustry all day we bushed out some p bolts
Monday 19
Clear and Cold Tem 8 below Z{ero} Father went to town with Aunt Emma Chas and I hauled 2 loads
of boalts to Buxton with both teams
Tuesday 20
Clear and Cold Tem 8 below Z{ero} Chas and I hauled 3 loads each of bolts to Buxton
Wednesday 21
Clear and Cold Tem 4° Chas and I hauled 2 loads of bolts each Father went to town with Aunt
Emma
Thursday 22
Clear and Cold Tem 6° below Z{ero} Chas and I hauled two loads each of Basswood bolts
Friday 23
Clear Chas and I hauled 2 loads each and I hauled the last load by my self making about 37 Cords
of basswood Bolts Father recd $50.00 on Bolts
{Page} 125
Jan Saturday 24 1885
�Snowed some this morning Tem 26° Father and Mother went to town in the sleigh I took 1½ Cords
of soft maple and red oak wood in with Kate and Bet got $3.37¢ for it
Monday 26
Snowing Windy and Cold we did not do much
Tuesday 27
Windy Tem 4° I took 1 cord of soft maple and red oak up to Chas Johnsons bushed out ½ cord
hicory hauled up some hicory Cat sticks and hauled in some Cornfodder
Wednesday 28 Cold Tem 18° below Z{ero} We hauled 3 elm logs down to Barrys mill they
measured 590, 590 & 460 ft and I hauled one white oak log up to Kerseys mill
Thursday 29
Clear and Cold Tem 12° below Z{ero} Chas and I hauled 2 white oak logs up to Buxton and got
ready to kill hogs
Thursday Friday 30
Cleared off snowed some this morning Tem 4 & 32 we killed hogs Issac Williams and his son Chas
Williams and Louis Granderson helped us the three Big sows weighed 408, 355, & 300
Saturday 31
Tem at Z{ero} foggy and trees covered with frost Father and I took the pork to town got 5.90¢ per
cwt
I W.A. Shadd hereby resign the keeping of the Diary on this 31st Jan 1885 *
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Garrison William Shadd (1839-1892)
1887-1888 Diary
Transcribed by Rural Diary Archive Volunteers
Thursday Aug 18th 1887
Alfred Shadd begins to write here (passed Exam today) Clear but muddy under foot. J. D. &
myself plowed the weed patch next little bush Charlie plowed in the 12 acre field (no 6) at
other place
Friday 19th
Clear & warm. plowed with 3 teams in 12 acre field (no 6) at lower place in forenoon and
hauled oats in afternoon from field no 3 (L.P.) C. Simson helped us
Saturday 20th
Clear & warm Tem 84 Father went to town took grist Chars D. & I hauled Aunt Emma
Simpson's Oats James Harris Jr stacked them
Monday 22th
Rained off and on all day Father dug in the well near old barn (U.P.) Char, D, I plowed in no
6 (L.P.) Edde Poindexter took his mare Gin from pasture
Tuesday 23th
Cloudy and muddy. charlie D. & I plowed in no 6 (L.P.) Father took Mrs A. M. Hughes to
Fletcher to meet the mail
Wednesday 24th
Clear. We plowed with 3 teams in no 6 (L.B)
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Thursday August 25th 1887
Clear & warm Father & D cut pease at U.P. Charlie & I plowed in no 6 (L.P.) in the forenoon,
hauled oats from no 3 in afternoon
�Friday 26th
Clear but windy. Father j repaired bridge at Drake road area Charlie & D & I plowed
remainder of no 6.
Saturday 27th
Clear Temp in morning 44° Father went to town rest of us hauled pease.
Monday 29th
Clear & Warm Father and I held election for reeve in schoolhouse result Morrison 14
Williams 32 here Morrison elected by 97 in af. Other boys prepared for {illegible}
Tuesday 30th
Clear. A plowed all day in no 5 Charlie cut clover in no 1 William & I patched the engine from
Nathan Bell Father dug in well, (U.P.)
Wednesday 31st
Clear Father dug in well (U.P.) I cut thistles Charlie cut clover in no 1 William & D plowed in
no 5. John Houston took 3 lambs & 1 weather away.
Thursday Sept 1st
Rained to day. plowed with 3 teams in no 5 Father & Charlie dug in the well D & I plowed in
no 5
Friday 2nd
Rained all forenoon William & I dug in well Charlie & D hauled rails in little bush (UP)
Sat 3th
Clear Tem 80° Father went to town D & I plowed no 5 Char & William cut corn (U.P.)
Monday 4th
�Clear, Tem 80° We thrashed, bu 132 oats, bu 131 wheat helped by L. Grandison. J.T. Harris
J. Crosby. G.B. Harris Cash Rhue F. Ehare. C Simpson Mrs. Carter & Aunt Mary. besides
our selves. 7 shreave's machine
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Tues 6th
Father worked at well Wm D & I plowed in No 5 LP, FG Alf cut corn written by C. W. S.
Wed 7th
Father worked at well I.D began to cook Wm Alf & I plowed in No 3 LP
Thur 8th
Wm A & I plowed in No 3 LP, AM Alf harrowed in it PM Father Wm Flav & I helped at Aunt
Emm thrash PM
Fri 9th
Cloudy rained heavy all AM Father Alf & I cleaned wheat AM Wm and A made a Derrick all
worked at well PM
Sat 10th
Cloudy Father went to town Wm Alf F & I dug at well
Mon 11th
Cloudy Father went to town took 34 bu of wheat got 80cts per bu Alfred went in with him to
go to Model School Wm & F harrowed in No 3 LP I cut Corn PM P Forhan got 12 bu of seed
wheat at 85cts per
Tues 13th
Fair very warm Father went to O Higate’s got 2 bu of timothy seed Wm finished plowing No 3
Flav & I harrowed it Wm began to drill wheat
Wed 14th
�Cloudy Father bricked part well up Wm finished drilling Wheat in No 3 LP F & I harrowed in
No 5 Wm scraped ditch along No 5
Thur 15th
Clear warm Wm & I harrowed in No 5 AM F rolled it F and I finished harrowing No 5 PM Wm
began to drill
Fri 16th
Fair cool Father went to town yesterday Wm finished drilling wheat in No 5 & I run out
furrows AM Flav & I harrowed in No 6 Wm began to drill in it PM
Sat 17th
Fair cool Father went to town to market I finished harrowing No 6 Wm finished drilling in
wheat in No 6 Flav & I hauled in seed clover off No 1
Mon 18th
Fair Father & D bricked at well Wm & I cut at corn in No 1 UP D & I took steer to Hughston
{illegible} yesterday got 22 for him
Tues 19th
Fair Father F & S pulled beans No 6 UP Wm & I cut corn No 1 UP
Wed 20th
Cloudy rained PM Father took 42 bu of wheat got 76 cts per bu Wm & I finished cutting corn
No 1 UP
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Thursday 21st September 1887
Cloudy rained steady AM cleaned up rest of Wheat bricked up rest of well PM Wm and I
began to cut corn in No 3 UP
Fri 23rd
�Cloudy very cool Father picked Pears for market Wm cut corn in No 3 & 6 UP F pulled beans
UP
Sat 24
Cloudy cool Father went to town to market Wm & I cut corn in No 6 UP next line Alf came out
last night he and F pulled beans
Mon 25th
Fair heavy frost Ther 34° Father took 17 bu 55 lbs wheat got 75 cts per bu also took 30 bu
oats got 28cts per bu Wm & I cut corn F & S pulled beans
Tues 26th
Cloudy drizzled AM Wm & I finished corn in No 6 UP began No 3 F & Eunice pulled beans
Wed 27th
Cloudy Father F & Sis pulled beans Wm & I cut beans corn in No 3 UP
Thur 28
Cloudy Father F & Sis pulled beans Wm & I cut corn
Friday 29th
Cloudy Father began to sow Timothey seed EH No 3 UP Wm & I finished cutting corn WH
No 3 UP Flav Eunice & C Simpson finished pulling beans No 6 UP Alf came out this evening
What else
Sat 30th
Cloudy rained in showers PM Father went to market Wm & Alf husked some corn I finished
sowing Timothy seed in No 3 & lot 2 UP nothing else
Mon 3rd October 1887
Cloudy Wm & A went to town took Aunt Sarrah Ann some wood Wm & I began to haul
manure on NO 1 LP Father F & S began to pick apples
�Tues 4th
Cloudy drizzled rain all day
Wed 5th
Cloudy Father F & S picked apples UP Wm & I hauled manure LP field No 1
Thurs 6th
Cloudy sprinkled some AM Wm & I hauled manure on No 1 LP Father F & Sis picked apples
UP
Fri 7th
Clear AM Wm & I hauled manure & some wood up for thrashing LP Father turned beans PM
UP F & Eunice picked apples.
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Saturday October 8th 1887
Father bought 6 head of young cattle at Martin's sale paid $63 for the lot. Fair Father went to
town Wm Alf & I built a shed for straw of poles LP hauled a load of beans from UP to LP old
stable & &c
Mon 10th
Oc Cloudy rained AM Wm F & I put up part of line fence between us & mccart McCart
Tues 11th
Cloudy Father went to town to get some thing for the lot for thrashing Wm and I prepared for
thrashing drawed mill over from Felix's PM &c
Wed 12th
Cloudy frost cool began to thrash LP assessed by A Cooper N Cooper J Harris G Harris J
Mitchel J Crosby R Morhead J Brown C Simpson Aunt Mary & Aunt Emma cooked
Thur 13th
�Fair cool frost finished thrashing in evening had 715 bu of oats 200 of wheat
Fri 14th
Cloudy cool frost all moved chaff into barn LP turned beans and husked some corn PM
Sat 15th
Fair cool Father went to town Wm Alf F & I husked some corn hauled in AM hauled rest of
beans off No 6 UP to LP barn PM
Mon 17th
Cloudy windy warmer Father Wm F E & I pulled beans in No 7 LP Alf walked to town this
morning
Tues 18th
Fair frosty night all picked apples UP, AM hauled in beans LP, No 7, PM
Wedn 19th
Fair frosty night all thrashed thrashed LP beans with F Sheeve’s grain seprator tryed UP
beans but failed Wm & I husked corn Father F & S picked apples
Thurs 20th
Cloudy cool windy Father F & S picked apples Wm & I husked corn AM hauled about 30 bu
in UP
Fri 21st X
Cloudy several heavy squals of Snow Father took 94 bu 10 lbs of oats to Chatham got 28 cts
per bu Wm F & I husked corn UP No 6
Sat 22st
Cloudy windy cool Father Wm Alf F & I husked corn in No 6 UP
Mon 24th
Cloudy muddy rained hard yesterday Wm F & I husk corn No 6 UP
�202 55 95 20 20 50 70 75/ 355
Tuesday 25th Oct 1887
Fair froze AM Father took 106 bu 6 lbs of oats to town got 28 cts per bu Wm F & I husked
corn UP
Wedn 26th
Cloudy windy cool Ther 20° in morning Father Wm F & I hauled abou part of corn and fodder
off of No 6 UP
Thur 27th
Cloudy cool all hauled in rest of corn husked in No 6 husked up other side of No 6 UP PM
Father went over to F Stewart sale
Fri 28th
Cool windy few drops of snow Father took 47 bu 12 lb of wh Wheat to town got 76 cts per bu
also 5 bu to grist rest husked in WS of No 6 UP Wm went to Sq Dillon's got apple barrels
Sat 29th
Cloudy cool few drops of snow Father Wm Alf & I finished husking No 6 AM drawed
in all rest of fodder & rest of corn making in all about 200 bu of No 6 UP
Mon 31st
Clear warm Wm F & I hauled about 50 shocks of corn, fodder and all in to barn off No 7 LP
Tuesday November 1st 1887
Clear warm Father Wm F & I husked corn in No 7 LP Father went to Doyle Sale PM
Wedn 2nd
Clear warm Father took 46 1/2 bu of wheat to Chatham got 77 cts per bu, rest husked corn
No 7 LP
Thurs 3rd
�Clear foggy in morn Father took 78 bu of Oats out to Horace Blacks got 28 cts per bu rest
husked corn
Fri 4th
Cloudy windy Father Wm F & I hauled b TO 55 55 bu of good corn & about 100 85 bu of
culls off No 7 LP Dillon's men barreled the good apples in all 19 19 barrel
Sat 5th
Clear moderate Father went to town Wm Alf F & I husked corn No 7 LP hauled in about 20
bu of culls
Mon 7th
Clear Father Wm Flav & I husked corn LP
Tues 8th
Fair cool Father took the 19 barrel of apples to Fletcher Flav Wm & I husked No 7 LP
Wedn 9th
Cloudy began drizzling rain PM in evening all finished husking corn in LP No 7 hauled 30 bu
good corn to UP
Thur 10th
Cloudy rain & snow mixed AM Father Wm Fla & I cleaned oats out of Kitchen LP faned them
AM picked apples to keep PM
Fri 11th
Cloudy cool windy put 20 bu of apples into root house AM hauled about 50 bu of good
corn 36 bu 70 bu culls off No 7 LP
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total sum corn LP off No 7 385 bu & 50 shocks in barn
Saturday November 12th 1887
�Cloudy moderate Father went to town Wm F & I hauled rest of corn out of No 7 (LP) culls
amount 75 bu
Mon Wed 14th
Fair warm Father took 47 bu of oats to Horace's Blacks AM Wm F & I finished drawing
fodder off No 7 (LP) all began to ditch on west line ditch UP Tues 15th cloudy rained little in
morn Father Wm D & I ditched on W line ditch next 8 con McCart ditch
Wed 16
Cloudy cool Father Wm D & I worked at W line ditch
Thur 17th
Cloudy cool Father Wm D & I finished the W line McCart ditch
Friday 18th
Cloudy windy Ther about 38 ° WM D & I picked & put in to root house 8 barrel of apples
shucked down shocks of corn in No 1 UP
Sat 19th
Cloudy snowed & rained nearly all day Father went to town rest shelled some corn LP & c
Mon 21st
Cloudy Cold windy 1 1/2 in of snow Father & I took drove 7 hogs to Fletcher Wt 1860 lbs got
$4,20 cts per cwt on foot Fletcher took Alf & 6 bu of corn to town got some meal Wm D & I
got up firewood UP & LP also
Tues 22nd
Misty thawing all began work at center ditch UP pened fattening pigs in old barn & c
Wed 23rd
Cloudy all ditched at center ditch Father burnt and piled out of road of ditch
Thur 24th
�Cloudy rained nearly all day
Fri 25th
Cloudy began rain in evening all worked at center ditch
Sat 26th
Cloudy began rain 11 AM rained rest day Father took veal to town sold 3/4 there of rest cut
some fence blocks &c
Mon 28th
Cloudy Ther 18° in AM about 2 in of snow (very muddy yesterday) all fanned wheat
(LP, AM AM) cut stove wood in little bush PM, UP
Tues 29th
Clear Ther 11° above in morn chored AM cut cord and stove wood and piled brush in little
bush PM UP
Wedn 30th
Cloudy Ther 22° Father took 24 bu 25 lbs of wheat to town for grist bought brand & shorts
back & 200 lbs of
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Wedn 30th
Of flour left 679 lbs of flour there Wm fixed barn-yard fence D & I hauled manure on No 7 LP
Thurs December 1st 1887
Cloudy Ther 31 ° all cleared out logs in line of Fence next McCarts hewed a stick for new
well curb &c
Fri 2nd
Cloudy Ther 31 ° began snow AM turned to rain PM all cut and drawed up firewood UP
Sat 3rd
�Cloudy rained all PM Father went to town Wm D & I shelled corn UP PM went errends AM
&c
Mon 5th
Clear moderate, snow gone, rained all yesterday all began cleaning out ditch back of No 4
LP with spade & shovel
Thes 6th
Clear Ther 27° to 42° all finished cleaning out ditch back No 4 LP fixed gaps and part line
west west fence UP Father bought a horse colt of D Watts for $40
Wed 7th
Cloudy sprinkled little PM D & I hauled out rails along W line fence, all tore out and rebuilt it
PM
Thur 8th
Cloudy Father & Wm dug out and put another trunk in a cross lane at gate back barn LP,
AM, D & I husked corn all day Wm PM in No 1 UP Father began spade ditch along lane UP
Fri 9th
Cloudy Ther 34° to 40° Wm D and I husked in No 1 UP Father dug at ditch along lane
Sat 10th
Cloudy rained nearly all day Father went to town Wm D & I husked some corn in barn LP
Mon 12th
Cloudy Father killed and dressed a lamb to eat AM Aunt Mary washed Wm D & I put curbs
on bre wells at pond & in back orchard UP
Tues 13th
Fair froze a little AM Father dug at lane ditch Wm D & I husked corn No 1 UP
Wed 14th
�Clear warm Father dug at ditch west side of lane Wm D & Alf (who came out last night) and I
husked corn No 1 UP
Thurs 15
Cloudy snowed little Ther 32° AM 26° PM Father got ditch up to barn above yard and Alf
went back to town Wm D & I husked corn in barn LP drawed stove wood AM UP
Fri 16th
Cloudy Ther 27° Father Wm D & I hauled & c pulled about 20 bu of corn off No 1 UP
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Saturday December 17th 1887
Cloudy cool Ther 21° Father & Wm went to Chatham Alf returned from Model school D & I
hauled rest of corn husked (about 20 bu) in No 1 also part of fodder UP
Mon 19th
Fair froze Father took 26 bu & 34 lbs of old corn to town got 55 cts per lb rest took the large
furnace Kettle to UP built scafold &c prepare try to killing hogs
Tues 20th
Cloudy Ther 32° to 38 all killed 7 of largest pigs W N Newkirk helped GrandMother & Aunt
Mary done the in side work
Wed 21st
Cloudy snowed about 1 inch in night stormy AM fanned beans in barn LP &C cut some fire
wood
Thur 22nd
Cold snowing a little Father went to town took 8 pigs wt 1628 lbs got $6.25 per cwt Wm A D
& I cut some wood piled some brush &c in W brush UP
Fri 23rd
�Cloudy Ther 18° all bushed out dry cord in little bush hauled up some drags &c, I took Kate
to Fletcher got her shod
Sat 24th
Clear little snown Ther 24° Father went to town in Democrat rest hauled in corn (15 bu) and
fodder off No 1 UP hauled some firewood & c
Mon 26th
Cloudy snowed little in morn fair rest of day Wm D & I fanned 10 bags of corn & 11 bu of
beans took holiday
Tues 27th
Cloudy Father took 20 bu of old corn got 53 cts per bu also 11 1/4 bu of beans caught in frost
got 53 cts per bu for them also Wm A D & I cut cord wood & rails in little bush
Wed 28th
Cloudy blustry snow Father & Wm went to School metting at North S house rest cut fire
wood &c
Thur 29th
Cloudy windy Ther 10° above Z Wm put saws in order AM all cut wood & rails PM little bush
UP
Fri 30th
Cloudy began snow in evening all hauled upe drags to wood pile wood &c of out little bush
Sat 31st
Cloudy snowed hard AM turned to steady heavy rain Father went to town
Monday December J January 2nd
Cloudy Ther 12° above Father held poles for Mane Elare team at South S house assisted by
Wm rest cut wood in little
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Tuesday January 3rd 1888
Fair Ther 20° above prepared to get c Clover thrashed I he helped L Lacocq thrash his litte
Wed 4th
Cloudy Ther 28° above all cut little some wood took clover clov over to L Lacocq's and got it
thrashed had 2 1/2 bu of 1 load
Thurs 5th
Cloudy Ther 24° to 34° above D & I cut cord wood AM all cut trimed and piled PM Telegram
of the death of Aunt E P S Lindsay reached here PM
Fri 6th
Cloudy raining to 2 PM Father went to town to arrange for funeral D took Pat and Doll to
Fletcher got shod up front feet rest chored &c
Sat 7th
Cloudy Ther 30° all save Alf & Eunice went to town to attend funeral Aunt E P S Lindsay
Mon 9th
Cloudy windy Ther 20° all took 3 loads ( 2 waggons 1st load) of wood to N School Father
helped Martin put New {illegible} in wd well back of grainery UP
Wedn 11th
Cloudy Ther 6° above Father went over to Fletcher got new tounge put in waggon 7 Wm D &
A bushed out wood LP I took load of dry softwood to A G Robertson
Thur 12th
Cloudy windy Ther 7° above (evening 20° above) began snow Father & I two loads wood in
all (3 1/8 cord (got $1.75 per cord) to A G Robertson Fletcher Wm A & D work Load of Short
wood to N school I brought back bean thrasher from Higale's
�Fri 13th
Cloudy Ther 40° above windy turned cool, All shelled corn AM UP fanned up wheat LP, PM
Sat 14th
Cloudy Ther 8° above Father went to town democrat, Wm took in 41 bu 20 lbs of wheat got
80 cts per bu brought back some meal rest cut stove beach wood for school UP
Mon 16th
Cloudy Ther 0° in morn Wm Alf D & I cut some beach for school AM all cleared up rest of
wheat LP, PM 44 bu
Tues 17th
Cloudy Ther 18 ° above snowed about 2 in all bushed out some woo-d LP soft cord wood
cwt by Morshead & Brady
Wed 18th
Cloudy Father took 20 bu of wheat sold 10 bu at 80 cts per bu
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Wed 18th January 1888
Left rest for grist got 1529 lbs of flour due at mill finished brushing out Morhead Brady cord
wood 12 3/4 cords LP cut some short UP
Thur 19th
Cloudy little snow fell Ther 8° above Wm Alf D & I cut short wood for school UP
Fri 20th
Cloudy windy Ther 9° above Father got rear bob from fletcher had new put in it rest cut short
wood UP
Sat 21st
�Clear Ther 5° below Z Father took 21 bu of old corn to town on waggon got 52 cts per bu
Mrs Carter left with him for Pontiac all finished cutting school wood
Mon 23rd
Cloudy all took 2 waggon 1 sleigh load of short wood out to school bushed AM hauled PM
Tues 24th
Clear, warm sun sun, Ther 0° Father and all helped by N Newkirk killed and dressed
Gladstone bull
Wed 25
Cloudy Ther 15 ° above reached 32° Father went to town took pump head cross cut saw &c
for reperalteration traction 1/4 of bull 212 lbs to H Black for Clover seed total weight of bull
dressed 915 lbs shelled rest of old corn
Thur 26th
Clear windy Ther 16° Father and D took 2 loads of hickory cord wood to N Murray Chatham
Wm & Alf cut some wood for Aunt Sarah Ann
Fri 27th
Cloudy blustry Ther 12° about 2 in of snow Father & D took two loads of hickory wood to N M
Wm & Alf prepaired to kill 2 pigs killed PM wt 185 lbs and 206 lbs one for N Newkirk other J
Eliot got $7.10 per cwt
Sat 28th
Clear Ther 2° below Z Father & D took 2 loads of wood to NM (on sleighs (as previous times)
Wm & A chored
Mon 30th
Cloudy Ther 24° reached 36° above Father Alf and De went to town took 2 loads of dry
Beach Wm bushed out to road
Tues 31st
�Cloudy Ther 28° reached 34° Father took a load of wood to N Murray D D took a load in to
Aunt Sarah Ann
Wedn February 1st 1888
Cloudy Ther reached about 36° got ready and thrashed beans assisted by Felix & Frank
Sheeve had about 40 bu from the machine
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Thursday February the 2nd 1888
Cloudy mederate Father Wm A & D cleaned up beans barn LP, AM, all husked corn No 1
UP, PM.
Fri 3rd
Fair Ther 18° reached 36° all cut cord little brush AM part of PM Wm filed saws rest brought
up jag of hay PM
Sat 4th
Cloudy drizzeling rain Ther 32° Father & Alf went to town Wm put saws in oder rest chored
Mon 6th
Cloudy Clear Ther 16° about 1 1/2 in snow Father took 44 bu of oats to town got 41 cts per
bu Wm & A cut and slashed in big brush D & I bushed cord wood out little bu
Thes 7th
Cloudy little snow & rain PM Ther 28° to 34° Father & D took last two loads of dry hard wood
to N Murray Chatham rest cut and piled brush & cut cord wood big UP
Wed 8th
Clear windy Ther 12° Father took 16 bu of beans to town got $1.25 per bu, *Alf went in with
him began teaching in King St School PM (Wm took 20 bu of beans to Aunt Marrys to be
hand picked yesterday) Wm D & I cut & slashed big brush
Thurs 9th
�Clear windy cold Ther 8° below 0 4° below at noon Father Wm D & I cut cord wood AM
maple logs PM in big bush UP Felix Sheive got 8 light bu of shell corn on bean thrasher
Fri 11th
Fair Ther 1° below Z reached about 20° above all finished cutting (down) maple trees logs
Father took (pat & Polly) got shoes sharpened
Sat 11th
Clear warm Ther 8° above to 20° Father went to town Wm D & I hauled some fodder to
stables U & LP cut trees in back back field &c
Mon 13th
Clear fine Ther 44° to 46° we killed pigs rest 7 in number assisted by N Newkirk Aunt Marry
Aunt Emmaline & grand Mother; total weight of pigs 1470 lbs
Tues 14th
Cloudy Ther 41° in morn began to rain turned to snow evening Ther 16° Father took 4 pigs to
town total weight of the 4 hogs; 849 lbs got $6.85 per cu Wm cut up the pork
Wed 15th
Clear windy Ther 6° below Z Father Wm & D slashed in 8 con field
Thur 16th
Clear windy Ther 3° above re evening 34° above, Father Wm & D skided out maple logs in
big bush cut 9th & 10th {illegible}
Fri 17th
Clear Ther 24° to 36° Father got bag (2 bu) of clover seed from Horace Blacks & some
beans from Aunt Marry Wm D husk
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ed corn No 1 UP
�Sat 19th
Clear Ther 28° reached 40° Father took 10 bu of beans old corn & 5 bu 36 lbs of hand
picked beans got per bu 53 cts for corn for beans $ 1.85 per bu Wm & D hauled off part
shocks off No 1 on meadow back of it husked some of it PM Paid F, Martins note on cattle
Mon 20th
Cloudy warm Ther 40 ° lowered Father salted the pork Pork salted put beef in pickle Wm D &
I husked some corn barn LP
Tues 21st
Clear Ther 27 ° to 36 ° Father got Aunt Marry & 4 bags of good 2 bags of culls beans from
there Wm D & I hauled part corn shucks out 1 on meadow AM husked PM UP
Wed 22nd
Clear warm Father pickled beef went to Fletcher got oil barrel Wm D & I finished hauling off
corn shocks on No 1 Up husked PM
Thur 23rd
Clear Ther 27° to about 36° Father got Aunt Marry to render Lard make sausage &c Wm D &
I husked corn
Fri 24th
Cloudy Ther 28° in morn began raining 8 PM Father Wm D I & Wm Weaver husked and
finished corn on on meadow hauled in about 32 bu of corn
Sat 25th
Cloudy stormy Cooler Father went to Union Hall last night into town in morn came out by
train all husked corn in barn UP
Mond 27th
Fair Ther 8° above Z windy all cut stove wood big bush
Tues 28th
�Fair windy Ther 2° above Z Wm D & I hauled corn fodder off meadow AM, hauled rest of
corn about 45 bu in also
Wed 29th
Cloudy Ther 29° to 37° all prepaired to put up ICe AM but it was not fit all husked corn No 4
UP, PM
Thur March 1st 1888
Cloudy sleeting drizzling rain Wm D & I finished husking corn in barn at LP
Fri 2nd
Cloudy Sleeting rain Father D & I brought in load of corn (about 18 bu) out of No 4 took
wheels off old scrapper &c
Sat 3rd
Fair windy Ther 22° Father went to town Wm & I cut stove wood big bush UP
Mon 5th
Few Clouds windy Father cut corn stalk AM Wm & I cut ice on pond all packed ice PM
Tues 6th
Fair windy Ther 6° above all cut stove wood & slashed trees in back field big bush UP
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Wednesday March 7th 1888
Clear Ther 16° to 30° windy Father & Wm went to town D & I hauled off fod corn shocks to W
side field No 3 UP
Thur 8th
Clear Ther 20° Father took dry beef out of pickle Wm D & I hauled part of stocks to side No 3
husked PM UP
Fri 9th
�Fair Ther 18° to 30° Wm D & I husked corn No 3 hauled in about 24 bu of corn
Sat 10th
Cloudy warm began rain PM Father went to town Wm D & I & Alf who came out last night
husked corn AM
Mon 12th
Cloudy Windy Ther 11° above all finished cutting & slashing in back field neat 8 con cut
some stove wood also
Tues 13th
Clear AM Cloudy PM fierce wind Ther 8° above noon 10 ° above all cut some stove wood &
slashed PM big brush UP
Wed 14th
Cloudy turned warmer (13° Ther) all cut into cord part of hickory trees in back field next 8 con
piled brush also
Thur 15th
Clear Ther 12° reached 40° all Father went out on plains got a Pup we got 24 bu of corn No
4 UP cut at hickory rest day
Fri 16th
Cloudy Ther 38° Father got a show pat on Pat at Fletcher We finished cutting hickory in back
field neat 8 con
Sat 17th
Fair Ther reached about 36° Father went to town brought out set of smothing harrown paid
$13 for them Wm D & I cut some stove wood LP slashed little UP & c
Mon 19th
Fair warm Ther 38° to 60° Father scraped the road Wm D & I husked corn No 4 UP
�Tues 20th
Cloudy rainy all cleaned up oats Wm filed saw &c LP
Wedn 21st
Cloudy Stormy about 10 in of Snow first considerate snow this winter Wm D & I bushed out
some stove wood PM, UP
Thur 22nd
Cloudy windy very blustry Father went to N Buxton AM was married to M if M Higate PM We
brought a load of stove wood from LP
Fri 23rd
Fair Ther 4° below Z Wm D & I took 8 8 maple saw logs to Barry mill Fletcher to get sawed
Sat 24th
Fair Ther 2° below Z Father D & I cut 4 White logs AM Wm & Father took 3 to Robertson 1
for our {illegible} to Fletcher PM D & I got a load of straw from LP
Mon 26th
Cloudy rained hard nearly all day snow most gone all went down to other place faned rest of
Oats LP
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Tuesday March 27th 1888 April
Cloudy rained most PM all went to LP began word on a new 9 foot Roller 3 sections
Wed 28th
Cloudy snow and rain last night and this morn D & I went to LP Wm and us two worked on
Roller, framing &c
Thur 29th
�Cloudy very muddy Father went to town returned by 10 Con & brought Mrs Mary Shadd
home Wm D & I finished frameing the roler hauled 24 bu corn off No 4 UP
Fri 30th
Fair all husked corn No 4 AM hauled in about 30 bu PM
Sat 31st
Fair warm Wm Alf (who came out yesterday) D Flav & I husked two rows across No 4 UP
Mon April 2nd 1888
Fair Ther 34° all hauled in about 70 bu of corn AM Father took single buggy to Fletcher to
get repaired PM plowing beganWm & I began to plow in pong field on sod PM
Tues 3rd
Fair Ther 27° Father trimed at trees in orchard UP Wm, D, Flav & I husked corn No 4 UP
Wed 4th
Clear warm Ther 27° to 48° Father trimed trees Wm D Flav & I husked corn
Thur 5th
Cloudy heavy showers all day Father Wm & I worked at roller
Fri 6th
Fair Ther 34° to 48° Father Wm I finished making 9 foot roller D & F piled apple tree trimings
Sat 7th
Clear Ther 32° to 44° Father & Wm went to town D F & I hauled in about 9 80 bu of corn off
No 4 UP
Mon 9th
Cloudy Father took sal pork out of salt D & I tried to X plow in pond field to wet all finished
husking corn No 4 UP, began plowing No 1 LP sod PM
�Tus 10th
Cloudy showering rain all day Father hung up the pork took plow cutters to Fletcher got
sharpened Wm D & I cleaned thrasher & c LP
Wedn 11th
Fair Wm D & I fixed fences LP, AM hauled Load hay up here hauled in some fodder PM
Thur 12th
Cloudy cool spit little snow wind Ther 27° WM D & I plowed in No 1 LP
Fri 13th
Cloudy Cool Wm D & I {faded} LP
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Saturday April 14th 1888
Cloudy cool Father and M went to town D & I plowed No 1 LP Wm made a slide gate
enterence into No 1 LP
Mon 16th
Clear, about 3 in of snow; fell yesterday warm PM; Wm D & I finished plowing No 1 LP
Father cleaned part E line into LP
Tues 17th
Cloudy Cool windy Ther 30°- 38° snowed little showered some Wm & I plowed in No pond
field AM all cleaned part of E line ditch LP PM Doll mare had a horse colt
Wedn 18th
Cloudy windy cool Father & Wm started ditch on E side Lane W UP all finished it PM, D & I
fixed fence AM
Thur 19th
�Cloudy windy little shower Wm & I rolled Lot 2 & part of No 4 meadow LP AM plowed some
in pond field started to plow No 1 Father put trunk Lane ditch cleaned it out &c
Fri 20th
Cloudy cool spit little snow last night Father and Wm were Cleaning at E line ditch UP, D & I
plowed in No 1 UP
Sat 21st
Fair Ther 31° to 38° Father & Wm cleaned at ditches UP D & I plowed in No 1 AM & pond
field sod PM UP
Mon 23rd
Cloudy cool windy spit little snow Father went to T S Counsill meeting Wm & I plowed in No
1 UP & Pond field
Tue 24th
Cloudy windy cool Ther 32° to 40° Wm & I plo finished plowing No 1 AM D & I began plowing
No 4 Wm extended W side Lane ditch
Wed 25th
Clear Ther 24° warm Father D & F cleared and burnt apple trimings AM Wm & I plowed pond
field; Wm sowed clover seed No 3 LP, D rolled rest of No 4 clover LP; I began smoothing
harrow on Wheat in No 3 D begg began rolling it
Fri 27th
Clear very warm Ther 48° reached 80° in shade Wm finished sowing clover seed in No 3 I
harrowed in D rolled rest of it
Sat 28th
Clear warm Ther reached 82° in shade Father M & Wm went into town took 51 bu 24 lbs of
oats got 38 cts per bu Alf finished sowing clover on No 5, D finished harrowing & rolling it
brought up a load of hay & fodder
Mon 30th
�Cloudy cooler rained all PM, D rolled I harrowed part of No 6 LP, AM, Father, Wm & F
cleaned seed oats let S. Newman have 9 1/2 bu of seed oats at 45 cts per bu
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Tuesday May 1st 1888
Cloudy cool spit little snow in morn Father put in some X onions Beets Turnips Redish &
potatoes LP, Wm resowed clover seed on part of No 5 LP, D & I finished plowing Pond field
Wedn 2nd
Fair cool Father held MP election Smith vs Campbell latter elected by Wm began drilling in
spring wheat n part No 1 UP I harrowed part of it D plowed some in No 4 UP
Thur 3rd
Cloudy cool Wm finished sowing spring wheat and Oats on No 4 UP, D & I finished
harrowing it I & Herbert Black (who came at noon to plow) plowed in No 4 UP, PM
Fri 4th
Cloudy showery Father put in some peas & potatos near Pond Wm H Black & I finished
plowing No 4 UP began plowing in field No 8 next 8 con field, D rolled in 1
Sat 5th
Fair Father went to town Wm D H Black harrowed No 4 UP plowed some in No 8 D finished
rolling No 1 I run out the furrows we hauled some hay & corn fodder
Mon 7th
Cloudy Father planted some potatos & other garden seed Wm rolled part Drilled all No 4 D &
I plowed in No 8 harrowed part of it AM UP
Tues 8
Cloudy rained about noon began heavy rain in evening Wm D & I plowed No 8 UP
Wedn 9th
�Cloudy Father planted some potato Pea Nuts & sweet corn near Pond Wm D & I struck off
over to Center ditch too wet to plow No 8 & 7 UP
Thur 10th
Fair warm Ther reached 78° Father & Wm putt in yard gate UP, Wm rolled clover lot No 2 &
No 6 I ran out for rows No 4 D & I plowed No 8 UP; PM
Fri 11th
Clear warm Ther reached 80° Father sowed some on No 3 UP Alf plowed in No 8 AM Wm
began to Drill on No 5 D & I harrowed in No 8
Sat 12th
Cloudy cool PM Father & M went to town WM & D harrowed and Drilled in oats No 8 UP
Mon 14th
Cloudy cool Wm D & Herbert Black plowed in No 6 & 8
Tues 15
Cloudy cool Ther 40° Wm Drilled D in rest of oats No 6 & 8 UP D & I harrowed part of it
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Wednesday May 16th 1888
Fair Cool Wm rolled part run out furrows &c in out field D & I harrowed rest of it AM F began
harrowing No 7 pond field Father took small harrows to Fletcher got them sharped
Thurs 17th
Fair Ther 34 ° in morn frost Father & Wm pulled stumps No 7 LP, D & I finished harrowing
pond field UP AM NMP1 began harrows on No 1 and LP PM
Fri 18th
Cloudy rained PM Wm pulled stumps on No 7 LP, PM D & I harrowed on No 1 LP, AM
shelled corn UP PM
�Sat 19th
Fair Father & M went to town Wm pulled stumps in No 7 D and I piled part of them LP
Mon 21st
Clear Father took 2 bu of oats to town & 4 bu of corn got cut of brand Wm finished pulling
stumps all piled
Tues 22nd
Fair Father Wm & D finished gathering stumps on No 7 F & I harrowed No 1 LP
Wed 23rd
Fair windy Father burned stumps No 7 D & I finished harrowing No 1 all plowed some in No
7 LP Father went to Fletcher PM got single buggy from Robertson & c
Thur 24th
Fair Wm & D plowed & scraped down rest hills of hind 7 AM J & I plowed all day, Wm & D
PM No 7 LP
Fri 25th
Cloudy cool rained some PM Father picked & shelled seed corn Wm D & I plowed, harrowed
No 7 AM
Sat 26th
Cloudy rained little in morn Fair PM Father M & I went to town Wm & D plowed in No 7 LP
Mon 28th
Cloudy rained Wm & I plowed in No 7 D plowed pease on other side young Orchard for
potatos LP solo Red cow 40 40
Tues 29th
Fair Wm D & I plowed in No 7
Wedn 30th
�Clear Warm Father & Father Fla planted potatos in young Orchard LP Wm & D plowed No 7
AM I got double cultivate of of H Black cultivated D & F harrowed pong field UP
Thur 31st
Cloudy showered in morn D & I (harrowed cross) pond field WM finished cultivating it &
marked it off for corn I began planting
Fri June 1st 1888
Fair Ther 42° rained in evening Father planted potatos LP Wm plowed No 7 D & F harrowed
part of it LP I planted corn in pond field UP
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Saturday June 2nd 1888
Cloudy Cool Father & M went to town brought out a Bennet iron handle plow Wm plowed AM
D harrowed I finished planting corn in pond field AM, harrowed PM
Mon 3rd
Fair W D & I plowed No 7 LP
Tues 4
Fair warm Father worked in garden I plowed D & F harrowed No 7 Wm made 2 put in side
yard gate cross lane LP above barn yard
Wedn 5
Clear windy Ther reached 83° Wm & D finished plowing D finished harrowing I began rolling
Wm to mark off No 7 LP I began double cultivating No 1 PM LP
Thur 7th
Cloudy cool Ther 48° Wm marked part D finished roll-ing Father began cross marking Wm &
I planting No 7 LP
Fri 8th
Fair Father marked Wm & I planted corn No 7 D cultivated in No 1 LP
�Sat 8th
Cloudy shower in evening Father & M went to town I finished marking off Wm & Alf planting
No 7 LP, D rolled No 7 Wm moved side gate to bush
Mon 10th
Clear warm Father & Wm & Fhe shelled corn AM LP I cultivated No 1 AM harrowed pond
field PM
Tues 12th
Clear warm Ther 44° in morn Father worked in garden LP Wm gang plowed part No 1 D
cultivated I harrowed part of it finished pond field UP
Wedn 12th
Wm ganged rest No 1 LP I harrowed part D rolled it
Thur 14
Cloudy rained heavy PM all put in a new bridge L Pat road shelled rest of corn out of old crib
LP
Fri 14th
Clear very warm ther reached about 90° all hauled stones off 8 con field AM began planting
beans on No 1 LP PM
Sat 16th
Clear very warm Ther reached 89° shade Father & M went to town to market WM D & I
planted beans No 1 LP
Mon 18th
Clear hot Ther reached 94° all finished planting beans in No 1 LP
Tues 19th
�Clear warm Wm put in shole gate in lane to big bush UP I harrowed oats part of No 7 UP
Father went after seed got a little
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Wednesday June 20th
Clear very warm Father took 55 bu of corn to town got 60 cts per bu brought Mr Branton out
to build in kittle Wm & D went to Lake got 2 loads sand
Thur 21st
Clear warm all assisted assted assisted Mr Branton working at Kittle D & I cultivated some
AM in pond field
Fri 22nd
Clear very warm Father Wm & Mr Branton finished kittle & repaired fireplace D cultivated
some in pond field I replanted corn in pond field
Sat 23rd
Cloudy warm sultry rained heavy Last night Father & M went to town rest repaired 8
con field fence
Mon 25th
Cloudy rained all PM Father went over to Fletcher got part of lumber being sawed at Barry
Mill AM shelled corn UP, PM
Tues 26th
Cloudy cooler Father & Wm went to Fletcher got rest of Lumber N AM Wm D & I cultivated
corn LP
Wed 27th
Cloudy Cool drizzled little PM Father worked in garden LP WM D & I cultivated in No 7 LP all
day
Thur 28th
�Cloudy rained all PM all shelled corn UP
Fri 29th
Cloudy Father & F worked in garden Wm D & I hauled up about 170 rails from LP finished
reparing McMa McCart line fence land part of 8 con fence
Sat 30th
Fair Father W & M went to town Wm took in 50 bu of corn got 60 cts per bu D & I cultivated
rest of corn one way in No 7 LP began cross Cultivating
Monday July 2nd 1888
Clear warm Wm D & I began cultivating beans No 1 LP Father & Fla hoed some
Tues 3rd
Clear Wm D & I finished cultivating beans No 1 LP Father & F hoed, went to Fletcher got
new Mapwell self Binder brought it home
Wed 4
Clear very warm shower in evening Wm D I cultivated corn in No 7 LP Father & F hoed
potatos & c
Thur 5
Clear very warm Wm D & I finished cross cultivating Corn No 7 LP, AM Wm & I began mourn
Clover & Timothy Lot No 2 & No 3 UP PM
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Friday July 6th 1888
Fair Alf (who came out yesterday) & D finished culting No 3 Father & Wm cut fence corners I
cultivated all shocked No 2 & 3 PM
Sat 7th
Fair Father & M went to town Wm finished culting No 6 all hauled in hay PM
�Mon 9th
Cloudy Alf D & I cross cultivated part of pond field AM Wm gang plowed can thistels No 5 all
hauled in rest of No 3 put in old stable UP
Tues 10th
Fair Father went to town AM got iron for rake lever Wm D & I cultivated in pond field PM Alf
& D cut hay in 8 to con field Fla raked Wm & I shocked in No 5 PM UP
Wedn 11th
Clear very windy all hauled out lot No 2 No 3 UP & part No 6 built a stack near old stable UP
Thur 12th
Cloudy rained very hard started to recultivate beans a man came out a and put up binder
Fri 13th
Cloudy all hoed beans AM LP raked & shock 8 con field PM UP
Sat 12th
Fair Father & M went to town to market all hauled hay out of 8 con field to barn at LP
Mon 16th
Fair all took in rakeings off 8 con field 8 rest of hay on No 6 UP hauled to barn LP
Tues 17
Fair Father went to town to attend cort on the Morhead vs F Shreve Alf & D finished cutting
hay No 4 LP, F tedded rest & raked part hauled in some
Wed 18th
Cloudy rained heavy AM cut thistles LP Father worked in garden LP
Thur 19th
Fair all worked in garden & beans in morn Flave teddedtedded No 4 all hauled in PM
�Fri 20th
Clear Father went to C Johnston's funeral AM rest worked at beans began rakeing & hauling
in hay No 4 when dew was off
Sat 21st
Clear Father began self binder in No 5 rest hauled in rest of hay off No 4 in to barn LP
Mon 23rd
Fair Father finished cutting E side No 5 wheat we cradled around fields set up wheat hoed
beans & c
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M Black
Tuesday July 24th 1888
Fair Wm cut most of No 6 Father cradelled around stumps we hoed set up wheat PM hauled
hay rakeings off No 4 LP Mrs
Wedn 25
Cloudy Wm finished cutting No 6 AM F Father cut part No 3 LP rest hoed beans set up
wheat in No 6 PM
Thur 26th
Cloudy rained all AM showered PM hoed late potato patch
Frid 27th
Cloudy Father went to Fletcher got some irons for thrasher cut rest of wheat wheat in No 3 &
No 5 all set it up
Sat 28th
Fair Father & M went to town with Aunt E Team Wm cut Aunt E wheat with binder set up all
hauled in part of No 6 PM {pencil marks}
�Mon 29th
Fair all hauled in most of wheat out of No 5 stacked it near old stable LP
Tues 31th
Cloudy all with the assistance of O Kersey, P, Chase feeders, C Simpson & 3 others
thrashed all of field No 5 LP hathad 170 u from machine hauled in hay out of Lot 2 & orchard
Wedn August 1st 1888
Fair all hauled in wheat out of No 6 in to barn Thursday 2nd Cloudy Wm began thrashing at
H Blacks assisted by P. Chase & O Kersey rest of us hauled in rest of No 6 & all of No 3 into
barn
Xmas
Fri 3rd
Fair warm Ther 92° Alf D & I cut x hay on slashed part of 8 con field shocked it PM Father &
F cut thistles & c
Sat 4th
Fair very warm Father M & Wm went to town we cut fence corners UP
Mon 6th
Cloudy showered some PM Father Wm & A cleaned up a load of wheat for market AM all
hauled hay from slashing 8th con field cut fence corners &c PM
Tues 7th
Cloudy showered PM Father went to town took 49 bu ($42.36) 50lbs got 85 cts per bu all
worked at fence corners cutting & sta sather stacking part of them on top old stable stack
Wedn 8th
Fair Father Wm & Alf cleaned wheat for market D & I began plowing wheat stubble No 6 LP
Thur 9th
�Fair Father & Alf took two loads wheat to town had 8 85 bu got 87 cts per bu
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D plowed I harrowed & plowed some in No 6 LP
Fri August 10th 1888
Fair Father cut spring wheat on E part No 1 UP with binder D plowed No 6 LP A & I finished
stack at stable
Sat 11th
Cloudy Father cut oats W part No 1 UP rained some shed evening D plowed No 6 LP I
grubed stumps Wm thrashed
Mon 13th
Clear very wet under foot Alf & D plowed in No 6 LP Father & I finished grubing stumps No 6
LP Wm thrashing
Tues 14th
Clear Father cut Aunt E oats with bender D plowed No 6 A & I cut part weeds over beans No
1 LP with scythe
Wed 15th
Cloudy rained some in night Father & D plowed No 6 A & I cut weeds No 1 LP f Flav worked
in garden
Thur 16th
Fair Ther reached 86 ° Father cut part oats in No 4 UP, D plowed No 6 LP A & I cut weeds
shocked oats &c
Fri 17th
Cloudy drizzled some in morn Father finished cutting oats No 4 UP, D plowed No 6 LP all
hauled some oats out of No 1 UP to LP Barn
�Sat 18th
Fair warm Father, M, A & I went to town to 32 1/2 bu of wheat got 90 cts per bu
Mon 21st
Clear warm all hauled rest of oats out of No 1 UP to LP barn & spring what wheat into old
barn UP
Tues 22nd
Fair windy Father went to town to Doctor Springer who came out to me A, D, & F cut around
oats in No 8 UP Father began cutting them PM
Wedn 22nd
Cloudy cooler Ther 56° to 70° Father cut oats to No 8 A, D, & F hauled part oats out No 4 UP
into old Barn
Thur 23rd
Fair Ther 43° in morn Father cut oats in No 7 UP A D & F hauled oats out of No 4 UP, I run
engine Wm went town repairs
Fri 24th
Clear Father went to town for binder repairs brought out Park to take steam pipe off engine
&c I ran Bell's engine for Wm A, D, F set up oats cut peas with mower, thistles &c
Sat 25th
Clear Father & M went to town A & D plowed No 6 LP, F & I cut thistles set up oats in
eve oats
Mon 27th
Clear I cut A & F shocked oats in No 7 UP, D. plowed No 6 LP Father went to Fletcher got
twine Knife for Binder
Tues 28th
�Clear Ther 46° to 70° I cut A & F shocked oats
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Tuesday August 28th 1888
Clear Ther 46° to 70° I cut oats with binder A & F shocked No 7 UP, D plowed No 6 LP
Wedn 29th
Fair I finished cutting oats with binder in No 7 UP, A & F shocked it up D plowed No 6 LP
Thur 30th
Clear warm all hauled oats out of No 7 UP into old Barn made a stack bottom by old Barn
Fri 31st
Cloudy cool PM Father went to town got main Belt for thrashing machine (cost $45) Uncle
Amar Cooper stacked we hauled out No 7 UP built 2 stacks
Sat September 1st 1888
Fair Father M went to town Aunt E's teams Alf D F and I hauled rest of oats out No 7 UP,
Uncle A Cooper stacked the by old barn UP, AM covered barn with boards PM
Monday Sept 3nd rd
I went to A robbins for a barrel of black oil, Father burnt in little bush U.P I & D & I hauled
manure
Tues 4th
Father took oil to seived timothy seed I hauled manure on No 1 U.P. P.M. D. cut Clov lot No
2 p.m A.M. I. D. & F pulled beans
J.D commences to write the Diary
Wed 5th fair. Father went to town took 7 bu 8 lbs & got $16 for it, hired one, John. Patterson
at 75 cts perday Chas, Fla, john & I pulled beans at in No 1 L,P,
Wedn 5th
�Fair f Father opened trench at pond well Chas. Fla & I picked stones No 7 U.P. P.M & pulled
beans No. 1. L.P. A.M.
Thur 6th
Father went to town took 7 bu 8 lbs of timothy seed sold it for $16 & hired one John
Patterson at 75 cts per day Clas Fla & I pulled beans. John help
Fri 8th
clod Cloudy Father went to Russels to but some lambs. John. Chas. Fla & I. pulled beans
P.M. it rained A.M & we done nothing
Sat 8th
Clear Father & mother went to town. John Pat cleared {faded} P.M Chas helped Wm
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set valve on engine, Fla & I hauled manure PM @ UP Chas, John P, & Fla pulled beans,
A.M. I went to David Thorpes for 50 bu of oats
Monday 10th
Father went and got 16 bus of clauson wheat From John Travis for seed PM at $1 per bu
Chas. John P. Fla & I pulled beans.
Tues 11th
Clear father burnt in big bush U.P Chas John P. Fla. & I pulled beans. L.P.
Wedn 12th "
Fair Father went to town and got Wm some small things for seperator Chas. Fla. & I. hauled
beans in barn at L.P. John P. I pulled beans
Thur 13th "
Clear Father burnt in big bush Chas. Fla & I hauled beans in the barn at L.P. John P pulled
Fri 14th "
�Clear Father fired stumps on No. 6 L.P. chas plowed. Fla & I harrowed. John P. pulled
beanes
Sat 15th "
Cloudy Father & mother went to town got a pair of blind bridles Chas plowed & Fla & I
harrowed in No 6 L.P. John P pulled beans in No 1 LP
Monday 17th
Father went to fletcher to black smith. Chas gang plowed in No 6. L.P. Fla & I harrowed in it
John P pulled bean PM. rolld rolled with Aunt Emma's team, n weaned the three colts today
Tues 18th
Fair Father burnt roots in No 6 L.P Fla & I harrowed in it. Chas & John P plowed in No 7 U.P.
Chas drilled a little wheat in No 6 LP in the evening
Wedn 19th
Clear Father burnt roots P.M went to town A.M. Chas finished drilling wheat in No 6 LP. John
O plowed with aunt E team in No 7. UP. I plowed & Fla harrowed in No 7 UP
Thur 20th
Clear Father tinkered around Chas run smooth harrows over & run furrows out in No 6 LP Alf
& John P plowed & Fla harrowed in No 7 UP I helped the widow Florida to thrash
Fri 21st
Fair Father burnt roots & shoveled out furrows & took plow points to black smith shop
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Friday September 21st " 1888
Chas Alf, & I plowed Fla harrowed we haul in a load of beans. John P cut corn pond field UP
Sat 22nd
�Clear Father & mother went to Chatham Chas plowed Alf plowed PM went to town A.M. I
rolled PM. plowed AM. Fla pulled beans PM. & harrowed AM. John P pulled beans PM cut
corn AM
Monday 24rd th
Clear warm Father slept. Chas. & I plowed. Fla harrowed AM & rolled AM all of us in No 7
UP. John P cut corn in A pond field UP
Tues 25th
Fair warm Father went to No Buxton PM. Chas plowed till 3 AM & Fla harrowed till 3 AM then
Father & Chas & Fla hauled in a load of beans I plowed in No 7 UP. John P cut corn in pond
field
Wedn 26
Cloudy Father went to town got some tallow & a chain tightner for engine Chas plowed & Fla
harrowed & rolled, John P & I helped Uncle Amarcus Cooper to thrash
Thur 27th
Cloudy & damp Father picked stones, Chas & I plowed Fla harrowed & rolled all in No 7 UP
John P cut corn in pond field UP.
Frid 28th
Frost Ther 38° Cloudy Father sunk a big stone in No 7 UP, PM Chas & I plowed & Fla
harrowed in No 7 UP P.M Father hired one James Aray at $16 a month & Father Chas. I Fla.
& James A. helped Aunt Emma to thresh Wm's machine John P, cut corn in No 7 LP
Sat 29th
Frost. Cloudy. Father and mother went to market Chas & I
Sat 29th
Plowed in No 7 UP Fla harrowed in it AM John P. & James Aray cut corn in No 7, LP.
Monday Oct 1st
�Cloudy Ther 58° Father picked stones P.M Chas & I finished ploweding in No 7 U.P P.M Fla
finished harroweding in No 7 U.P P.M James Aray cut corn in No 7 LP. PM. Father Chas,
James. I. & Fla started a ditch in No 7 UP A.M John P cut corn in No 7 LP
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Tues Oct 2nd 1888
Cloudy and cool, Ther 50° Father Cha & James A Cleaned seed wheat, PM at LP, John P.
Fla & I shelled corn, PM, at UP. Father went to James Harris's Sr. got 16 bu for wheat Chas,
Fla, & I finished one flat ditch & started another one in No 7 UP John P. & James A husked
corn PM in pond field UP
Wedn 3rd "
Ther 34° Cloudy, Father faned the harris wheat, Chas Fla & I finished the flat ditch in No 7
UP. & hauled a load of stones to pond P.M. Chas drilled & Fla & cross harrowed A.M. in No
7. LP.
Thur 4th
Clear Ther 39° Father went to town for a f belat Chas drilled wheat & Fla & I cross harrowed
in No 7. UP. John. P. & James A, cut corn in No 7 LP Wm brought his engine home
Fri 5th
Cloudy Ther 54° Father & Fla got 6 bu 3 lbs hauled up a load of stove wood. PM tinkered
around A.M. Chas finished drilling in No 7 UP & I finished harrowing, took Wm Prince Chase.
Bub Kersey John P & James A. cut corn in No 7 LP, Archie Robbins got 6 bus of seed wheat
Sat 6th
Cloudy, Father, mother & Fla went to town to market, Wm went to town to bring out an
engine from Parks Fdy, Chas, John P. & James A shelled corn P.M, U.P. Chas run out water
fur-rows A,M in No 7 UP. John P. & James A cut corn AM. in No 7. LP. I. helped P. chase fix
bean mill P.M at LP. shoveled furrows AM. UP
Mond 8th
�Cloudy & damp Father. chas. Fla. John P James A husked P.M. in Pond field. U.P. Chas.
Fla, I. unloaded a load of beans at LP & hauled up 2 lbs of water from there & hauled in 44
bus of corn out of pond field UP AM John P & James A cut corn in No 7 LP AM
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Tues. 9th Oct 1888
Frost ther 35° Father. Chas. Fla & I. fanned 22 bus of corn. & cut down a tree at LP. PM
John. P. & James A cut corn in No 7 LP. PM Father went to see John Morris AM Chas.
James A. & I hauled manure, UP. AM Fla pulled beans AM at LP
Wedn 10
Clear Ther 25° Father went to town took 19 bu 19 10 & 10 lbs of wheat got $1.10 per bu. &
22 bus & 52 lbs of corn & got 54 cts per bu with aunts 8 team Chas James A. & I hauled
manure on No 8 UP. John P husked corn in pond field UP
Thur 11th
Cloudy Ther 36° Father took Aunt Emma's team home PM, & went to Merlin for little pig AM,
Chas. James A. & I. hauled manure on No 8 U.P, John P husked corn on pond field. Fla
pulled beans LP
Fri 12th
Raining, Father paid John P off this morning Father, Chas, Fla. I. & James A. shelled corn
UP
Sat 13th
Cloudy & wet Father & mother went to market, Chas, James A. Fla & I. shelled corn &
hauled in 24 bus, UP. P.M. Wm. Chas. James & I. cleaned manure out of sheds, LP. A.M.
Mond 15th "
Cloudy rained A.M, Father went to Thomas Russels, got a suffolk sow, cost $9, & 4 lambs at
4 1/2 per head Chas. I. & James A, husked in pond field & hauled in 24 bu. Fla. dug
potatoes, LP.
�Tues 16th
Fair. Father went to Fletcher P.M. Chas I & James. A. finished husking in pond field and
hauled in 24 bu. Fla picked apples P.M LP.
Wedn 17th "
Cloudy. Father took 45 bu. & 10 lbs of corn & got 54 cts per bu Chas, James A. fixed line
fence between. LP. & Lucas. Lecacq. P,M, hauled manure A,M on No 3 L.P. I. helped Chas
& J. PM, helped Fla pick apples A.M. LP
Thur 18th
Fair, Father went to the plains. Chas. James & I hauled manure on No 7 L.P. Fla picked
apples
Fri 19
Damp. Father went to fletcher P.M. & buxton A.M
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Friday 19th Oct 1888
Chas James. & I. hauled manure on No 1 LP. PM Chas. & I plowed in No 1 UP AM James &
Fla dug potatoes AM. LP
Sat 20th
Cloudy snow squall this morning Father. & Mo went to Chatham to market chas James. & I.
& Fla hauled some. apples. potatoes, beats & unions from LP to UP. PM. Chas. & James
husked in No 7 LP. AM I plowed in No 1. UP. A.M.
Mond D 22nd "
Cloudy chilly & damp. chas. James. & I . hauled manure at L.P. on No 1. Father & Fla pited
parsnap at LP
Tues 23rd
Cloudy rained little PM Chas, James A & I hauled manure No 1 LP
�Wedn 24th
Fair Father went to town got some things for thrashing Wm & I brought Engine & Seperator
in from plains Chas hunted hands all prepared for thrashing
Thur 25th
Clear Wm threshed for us on UP
Fri 26th
Cloudy & damp finished threshing PM in rain and had 880 bus of oats & 40 bus of spring
wheat, Father, Chas, & James hushed corn AM I. & Wm took bean mill to Cubit Martins
AM towtwo teams
Sat 27th
Cloudy Father & Mother went to market Chas James Fla & I husked corn in No 7 LP. &
hauled in 40 bu. Wm went to town, paid James off
Mond 29th
Clear. Father helped Wm to haul engine to Cubit Martin, PM, Chas, Fla, & I. husked corn in
No 7 LP, Father husked AM we hauled in 32 bu some LP some UP
Tues 30th
Clear. Father burnt stubbles in No 5 LP Chas & I hauled manure on No 1 & 3 L.P.
Wedn 31st
Clear, Father burnt weeds on No 1 LP chas Fla & I hauled manure on it
Thur November 1st 1888
Fair Father sold rose cow & a curley hefier for $35 to Mike Doyle Chas & I hauled manure on
No 1 LP
Fri 2nd
Fair we all threshed beans at LP we had about 75 bus done t it with the bean mill
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Sat November 3rd 1888
Fair Father & mother went to market. Wm went to town Chas Alf Fla & I got up noon & fixed
the shed & got ready to thresh & husked hauled about 20 bus of corn all done at LP
Mond 5th
Fair. threshed at LP. 366 bus of fall wheat & 164 bus of oats
Tues 6th
Cloudy & damp Father Wm Chas & I faned some 80 bus of oats 940 bus of beans at Lp. Fla
took Kate & Pat to fletcher & got them shod
Wedn 7th
Cloudy. Father Wm & Chas, took 75- bus 30 lbs of oats & 42 bus 10 lbs of beans to
Chatham & got 33 cts for oats per bu. & $1.30 per bu for beans. Fla & I husked corn at LP
Thur 8th "
Cloudy & wet. Father Wm. Fla. & I, husked corn in F No 7 LP & hauled in about 42 bu
Charley left this morning for Grenville Mrs Mise
Fri 9th "
Damp. Father. Wm. Fla & I hauled up 30 bu of corn PM, & cleaned 80 bus of wheat at LP,
AM
Sat 10th "
Wet & ugly. Father & mother went to chatham Wm. & I spread straw PM on LP barn yard &
Fla helped us A.M. to fan wheat LP.
Mon 12th
Clear. Ther 32° Father went to fletcher & got 8 bus of potatoes Mr Newkirk Wm. Fla & I.
husked corn in No 7, LP
�Tues 13th "
Clear. Ther 36°, Father. Wm Fla & I husked corn No 7, LP
Wedn 14th "
Clear Father went to the plains PM Wm Fla & I husked till 3 AM then hauled in 70 bus out of
No 7 LP
Thur 15th "
Cloudy we Father, Wm Fla. I. cleaned up the barn floor & tried threshing corn & which
proved successful at L.P. APM, & hauled in 120 bus of corn out of No 7 LP
Fri 16
Snow 1/2 inch Ther 36° Wm husked corn P.M. Fla & I husked all day in No 7 LP, Father Wm
took 80 bus of wheat to fletcher & gt $1.08 per bus
Sat 17th
Snow 1/2 inch Ther 25° Father & mother went to market. Wm Fla & I husked corn in No 7
LP.
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Monday November 19th 1888
Cloudy Ther 40°, Father, Wm Fla & I husked corn in No 7 LP
Tues 20th "
Clear Ther 26° Father Wm. F & I husked in No 7 LP
Wed 21st
Clear Ther 19° Father went to town took 28 bus & 5 lbs of wheat to 94 bus of corn brought
back 200 lbs of flour & bran & shorts & left 839 lbs of flour at mill. he got 1 bl of salt & one
bed stead. Wm Fla. & I. hauled in 90 bus of corn out of No 1 LP
Thur 22nd
�Clear Ther 19°, Father Wm Fla & I husked corn in No 7 LP. & hauled in 16 bus of corn.
Fri 23rd
Clear Ther 32° Father Wm Fla & I husked corn No 7 UP
Sat 24th
Clear Ther 18° Father & mother went to market. Wm. F. & I husked corn in No 7 LP AM. &
hauled in 56 bus of corn PM
Mond 26th
Cloudy snowed 1/2 in PM Ther 24 ° Father Wm. F. & I. husked corn in No 7 LP, Amab
husked at 4 cts {faded}
Tues 27th
Cloudy snow 1 inch Ther 32° Father. Wm. F. & I hauled in 182 bus of corn out of No 7 LP
Wed 28th “
Cloudy snow 1 in Ther 32° Father. Wm, Fla. & I hauled 124 bus of corn out of No 7 LP, Tom
& Alf Alf & Tom Prince husked for 4 cts per bu in No 7 LP
Thur 29th :
Cloudy & damp Father, Wm, F, & I husked corn
Fri 30th "
Cloudy, Father. Wm. F. & I. husked corn in No 7, L,P, Alf & Tom Prince & Amab Elare
husked corn in No 7 LP for 4 cts per bu
Sat December 1st 1888
Father & mother went to market & Wm Fla & I. hauled in 90 bus of corn out of No 7 LP
Mon 3rd
Cloudy Ther 32° Father Wm Fla. & I huskedhauled 188 bus of corn out of No 7 LP Alphus &
Thomas Prince husked in No 7 LP
�Tues 4th
Cloudy Ther 30°. Father went to fletcher AM got a shoe put on pats right forefoot &
telagraphed to chatham toBogart. Vet. Sur. Shanks was sick. Bogart come & said she had
infirmate on the lungs, rest hauled in 140 bus of corn
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Wednesday December 5th 1888
Father took Mrs Peakers pork to Chatham. Wm. & I commenced cleaning out east line ditch
with 1 team, UP. between us & John Lecocq
Thur 6th "
Ther 28° Father. Wm. Prince chase & I worked on the line ditch with two teams
Fri 7th
Cloudy Ther 30° Father, Wm, Fla, & I faned beans, AM, L,P Father picked & baged some of
them P,M, Wm, Fla & I, ditched at the line ditch PM,
Sat 8th "
Cloudy Ther 38° Father & mother went to market, Wm, took, 27 bu 10 lbs of f beans to
Chatham, Fla & I hauled up wood.
Mon 10th
Fair Ther 39° Father cleaned out ditches Wm & I plowed all in No 1 L,P,
Tues 11th
Fair, Ther 32° Father went to Mrs Peakers bee, Wm, & I plowed in No 1 LP
Wed 12th
Cloudy, Ther 24° Father cut weeds in west line ditch, Wm, & I plowed in No 1 LP.
Thur 13th
�Fair I Ther 18°, all Fla took Kate to fletchers dgot 1 shoe put on fore foot AM rest tinkered
around A.M. Wm, & I , plowed in No 1 U,P,
Fri 14th
Clear, Ther 18° All faned wheat AM, Wm & I took 60 bus & 45 lbs of wheat to fletcher got 96
cts per bus PM & Father went to school examination.
Sat 15th
Cloudy Ther 27° Father & mother went to market in chatham, Wm, Fla & I, hauled up some
wood & in some fodder
Mon 17th
Cloudy, Ther 42° Father, Wm, Fla & I Tues 18faned up wheat & beans at L.P.
Tues 18
Blustry snow 2 in Ther 22° Father sewed on sewing machine, Fla & I hauled up two logs for
back logs AM, & Wm & I baged up 51 bus of wheat
Wed 19th
Cloudy Thr 22° Father we took 31 bus & 50 lbs of wheat to town got $1.03 Wm took Dick &
Jin to fletcher got them shod & tinkered about I fixed stable UP
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Thursday December 20th 1888
Cloudy Ther 11 ° Father tinkered about Wm, Fla & I hauled in fodder 2 loads, UP, & 2 loads
LP
Fri 21st
Cloudy Ther 30 ° noon 18 ° even Father Wm Fla & I fanned, & Father & Wm took 165 bus of
oats to fletcher
Sat 22nd
�Fair, Ther 8 ° Father mother & Wm went to town, Alf come out, Fla & I hauled up one load of
corn from LP, & a load of wood from big bush
Mon 24th "
Fairm Ther 28 ° Father, Wm, Alf, Fla & I fanned oats & Father & Wm took 84 bus & 8 lbs
of oats oats to fletcher
Wed 26th
Cloudy & damp Ther 50 ° Father & Wm went to trustee meeting rest hauled up a load of corn
from LP
Thur 27th
Blustry Ther 30 ° Father sewed on sewing machine, Wm, Alf, Fla & I fanned about 80 bus of
oats
Fri 28th
Fair Ther 29 ° Nemimiah Zebbs & Prince Chase hel & Newkirk helped us to kill 15 pigs P
Chase took one weight 93 lbs Mr Eliot took one weight 204 lbs other 13 weightd 2736,
Sat 29th "
Fair Ther 27 ° Father & Wm took fletcher weight 2798 lbs of pork to fletcher & got $6.75 per
cwt mother, Fla & I went to town
Mon 31st
Cloudy, Ther 38 ° Father & Wm took 26-1 bus of wheat to town, Alf, Fla & I cut fire wood UP
Tuesday January 1st 1889,
Clear Ther 30 ° holiday
Wednes 2nd
Clear Ther 28 °, Father went to fletcher AM & Mrs Peaker PM Wm, Alf Fla & I hauled corn
fodder off of No 7 LP
�Thur 3rd
Clear Ther 28 ° Father went to Normans Coopers sale got a calf for $3.50, Alf began school
on plains, Wm Fla & I cut apple trees out of way of Barn in back orchard UP
Fri 4th
Clear Ther 30 ° Father & Fla brought calf home, Wm & I finished cutting in orchard trees
Sat 5th
Damp Ther 40 ° Father & mother went to town brought out about 200 lbs of flour & left
{faded} 39 lbs left at mill
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Saturday January 5th 1889
Wm & I powed Am, rained PM & we done nothing
Mon 7 6th
Cloudy Ther 32 ° Father act as deputy returning officer, & u Wm as pole clerk at municipal
election, Fla & I picked beans & done chores,
Tues 8th
Cloudy ther 38 ° Father sewed on sewing machine, Wm & I fenced off new barn yard at UP
Wed 9th "
Cloudy rain Ther 40 ° Father let water off from around sable & sewed in house, Wm & I
picked beans at LP
Thur 10th "
Cloudy, Ther 23 ° snow 2 in, Father sewed on sewing machine, Wm, & I, made a watering
trough UP
Fri 11th
Fair, Ther 23 °, Wm, & I, hauled up drags UP
�Sat 12th
Clear, Ther 25 ° Father & mother went to mar-ket, Wm & I began to cut soft maple saw logs
for barn sheeting
Min 14th
Clear, Ther 27 ° Father got a load of corn from LP, P AM & took Pat & got his fore shoes
reset, Wm & I cut maple logs to be used sheeting & mow flooring in barn UP
Tues 15th
Cloudy Ther 22 °, Father Wm, Newkirk & D, dressed a comm coming four year old heff hefier
for own use
Wedn 16th
Cloudy & wet Ther 38°, Father sewed in house & Wm & I hauled 1 load of wood from LP AM,
all picked beans PM
Thur 17th
Cloudy, Ther 38 °, Father let water off UP & LP both, I spread straw on barn yard AM & Wm
& I put up fence wind blowed on UP
Fri 18th
Cloudy Ther 24 ° Father took hind quarter of beef to A G Robertson, Wm & I cut saw logs in
bug bush for barn lumber
Sat 19th
Cloudy Ther 12 °, Father went to chatham Wm & I cut 2 red oak & 1 black ash trees for barn
lumber
Mon 21st
Cloudy Ther 22 ° st snow 1 1/2 inches Father went to fletcher, F A Wm & I,
skidded y up l saw logs,
Tues 22nd
�Clear, Ther 20 °, got John Brady & Art Morton & Newkirk to help us & killed 14 pigs wght
2389 home weight
Wed 23rd
Clear Ther 29 ° Father & Wm took the pork to chatham 2360 chatham wght got $6.35 trimed
up old down apple trees
Thur 24th
Clear Ther 30 °, Father & Wm took 90 bus & 40 lbs got $1.00 per bus I bushed out hickory
would out of back field UP
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Friday January 25 1889
Clear Ther 24 °, Father went to fletcher bought a cow for $18, Wm & I cut logs in little bush
UP
Sat 26th
Clear, Ther 22 ° Father went to town took 3 bags of beans got $1.15 per bu Wm & skidded
out logs in bug bush
Mon 28th
Blustry Ther 20 ° snow 5 inches Wm & I hauled 7 red oak 9 maple logs to fletcher
Tues 29th
Clear Ther 2 ° Wm & I hauled 14 logs to fletcher
Wed 30th
Cloudy Ther 23 °, Father went to Chatham to get a roller out in front blue bob, Wm went to
help Aunt Emma kill pigs, & I hauled 4 logs to fletcher AM, & hauled up firewood PM
Thur 31st
Cloudy Ther 33 °, Father went to Mrs Peakers Wm cut more logs for barn use
�Friday February 1st 1889
Clear Ther 9 ° Father went to buxton, & Wm & I hauled logs to fletcher from UP.
Sat 2nd "
Cloudy Ther 28 ° Father went to town Wm & I hauled logs from to fletcher from UP
Mon 4th "
Fair Ther 26 °, Father sewed in house Wm & I hauled 4 logs to fletcher from LP
Tues 5th
Blustry Ther 2 ° chores & get wood is all we done
Wed 6th
Blustry Ther 3 ° below z Dr Duncan came to see ma
Thur 7th
Fair Ther 11 ° Father went to get some woman to keep house, got Ellin Harden, Wm & I cut
stove wood
Fri 8th
Cloudy Ther 22 ° Father, Wm & I hauled up from LP 2 loads of corn out of crib & some stove
wood
Sat 9th
Clear, Ther 22 ° Father went to Chatham, Wm Fla & I hauled in fodder
Mon 11th
ther 32 ° Cloudy, Father went to took 31 bus & 40 lbs of wheat to chatham got $1.00 per bus,
Wm, got engine ready to go town, I took, Dick & Jin & polly & got there shoes sharp
Tues 12th
�Cloudy Ther 20 °, Father went took pat & got his fore shoes sharpened, Wm & I hauled up
barn timber
Wed 13th
Clear F Ther 12 ° Father & u Wm took the engine to chatham to get repaired
Thur 14
Clear Ther 2 ° below z, got N Zebbs & Newkirk to to help us kill 7 pigs Newkirk got 1 wght
175 wght of rest {faded}
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Friday Febuary 15th 1889
Clear Ther 20 °, Father went to fletcher; Wm & I hauled up barn timber for barn
Sat 16th
Raining, Father Wm, F, & I pet picked beans Am, & Father & Wm, cut up pork PM UP
Mon 18th
Snowed 4 inches Ther 28 °, Father salted pork AM UP, Wm & I brought 3 sows from LP AM,
Father & Wm went to fletcher, PM,
Tues 19th
Clear & windy Ther 10 ° Father took 25- bus 40 lbs of wheat to for flour & 194 lbs of pork to
chatham left 1188 lbs of flour at mill & got $6.30 per hd wgh for pork Wm & I bushed out
wood out of big & little bush UP
Wed 20th
Clear, Ther 6 ° Father went over to John McCaneCane to look at some sheep, Wm & I
started to put up ice UP
Thur 21st
�Clear, Ther 18 ° Father, Wm & I went to John Mc, Cane & got 3 sheep at $5 a head, &
finished putting puting up ice
Fri 22nd
Clear & Windy F Ther 35 ° noon & 14 ° eve Father & Wm took 2 teams & brought
out of 3028 ft of pine lumber from town got it of Piggott I spread straw on barnyard
Sat 23rd
Clear, Ther 7 ° below Z Father went to market Wm & I went to town & got 3000 ft more pine
lumber for barn
Mon 25th
Clear Ther 2 ° Father & Wm brought out remainder of 7344 ft of pine lumber for barn &
stable & 1671 ft of hemlock for flooring, & I cut wood,
Tues 26th
Snowing Ther 28 °, Father went fletcher Wm & I fixed hay racks
F Wed 27th
Fair, Ther 8 27 ° Father & I took 2 cords of dry hickory wood in chatham to Mr J W Kersey &
brought out 3000 of shingles for barn & stable got them from Piggott, Wm Chored
Thur 28th
Clear Ther 20 °, Father cl trimmed a big hickory AM sewed on in housed PM, Wm went to
move Joe Carter, I went to look for a lost bundle of shingles AM, hauled drags PM
Friday March 1st 1889
Cloudy Ther 28° Polly mare died Father sewed in house, Wm hauled polly out AM & I
trimmed in big bush AM, Wm & I bushed out wood PM UP
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Saturday March 2nd 1889
�Misty & damp Ther 37 ° Father went to market, Wm & I hauled in fodder at LP & hauled a
load of hay to UP
Mon 4th
Clear Ther 28 ° Father went to fletcher Wm & I hauled fodder at LP P AM & fixed barnyard
fence & cut wood UP PM
Tues 5th
Fair Ther 30 ° Father sewed in house & salt hogs heads & feet Wm fixed fence AM LP & I
cut wood AM UP Wm & I cut wood UP PM
Wed 6th
Fair Ther 30 °, Father went & got a pup fro Geo Lewis AM & trimed in bug bush, PM, UP,
Wm, went to town, I trimed in bug bush UP
Thur 7th
Fair Ther 35 ° Father went to Col Martin's sale, Wm & I cut wood in yard UP,
Fri 8th
Cloudy Ther 25 ° Father took saw to Amab A Elare to get it filed AM Wm & I Tinkered AM cut
stove wood UP, PM
Sat 9th
Cloudy Ther 20 °, Father went to town Wm & I hauled out barn & stable timber
Mon 11th
Clear, Ther 28 ° Father took 2 bags of corn & 14 bus & 5 lbs of wheat to town & got $1.01
per bus for wheat, Wm, & I finished hauling out barn stable timbers UP
Tus 12th
Clear & warm Ther 38 ° Father went to town & brought out Mr J W Kersey & Will to work on
barn Wm & I hauled fodder out of No 7 LP
�Wed 13th
Clear Ther 28 °, Father went to get hands to work or on barn & stable frame, & got Prince
Chase & Bub Kersey Mr Kersey & Will worked on stable frame, Wm & I helped them
Thur 14th
Fair Ther 30 ° Father went to fletcher to see about the lumber, Wm & I gathered stones for
barn & stable foundations Mr Kersey, Will, P Chase & Bub Kersey worked on framing
Fri 15th
Clear Ther 32 ° Father & Wm helped Mr Kersey & Will on stable frame, PrinceL & Bub
helped to, I gathered stones
Sat 16th
Clear Ther 34 °, Father went to town, W Mr Kersey & Will went with him, Wm & I gathered
stones
Mon 18th
Clear Ther 40 ° Father Wm, I took 3 teams & went to town & got 10 lbs of sand & 2 bags of
cement W Bub Kersey & Prince Chase worked AM
Tues 19th
Clear Ther 38 ° Mr Kersey & Will Prince & Bub worked all day
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Tuesday March 19th 1889
Wm & I moved things out of road for barn & Stable UP AM Wm dug holes for stable
foundation PM I gathered stones PM Father laid off for stable & barn AM & went to town PM
& brought out Mr Branton & a man to put down foundation
Wed 20th
�Fair Ther 36 ° Father dug holes for barn foundation Wm, went to lake & got sand, I gathered
stones, Mr Kersey, Will, Prince & Bub worked on barn & Mr Branton & his man worked on
stable foundation,
Thur 21st
Cloudy raining PM Wm & I gathered stones AM, Mrs Peaker died this morning and Father
went to town for her coffin Mr Kersey & Will worked on frames, Prince & Bub worked AM Mr
Branton & his man worked till 3 PM
Fri 22nd
Fair Ther 39 °, Father dug holes for barn foundation Wm, & I haul stones to them, Branton &
his man worked at putting it down J Kersey & Will, & Prince & Bub framed
Sat 23rd
Clear Ther 30 ° Father went to town, Wm & I hauled a load of fodder from LP, AM & some
more stable timber PM UP
Mon 25th
Clear Ther 38 ° Father went to stable town & brought out Kersey & Will & their blacks &
table, Wm, & I hauled a load of fodder & 1 of hay AM, & I plowed in little lot front PM
Thur Tues 26th
Clear Ther 32 ° Father & I hauled some lumber from fletcher, Wm helped Mr Branton, finish
foundation Mr Kersey Will & Bub Kersey worked on barn
Wed 27th
Clear Ther 38 °, Father, Wm & I hauled lumber from fletcher AM & Wm & I PM, Father
helped J Kersey, Will Prince Chase & Bub on barn
Thur 28th
Cloudy Ther 28 ° Father & I cut mud sills for barn AM & he worked traboy leg PM while Wm
& I hauled lumber from fletcher, J Kersey Will, Prince Chase & Bub Kersey worked on barn
Fri 29th
�Snowed AM Ther 30 ° Father went to to Peakers AM Wm & I fixed traboy AM, Father & I
bushed out mud sills PM Jo Carpenters quit at 10-20 then Prince & Bub went home, Kersey
& WIll worked from 3. PM out
Sat 30°
Clear Ther 15 ° Father went to town Wm & I hauled fodder
Monday fodder April 1st
Snow 2 inches Ther 34 °, Father went to town, Wm & I piled ar our lumber at fletcher &
brought some home
235
Tuesday April 2nd 1889
Cloudy & Father made a sawbuck AM let off water PM Kersey & w Will worked on framing &
I helped them
Wed 3rd
Cloudy, Kersey, Will, worked on framing Father Wm, & I helped them
Thur 4th
Clear Ther 32 ° Father acted as Deputy Returning Officer for Scot Act, Kersey Will, Prince
Chase & Bub Kersey commenced putting barn & stable frames together, Wm & I helped
them
Fri 4 5th
Cloudy rained PM, Father Wm & I helped Kersey, Will Prince & Bub put together frame, all
quit at noon on account of rain
Sat 6th
Snow 3 inches ther 32 °, Father went to town we tinkered about
Monday 9th
�Clear Ther 32 °, Father Wm & I took 2 teams & went to Fletcher & brought home some
lumber AM, & hued out a post for barn that got broke in putting it together
Tuesday 9th
Clear Ther 40 ° Father went to Horace Blacks d & got 4 bags of potatoes AM & helped on
frame P PM, Wm & I helped Kersey Will & Prince Chase on frames
Wednesday 10th
Clear Ther 40 ° Kersey commenced to raising ba buildings, Kersey Will, Prince Fred Zebbs,
Ezekil Collins, Morrice Hardeing Charlie Simpson Horace Black & George & Father, Wm & I
helped them
Thursday 11th
Cloudy rain PM Kersey, WIll, Prince Fred Zebbs, Egekil Collins Morrice Harding C Simpson
& G Black, & Father, Wm & I helped then at ra to rain A to raise part of barn we worked till 2
OClock PM
Friday 12th
Raining & we all done nothing but chores
Saturday 13th
Clear Ther 32 °, Kersey Will, Prince, Fred Zebbs, Morrice Harding C Simpson, Father, Wm &
I finished raising barn at 3 PM, then Father went to chatham
Monday 15th
Clear Father went to Mr Thompson's funeral, Wm, Prince Chase & I sided in stable.
236
Tuesday April 16th
Father went to town, Wm, Prince Chase & Fred Zebbs sided all but a little of barn, I helped at
barn AM went to fletcher for rafters PM
Wednesday 17th
�Clear Ther reached 70 ° Father got a load of lumber from fletcher AM, took Horaace Blacks
Chains home PM, I finished plowing in lot front of house
Thur 18th
Clear Ther reached 72 °, Prince Chase worked on stable Father worked with Prince till noon,
& then went to fletcher and got a load of lumber, I plowed in back field, Dan McCoig brought
out & set up a dud double cultivator
Friday 19th
Warm rained PM, Father went & brought a load of lumber from fletcher AM, & plowed in back
field PM, I plowed in back field, Prince Chase worked three quarters of a day on stable
Saturday 20th
Clear, Ther 68 °, Father went to town, I hauled lumber from fletcher
Monday 22nd
Clear Ther 34 ° in morn Father went to town, I plowed in No 1 Bub Kersey took the job of
finishing stable & commenced this morn
Tuesday 23rd
Clear Ther 40 ° Father hauled lumber from fletcher I plowed in No 1 UP
F Wednesday 24th
Cloudy rained PM, Father cultivated in No 1 & I drilled spring wheat, AM, Father went to Mr
Sicipio's funeral
Thursday 25th
Cloudy Father started to fix water trough on stable Fla & I fixed fence
Friday 26th
Cloudy, Father fixed around stable, Wm & I finished hauling out lumber from fletcher AM &
put down mud sills PM
�Saturday 27
Cloudy Father went to town, Wm took in 48 bu 27 lbs of oats to Dan McCoig & got 35 cts per
bus on cultivator Flave & I fixed fence
237
Monday April 29th 1889
Cloudy Ther 42 °, Father took a saw log to fletcher & got it cut in scantlen & brought them
home, I finished cultivating & drilling spring on the fall plowing in No 1 being about 3 1/2
acres
Tuesday 30th
Cloudy. Father took some scantlen to town to get plained off for track in barn & p brought out
some flooring I harrowed spring wheat ground helped Wm Haul a load of hay & fodder
Wednesday May 1st
Clear Frost Father watched Bub, Fla rolled No 3 & I plowed in No 1
Thursday 2nd
Cloudy rained PM, Father was with bub at barn, I finished plowing in No 1 AM Flav harrowed
garden lot No 2
Friday 3rd
Clear Father & I went up to Smiths mill in tub Tilbourg & got 1280 ft of lumber for barn
sheeting I commenced to cultivate & sow clover seed on wheat in No 7 this evens evening
Saturday 6th
Fair, Father went to town; I cultivated & sowed Clover seed in No 7 AM, & harrowed & rolled
what I seeded PM
Monday 6th
Clear Ther 70 ° Father worked at putting track up in barn, I cultivated with drill & sowed
Clover seed, in wheat field No 7, Fla followed with harrow & roller alternately
�Tuesday 7th
Clear Ther 85 ° Father & Wm went to town, I went on pitching clover seed on No 7 AM,
& d broadcasted oats on No 1 LP PM Fla harrowed in and rolled in No 7
Wednesday 8th
Clear Ther 86 ° Father was around barn AM, went to Peaker place PM, F Fla harrowed in No
1, I went down to LP & harrowed in No 1 Wm drilled in oats
Thursday 9th
Clear Ther 82 ° Father & Prince Chase got out 14 sleepers for barn Fla & I finished
harrowing & rolling & sewing Clover seed on No 7 AM & harrowed in No 1 PM
238
Friday May 10th 1889
Clear Ther 80 ° Father, Fla & I went to LP & cleaned up 18 bus of seed oats then Father
went on down to Peakers & I drilled rest of No 1 in oats, & Fla cut cornstalk
Saturday 11th
Clear Ther 80 °, Father & P Chase finished getting out sleepers for barn mows, I plowed with
gang plow in pond field
Tuesday 14th
Clear Ther 76 ° Father worked in garden I gang plowed part of line & part of the time Fla & I
harrowed in pond field then commenced sowing oats Fla harrowed in pond field PM
Thursday 16th
Cloudy rained PM, I finished drilli sowing oats in pond field Father & Fla, brought up cattle &
colts from LP & turned them out, then Father burnt bush in No 6 & worked at stable Fla
harrowed in pond field
Friday 17th
�Clear Ther 88 °, Father worked a stable & made a chicken coop Fla harrowed in pond
field K AM, & gathered stones PM I run out furrows in pond field, AM plowed in a corner in
No 6,
Saturday 18th
Clear Ther 89 ° Father went to town, I finished plowed in conner of No 6 & harrowed it, Fla
tinkered
Monday 19 20th
Cloudy & showery, Father & Fla gathered stones, I drilled the little conner conn in peas &
rolled it Am, & helped gather stones
Tuesday 21st
Cloudy, Father Fla & I hauled stones AM, Father & I went to fletcher, Father went to got a
telagram to go to Windsor that Charlie was sick, & he went
239
Wednesday May 22nd 1889
Cloudy & cool, I plowed in back field, Fla tinkered AM, harrowed PM
Thursday 23rd
Fair Frost heavy I plowed in back field Fla harrowed in at Prince Chase got 500 lbs of hay
Friday 24th
Cloudy I plowed in back field AM, & harrowed down at LP, PM, Fla harrowed in back field
Saturday 25th
Fair Fla harrowed in back field, I harrowed at LP
Monday 27th
Cloudy & drizzling rain, Brother Charlie died at Windsor at 1.30 PM U I harrowed at LP, Fla
harrowed at LP PM
�Tuesday 28th
Fair but cool, Father & Aunt Emma brought Charlies corpse to Buxton this morn, Alf & I went
to town & got neccessities for funeral
Wednesday 29th
Cloudy rained p PM, funeral took place at 2 PM Rev Elder Washington of BM, E Church
Buxton conducted services
Thursday 30th
Rained all day, Father, Wm, & I worked on inside of stable
Friday 31st
Cloudy Father went to town took a grist & get medicine for himself Wm Fla & I cleaned trash
from barn put down stable gangways, & let water off of fields
Saturday May June 1st 1889
Cloudy Father went to town, Wm, Fla & I hauled up Sleeper for barn & started to log lot in
back field
Monday June 3rd
Fair Wm, Fla & I finished loging lot in back field & Cleaning up trash around barn, & fixed
west line fren fence between us & John McCart
Tuesday 4th
Cloudy & showery, Wm, Fla & I piled manure at Lower P
T Wednesday 5th
Cloudy & showery Father & Prince laid sleeper in barn Wm & I plowed in back field UP
240
Dates of breeding & births of stock of 1889 & 1890
Goliah boor breed to white sow Feb 7th
�Doll & Nell mares bred to Pat Barry's General Brock stallion, trotter April 29th
D Doll mare rebred to Pat Barry's horse May 27th
Kate mare bred to Pardo's l general purpose horse Young Bloom field June 4th
Russel Russel, sow had 4 pigs June 15th
Doll mare rerebred to Pat Barry's horse June 17th
Cherry cow had a calf July 12th
Skimmer cow had a calf July 15th Roan " " " " " 17th
Dinah " " " " " 18th
Sill hefiers heifer " " " " 25th
Boss " " " " " 29th
Pink cow bred to AP Pattersons Bull August 6th
Flower cow " " " " " 20th
Got A B Pattersons September 17th
Year 1890
Nell mare had a mare colt from Barry's horse April 2nd
Russel sow bred to L Goliah boor April 13th
Little white sow " " " " " 16th
Kate mare had a mare colt Pardon's horse May 8th
Jin mare bred to own horse P Dick May 6th
Kate mare to Pardo's hore Young Robbin Kate mare bred to Pardo's horse Young Bloomfield
May 20
Doll mare has a horse colt Barry's Rooker May 21st
�Nell mare bred to T Taylor's Clevland Bay horse May 23rd
Mack " " " John Huston's Young Rooker May 23
D Doll " " " Taylors Cleveland Bay May 29th
Nell " " " " " " June 13th
Russel sow had 8 pigs august 6th
little white sow had 9 pigs august 12th
big white sow had pigs March 22 1891
241
Thursday June 16th 1888
Clear Father & Prince Chase finished layno laing sleepers in barn & finished putting floor
over head down in horse stable Wm & I plowed in back field
Friday 7th
Cloudy rained PM, Father gardened AM & laid mow floor PM in barn, Wm & I plowed in back
field AM, helped Father Pm
Saturday 8th
Showery Father & Wm went to Chatham
Monday 10th
Cloudy Father & I went to Peaker place to got a cultivator spinning wheel table & a few
things, then father went to bridge sale at Newmans & I went to LP & helped Wm ditch
Tuesday 11th
Fair Father & Fla worked in garden & Wm & I tinkered AM Father Wm & I let water off of
back field PM UP
Wednesday 12th
�Clear Ther 76 ° Father worked in garden AM & then took ma to Mrs Harris's Fla & I tinkered
AM, Wm & I planted PM corn in the back field
Thursday 13th
Clear Ther 78 ° Father & Americus Cooper sheared sheep Wm & I planted corn, U,P, P AM
& LP, PM
Father Friday 14th
Clear Ther 82 ° Father worked in garden AM, Wm plowed & I harrowed in back field AM Fla
pulled mustard AM, Father & Wm worked barn doors PM, I plowed & Fla, harrowed in back
field PM
Saturday 15th
Cloudy rained PM, Father went to town, Wm & Fla, put {cut off}
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Garrison William Shadd (1839-1892)
1885-1887 Diary
Transcribed by Rural Diary Archive Volunteers
126
Monday 2nd February 1885
Cold Snowing Ter 2 below Z. Wm & I hauled load of hay and of straw to stable & a load of
fodder to barn a load of bolts to Buxton & half cord of dry wood to Lodge Father went up to
see bolt man Wm Morhead got 1 cord of soft dry wood, Chas comenced to write Diary.
Tuesday 3 Feb
Cloudy Ther 24 above Z Wm and I took sawdust out of wood shed & drove mice Miss Nell to
Fletcher to see if ice on pool was good Father went to Buxton to see bolts measured
Wednesday 4 Feb
Cloudy snowed and drizled rain Ther 26 Father and Mother went to Chatham Wm and I
hauled a load of bolts to Buxton and a load of ice from Fletcher
Thursday 4 Feb 5
Clear, Ther 22 above Z Wm and I hauled two loads of ice from Fletcher, Chas Simpson got a
load of corn fodder Windermuts men started to haul hickory & White ash out of half next
Paterson's
Friday Feb 6
Clear, cold, Ther 14 below Z Wm and I took a few bolts to Buxton and brought back two
loads of saw dust for ice Wm drove colts to ninth concession
Saturday Feb 7
Cloudy, Ther 12 above Z, Father went to Ann Arbor to get medicine for himself Mother &
Joseph Wm and I hauled tow loads of bolts the last to Buxton
Monday 6 Feb 8 9
�Cloudy, rained all afternoon, Ther 20 above Z, Wm put new plunger in pump I went down
and got aunt Mary and Bushed out some hickory wood
Tusday Feb 7 10
Cold blustry, Ther 1 below Z, Father came home from Ann Arbor with medicine from Dr
White for himself, Mother & Josh, we shelled 8 bus of corn for grist
Very cold blustery Wensday Feb 8 11 Ther 16 below Z, chores hauled couple bags of fodder
127
Thursday February 192th 1885
Cloudy, Ther 10 above Z, bushed out cord wood, faned corn to go to Merlin for grist.
Friday 10 13th Februar {faded}
Clear, cold, Ther 14 below Z, Wm and I bushed out all cut hickory wood hauled two load of
straw to stable and one of fodder to barn Father went to Merlin with grist but did not get it
ground
Saturday Feburary 14
Clear, cold, Ther 16 blow Z Father and Willie went to town and took 6 BM of wheat Brought
back 210 lbs of flour, I hauled up some tops
Sunday Feb 15
Cloudy, pleasant, warm, Ther 17 above Z
Monday Feb 16
Cloudy, windy, turning cold, Ther 12 above Z, Wm, De, Flavius, I thrashed beans in barn,
afternoon Father went to Merlin and got meal grist
Tuesday Feburary 17
Clear, cold, Ther 10 below Z Wm & I thrashed beans in the barn with horses. Tim & George
& Kate & bet, D & Flave rode horses
�Wensday Feb 18
Cloudy Ther Z thrashed beans in the barn with horses
Thursday Feb 19
Clear, cold, Ther 2 below Z we finished thrashing beans Father and Mother went to Buxton
took some yarn to Mamie Kersey toand donation to Elder Brown
Friday 20 Feb
Clear, Cold, Changed the Thermometer from portch to back of kitchen making diff of from 8
to 19 this morning 4 below Z Father went to town with 30 bu of wheat for grist got due bill
and brand Wm and I faned up beans
Clear, Ther 13 below Z, Saturday 21st Feb
Father and I went to town took 50 bus of beans got .85 cts. per bu Wm and De hauled to
some tops for wood a load of fodder to barn & hay to
128
Monday Feburary 23 1885
Clear, sun shining bright thawing about noon morning temperature 10 degrees below Z Willie
and I hauled up wood for fires
Tusday Fed 24
Cloudy warm Ther 7 degrees above Z Thawing about noon Willie & I hauled load of hay and
of straw to stable after dinner hauled two loads smal logs to Kersey Mill to get sawed
Wensday Feb 25
Clear, pleasant sun shining bright Ther 8 degrees above Z reached 40 degrees above Z
during day Willie and I hauled 3 maple logs to mill after noon Wm took up fourth log I got a
load of sawdust
Thursday Feb 26
�Cloudy, Warm, thawing, Ther 20 degrees above Z, Father and Mon picked beans Wm and I
hauled out some hickory wood Willie picked beans Willie hauled with Mic and Nell and some
fodder to barn
Friday Febar 27
Cloudy snowing, Ther 30 degrees above Z Wm and I put some sawdust around ice and
hauled up some fire wood
Saturday Feb 28
Clear Ther 20 degrees above Z Father and Alfred went to town took 200 lb bag got $6
per b cut Willie and I sawed fire wood afternoon bushed out some hickory wood off of line
Jane West began wash this morning
Monday 1st March 2nd
Clear, snowed during night a little Ther 20 degrees above Z Wm Alfred & I hauled fodder into
barn all day Chas Simpson got a load of fodder
Tuesday March 2 nd 3 3rd
Cloudy, Snowing, blustering, Ther 28 degrees above Z Father Mother and all picked beans
in the forenoon Willie Alf and I hauled fodder in aftern
Wensday March 3rd 4th
Snowed a little in the morning Ther 30 degrees above Z Willie Alf and I hauled rest of fodder
off of field Jane West left
Thursday March 5th
Some Scattered Clouds Ther 24 degrees above Z WIllie and I got a load of saw dust each
from Buxton papa picked some beans went to the literary society tonight as usual O Shadd
Wm {page rip}
129
Friday March 5th 6 1885
�Clear Ther 12 degrees above Z Willie and I bushed out some hickory wood Father went to
Buxton got $5 from colt man Wm finished cutting pigs up
Saturday March 7th
Cloudy, little snow last night Ther 20 degrees above Z Father and Mother went to Chatham
Willie and I bushed out some hickory wood Tidy heifer had a calf this morn Mr Richard
Peaker died this Evg at 20 min to 7 oclock
Monday March 9th
Clear cold windy, ther 12 degrees above Z Father Willie and Alfred went to Mr Peaker's
funeral (Sold Mic and Nell to Thorps for $200) Changed stals and fixed stable a little
Tusday March 10th
Clear cold Ther 16 degrees above Z I went down and got Aunt Mary and GrandMother come
and the rendered lard Willie and I began to saw stove wood to dry
Wensday March 11th
Clear cold Ther 6 degrees above Z Father went to town Willie bushed out rest of hickory
wood making about 23 1/2 cords
Thursday March 12
Cloudy cold Ther 16 degrees above Z Willie and I sawed stove wood
Friday March 13
Clear few clouds Cold Ther 6 degrees above Z Willie and I loaded a load of hay put it in
stable Father and Wm Salted up the pork Snowed a little
Saturday March 14
Clear cold in morning rained in evening string wind from South Ther 4 degrees above Z
Father and I went to town
Monday March 16
few clouds cold Ther 6 degrees above Z Wm and I sawed stove wood
�Tuesday March 17
clear cold Ther 7 degrees above Z Willie and I sawed stove wood all day
Wednesday March 18th
Cloudy Ther 12 degrees above Z snowed hard morning and evening Wm & I hauled out
hickory wood about last, makeing about over 25 cords also some rails along western line
fence Father went to Pekers tos
130
Bull Account 1885
Aug 11th Amer Cooper one Cow to Bull
Aug 28th Amer Cooper one Cow to Bull
Sept 2nd Amer Cooper one Cow to Bull
Sept 20th Amer Cooper one Cow to Bull
Nov 10th Felix Shreve two 2 cows to Bull
1886
March 11th one 1, John Orton 1 Cow to Bull
April 1st Orton one Cow returned
May 12th Tohmas Clark 2 heffiers to bull
May 26th Patrck Forhan 1 cow to bull
May 27th Emab Ebar 1, cow to bull
June 2nd P. Forhan 1 cow to bull
June 4th C Simpson 1 cow to bull
June 6 John Orton 1 cow to bull
�June 10th Thomas Clarish one cow to bull . 10th C Simpson 1 cow to bull also
June 11th Dennie Griffin 1 cow to bull account taken from Diary
1887 Dates for breeding of stock for year 1887
May 3rd breed Gin to Young Wonder, Wheeler & Smithes horse
May 5th breed Polly to Young Lord Hadds
May 12th breed Kate to Lord Hadds
May 17th breed Dolly Doll to Young Wonder
June 2nd rebreed Kate to Hadds
1888 Dates of berths of Stock 1888
April 17th Doll mare had a horse colt Nan
April 24th Gin had a horse colt & breed Doll mare to Dick
breed May 3rd Kate to Young Wonder & Gin to Dick
ReBreed May 9th Doll mare to Dick May 26 rebreed Gin to Dick
June 21st re Breed Doll to Young Wonder cows to bull 1888 July 8th Dinah & bloss cows to
Thomas Clarks bull July 18th a heffier to bull August 1st Dolly ba heffier to T Clarks bull,
august 14th a heffier (White) to T C- bull
131
Dates of breading and births of stock of 1886 Breed March 26th one sow to J John Lecocq's
boar
"April 3rd Essex sow to John Lacocq's Boar
"May 10th breed Jewel mare to our own Dick colt
"May 12th Kate to Henson's horse at Fletchers Aunt E Beau beant also
" May 14th Jin; mare; to Dick, May 19th Aunt E Kate to Henson's horse
�Births May 1st Jewel 3 yr colt bought at Tilbury center last spring had a mare colt
May 10th Shimmer cow had a calf
May 22nd Dinah cow had a calf
June 12th Flower cow had a calf
June 28th Rose cow had a calf
April 4th 1888 breed Aunt E Kate mare to our Dick
Return Breeding; jewel colt to Dick June 6
"June 7th gin colt to Dick
"June 9th breed Kate to Henson's horse first breeding June 11th Joseph Rice one mare to
Dick
June 22nd bred a mare for John Orton to Dick
June 23rd breed a mare for John Orton to Dick
June 26 breed a mare for Joseph Rice to Dick
Dates of Births stock for year 1887
March 7th a littler of pigs of Essex sow
April 11th a heifer got at Rice's sale had a calf
April 22nd Bloss hiffier had a calf
April 25 Shimmer cow had a calf
June 15 Rose cow had a calf
October 4 Cherry heffier had a calf 2 sows had 12 pigs 6 6 each; June 20th Essen sow had
13 pigs 3 die
X Dates of Births of stock for the year 1888 X
�Febarary 12 Dolly cow had a calf February the 12th
May 15th Flower cow & Pink heffier had a heffier calf each
May 20th sp Shimmer cow of a calf
May 23rd 2 sows had 6 - 9 pigs
June 20th Essex sow had 12 pigs 3 died
132
Tursday March 19th XX 1885
Clear cold Ther 1 degree below Z Willie and I hauled 400 rails out around west and north
lines
Friday March 20th
Clear cold snowed little during night Ther 4 degrees ab below Z Willie and I chopped down
and piled brush of smal trees hauled load of
Saturday March 21st
Clear cold Ther 5 degrees below warming 24 degrees about noon previous morning 10
degrees below Z Father went to town Aunt Emmaline Simpson went with him P Willie and I
hauled out 482 rails
Tuesday March 24th
Cloudy warm Ther 26 degrees above Z Snowed some this after noon Willie went up and got
Rachel, James after Father and him went to Kennedy Sale bought, 1, one 2 year old colt,
mare for $78 and at Bull $35
Wednesday March 25th
Clear cold Ther Z Father went took Mrs Peaker to town Willie and I went to Kennedy's and
got the bull
Thursday March 26 26th
�Cloudy Warm Ther 30 degrees above Z rained during day to 52 degrees above Z Willie went
down and drawed out rail cuts for GrandMother Alf and I hauled out 240 rails
Friday 27th March
Cloudy Warm Ther 40 degrees above Z Wm Alf and I hauled a load of hay and of straw to
the stable Father took Rachel James horse
Saturday 28th March
Cloudy Ther 30 degrees above Z Father went to town Willie and made Fravoy bushed out
soft wood on it in after noon
Monday 29th March 30th
Cloudy snowed hard in morning Ther 20 degrees above Z Willie sharpened little croscut saw
made two pokes for horses, small handle
Tuesday March 31st 1884
Cloudy rained this morning Ther 36 degrees above Z Willie and I washed Dick Sam and Bet
all over first with Lie then with disinfectant
133
1885 Wensday March April 1st
Clear Ther 32 degrees above Z Willie and I took 5 bu of potatos and sawed some stove
wood
Thursday April 2nd
Cloudy Ther 33 degrees above Z Willie and I sawed stove wood rained in afternoon Rose
cow had a calf
Friday April 3rd
Stormy snowed heavy Ther 28 degrees above Z Willie and Emal Ebare sawed stove wood
on shares in afternoon rest picked beans
Saturday March 4th
�Clear 20 degrees above Z Wm Emal and I sawed stove wood and har
Monday April 6th
Clear 34 degrees above Z Willie went to town for medicine for Mother and Joseph horse
back I sawed stove wood with Emal on shares rest picked beans father let some water off
the wheat
Tuesday April 7th
Cloudy Drisling rain Ther 38 degrees above Z Willie Emal and I sawed stove wood in
afternoon James & Harris began to trim apple trees
Wednesday April 8
Cloudy Ther 36 degrees above Z Willie Emal and sawed stove wood
Thursday April 9
Clear Ther 24 degrees above Z hauled load of straw and of hay to stable Willie and Emal
sawed January Ebar and I split stove wood
Friday April 10th
Clear Ther 22 degrees above Z got grist of corn ready Father took it to merlin got it ground
took out some potatos
Saturday April 11th
Cloudy Stormy snowed about 6 in during night and today Ther 32 degrees above Z all picked
a few beans
Monday April 13th
Cloudy blustry snowed a little Ther 29 degrees above Z all picked a few beans
Tuesday 14th April X
Clear Ther 29 degrees above Z cloudy in afternoon snowed a little Willie and I bushed out
stove wood in forenoon fixed lieleach Began X to Plow tryed them in field back of house in
�sod x January Ebar began to pile brush James Harris finished trimming trees in young
orchard
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Thursday April 15th 1885
Cloudy Stormy snowed a little in morning rained nearly allday Ther 35 degrees above Z
picked last of beans Paterson helped us ring the bulls father Willie and I faned oats rest of
day
Friday April 16th
Clear Ther 35 degrees above Z Willie took plows points and cutters to Fletcher got them
sharpened cleaned out some ditch in afternoon January Ebar filed brush in slashing
Friday April 17th
Cloudy snow all gone Father went to town Willie J D and I hauled load of straw and of hay to
stable Willie let some water off cornfield, plowed some Dollie cow had a calf
Saturday April 18 18th
Clear in morn cloudy afternoon Ther 40 degrees above Z Willie and I plowed in sod back of
house rest cleaned trimming of trees out of orchard
Monday April 20th
Clear morn cloudy very warm Ther reached 70 degrees above Z Willie and I plowed in sod
sod Father sold Billy steer and Lilly heifer for $45
Teusday April 21st
Cloudy very warm Ther reached 82 degrees above Z morn ton temperature 54 degrees
above Z Willie and I plowed in sod
Wenesday Wesday April 22nd
Few clouds very warm Ther reched 81 degrees above Z Willie and AJ plowed in sod
Thursday April 23rd
�Cloudy very warm Ther reached 83 degrees above Z Father went to town to attend before
the master on a summons brought out by Dennis sent doctor Springer out to see Mother
Willie plowed in sod I took out 2nd but of potatos but of beats and some carrots
Friday April 24th
Cloudy Ther 62 degrees above Z, noon 59 degrees above Z hot wind last night rained
shower in morning heavy mist Father went to town to attend Chancery Corbet Willie finished
plowing sod plowed strip of sod in cornfield I took out carrots
Saturday April 25th
Cloudy cool Willie went to town to spring Fair horseback Father and Flavius shined clover
fields HD rolled one east of orchard portion of other
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1885 Monday April 27th
Clear beautiful Ther highest 62 degrees abovest Z, Willie scraped the road in forenoon
plowed in No 2 finished rolling clover in No 5 began to roll sod in No 4
Tuesday April 28th
Clear in morning Cloudy windy shower of cold rain and hail Ther 40 degrees Willie sowed
clover seed in part of No 1 I harrowed it JD rolled it also for benefit of wheat, harrowed in No
4, cleaned seed oats in afternoon
Wedenesday April 30th
Cloudy Ther 52 degrees Willie sowed baresputs in No 3 clover I and JD harrowed and rolled
began to sow Oats on sod in No 4 a long continued rain began this evening Father got 2
shots hogs from Uncle Mack
Friday May 1st
Cloudy Cold Frosted little Ther 36 degrees Father went to town got some flour and medicine
Willie and I put a Slide gate into cornfield fixed line fence between us and Lucas Lacocq
Saturday May 2nd
�Few clouds changed cool Willie sowed oats in No 4 JD and I harrowed them in
Monday May 4th
Few clouds cool Ther 40 degrees (yesterday was cold froze some heavy frost rained in
night) Father took up the school Desks Willie and I took out the pit of seed potatos Father
and I took Desks and other things over to new school house Willie plowed rest of No 2 and
garden removed fence off it to orchard
Tuesday May 5th
Cloudy rained showers Willie and I went down to Uncle Amarcus's and got two shoots
bags fro he recently bought shelled 30 bu of corn D and F the cobs
Wednesday May 6th
Cloudy sprinkled rain alittle Father and Alf went
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May 6th 1885
to town took Aunt Sarah Ann Willie and I washed Dick Sam & Bet with disinfectant put up
rails on fence between us and Lucas
Thursday May 7th
Cloudy cool Ther 50 degrees rained heavy last night Willie and I plowed school lot for Emal,
hung up the meat meat, Father let some water of wheat in No 5
Friday May 8th
Cloudy, very cool, windy, Ther 40 degrees Willie and I ditched with Shade on back of corn
field No 6, D and F cut corn stalks, began cold ram this evening
Saturday May 9th X
Cloudy "Snow" Blizzards, heavy but of short duration windy turned to rain and snow in
afternoon Ther 39 degrees Father went to town took 31 bu of corn got 50 cts per bu, had
Bet's teeth fil filled Willie and I ditched up back of corn field
�Monday May 11th
Clear pleasant frosty in morn Ther 34 degrees Willie and I ditcher up back of corn field to
lane started up towards barn
Tuesday May 12th
Cloudy showered in afternoon Ther 40 degrees Father went after some chickens Willie and I
ditched in corn field
Wednesday M 13th May
Clear foggy Ther 40 degrees warm pleasant Willie and I finished the ditch in cornfield up to
barn forenoon plowed sod for potato patch in young orchard
Thursday May 14th
Clear heavy fog, Ther 39 degrees reched 63 degrees buds are beginning to unfold on apple
trees Willie sowed few Oats in No 2 De harrowed it I cultivated it afternoon Wm fixed part of
back line fence JD and harrowed sod for beans in No 4 smallest bought Uncle Mack died
Father sawed garden seeds, Onions, Lettuce, Parsnip
Friday 15 May
Clear warm Ther reached 81 degrees Father drilled in some carrots & parsnips seeds I got
scraper from Rices took Grandmother home {illegible} and Mother D harrowed potato patch
Willie and I began to Plow corn field No 6
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1885 Saturday May 16th
Clear, warm, Ther reached 83 degrees Father went to town got some medicine for Mother
and Joe, Willie plowed in corn field I put up Election Bills he Wm and I pulled stumps in
afternoon
Monday May 18th
�Clear very warm Ther reached about 82 degrees began a shower this evening Father and
Willie held Election in Old School I got a load of saw dust from Buxton put on ice cultivated
potato in garden JD harrowed sod over again for Beans in No 4
Tuesday May 19th
Cloudy Cool Ther 52 degrees Father sowed carrots, Peas, Wm, JD, C, I pulled out stumps
and heaped them in corn field No 6
Wednesday May 20th
Cloudy Cool in morn, warm, Ther 42 degrees Father cut & planted potatos Willie De and I
pulled and hauled stumps in cornfield finished pulled 200 or over
Thursday May 21st
Misty Cloudy sultry Ther reached 78 degrees Father grubbed a tree and set some fires in
corn field Willie and I plowed scraped down same hills in No 6 Father and Wm took Cate and
Bet to Chinick's to Young Wonder were not in season
Friday May 22nd
Cloudy, rained, drizzled all day Father Wm and I cleaned up rest of oats
Saturday May 23rd
Cloudy, Ther 62 degrees to 78 degrees, Father went to town I plowed with Cate and Bet in
corn field, Willie dug around currant bushes
Monday May 25th
Cloudy Ther reached 76 degrees trees in full blossom Father raked garden burnt stumps in
cornfield Willie and I scraped down hills in AM plowed PM in cornfield and scraped back
ditch camp there
Tuesday May 26th
Clear, few clouds, Ther 50 degrees morn, to noon 80 degrees Father burnt stumps Willie and
(I C with gin and George all day) plowed in corn field
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Tuesday May 26th 1885
Sold Jin and George for $170 Dinah cow and a calf
Wednesday May 27th
Cloudy Ther reached 75 degrees Father took Jin and George to town to buyer Willie hitched
up Pat and gin (colt bought at Kennedy's sale) colts the first time drove around yard a while
then harrow little in corn field I plowed with Kate and Bet in corn field
Thtursday 28th
Cloudy, Cool, Ther 48 degrees to 72 degrees I plowed in corn until noon afternoon I planted
potatoes in orchard W.A took Kate & Bet up to Chinick's and put them to Stallions young
Wonder owned by Whiaeler & Smith Father took a sow over to Pattersons Boar this morning
Friday 29th
Cloudy, Cool, Ther 56 degrees rained little I plowed in corn field with Kate and Bet Willie
harrowed with Colts Pat and Jin Father cut some potatoes went to Buxton afternoon got the
mail hoed some of the spring wheat and some onions
Saturday 30th
Variable Father went to town on the cars got {illegible} and medicine for Mother came out
with Shreve to the plans then walked in Bill harrowing with Colts Pat and Gin. I D harrowing
with Kate and Bet I planted some potatoes J shelled 8 bu of corn for grist and chop
Monday June 1st
Clear, warm, Father cut some potatos worked in garden Willie drove colts (Pat and Gin) to
town yesterday brought Aunt Sarah Ann to day took grand Mother home made a corn marker
I plowed in corn field
Tuesday 2nd
�Clear cool in morn Ther 42 degrees to 76 degrees Father and Willie took grist to Merlin with
colts, worked in garden marked off corn rows some Alfred telegraphed for Dr Springer he got
here before noon to see Mother I finished plowing for corn crossharrowed half of it
Wednesday 3rd
Cloudy rained in showers all day De crossharrowed some in corn field
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Wednesday June 3rd 1885
Father Willie and I picked and shelled seed corn planted some potatoes
Thursday 4th
Cloudy rained a little Father went to town got Kate and oats shod some medicine for mothers
buggy spring we loaded &c Willie marked off some corn rows I planted sweet corn in potato
patch washed Dick and Sam with soap suds
Friday 5th
Cloudy rained very hard last night Willie let off some water washed Dick and Sam with
Disinfectant
Saturday 6th
Clear Cool in morn, Ther 46 reached 72 degrees Father went to town took Aunt Sarah Ann
bought a pair of harrows “Supple Jack” Willie and I pilled manure in barn yard
Sunday 7th
Clear very warm Ther reached 88 degrees and 90 degrees Willie drive Kate to town for
Doctor Springer he came out to see Mother
Monday 8th
Cloudy very cold drizzled rain in morn highest Temp 62 degrees Wm made slide gate across
the lane got seed corn 1 1/2 bu from Lucas Father and I planted some potatos, weeded in
garden
�Tuesday 9
clear cool night I finished harrowing cross in corn field Wm marked it if long way with colts
Father began marking off with chain Willie and I planted corn after him
Wednesday 10th
Clear Ther 70 degrees noon Father went to town to get some medicine for mother Bought 2
pumps B Martins Wm and I planted corn De marked off some Flower planted Squash seed
Thursday 11
Clear Father marked off Wand I finished planting corn No 6 Wm took Kate and Bet to Chinick
horse hither one in season Father De and I planted potatoes.
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Friday June 12th
Clear very warm Ther reached 90 degrees cultivated harrowed and dull in the beans the
beans W-H No 4
Saturday 13th
Cloudy warm rained little Father and Willie went to town took Aunt Sarah Ann she has been
here 2 weeks brought Sussy De Al and I worked in garden grand mother came this evening
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*Sunday 14th June
Clear Ther reached 93 degrees Dear Mother passed from this life at 15 min to 5 O'clock A.M
Wm got Aunt Mary and Aunt Emmaline also Mrs Morhead and H. Kessey Uncle Amarcus
sent telegraph to Windsor to Rev S.D.W Smith and others, to Xenia
Monday 15th
Father went to town to make nessary arrangements for the funeral brought Aunt Sarah Ann
out, Uncle Horace Black brought out coffin
Tuesday 16th
�Cloudy rained little Funeral started at 2 Oclock RU Rev Seth DW Smith preached sermon
and preformed services assisted by Elder Brown
Wednesday 17th
Willie De and I planted povae potatos
Thursday 18th
Father went to town to get knew buggy spring and other things on return stoped at Chinichs
put Bet to young Wonder second time Wm and I finished planting potatos began to replant
corn
Friday 19th Friday
Wm and I finished replanting corn AM hauled 40 rails to back line fence finished fixing it
Saturday 20th
Cloudy rained heavy D.M Father went to town took Aunt Sarah Ann and Sussy home Wm
and I finished fixing line fence West half began building summer kitchen
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Monday June 22nd 1885
Few chores cool in morn Ther 45 degrees Willie and I finished building summer kitchen
Friday 23rd
Clear cool Ther 42 degrees in morn Father hoed sweet corn Wm and I cultivated west half
cornfield De and Flavius uncorned
Wednesday 24th
Clear cool morn Ther 48 degrees w 78 Father went to town took Joseph to stay a week Aunt
Sarah Ann's 5 bu beans last an strawberries and Aunt Emmaline Wm began to cultivate
beans I erect scarecrow in cornfield re planted sweet corn
Thursday 25th
�Pureloads Wm cultivated beans J, D, Flave and I uncovered with hoes
Friday 26
Few clouds Ther 76 degrees Father hoed potatos in garden Wm cultivated some beans him
De Fla and I uncovered, more rain
Saturday 27th
Few clouds Father went to town took Aunt Emmaline and marketing Willee, De, Fla, and I
uncovered beans
Monday 29
Clear cool Ther 46 degrees yesterday turned windy showered Ther Ther 90 degrees to 52
degrees, Willie and I cultivated corn in morn cut field No 3 of clover
Tuesday 30th
Clear cool Ther 44 degrees Wm and I cultivated corn in morn I cut part of field No 5 of clover,
Father and Wm cut fence corners
Wednesday 1st July
Father took Aunt Emmaline and strawberries to to town with alts (Pat and Jin) Wm De and I
raked apple orchard and and part of clover in No 3 snook up the rest
Thursday 2nd
Clear moderate Father Wm De and I shook rest of B No and eat past of No 5 shocked part of
No 3
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Friday July 3rd 1885
Clear warm Ther reached 84 degrees Father Wm and I shocked hay rest of No 3 part of No
5 began to haul into barn P.M 7 loads
Saturday 4th
�Few clouds warm Ther reached 86 degrees Wm D A and I haled rest of field No 3 5 loads
making 12 loads on No 3 alas 4 loads of No 5 Alfred went to town to try 3rd C Exam
Monday 6th
Clear hot in morn rained heavy P of U I finished cutting No 5 rest took up hauled 3 loads
Tuesday 7
Clear warm Father took scraper and lard to Fletcher and shook out hay
Wednesday 8
Finished shaking out and hauled in 4 loads of hay
Thursday 9th
Finished Ther reached 94 degrees hauling hay 3 loads making 14 loads in No 5, hay in all 26
loads, 4 in stable, I recut down part of No 5 Wm cut fence corners
Friday 10th
Few clouds Ther 82 degrees Wm and I cultivated corn finished one way began other De
reraked fields of hay
Saturday 11th
Clear cool Father went to town brought Alf out Wm De F and I hauled reraking and
cutting 5 3 loads had beans rest is done
Monday 13th
Few clouds rained hard with heavy wind in afternoon Father cut fence corners Wm and I
cultivated corn sill rain
Tuesday 14th
Cloudy cool Ther 76 degrees Father Wm De Fl & I weeded in garden
Wednesday 15th
Cloudy warm Father cut fence corners Wm and I cultivated corn
�Thursday 16th (finished cultivated beans)
Misty clouds Ther reached 84 degrees Father cut fence corners Wm and I finished cross
cultivating corn. hight of corn average 14 in inches
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57 degrees
Friday July 17th 1885
Warm clear Ther reached 94 degrees all hoed some beans hauled in load of fence corner
hay Father got Cradle fixed at Fletcher cut bound and shocked a little rd wheat in No 1
Saturday 18th
Clear warm Ther reached 90 degrees Father went to town Wm helped grand Mother haul
hay rest hoed beans
Monday 20th
Clear sultry warmest day this summer got Ther highest Temperature 98 degrees Father
began reaping wheat in No 1 Wm D. F and I bound Sold Spot cow for $25 went to town in
eve meet Mrs N Rosier at dusk who commenced work in morning got 200 cwt of clover
Tuesday 21st
Clear cloudy threatened rain in afternoon, breezey all day Ther reached 110 degrees bound
wheat in No 1 Father cut some fence corners Cultivated and hoed some corn Mrs N Rosier
began wash
Wednesday 22nd
Few clouds warm Ther 88 degrees Father cut some fence corners Wm and I cultivated corn
Alf De, F hoed
Thursday 23rd
Few Clouds Ther reached 88 degrees Father cut some fence corners Wm and I cultivated I,
A, F hoed corn, A.M in P.M. all downed wheat Father co cut
�Friday 24th
Clear warm in morn cloudy rained heavy {faded} here crossed corn field Father reached W
half No 4, Wm Al De Fla and I bound and shocked it
Saturday 25th
Cloudy Ther reached 82 degrees Father went to town Bet to S. Bogast Vt Surgen Rest
bound some W Half No 4 after hoed sweet corn and potatos
Monday 27th
Clear, cold Ther reached 89 degrees Wm reaped Wheat No 1 rest with Kate’s colts {illegible}
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Friday July 3rd 1885
clear very warm Ther reached 84 degrees, Father Wm and I shocked rest of No 3 part of No
5 began to haul into the barn, P, M hauled 7 loads,
Saturday 4th
few clouds very warm Ther reached 86 degrees Alfred went to town to try Examination
Father Wm De, Fla and I hauled hay into barn, loads,
Tuesday 28th
Clear cool in morn Ther 57 degrees reached 93 degrees Father helped Uncle much bind
wheat Wm Alf De and I bound rest of No 1 set most up sow taken to Paterson's boar
Wednesday 29th
Few clouds rained little last night Ther rea 91 degrees all began to haul wheat hauled field
WH No 4 closon wheat
Thursday 30th
Cloudy rained last night little today Father went to town drive Kate and gin, got brand for Bet
rest cut Thistles and weeds in old slashing base cwt Gladstone
�Friday 31st
Few clouds got Aunt Emmaline Team and Charlie to help draw wheat drawed all to one load
and rakings of No 1
August 1st Sturday
Cloudy rained little Father went to town drove Aunt Emma Kate and ours we finished hauling
Wheat and rakings into barn a sow had 10 Pigs
Monday 3rd
Cloudy showered heavy all night and today til al and noon
Tuesday 4th
Cloudy cool in morn Ther 65 degrees W 75 degrees all moved fence around garden began
to haul up stove wood rained little
Wednesday 5th
Father cut Aunt Emmaline Oats few clouds cold in morn Ther 60 degrees W to 74 degrees
all hauled stove wood
Thursday 6th
Cloudy cut spring wheat cut about blocks to go under fence William made some rails to
{page rip} know slashing
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Friday August 7th 1885
Cloudy moderate Father bought a 2 year old colt from Theodre Marchan give Tidy cow and
$40 all began along fence line next woods of slashing
Saturday 8th
�Cloudy Father and De drove Kate & gin to town in PM marketing rest luged PM turned Aunt
Emmaline Oats Sunday warm heavy showers very wet Marchan took Tidy
Monday 10th
Few clouds, warm very wet ground Father and Willie went to Detroit on Excursion, per CSR,
rest pull fields clear of weeds out of Onions and garden & potatos
Tuesday 11th
A Copper brought a cow to Gladston Clear warm Ther reached about a 85 degrees all picked
up in clearing 7 in forenoon bought and set up Aunt Emmaline's Oats PM
Wednesday 12th
Clear warm Ther reached 84 degrees Father and Wm went to Tilbury Center and got 2 yrs
old Colt bought off Marchan rest picked up in bush
Thursday 13th
Cloudy rained in showers PM Wm cut around Oats all picked up in the slashing
Friday 14th
Cloudy very cool Wm cut field 2 and most of No 4 with Kate and bet, rest cut weeds house
yard and fence
Saturday 15th
Clear very cool in morn Ther from 46 degrees to 76 degrees Father drove Kate and bet to
town, Marketing, Wm took plows to Fletcher with colts to be repaired we bound Oats No 2
and part of field 4
Sunday 16th Aug
Brought Sam Colt age 1 year 3 mots, up this morn sick took {illegible} Wild road Kate to town
sent Dr Hall VS out he died before arrival of VS
Monday 17th
�Cloudy moderate built log pile over colt S barn finished cutting Oats in field No 4 bound and
set up one
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Tuesday 18th August 1885
Cloudy threatened rain Wm Alf De Fla and I bound and set up Oats until 4 Oclock PM W. g.
A. D and I went to see Fireworks in Chatham
Wednesday 19th
Clear misty Ther from 65 degrees to 78 degrees Father took Mrs Peaker to town. Willie took
25 bu 30 cts per bu of Oats and 18 of wheat 80 cts per bu to town with K and bet, rest bound
last of the Oats, field No 4
Thursday 20th
Father and Willie went to Fletcher and got plows and scraper Father went to Mrs Peakers to
sell 25 ac ground W plowed PM,I, plowed AM with Kate & bet in stubble No 5, Wand A
stacked Aunt Emmaline's Oats in the afternoon cut some weeds in eve
Friday 21st
Cloudy warm Ther 80 degrees rained very heavy accompanied with strong wind and heavy
hail, Father brought calves home from Morheads took 5 bu of Oats off Siberian trees cut
some weeds
22nd
Cloudy Father drove out Kate and Emmaline's Kate to town sent Dr Hall out to Examine Bet
split wood cut new
Monday 24th
Cloudy rained heavy all night and in showers today Ther 70 degrees cut 10 posts for a
Waggonshed in L Lecoq & J Ellit valued hay {illegible} on tack yesterday
Tuesday 28th
Cloudy cool Wm Alfred and I worked on timber hauld hauled up for shed
�Wednesday 26th
Cloudy cool Ther from 52 degrees to 66 degrees straightened up Oats and worked on timber
finished Father attended some business for Mrs Morhead & J. Grant bought a single buggy
of J. Williams
Thursday 27th
Clear warm cloudy cool Ther 44 degrees Wm Alf De and I worked in timber for shed
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Friday August 28th 1885
Cloudy cool Ther 46 degrees Alf & De began to haul in Oats with Kate Pat & Jin together, I
went down and got Aunt Emmaline's Team ploughed PM with them
Saturday 29th
Cloudy Father and De went to town drove Aunt Emmaline's Team Wm Alf Fla & I hauled in
the rest of the Oats from field No 4 & 21 Wm brought single buggy from J Williams
Monday 31st
Cloudy cool heavy shower of hail and rain in evening Wm and I began to plow in No 5, W
with Kate gin and Pat, I with Aunt Emmaline's team
Tuesday 1st September 1st
Cloudy cool Ther reached 64 degrees rained a shower PM Father went to town drove Kate
Wm and I finished plowing in No 5 began in No 2
Wednesday 2nd
Clear in morn cloudy Ther 40 degrees slight frost Wm and I finished ploughing lot No 2,
began to E, lot No 4 Alf De and Fla began to pull beans WH of No 4 Father & Alf took the
Democrat buggy to Shaws to be repainted
Thursday 3rd
Cloudy Wm and I plowed in No 4 De Alf and Fla shelled beans
�Friday 4th
Cloudy rained with all shelled corn until noon Plowed a little PM both teams
Saturday 5th
Cloudy Father drive Kate to town single I plowed with Aunt Emma Team Wm and rest
worked at Waggonshed
Monday 6 7th 7
Cloudy (Sunday morn clear frost Ther 34 degrees) Wm and I finished ploughing stubble in
No 4, de finished work on Waggonshed raised Father bought a Wisner seed drill for $84
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Tuesday 8th September 1885
Cloudy rained all day with short intermissions Willie drove Kate to town got some medicine
for Aunt Emmaline, rest Shelled corn
Wednesday 9th
Cloudy several misty showers Willie Alf De Fla & I finished raising the Waggonshed
Thursday 10th
Cloudy Ther 74 degrees went to town for Aunt Emmaline we all worked at Waggonshed
sided it in
Friday 11th
Brought double buggy from Buxton Cloudy Wm Alf and I got rafters finished out of bush
worked at them and places for them D and F pulled bean
Saturday 12
Cloudy Father and I took 30 bu of dry shell corn got 52 Wm shaped and pull up the rafters A,
D and F pulled beans
Monday 14th
�Clear Father went to town yesterday to Conference came out tonight Wa, Alf and I worked
on sideing and roofing shed
Tuesday 15th
Few Clouds Father got 12 bu seed wheat, Wm harrowed WH No 5 and lot No 2 A,D,F pulled
beans, I went down and began Plowing for Aunt Emmaline
Wednesday 16th
Clear cool Ther 50 degrees Wm drilled lot No 2 and WH of No 5 in Wheat, A, D &, F pulled
beans, I plowed for Aunt E with team
Thursday 17th
Misty cool Ther 38 degrees frost some places Wm harrowed all day I with Aunt E team also
until noon in No 4 rest pulled beans
Friday 18th
Clear warm Wm got 12 bu of Oats from Paterson hauled in 2 loads of beans rest pulled
beans I plowed for Aunt E
Saturday 19th
Clear foggy cool nights Ther reached 75 degrees Father drove Kate to town & all hands
pulled beans today
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Monday September 21st 1885
Clear heavy dew warm I got Aunt Emmaline team and rolled E, H, No 4 Wm harrowed half of
it with Kate and colts A, D and F, pulled beans
Tuesday 22nd
Cloudy Ther 66 degrees went to town Wm and I harrowed afternoon Wm began drill in wheat
in No 4, I followed with harrow De Alf & F pulled beans
Wednesday 23rd
�Cloudy warm in morn turned windy cold Ther 40 degrees Wm finished drilling wheat in No 4,
A, M, went down and plowed for Aunt Emmaline both teams, D, A, F, pulled beans
Thursday 24th
Clear cool in morn Willie and I finished plowing Aunt Emma Alf, De and Flav finished pulling
the beans in No 4
Friday 25th
Few clouds warm Ther reached 80 degrees Willie and I harrowed ground down at Aunt
Emmaline, Father and I got 16 bu of seed wheat
Saturday 26 27th 26
Few clouds very warm Ther reached 90 degrees Father went to town with Mrs Peakers
horse Willie and I drilled and harrowed after 7 1/2 bu of wheat at Aunt Emmalines A and D
began to dig potatos
Monday 28th 28
Clear warm Ther reached 78 degrees Wm run out water furrows on wheat at Aunt E, A, D
and I hauled in rest of beans with, Kate and bet, both plowed PM in beans ground in No 4
put a nine little pigs in the Pen to wean
Tuesday 29th 29
Clear warm Ther reached 80 degrees Wmn and I plowed in No 4 AM Father helped Aunt
Emmaline thrash A cut first of grapes
Wednesday 30th
Few clouds slight breezes warm Father Wm and I went to town to Fair took some marketing
Thursday October 1st
Misty clouds, warm Wm and I plowed in No 4 and harrowed
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October Friday 2nd 1885
�Cloudy moderate Ther 74 degrees turned cooler Wm and I finished plowing in all field No 4
harrowed and began cultivating it
Saturday 3rd
Cloudy cool rained about noon till 2 Friday Father drove colts to town Wm harrowed and
cultivated No 4 with (Kate and Kate and bet) A, D, and I cut corn first cut
Monday 5th
Cloudy cool Ther 37 degrees rained slowly till noon we shelled corn fanned seed wheat
Wand I fanned 4 bu of wheat for Aunt E brought team up
Tuesday 6th
Cloudy cool Ther 36 degrees, first, snowed little Father took grist for Aunt E, and D Flav and
Eunice for Vaccination to town, Wm drilled part of WH of No 4 in wheat, Alf and I cut corn
Wednesday 7th
Cloudy cool Ther 27 degrees Wm finished drilling wheat in No 4 I harrowed with Aunt E team
finished all Furrows & c by 3 PM, all cut corn rest of day
Thursday 8th
Few clouds fl rained heavy during night Wm Alf De and I cut corn
Friday 9th
Clear heavy frost Ther 29 degrees Father went to D. Fletchers sale got 2 two grade and one
Thoroughbred Heifers price $74, all cut corn
Saturday 10th
Clear Frost and fig in morn Ther 34 degrees Father drive Kate to town Wm De and I got 3
heifers from Fletcher's, hauled had punkins up for pigs, all cut corn rest of day
Monday 12th
Cloud began raining last night rained nearly all day Wm A and I put the gable end in waggon
shed
�Wednesday 14th
Cloudy rained drisly in forenoon Father went to town drive Kate Wm and Alf and I greased
gin and pats harness
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Thursday October 15 1885
Few clouds moderate Father and I Wm A and I put some roof on waggon shed
Friday 16th
Few clouds Father and I took 39bu of corn got 48 cts per bu to town with Aunt E Kate and
out Wm Cut some of clover for seed in No 3
Saturday 17th
Few clouds warm Ther reached 65 degrees Father drove Aunt E team to town Wm cut rest
of clover in No 3 and part of No 5 A and I husked some corn hauled 2 loads punkins Aunt E
Pat weaned here De and F cut corn stalks
Monday 19th
Cloudy rained hard last night drizzled some today Father Wm and I went down and cleaned
30 bu of wheat for Aunt E Father went to town hall took a petition we began to haul manure
on No 3
Tuesday 20th
Cloudy cool in eve windy Father drove Kate and beauty took 30 bu of wheat to town for Aunt
E, Wm and I hauled manure With (Kate and Bet) Went rest of clover in No 5
Wednesday 21st
Clear cool, Wm, Alf, De, and I, hauled manure all day on No 3 with both teams, Kate bealit
Thursday 22nd
Cloudy cool all hauled manure from barn yard, ice in morn
�Friday 23rd
Cloudy cool, Ther 32 degrees morn, Father and I went to Fletcher got 413 ft of lumber for
waggon shed, AM, Father took 12 bu of corn to Merlin to get ground did not get it ground,
Wm and Alf helped A Uncle Mack to Thrash in the afternoon
Saturday 24
Clear heavy frost last night Father went to town in the democrat got 100 cwt of flour settled
Kennedy note Chas Alf and I put some roof on the shed and hauled in some dirt and turned
some of the clover
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Monday 26th October 1885
Clear frosty in morn Father went to Merlin got grist Wm, Alf and De went down and helped
Uncle Mack to thrash I layed up with vaccination
Tuesday 27th
Misty Wm and Alf made general arrangements for thrashing cleaned Barn, granary hauled
wood & De and Fla gathered apples
Wednesday 28th
Cloudy Father went to town got necessities for thrashing rest tinkered about got engine and
machine over and {faded}
Thursday 29th
Cloudy rained heavy last night and drizzled all day stoped our thrashing Wm made piks for
colts
Friday 30th
Cloudy cool windy snowed all A.M, several hands gathered to thrash but failed Father and
Wm drove (Kate and Bet) to Buxton hauled our logs to gangway of Kersey Mill
Saturday 31st
�Clear in morn cool Ther 20 degrees Father went to town market Wm, A, D and I dug and
pitted about 16 bu of carrots
Monday 2nd November
Cloudy cool, one short shower, we began to thrash first wheat Clawson, Democrat, Reliable,
resp, in all 286 bu, set for oats
Tuesday 3rd
Cloudy cool, hail last night, Ther 37 degrees, we thrashed oats 214 bu A.M, Father went to
Buxton PM to get logs sawed failed
Wednesday 4th
Cloudy rained Father went Buxton got a cant hook from S-haw we picked apples in Old
orchard pitted rest of carrots and beats
Thursday 5th
Cloudy rained continuous PM, very muddy finished picking apples in old orchard
Friday 6th
Cloudy {page torn} most of day Father piled lumber sawed a Kersey Mill
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Friday November 6th 1885
We fanned up all of Reliable Wheat
Saturday 7th
Cloudy warm Ther 60 degrees very muddy Father went to town single buggy Wm and I went
to Buxton W brought back lumber to finish shed I remained and piled rest of lumber as
sawed rest gathered some apples finished roofing W
Monday 8th 9th
Cloudy cool Wm, Alf, De, Flave, and I began to husk corn
�Tuesday 9th 10 Cloudy cleared off PM all husked corn
Wednesday Friday 10th
Clear Ther 39 degrees Wm took Mrs Peaker 40 bu of corn AM drawed 40 in from field all
began to turn clover over
Thursday 12th
Cloudy turned windy and cool we turned over rest of seed clover in No 5 hauled in 3
waggonloads
Friday 13th
Cloudy cool rained during night we hauled up a load of squash and punkins and 40 bu of
corn turned clover in No 3
Saturday 14th 14
Cloudy cool heavy blustering snow storms Ther 30 degrees Father drove Aunt E team to
town took 4 bu of Wheat for grist, we daubed stable stalls
Monday 16th
Cloudy cool windy we shook up seed clover in No 5 and hauled in rest of it, 3 loads
Tuesday 17th
Clear AM cloudy PM warm Ther 24 degrees reached 60 degrees turned and hauled 2 loads
of No 3 seed clover Father sold all Elm on east side lane for $60
Wednesday 18th
Cloudy rained nearly all day Father Wand I measured and bined Reliable Wheat 118 bu
fanned most of Democrat, hauled a of hay to stable a sow had 9 pigs
Thursday 19th
Cloudy, moderate, Father and I made roads in slashing to some rails W got barrel of plaster
from Rices, all husked some corn
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Friday November 20th 1885
Cloudy, cool, all husked corn
Saturday 21st
Cloudy Ther 36 degrees Father drove (Kate and Pat) to town market we all husked corn
Monday 23rd
Cloudy cool we hauled in 3 loads of corn
Tuesday 24th
Cloudy cool snowed 1/2 inch Wm went to town on Kate A, D, & I hauled corn
Wednesday 25th
Cloudy cool Ther 34 degrees snowed about 1 1/2 or 2 in Wm with colts, I Kate hauled out
400 rails west bettwen between clearing and bush A, D, helped. I. James Harris patched
plaster in house
Thursday 26th
Cloudy moderate we hauled out 329 rails from slashing
Friday 27th
Cloudy cool, we hauled out last of rails 57 rails and 19 poles hauled also 50 bu of corn P.M
Saturday 28th
Clear warm Ther 22 degrees Father went to town single buggy Wm and I bushed out soft
wood in slashing all hashed some corn PM ba Barry's men began cutting Elm in slashing, all
woods east of home
Monday 30th
Clear warm Ther 26 degrees Willie rode Kate to town started to take Bet got to Scipio's on
6th con, A, D, and I husked corn turned seed clover left
�Thursday December 1st
Cloudy rained little in morn warm Father shoveled some in E line ditch rest all husked
Wednesday 2nd
Cloudy warm all husked corn
F Thursday 3rd
Cloudy windy cool we hauled in 3 1/2 loads of corn 1 load the last of seed clover from No 3
Bet mare died at Scipio's
Friday 4th
Cloudy, little snow in morn rained at night Wm D and I husked corn Cousin Arminta and
George came here from Windsor
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Saturday December 5 1885
Stormy heavy blustry snow storm nearly all day Ther 22 degrees could not go to town Wand
I put stalls in stable rest picked wood
Monday 7th
Clear cold Ther 3 degrees above Z (preceding day very stormy heavy snow blizzards Ther
18 degrees fell to 10 degrees) Wm and I hauled 2 loads of hay to stable F, S here brought
engine we began to tash thrash clover seed about 4 O'clock PM,
Tuesday 8th
Clouded in morn Ther 2 degrees about Z reached 34 degrees snowed turned to sleety rain
Father went to Chatham to attend cort on Cooper vs Webb case, We finished thrashing
clover seed about 4h 30m PM had about 13 bu from machine
Wednesday 9th
Cloudy moderate showered some rained all night high water Father went to town to attend
cort Wm took 23 bu of Wheat to town got 80 cts per bu We cleaned barn after mill
�Thursday 10th
Cloudy cooler windy Ther 28 degrees Ftaher stayed in town awaiting trial Cooper vs Webb,
Wm and Alf took engine out to H. Blacks with Kate and Aunt E Kate, We hauled 30 bu of
corn
Friday 11th
Cloudy Ther 19 degrees Father went to town on trial Cooper vs Webb Wm went to Buxton
got a load of lumber sawed for us at Kersey Mill we hauled out 167 rails, trial came off Webb
had damages to pay
Saturday 12th
Cloudy Ther 10 degrees evening 30 degrees, Father drove pat and gin to town, Wm drove
(Kate and jewel) to Buxton got load of lumber AM hauled in 50 bu of corn to Barn
Monday 14th
Cloudy snowed about 5 in yesterday and this morn hauled in some fodder
Tuesday 15th
Cloudy Blustry Ther 16 degrees Wm and I hauled 4 loads 2 each rest of lumber from Buxton
hauled 2 loads of soft wood up to hewkirks with teams (Pat and Gin) (Kate and Jewel)
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Wednesday December 16th 1885
Clear in morn pleasant Ther 10 degrees Wm Alf and I I hauled rest of 5 cord of soft wood to
hewkirks got a grist of 6 bu of corn ready
Thursday 17th
Cloudy Ther reached 40 degrees we hauled corn fodder into Barn
Friday 18th
Cloudy little snow Ther 32 degrees we hauled up fire wood all day Father took 6 bu of corn to
Merlin for a grist with pat and gin
�Saturday 19th
Clear in morn windy Ther 32 degrees Father took 31 bu of wheat to town got 76 cts per bu
(with Kate Aunt E Kate) Wm went to Merlin and got yesterday's grist
Monday 21st
Cloudy turning warm we fanned up the last of Democrat wheat in all 81 bu and commenced
in Clawson fixed one wood rack to haul the waggon (Brought mare coming 4, Polly) home
we got from Chatham
Tuesday 22nd
Cloudy warm Ther reached 50 degrees Father drove Kate and Polly to town took 33 3/4 bu
of wheat got 76 cts per bu hauled load of fodder into barn and a load of hay into stable and
others chores
L Wednesday 23rd LLLLL
Cloudy, very muddy, we put up beams in shed waggons put up rake plows & c got some
white flint ready to pound into {illegible}
Thursday 24rd
Cloudy Ther 28 degrees Father took cousin Arminta and Mrs Rossier to town, Latter left, Wm
went to Stockton's for cider press did not get it, took 10 bu of apples to Rices got them
ground
Saturday 26th
Clear, warm Sun, Ther 14 degrees Father and Alf went to town drove (Kate and Polly team)
Willie and I put up a crane in waggon shed fixed stye put in little pigs
Monday 28th
Cloudy Ther 34 degrees to 40 degrees Father went to Buxton to meet Post O. Inspector We
fanned up rest of Clawson in all 111 bu other wood rack to haul in the waggon
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Tuesday December 29th 1885-1886
�Cloudy Ther 34 degrees Father posted bills of sale of old home-stead in south and north
Buxton We hauled a load of hay into stable hauled part of manure pile in garden spread it on
No 4
Wednesday 30th
Cloudy Ther 38 degrees (48 degrees in eve) rained some Father went to School
meeting was elected trustee We culled corn in cribs pilled and choped and slashing
Thursday 31st
Cloudy Ther 40 degrees We spread manure in No 3
Friday January 1st 1886 AD
Cloudy We spread rest of manure on No3 Wm sharpened little crosscut
Sat Jan 2nd
Cloudy Ther 44 degrees very muddy rained in eve Father went to town We got up pole for
waggon shed sawed some stove wood in slashing
Monday 4th
Cloudy rained nearly all day Ther 50 degrees at 9AM 34 degrees 6 PM Father and Wm held
municipal election at old school Alf and I let off water culed some corn &c
Tuesday 5th
Cloudy Ther 30 degrees snowed PM Father took election returns to Fletcher We took heated
fodder ofit of mow sawed some stove wood began to fan clover seed
Friday 6th Wednesday 6th
Cloud Ther 12 degrees we began to thrash beans in barn with horses
Thursday 7th
Cloudy snowed little Ther 14 degrees we thrashed beans
Friday 7 th 8
�Clear in morn snowed little Ther 5 degrees above We finished thrashing beans and fanned
them about 42 bu
Saturday 8th 9
Cloudy blustry Ther 9 degrees Father and Wm went to down in sleigh I and Alf hauled a load
of hay into stable &c
Monday 11th 11
Cloudy blustry Ther 6 degrees below Z snowed PM Wm and I hauled one load each of
hickory wood to Buxton on sleighs
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Tuesday Dec Jan 11th 1886
Clear in morn Ther 13 degrees below Z hauled hickory wood to Buxton in sleighs
Wednesday 13th
Clear Ther 4 degrees below Z we hauled wood to Buxton on waggons
Thursday 14th
Clear warm Ther 10 degrees above Z we made 3 trips with hickory wood on waggons to
Buxton
Friday 15th 15
Cloudy drizzled little in evening Ther 16 degrees above reached 38 degrees we made two
trips to Buxton with wood took cousin Arminta Hughs to Fletcher to go home on rail
Saturday 16th
Cloudy warm Ther 38 degrees rained considerable Father went to town with Aunt Emmaline,
We made 3 trips each to Buxton
Monday 18th
�Cloudy snowed little Ther 14 degrees Wm and I made one last trip to Buxton, all on waggons
with hickory wood had in all 25 1/2 cords got $2.75 per cord, loaded one waggon with 20 in
Beach
Wednesday 20th
Cloudy blustry turned to rain in evening Wm and I took load each of 20 in Beach for Dr
Springer to Chatham
Thursday 21st
Cloudy little snow sleeted in night Ther 28 degrees we shedded a few few maple saw logs
Friday 22nd
Cloudy blustry snow storm storm in eve Ther 14 degrees Wm and Alf took rest of 20 in stove
wood in all 8 single cords to Dr Springer on the sleighs
Saturday 23rd
Clear cold Ther 2 degrees below Z reached 10 above Father went to town on sleigh Wm and
Alf took a load of hay from barn to stable we drawed up some firewood &&c
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Imp
Monday J January 25th 1886
Cloudy moderate very little snow sleety roads Wm and Alf made 4 trips each to Fletcher with
Maple saw log to Barry's
Tuesday 26th
Cloudy drizzled some Wm and Alf Father took rest of maple logs to Barry's to be sawed
Father Wm and I went to Buxton PM and rolled three large White Oak logs up to the skidway
of Kersey's mill maple logs to Barry's 14
Wednesday 27th
�Cloudy Ther 30 degrees to 38 degrees Father and Wm went to town on waggon took 7 bu 29
lbs of clover seed got $6.50 per bu 11 bu 11 of beans got 65 cts per bu Alf and I bushed out
some soft cord wood and fire wood
Thursday 28th
Cloudy drizzled rain a little Ther 32 degrees to 36 degrees Wm and Alf bushed out 340 rails I
finished bushing out soft wood cut by E, Elare
Friday 29th
Cloudy Ther 24 degrees to 34 degrees Wm and I got one load each of ice from Fletcher to
pack
Saturday 30th
Cloudy snowed about 2 in Ther 18 degrees Father and Wm went to town Ordered P a
Traction Engine built at D. Park and sons Alf and I hauled a load of hay to stable built fence
around cow yard
Monday 1st February 1886
Cloudy moderate Wm and Alf packed ice I took 10 bu to Aunt Emmaline and 10 bu to Aunt
Mary of beans brought a load of sawdust from Buxton
Tuesday 2nd
Cloudy snowed about 2 1/2 in most got to lay on road this winter Wm and I began to cut
maple logs to get sawed by Barry
Wednesday 3rd
Clear Ther 8 degrees below Z Wm and I sawed rest of maple logs all 9 began to cut some
elm
Thursday 4th
Clear Windy Ther 7 degrees below Z noon 4 degrees above Wm and I hauled 8 maple logs
to Fletcher
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Friday Februay 5th 1885
Clear calm Ther 16 degrees below Z Wm and I hauled one maple last, making in all 23
maple logs 5 to get sawed also 9 Elms for sale
Saturday 6th
Cloudy blustry snowed about 3 in Ther 14 degrees Father and Wm went to town A and I got
up a load of limbs to heat kittle for Hog killing
Monday 8th
Clear warm Sun, Ther 25 degrees above reached 42 degrees snow going fast & Father Wm
Alf and I cut 4 Elm logs AM hauled them PM one tree 1640 feet
Tuesday 9th
Few clouds Ther 28 degrees reached 48 degrees We killed our pigs 4 Wt 355-154-135-115
lbs respectively, hauled a load of hay to stable
Wednesday 10th
Few clouds Ther 30 degrees to 52 degrees Wm Alf and I husked some corn hauled it in
Thursday 11th
Cloudy Ther 38 degrees to 42 degrees Father and Willie cut up and salted pork got Aunt
Mary who rendered lard; W and I sawed some cord wood
Friday 12th
Cloudy rained in night and AM misty very muddy Ther 40 degrees to 44 degrees Wm
sharpened both saws
Saturday 13th
Cloudy misty drizzled little Ther 38 degrees to 40 degrees Father went to town in buggy we
sawed wood, stove, cord, and firewood took sow to Patterson's boar
�Monday 15th
Cloudy snowed 1 in windy Ther 26 degrees Father Wm Alf and I sawed wood of all kinds and
slashed and filed brush
Tuesday 16th
Clear cool Ther 8 degrees Wm Alf and I sawed cord wood all day
Wednesday 17th
Few clouds Ther 5 degrees during night, 22 degrees to 32 AM, We hauled a load of hay from
barn to stable Wm got rest of hand picked beans from Aunt Emmalines some from Aunt
Mary's cut cord wood PM
Thursday 18th
Cloudy Ther 40 degrees little skiff of snow Wm A and I sawed cord wood
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Friday February 19th 1886
Cloudy rained Wm cleaned up Clock and Organ we picked beans
Saturday 20th
Cloudy blustry Ther 4 degrees above Z Father and Wm took 10 bu of bean hand picked got
$1.00 per bu we picked some beans got up some wood
Monday 22nd
Cloudy Snowed yeasterday little today about 3 in snow has not exceeded 4 in in depth this
winter Father went to town in sleigh Wm and Alf hauled manure from stable and spread on
wheat in No 4
Tuesday 23rd
Clear, cloudy in morn Ther 32 degrees thawing PM Wm and Alf hauled manure from stable
spread on wheat in field No 4, cut some wood Aunt E's PM
�Wednesday 24th
Clear Ther 10 degrees reached 32 38 degrees Wm and Alf hauled manure on No 4
Thursday 25
Cloudy and very windy Tem 28 degrees this morning but turned cold we hauled the last of
the hay from the East mow of the barn and put it in the stable very muddy
Friday 26th
Clear little skiff of snow very muddy windy Ther 8 degrees above we hauled in a load of
fodder cut cord PM
Saturday Friday 27
Clear warm sun Ther 6 degrees above Father and Wm went to town in the buggy A and I
piled some cord wood, cut firewood & c
Monday March 1st
Clear windy at times Ther 4 degrees above Z Father Wm Alf and I cut cord wood and rail
cuts
Tuesday 2nd
Clear windy Ther 8 degrees above Wm Alf and I cut cord wood AM, fanned and shelled 6 bu
of old a corn for grist
Wednesday 3rd
Cloudy Ther 12 degrees above Father went to town in democrat took 6 bu of corn got grist
Wm A and I cut cord wood
Thursday 3rd 4th
Clear Ther 20 degrees reached 36 degrees We hauled in rest of corn fodder the ground is
bare frozen dry, snow has not exceeded 4 in this winter
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�Friday March 5th 1886
Clear Ther 16 degrees reached 40 degrees We hauled the remaining corn shocks into Barn
Wm went tor Rileys got 4 bu of seed corn from E bar got rest of bean from Aunt Mary's
Saturday 6th
Clear Ther 16 degrees reached 40 degrees (Father took 25 bu of wheat for grist -to town)
We sawed cord wood some stove wood also,
Monday 8th
Cloudy Clear intervals skifs of snow Ther 34 degrees Wm and I hauled and spread manure
on wheat in No 4, AM, all cut wood in slashing PM
Tuesday 9th
Cloudy some wind Ther 24 degrees to 36 degrees all hauled up firewood M AM Cut in wood
PM
Wednesday 10th
Few clouds Ther 24 degrees to 36 degrees Father Wm Alf and I cut in slashing firewood 68 c
PM Wm and I scattered blocks for fence around clearing hauled out 128 rails
Thursday 11th
Cloudy windy Ther about 36 degrees Father Willie and Alf cut in slashing
Friday 12
Cloudy & cool Tem 36 degrees slight skiff of snow this morning Father went to Fletcher
Chasunwell we did not do much
Saturday 13
Cloudy Tem 38 degrees Father went to Town put in a tender for the Shadd homestead of
$5500 Chasunwell Alf and I husked some corn in the barn &c
Monday 15
�Clear and warm becoming very muddy Alf and I cut some stovewood in the woods Father
helped us
Tuesday 16
Clear and warm Alf and I sawed some stovewood in the woods
Wednesday 17
Clear and warm Father and I went to town in the buggie roads very heavy
Thursday 18
Cloudy and raining I filed the saw we done not much
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March Friday 19 1886
Showered some this morning Alf and I hauled the first load of hay from west mow to the
stable Father went to Fletcher heavy thunder storm night before last
Saturday 20
Cloudy & showery very muddy Father scouring ditches Alf and I sawed some stovewood
Monday 22nd 22nd
Cloudy snowed about 2 in Wm and Alf wood sawed cord and stove
Tuesday 23rd
Few clouds Father Wm and Alf sawed wood in slashing
Wednesday 24th
Few clouds Ther 40 degrees to 50 degrees Father Wm and Alf sawed wood
Thursday 25th
Few clouds moderate Father Wm and Alf sawed wood
�Friday 26th
Cloudy windy Ther 40 degrees to 32 degrees Father burned grass along line ditch Wm and
Alf trimed some trees in young orchard took out some carrots
Saturday 27
Cloudy Tem 28 Father went to town where he found that his tender of 5300 $ for the
homestead was accepted Alf and Wm trimmed treess all day
Monday 29th
Cloudy and showery Alf and Wm finished husking corn in the barn
Tuesday 30
Cloudy & damp Alf and Wm hauled in a load of hay trimmed some trees & c
Wednesday 31
Heavy frost Tem 22 Clear & warm in the day Father & W.A went to town in the Buggie Roads
very muddy
Thursday 1 April
Snowing Raining & c W.A hung up the pork
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April Friday 2 1886
Cloudy and Cool Alf and W.A fixing up fences
Saturday 3
Clear but Cool Father Aunt Emma and WA went to town in the Buggie roads very heavy
Monday 5
Cloudy and cool Father and WA sowed clover Chaff on lot No 2 Father went to Wilsons sale
Alf and W.A went to cut down & piled up 4 old apple trees & fixed fences
�Tuesday 6
Snowed all day snow very deep over a foot we did not do much cool Ther 22
Wednesday 7
Alf and W.A hauled out some manure from the garden on to No 1
Thursday 8
Is cool this morning Alf and WA hauled out some manure to No 1 got soft and we had to quit
we then hauled out rails from garden fence onto the road Father went to town hall to division
court
Friday 9
Clear and warm very muddy snow going fast we hauled some rails on to Lacocq & hauled up
some wood
Saturday 10
Clear Father and Aunt Emma went to town D Hall took a large splint from Kates breast Alf
and W.A trimmed trees at upper place
Monday 12
Cloudy & showery Alf and W.A let off water took out carrots parsnips & beets & shelled corn
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Tuesday 13 1886
Clear Alf and W.A hauled some Hay to Aunt Emma's trimmed grape vines &c
Wednesday 14
Clear Alf and WA trimmed trees at upper place Williams, Moore, & Mathews Cut wood
Thursday 15th 15
Clear warm Father W,a and I went to trim Father to attend cort court on summons, I went to
Doctor brought out 200 lbs of flour roads beginning to dry up some heavy yet
�Friday 16
Clear very warm Ther reached 75 degrees Father returned from town this evening Wm and
Alf trimed trees on upper place
Saturday 17th
Clear warm Ther reached 72 degrees Wa and Alf trimed trees on upper place
Monday 19th
Clear very warm Ther reached 80 degrees shade Father took 22 bu of White wheat to town
got 78 cts per bu Wm and Alf fixed fence along front of place
Tuesday 20th
Clear AM rained a heavy shower PM Father drove colts to town took 24 bu of wheat got 8 cts
per bu Wm fixed fences on upper place Alf got Aunt Emma team being roling meadow in No
1
Wednesday 21st
Clear Ther reached 78 degrees Wm took 10 bu of oats and Dull to upper place and bed
stead Ge to cultivate and sow field Alf finished Roling No 1 began No 5
Thursday 22nd
Clear warm Wm finished cultivating began to Drill in oats PM on upper place Alf and Flave
gathered stones on clover on upper place PM A finished roling clover in No 5 home AM
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Saturday 24th April 1886
Intermitting clouds Fatehr drove Aunt Emma team to town took 30 bu of wheat got 80 cts per
bu Wm finished drilling oats Alf roled clover on upper place
Monday 26th
Cloudy Ther reached 65 degrees Wm cultivated and drilled in Oats for Aunt Emmaline Alf
and C Simpson harrow and roled what on east side of lane on the upper place
�Tuesday 27th
Cloudy cool windy Wm plowed; Alf harrowed, C Simpson roled wheat C roled meadow also
on upper place
Wednesday 28th
Clear warm Ther 70 degrees Wm harrowed wheat in No 4 home with Pat gin and Dick, latter
added today, C Simpson finished wheat roling on upper place began roling in No 4 Alf
plowed on upper place Father flave and I picked tree trimming on upper place
Thursday 29th
Cloudy cool windy Wm finished harrowing wheat in No 4 lot 2 & EH of No 5 C Simpson roled
it Father sowed clover seed on lot No 2 and EH of No 5 Alf plowed on upper place AM began
harrowing wheat down at Aunt Emmalines'
Friday 30th
Cloudy cold drizzly rain all day Father sold all of the Elm and Basswood on the upper place
to PT Barrey for 300 to be taken off within 3 years from date April 30th 1886
May 1st 1886
Saturday May 1st
Cloudy warm Ther 70 degrees rained PM Father went to town Wm Alf scraped the road from
townline to Drakes road with colts & Aunt E team
Monday 3rd
Cloudy Father sowed clover at Aunt Emma's Alf and C Simpson harrowed and roled wheat
down at Aunt E Wm plowed on upper place
Teusday 4th
Cloudy rained PM Wm Alf and C Simpson ploughed and har-rowed on upper place Dick cold
broke and worked some this week
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�Wednesday May 5th 1886
Cloudy cooler Wm Alf and C Simpson Plowed on upper place Father went to town
Thursday 6th
Few Clouds Wm Alf and C Simpson Drilled in and harrowed land rolled oats on upper place
Father and I burnt part of the bush in orchard
Friday 7th
Clear warm Ther reached 78 degrees Father Fla and I finished burning brush trimings in
Orchard on upper place Wm Alf and C Simpson plowed for Oats down at Aunt Emmalines
Saturday 8th
Clear Ther 76 degrees Father went to town S buggy Wm Alf finished putting in oats at Aunt
Emmalines worked dick
Monday 10th
Cloudy heavy rain last night AM we loged up some log piles in slashing PM Wm and Alf
plowed for corn at Aunt Emmaline's Oliver Higate put 24 had head of cattle X and calves in E
bush on upper place to pasture one Month
Tuesday 11th
Cloudy Am Ther 70 degrees PM Wm and Alf finished plowing for corn down at Aunt
Emmaline
Wednesday 12th
Clear warm Ther reached 80 degrees in shade Wm drove Pat to town to horse Doctor De Alf
and C Simpson began to plow for corn in field No 6 some garden potatos planted
Thursday 13th
Few clouds Ther 76 degrees Wm & Alf and C Simpson plowed in No 6 for corn Father went
to town Mr Hacket's funeral F & I picked up chunks
Friday 14th
�Cloudy warm Ther 76 degrees rained heavy in eve and night Wm and Alf plowed in No 6
Kate and Polly and Aunt E team
Saturday 15th
Cloudy rained drizzly AM Father went to town Wm Alf De and Flave Cleaned up house and
barn on upper place
Monday 17th
Cloudy Wm Alf & C Simpson plowed for corn in No 6
to be right to make him work out the amount and consider it a christian act
Argument on Slavery
Mrs I. D. Shadds Argument on the 28th March 28 was that if she were to buy a slave that
she believes it to be her right to hold him until which time as it takes the slave to remunerate
her and that if the slave runs away that she would have him brought back she said she would
not sell him but she would scourge and whip him; this she considers Christianity and right,
thereby admitting the right to buy men under all such circumstance. If a master was to sell a
slave she has would buy him to keep him from going south but, would believe it
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Tuesday May 18th 1886
Clear Frost this and yeasterday morn Ther 36 degrees and 40 rest Wm Alf and C Simpson
plowed in No 6 Father burnt in slashing
Wednesday 19th
Clear Wm Alf and C Simpson finished plowing for corn in No 6 Father loged and burnt in
slashing I bagged up rest of the Closon Wheat 22 bu
Thursday 20th
Clear warm Wm Alf and C Simpson finished harrowing and marked off one way field No 6
began planting in evening
Friday 21st
�Clear warm Father marked we planted all of field No 6 in corn C Simpson roled part of it
Saturday 22nd
Clear very warm Ther reached 9 86 degrees in shade Father went to town took 36 bu of
wheat got 76 cts per bu Wm Alf and C Simpson & I finished roling corn in No 6 and went to
Aunt E and harrowed marked off and planted 4 acres for her
Monday 24th May
Clear we began to move part of things to upper place all but Willie and Flave moved up, PM
Wm and A plowed
Tuesday 25th
Clear Wm A and C Simpson harrowed oats Father took a load of 25 bu; got 76 cts for 5 bu
left rest there in Chatham also 2 heavy plows for repair
Wednesday 26th
Clear Father went to town hall to council meeting got assesment on upper place changed in
to his name Wm got gin shod at b Buxton brought road scraper from shaws C Simpson
plowed
Thursday 27th
Cloudy heavy shower last night Wm Alf and I hauled out 278 rails from W bush on upper
place AM plowed PM for summerfallow C Simpson plowed also
Friday 28th
Few clouds Wm C Simpson and I finished plowing summerfallow scraped at the road & fixed
line fence bt us DJ Lacey
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Saturday May 29th 1886
Clear Father and Wm went to town Alf and I planted some garden down home sweet corn &c
Monday 31st
�Clear warm Father and Wm measured off upper place and layed off ditches Alf and I cleaned
and while washed root house
Tuesday June 1st
Clear very warm AM Father went to town brought Mrs Anga Carter Wm Alf and C Simpson
began to ditch along line fence SE gate quarter next 8 con
Wednesday 2nd
Cloudy rained shower PM Father went to town and got Mrs Carter's furniture Wm Alf and C
Simpson ditched SE, q next 8th con
Thursday 3rd
Few clouds cool Father put away pork Wm Alf and C Simpson plowed for beans on upper
place De and I cut rubbish in fence corners
Friday 4th
Few clouds Ther 72 degrees Father and De scraped road from townline to 12 and 13
sideroad Wm and A finished working ground and out it in beans AM W, A, CS, D I cut rye in
Aunt E wheat
Saturday 5th
Clear AM rained shower PM Ther 74 degrees Father went to town Wm Alf and De ditched, 2
teams, I replanted part of field No 6 in corn
Monday 7th
Few clouds rained in morning Ther reached 80 degrees Wm Alf De and C Simpson ditched,
hauled out 82 rails also I p replanted some in No 6 Father cut rye at Aunt E
Tuesday 8th
Few clouds Ther 72 degrees Wm Alf, De, & C Simpson finished the ditch on SW half line up
here began to haul out manure on summerfallow I finished replanting corn in No 6 down
home Father finished rye at Aunt E
Wednesday 9th
�Few clouds warm boys hauled manure on summerfallow roled it and harrowed it I replanted
corn down at Aunt Emma
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Tuesday 10th June 1886
Few clouds A, D and I hauled manure on summer follow AM Wm Alf and I began to cultivate
corn on lower place PM
Friday 11th
Few clouds Ther reached 78 degrees Wm Alf and I finished cultivating corn in No 6 on lower
place David Tuncovern
Saturday 12th
Few clouds warm father went to town we fixed fence for lit behind the barn for Dick
Monday 14th
Few clouds very warm Ther reached 89 degrees in shade Wm Alf and I began a track behind
slashing for Ditch and fence
Tuesday 15th
Few clouds very warm Ther 89 degrees Father went to town took iron plow for repairs
brought out a hay Fedder, Wm and Alf began to cultivate corn in No 6 I cultivated at Aunt E's
Thomas Sulivan put 2 horses in bu to pasture
Wednesday 16th
Few clouds very warm Ther 90 degrees Wm Alf cultivated corn in No 6 C Simpson and I
finished corn at Aunt Emmaline's brought horses up
Thursday 17th
Cloudy warm rained last night Wm Alf De and I finished cross cultivating corn in No 6 began
to Ditch between slashing and bush on lower place
Friday 18th
�Cloudy cool Wm Alf De & I loged AM ditched PM along back of slashing
Saturday 19th
Few clouds Ther 74 degrees Father and Wm went to town De and I finished ditch behind
slashing A pulled mustard from oats &c
Monday 21st
Cloudy rained in showers PM Wm went to town We cut some thistles in old slashing
Tuesday 22nd
Cloudy misty Father Alf and boys loged Wm and I began fence around slashing on lower
place
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Wednesday 23rd June 1886
Few clouds We put up some fence loged some Am began cutting clover PM on lower place
in No 5
Thursday 24th
Cloudy rained PM and night Wm and Alf cultivated corn in No 6 rest dressed and thined corn
A finished cutting clover PM in 5
Friday 25th
Cloudy rained some PM We fixed some fence cultivated some corn PM
Saturday 26th
Cloudy AM Father went to town with Aunt Emma's team Wm and Alf began cutting clover in
No 1 AM all raked and shocked up clover in No 5 Wm got mower of Aunt E's yeasterday
Monday 28th
Clear Father went to town got clover for horse rake & c Wm and C Simpson finished mowing
No 1 we raked and coocked part of cut saturday, hauled in clover in No 5 to barn
�Tuesday 29th
Clear Father tedded and raked EH of No 1 We began to haul to barn and stable WH No 1,
Isadore Elare moved into house
Wednesday 30th
Clear We hauled rest of No 1 in AM C Simpson raked stubble PM Wm and Alf began cutting
on upper place PM
Thursday June 1st
Clear Alf and De mowed rest of Clover on upper place Wm and I cut fence corners C
Simpson tedded all cacked some PM
Friday June 2nd
Misty Sultry all worked at hay hauled to old stable PM shook and coocked some
Saturday 3rd
Few clouds warm Ther 80 degrees Father drove Pat and gin to town C Simpson helped all to
coock and haul clover on upper place
Monday 5th
Clear warm Ther reached 90 degrees in shade We finished raking up clover in upper place
and hauled it in
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Tuesday 6th July 1886
Clear very warm We cut fence corners and old orchard in AM cut new orchard also Also cut
and bound Wheat in lot No 2
Wednesday 7th
Clear very warm Ther 70 degrees morn all cultivated and hoed corn on lower place in No 6
Thursday 8th
�Clear Father and rest of us hoed corn Alf and Wm cutting
Friday 9th
Clear very warm Wm and Alf cultivated corn Father and rest hoed
Saturday 10th
Few clouds Wm went to town, father and rest hoed corn Alf finished cultivating corn in No 6
Lucas Lecocq put 2 cows in bush to pasture
Monday 12th
Cloudy Father took Democrat to Fletcher to tyers cut Alf began cutting Timmothy hay on
upper place rest finished hoeing corn in No 6 finished Timothy and cut fence corners around
it
Tuesday 13
Cloudy little shower in evening Father went to Fletcher and got load of fence lumber at Barry
mill rest hauled in Timothy hay part to barn lower place Thomas Sulivan put 7 head of cattle
in bush to pasture
Wednesday 14
Clear this morning heavy rain this Evg Wm cultivated beans until noon Chats & Father
ground knives and cradle rest hoed beans afternoon we commenced cutting wheat in No 5A
W.AS
Thursday 15
Clear but damp we set up wheat until noon when we finished cutting No 5A and cut cut some
in No 4A
Friday 16
Clear we finished cutting East half of No 4 and Commenced Cutting Aunt Emma's
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Saturday 17 July 1886
�Tolerable clear Father, Aunt Emma Mrs Carter and I went to town to go cut thistles in the
Evg we cut some wheat at Aunt Emma's
Monday 19
I finished Cultivating the beans and cut some fence corners Father and Chas cut fence
corners Flave raked timothy stubble and we hauled the rakings in, rest hoed beans
Tuesday 20
We cut fence corners & c until noon aft noon we finished Aunt Emmas wheat and cut some
on upper place
Wednesday 21
Cool night, Clear day, we finished Cutting wheat at lower place & cut on at upper place
Thursday 22
Clear we hauled in wheat from No 5 & finished Cutting wheat this afternoon
Friday 23
Clear we stacked Aunt Emma wheat and hauled in some from No 4
Saturday 24
Clear Father went to town we Cut fence corners and hauled in some wheat
Monday 26
Showery this morning Chas and Alf cut fence corners & weeds Father shot a Black squirrel &
weasel after noon he sowed some turnips in the garden and helped us log some
Tuesday 27
Foggy this morning we finished hauling in out wheat and hauled some fence corner hay
Wednesday 28
�Clear Alf & D Commenced ploughing this morning in No 4 with Kate & Pollie, and Aunt
Emma's team Chas loaded & I hauled cut & spread manure on No 4 Father & Flave burning
in clearing
Thursday 29
A shower this afternoon we hauled out manure and ploughed in No 4
Friday 30
Clear we hauling manure & ploughing in No 4 Father burning
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August
Saturday July 31st 1886
Clear and warm Father drove Kate to Chatham in single buggie Chas Alf & I hauled manure
on to No 4 JD ploughed in No 4 Father burned in the clearing
Tuesday 3
Clear and Cool Chas Flave and I hauling manure JD ploughing No 4 Father & Alf burning in
the clearing
Wednesday 4
Clear and Cool Father went to town in the buggie took 4 bu corn & 6 bu wheat for grist also
took the hay tedder in and got another I hauled some stone some dirt & c to bull stall and
ploughed some with Kate & Marsham Chas & Alf hauled some manure
Thursday 5
Showers all day I built a stall in the shed at the barn and a feed trough
Friday 6
Clear and Cool we JD and I ploughed in No 4 all day I drove Kate and Marsham {illegible}
Saturday 7
�Father Aunt Emma & I went to town in buggie other boys hauled manure on to No 4
Monday 9
Clear Father cut some oats at Aunt Emma's and Attended Old Mrs Hixes Funeral this Evg
Chas & Alf hauled manure JD burned & I ploughed in No 4 with our Kate & Bute
Tuesday 10
Father cut some oats at Other place Chas and Alf bound I ploughed until noon after noon JD
and I went down and bound Oats at Aunt Emmas
Wednesday 11
Very warm tem 94 degrees Father cut some Oats Chas Alf J.D. and I ploughed rest finished
binding the Oats corn & spread manure red fletcher heiffer calved
Friday 13
ilea heavy shower this morning we logged all day in the clearing
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Saturday 12 August 1886
Clear and warm Father Aunt Emma and I went to town boys hauled some wood ploughed
and harrowed some in summerfallow upper place
Monday 16
Rained some this morning we put up some oats Father commenced Cutting After noon we
ploughed some in orchard
Tuesday 17
Clear we bound Oats most of the day Father finished Cutting Oats
Wednesday 18
�Cloudy this morning we Cut finished binding our own and almost finished Aunt Emmas
Father put up Aunt Emmas Clothesline posts
Thursday 19
Clear & warm we commenced hauling in oats today hauled the spring wheat Father got a job
of Ditching on the Shadd drain which was sold today
Friday 20
Clear we hauled Oats most of the day Chas and Alf ploughed some this morning in
summerfallow
Saturday 21
Tolerable Clear Father Aunt Emma & I went to town in the democrat this morning Father took
1 1/4 bu of plums got 10 per qt
Monday 23
Tolerable clear we finished hauling in our Oats and laid out a ditch through the center of the
upper place
Tuesday 24
Cloudy but warm we hauled in stacked Aunt Emma's Oats and Commenced work on the
center ditch
Wednesday 25
Clear and warm we worked all day on the Centre ditch with 3 teams
Thursday 26
Clear and very warm we worked all day on the centre ditch on the upper place
Friday 27
Clear and warm we worked all day on the ditch Except that Chas hauled some water for Aunt
Emma, Father went down and Cleaned out her pool
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Saturday August 28th 1886
Very hot some heavy showers in Tilbury father Aunt Emma Ada and I went to town in the
democrat Chas Alf and JD worked on the ditch
Monday 30
Cloudy and damp this morning we finished the first piece of centre ditch and scraped some
in the road put there was too much water to clean it out
Tuesday 31
Clear and Cool we worked at the Centre Ditch all day
Wednesday 1st September 1886
Clear and cool JD harrowed all day in No 4 Alf & I cut clover seed with mowers Chas &
Father worked in the clearing
Thursday 2
Clear and cool Alf and I cut clover until noon JD harrowed, afternoon Chas and Alf finished
cutting clover JD sulkey raked & Chas Simpson Flave Morrise & I cocked it up
Friday 3
Clear Alf & D finished harrowing No 4 we cleaned up balance of Old wheat 25 bu & then
cocked up clover seed
Saturday 4
Clear Father Aunt Emma & I went to town in buggie took 5 bu 45 lbs lb wheat got 218 lbs
flour boys harrowed summerfallow & out up balance of clover
Monday 6
Clear and warm we hauled in Clover seed all day Father dug some in Aunt Emmas pool and
the helped in clover
�Tuesday 7
Clear and warm we scraped mud out of pond until noon and then finished hauling in Clover
Wednesday 8
Clear and very warm we scraped mud out of the pond all day with 3 teams
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September
Thursday 9
Clear a shower this Evg we finished scraping the mud out of the pond and commenced
harrowing No 4 I commenced drilling reliable wheat on it 1 bu per acre also sowing timothy 6
lbs per acre
Friday 10
Clear a shower this Evg JD finished harrowing & I finished drilling No 4 took 10 bu of wheat
Father measured the field 9 5/8 acres Alf and Father went for water down the townline Chas
& others pulled beans
Saturday 11
Clear & pleasent Father Aunt Emma and I went to town boys hauled 2 loads water & piled
some lumber at Fletcher we drilled lot front of house on upper place the Evg in reliable wheat
28 26 pua
Monday 13
Clear & cool a shower this Evg we helped Aunt Emma thrash she had 196 bu Oats & 102 bu
of wheat
Tuesday 14
Clear & cool Chas and Alf got a load of water this morning I run out farrows in No 4 After
noon we ditched on Centre ditch
Wednesday 15
�Clear we ditched until noon after noon Father Alf & Morrise went to help uncle mack thrash
rest hauled in two loads of beans & ditched some
Thursday 16
Showery Al Chas & Alf hauled two loads of lumber from Fletcher Father helped uncle mack
Thrash I went to town in single buggie to get some harness fixed
Friday 17
Heavy rain last night we cleaned up a load of wheat this morning afternoon we ploughed
some at Aunt Emmas
Saturday
Tolerable Clear father and Aunt Emma went to town in the buggie I took 26 bu wheat in it
weighed 27 bu got 72 c per bu
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Monday 20 September 1886
Clear we ploughed and harrowed at Aunt Emmas all day for wheat
Tuesday 21
Clear I drilled in 4 bu of reliable wheat at Aunt Emmas 1 bu per Ac, Jd finished harrowing Alf
ploughed on upper place afternoon we all worked on centre ditch Father helped uncle mack
thrash Chas cut some corn
Wednesday 22
Clear we worked on the centre ditch all day
Thursday 23
Clear Father went to Old Mr Cooper's funeral he was 100 years old I’ve finished the front
part of centre ditch and commenced ploughing rest of summerfallow for wheat
Friday 24
�We scraped a flat ditch across summerfallow and I commenced to drill reliable wheat on N 7
half picks per Ac
Saturday 25
Father went to town this morning in democrat I finished drilling Summerfallow took 4 3/4 bu
after noon Chas and I went to town in single buggie Alf got in rest of beans JD ploughed
Monday 27
Father and I went to town took 44 bu of Oats for Aunt Emma Also 17 bu wheat got 26 c for
Oats 70 c for wheat Alf & D ploughed After noon some Chas cut some corn
Tuesday 28
Cloudy drizzled rain after noon we commenced ploughing for wheat in No 5 with 3 teams
Wednesday 29
Tolerable Clear & Cool we ploughed in No 5 most of the day with 4 teams J working Dick
and Pollie
Thursday 30
Frost last night Cool Alf harrowed some on upper place rest ploughed in No 5 Pat had colie
at noon and did not work after
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Friday October 1886
Rained some last night Cloudy & cool I drilled 2 1/2 bu beaury wheat on centre ditch back &
1 bu puge & commenced drilling in No 5 Alf & D harrowed in No 5 & Chas finished ploughing
it
Saturday 2
Clear & cool Father went to town Alf & d finished harrowing No 5 Alf run out furr{cut off} & I
drilled in 9 bu of Beaury wheat on it had not quite Enough to finish C 1 bu per ac
Monday 4
�Cloudy & showery I finished drilling this morning we then commenced hauling manure from
back of barn on upper place on to field beyond the house Alf commenced ploughing in it
Father went to S Woods to sale and bought 6 pigs C 6.75 Each
Tuesday 5
Father went to town in single buggie Alf ploughed rest hauled manure from behind Old barn
Wednesday 6
Clear & Cool Alf ploughed rest hauled manure
Thursday 7
Clear and pleasant Father Chas Alf and I went in Chatham to the fair JD hauled up some
pumpkins & c
Friday 8
Clear we thrashed a flooring of beans after noon we ploughed & harrowed some on upper
place beyond the Orchard
Saturday 9
Clear and warm Father and Aunt Emma went to town in single buggie I took in a load of
wheat 26 bu & 10 bu of beans also took out iron plow & other plow irons to get fixed Alf
harrowed on upper place boys hunted a lost pig
Monday 11
Clear and pleasant we hauled up wood water & c for thrashing Father got 3 lambs from T
Sullivan for $2.75 Each I also hauled in 14 bu of Corn from Henry
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Tuesday Oct 12th 1886
Clear & pleasant we commenced thrashing about 9 Oclock at upper place Louis Granduson
Isac Williams Uncle Mack Jobe River & J T harris helped us finnished at upper place and
thrashed at had 180 Oats & 115 Wheat Also thrashed Oats at lower place had 205 bu Oats
�Wednesday 13
Clear & pleasant Ive finnished thrashing had 225 bu wheat at lower place
Thursday 14
Rained a little this morning heavy wind this after noon Father took 40 bu of wheat to town,
blew front barn doors off and blew down a great deal of fence &c we faned up some wheat
after noon I took 7 bu of wheat down to uncle Macks for seed he paid me $5.00 for it
Friday 15
Clear and windy we fixed up fence all day
Saturday 16
Father Aunt Emma & Mrs Carter went to town in the democrat I took 40 bu of wheat got 68 C
Monday 18
Clear & cool we husked Corn all day
Tuesday 19
Clear & Cool we husked Corn until noon after noon we hauled in 35 bu Corn & 30 bu Culls
Father measured the field 12 ac 18 {illegible}
Wednesday 20
Clear & pleasant Father and I went to town to see my Engine tried took 36 bu wheat got 68 C
boys hauled 40 bu corn
Thursday 21
Clear we put in a bridge at upper place over the road ditch
Friday 22
Clear and Cool we husked Corn all day
Saturday 23
�Clear and Cool we hauled in Corn all day Father went to town in the single buggie
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Monday 25 October 1886
Clear & Cool Father went to town took a load of Oats for Aunt Emma we husked corn all day
Tuesday 26
Cloudy & Cool Chaz & Father Assisted the surveyor me George on the line ditch between us
and McCart rest husked Corn
Wednesday 27
Cloudy rained all the Afternoon we husked Corn until noon after noon F boarded up a stall
for slick in shed by the barn
Thursday 28
Cloudy & damp we husked Corn most of the day
Friday 29
Cloudy we hauled in Corn 200 bu of good Corn & 6 bu Culls Father ween to Joe Rices sale
this afternoon
Saturday 30
Clear and pleasant Father Aunt Emma And I went to town in the democrat took 4 bu Culls
Monday November 1st
Clear we straightened up the Corn Cribs at upper place and hauled up 50 bu of Ebeir's
husking And put in them
Tuesday 2nd
Clear and pleasant we husked Corn all day
Wednesday 3
�Clear & pleasant fodder very dry we husked all day
Thursday 4
We finnished husking about noon after noon we hauled in ballance of Ebeir's husking he
husked 219 bu
Friday 5
We finished hauling in our Corn had 1057 bu off the field 539 bu good Corn 993 Culls And
225 bu unculled
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Saturday 6 November 1886
About 2 inches of snowfall this morning Father went to town in democrat we hauled up some
wood Cleaned up some wheat &c snowing again this Evg
Monday 8
Cloudy and damp we laid a bridge across Center ditch in Crosslane & loged up some in bush
preparing for work on our part of McCart drain
Tuesday 9
Cloudy and damp Chas Alf & D hauled 4 loads of lumber from Fletcher I ploughed some with
Dick & Pollie in the Evg we cleaned up some wheat Father put in some window glass &c
Wednesday 10
Clear Father went to town took 36 bu of wheat got 70 C Chas D and J Commence ditching
on the McCart drain Alf grubbed some in some roots
Thursday 11
Cloudy we finished ploughing and harrowing a piece of ground for timothy seed Just beyond
the house weed Aunt Emmas team Afternoon we ditched some with two teams
Friday 12
�Tolerable pleasant we ditched all day with 4 teams
Saturday 13
Cloudy & damp Father drove Kate and Pollie to Chatham J. D. took Aunt Emmas team home
J got 32 bu of corn from henrys field hauled up some pumpkins wood &c afternoon J went to
town Alf ploughed some with Pat & Shays
Monday 14
Tolerable clear we ditched all day with 4 teams
Tuesday 16
Toler Clear Clear we ditched all day with 3 teams Father went to the plains to a trustee
meeting this Evg
Wednesday 17
Rained all day we Cleaned up some wheat &c
Thursday 18
Cloudy and blustery Occasional snow squalls we ditched some in the afternoon
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Friday 19
Cloudy we ditched on the McCart ditch all day with 3 teams
Saturday 20
Tolerable Clear Muddy Father went to town in the democrat we ditched with tow teams after
dinner J went up to Buxton and got some plaster for patching Alf ploughed
Monday 22
Cloudy and frosty we finished scraping on the McCart drain
�Tuesday 23
Cloudy we ploughed most of the day on upper place rained this Evg and we had to quit
Wednesday 24
Cloudy and Cool very muddy we ploughed on upper place beyond the house finished front
Thursday 25
Cloudy we ploughed over behind the orchard on upper place finished about 7 acres
Friday 26
Cloudy and Crusty we hauled in 12 loads of fodder from No 6
Saturday 27
Cloudy Father went to town in democrat we hauled in 12 loads of fodder from No 6
Monday 29
Cloudy snowed some this morning we ploughed most of the day in sodfield in upper place
Tuesday 30
Cool and windy frozen too hard to plough Father and I went to town took 21 bu of wheat
boys hauled in the ballance of the fodder out of our field
Wednesday 1
December snowing & blustery all day we cleaned up some timothy seed & c
Thursday 2
Cold and windy Tem 4 degrees we got two loads about 900 ft of white Oak lumber from
Kerseys Mill which was sawed from our logs on shares Kersey got 700 ft for sawing
Friday 3
Cold Them 14 we bushed our wood sled & Flave hauled 3 Cords of Ash for Copfield
�Saturday 4
Clear & cold Father went to town we finished hauling out wood and hauled 4 loads of fodder
from Henrys field
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Monday 6
Clear & pleasant J D & I went down and helped Chas Simpson haul in his fodder Alf & Chas
hauled up some wood water &c
Tuesday 7
Clear & pleasant we commensed thrashing clover this morning with Gillulak's machine
Thrashing all day & got 2 1/2 bags Father went to Mrs James Steels funeral this afternoon
Wednesday 8
Clear & Cool we finished Thrashing Clover had 7 1/2 bags I took the Engine over to J Dillons
this Evg
Thursday 9
Clear Father took James Harris’s 6 bu of Corn over we cleaned up the barn floor put some
Chaff in the mow &c
Friday 10
We killed Woods Hogs 5 & one other woods hogs weighed 977 lbs and other one 213 also
cleaned 26 bu wheat & shifted other hogs into the pen
Saturday 11
Clear & pleasant, muddy, Father went to town took 28 bu of wheat we hauled 55 bu of Corn
from Henrys field and I took 5 hogs down to Fletcher this Evg weight 989 lbs got $5.50 per
cwt largest hog weighed 210
Monday 13
Very muddy Father rode old Kate out to the Council we ground axes fanned wheat &c
�Tuesday 14
Tuesday froze up during last night Isador moved away up to Sleds we commensed getting
out timber for a shed to go on the west side of the barn Father cut up a hog
Wednesday 15
Snowed some last Evg Father went to town took 20 bu of wheat for grist got 6 bags of brand
also got a draft for $20 for me to send Munn & Co. we hewed a piece of timber for the shed
and cut some wood
X Thursday 16
Cold we framed some at the shed
X Friday 17
Writing of Diary by Chas Cold Tem 4 degrees below we finished framing at the shed and set
up 4 posts Mrs Carter left Father took her over to Rues
Saturday 18th
Father went to town diary written by CW
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December 20th 1886
Jan 1st 1887
took 20 bu of wheat to town to for grist
Monday 20th
Father took some wheat to town got 73 cts per bu Wm De and I worked on shed (took 30 bu)
Tuesday 21st
Father Wm also took x a load of oats to town for Aunt Emmaline We worked on hauled up
some firewood &c
Wednesday 22nd
�Wm De and I sawed some logs in lower place worked on shed PM
Thursday 23rd
All faned up clover seed about 10 bu when clean Father went up to counsil meeting got $44
back tax on Shadd drain 70 cts on Deary Rice Drain
Friday 24th
Snowed heavy Father went to town to Xmas market
Monday 27th
We cut a few Elm logs hauled up some fire wood we
Tuesday 28th
Cold Ther 4 degrees above Father held the Provincial Election at E Elare of div 2 Wm and I
cut down Elm logs in bush an on lower place
Wednesday 29th
Snowed some Father attended school meeting Wm and I finished cutting down helm
Thursday 30th
Father and J D, C I and De made 2 trips with 2 teams to Fletcher with Elm logs. Wa and I cut
{illegible} to logs
Friday 31st
Snowed and blowed heavely today Father and I made one trip to Fletcher with logs Wm
sharpened saw
Saturday January 1st 1887 1887
Snowed heaivly heaveily Father wen took 30 bushel of wheat to town got 79 cts per bu rest
tinkered
Mon 2 3rd
�Father and Wm held Municipal Elect in south {?} house De and I hauled 4 cord of softwood
to Wm Newkirk
Tues 3rd 4th
Father went to town I took two loads of logs to F, PM
Wed 4th 5th
De and I hauld logs to Fletcher made 3 trips
Thurs 6th
Father and De finished drawing down elm logs to F Wm and I cut smalest of the 2 white oaks
in NW corner on lower place
Frid 7th
Clear cold Ther 12 degrees below Z Father and De took two white oak logs of tree to
Chatham had 1100ft got $12 per thousand Wm and I cut 3 red oak and remaining 1 w oak
log
Satu 8th
Cold Ther 18 degrees below Z Father went to town with Aunt E
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Wm & Alf took 1 white oak 3 red oak logs to Chatham got $6 per thousand all around
Mon 10th
Cold windy Killed 9 of big hog Nem Zebbs and AB upper helped Aunt Mary and Emmaline
ridded entrails
Tues 11th
Father took 2228 lbs of pork got $5.75 per cut to town Wm and De took 5 1/2 cord 40 in
wood to Dr Springer
Wedn 12th
�Father and De took 3 cord of dry wood to N. Murray Wm and I cut down last large white oak
on lower place
Thur 13th
Father and De took two white oak logs of 817 ft 675 rest got A Elare to cut up the tree. Wm
and I cut 4 red oaks
Fri 14th
Warm drizzled rain AM snowed PM Father went to Fletcher
Sat 15th
Father went to town to work it took 4 bu of corn for grist Wm and De took 4 red oaks
had J 8.00 ft
Mon 17th
Snowed blustry Father and De took 2 more white oak logs of tree to lower had 1175 ft got $8
per thousand ft Wm and I cut 3 red oak logs on upper place
Tues 18th
Blustry Ther 0 degrees all hauled out fire wood and loaded red oaks for Chatham
Wed 19th
Ther 13 degrees above Father & De took 3 red oaks to Chatham Wm & I cut two maples
Thurs 20th
Warm Ther reached 45 degrees above Z Father Wm De and Uncle {illegible} Cooper brought
out 4 crads of 3100 brick from Chatham to upper place
Frid 21st
Warm Ther 24 degrees above in mirn thawed Father and Wm went to Chatham brought out
1100 brick
Sat 22nd
�Warm Ther reached 52 degrees above Father took 65 bu of Clover seed got $5 per bu 2 bu
of Timothy seed got $3.50 Wm & De took two maple logs 907 feet to town
Mon 24th
Thawed some snow gone from roads Father went to Fletcher to settle with Barry Wm De and
I {faded} washed of x on shed out lower place
Tues 25th
Father we to Fletcher Wm De and I worked on sheep shed
Wed 26th
Father took {faded} Wm De and I thrashed seed of beans and faned them worked on shed
PM
Thurs 27th
Ther 10 degrees {faded} all ground {faded} Wm piled
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January 28th 1887 AD
Saw, went to little bush PM to cut slash and pile brush
Frid 28th
Ther 38 degrees above rained in evening Wm and I cut 4 maple logs in lower place Father C
De slashed
Sat 29th
Fair Ther reached 42 degrees Father went to town to market Wm De and I tore old locard
fence to front gateaway and renewed it
Mon 31st
Cloudy blustry Ther 1 degree above Z hauled up lot of firewood PM
Tuesday 1st Febuary
�Cloudy blustry Ther 2 degrees above all took teams and hauled 10 maple logs to Buxton for
Aunt E Simpson
Wed 2nd
Cloudy Wm De & I faned 20 bu of oats for mardmarket all slashed and piled brush in little
bush
Thurs 3rd
Cloudy I and WM cut rail cuts De bushed them
Fri 4th
Cloudy Ther 10 degrees above hauled 4 maple logs length 12, 16, 16th rest dime 20, 22, 16,
22 in
Sat 5th
Cloudy snowed PM Ther 10 degrees Father and Wm went to town De and I hauled some
wood up to hills on LP and a load of hay from barn there to stable on UP
Mon 7th
Cloudy rained showers all day I went down got Aunt mary Mary to wash Wm De and I faned
up oats at LP
Tues 8th
Cloudy rained heavy in showers all day
Wed 9th
Clear Ther 26 degrees warm very high water Father and all cut slashed and piled brush on
UP
Thur 10th
Cloudy moderate Killed 5 little size pigs wt 1000lbs and 1 large one for Aunt Emma wt 350
lbs N. Zebbs helped us
�Fri 11th
Cloudy rained Father cut up the pork
Sat 12th
Cloudy Ther 6 degrees above Z Wm De and I cut and slashed
Mon 14th
Cloudy rained PM Ther 20 degrees cut & slashed Father got Aunt Mary to render lard
Tues 15th
Father salted some of pork we got out timber for a {faded}
Wed 16th
Fair Father finished salting pork Wm De and I cut slashed and pied brush
Thur 17th
Clear AM cloudy PM Father took 36 bu of oats to {faded} got 28 cts per bu Wm and I sowed
clover seed clearing of EH of field No 4 P John Carter and family moved into house LP
Fri 18th
Cloudy rained heavy PM Father {faded}
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February 19th 1887
We hauled a light load of hay and a load of fodder to UP Wm let up some water & c
Sat 19th
Cloudy cold Father went to town dob we put a fence around barn yard on LP &c
Mon 20th 21st
�Cloudy Wm sowed clover seed on rest of No 4 began in No 5 De and I shelled 3 bags of
corn for T Sullivan fixed up down pieces of fence
Tues 22nd
Cloudy Father held polls at E Elare's Smith VS Campbell majority for latter 51,
Wm finished sowed some clover in No 4 De and I brought rest of cord wood up some
fodder drw drew up some wood
Wed 23rd
Cloudy Ther 22 degrees rained PM WM took 42 bu of oats to town got 28 cts per bu Father
came out with him De and I drew up wood
Thur 24th
Fair Wm De and I sawed some cord wood cut and piled brush
Friday 25th
Cloudy Wm De and I cut some cord wood Piled some bush &c
Sat 26th
Cloudy rained PM Father went to town we brought 8 a load of fodder up cut and put up ice to
keep
Mon 27th
Clear AM Cloudy began snow Ther 9 degrees above Z all shelled and
1st March
Fanned corn at LP
28th
Father took 36 1/2 bu of corn to town got 44 cts per bu Wm De and I hauled 3 loads of hay
from LP to UP
Wed 2nd March
�Clear warm Wm De and I cut stove wood in little bush
Thur 3rd
Fair cool Wm De and I cut cord wood in little bush
Fri 4th
Cloudy Ther 25 degrees Wm De and I cut cord wood in little bush
Sat 5th
Cloudy Ther 18 degrees snowed all day began rain in evening Father got went to Fletcher
Mon 7th
Fair Wm De and I cut wood in bush drew a coup Kerrys {faded} up today
Tues 8th
Fair Wm De and I cut wood in fixed up fences on LP De and I took 10 bu of corn over to E
Elare
Wed 9th
Cloudy warm Ther 58 degrees We cut some stove wood took top off Lacocq line fence
finished covering in the ice
Thur 10
Fair I sowed some clover and Timothy seed of in back field on UP we cut wood trimmed and
pied brush & c
Fri 11th
Clear Father and Wm killed and dressed pig at LP {faded} lbs I sowed some clover &
Timothy seed of back field
Sat 12th
Clear windy Father went to town took pig got 5.75 per cwt I sowed some clover & Timothy
seed all cut and slashed in back field
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March 14 1887
Mon 14th
Cloudy Ther 20 degrees Wm De and I cut wood &c
Tues 15th
Fair Ther 19th weighed out a ton of hay for D Martin cut some wood &c PM
Wed 16th
Fair cool Wm I and De fixed fence along W side of lane on LP Father got 40 bu of seed oat
of D Young
Thur 17th
Windy cool I sowed clover suden wheat field back of orchard Wm & De bushed out some
hickory wood cut by E Elare all cut in bush PM
Fri 18
Cloudy cool we slashed in bush from cross lane back
Sat 19th
Cloudy Father went town took wooden handled plow for repairs I sowed clover lot in front of
house UP we slashed
Mon 21st
Cloudy cool Ther 29 degrees snowed evening Father scraped the road we trimmed trees in
front of house UP shelled some corn
Tues 22nd
Cloudy snowed a little Wm De & I shelled corn AM at LP cut and slashed in back at UP. PM
Wed 23rd
�Clear Father sowed some pots of clover seed on field No 1 LP I finished sowing Lot in front
of house UP we all cut cut and slashed in bush
Thur 24th
Cloudy began rain in evening we slashed in bush
Fri 25th
Fair cool Father and De got last of corn 7 1/2 bu from field No 3 worked by H Parson at LP
Wm and I hauled out rest of rail cuts AM, all cut and slashed PM
Sat 26th
Fair cool Father & Wm went to town JD & I cut stove wood
Mon 28th
Cloudy blustry Ther 28 degrees Wm De and I bushed out hickory wood out y E Elare AM cut
Elm logs PM T Sullivan got 12 bu of shelled corn
Tues 29th
Cloudy blustry AM Ther 8 degrees above Z Wm De and I finished cutting Elm logs of Barry's
in little bush cut rail cuts PM
Wednes 30th
Cloudy all bushed out cord wood and hauled out some rails Cuts, cut The rails of down
timber in pond bush
Thur 31st
Fair moderate we hauled out rail cuts sent in pond bush along 8th con AM cut those in little
bush to single cut
Friday April 1st
Fair warm all cut and slashed in little bush Beatman Crosby began to split rails
Sat 2nd
�Clear warm Father went to town We cut {faded} slashed 1 field backed 8 con
190
Monday April 3rd 4th 1887
X Clear warm windy Wm De & I began to plow X in field No 3 LP
Tues 5th
Cloudy blustery Ther 18 degrees above Wm plowed AM at LP De and I hauled a load of
manure on garden UP all dug at a watering PM Up
Wed 6th
Fair windy cool Wm De & I finished all to head lands plowing No 3 LP, I rolled part of wheat
in No 4 AM
Thur 7th
Clear warm Wm dug at trough De and I plowed in No {faded}
Fri 8th
Fair warm Wm & De plowed in the No 6 I rolled No 4
Sat 9th
Clear Ther reached 70 degrees Father wen to town Wm & I spread manure on garden Wm
plowed at LP, De plowed in {faded}
Mon 11th
Fair warm AM cooler PM Wm plowed in No6 De harrowed wheat I rolled in No5 I began an l
roling clover in No 7
Tues 12th
Fair cooler Father put in a trunk at road in center ditch UP, Wm & De plowed in No 6 I
finished roling field No
Wedn 13th
�1 and 2 lot garden at LP was plowed yesterday harrowed to day
Thurs 9
Fair Ther reached 59 Degrees Wm & De plowed in No6 Father {faded} at garden I finished
roling wheat on UP Father sowed onion seed in garden at LP
Thur 14th X
Fair windy Father planted some Beets Turnips Parsnips & Carrots in garden at LP Wm De
and I finished plowing field No6 LP, AM began plowing on UP in clover next back field PM
sold Rice hefier to Mrs Morhead for $15
Frid 15th
Cloudy cool showered a little Wm De and I plowed in clover next back field UP
Sat 16th
Cloudy drizzled a little in morn Father went to town {faded} W gang plough from Wm
Dosston's (bought at sale) Wm & De plowed in clover field UP I finished digging {faded}
Mon 18th
Cloudy windy Ther {faded} degrees Wm De & I plowed in field out to backfield
Tues 19th
Clear Ther 23 degrees AM Wm De & I finished plowing fields next to cornfield Wm manured
part of garden on UP
Wed 20th
Fair Wm & D began to harrow field No6 LP, I plowed potato field on UP Wm began to {faded}
Oats in No6
191
Thursday April 21 3rd 1887
�Fair Father went to Fletcher got some {faded} Hughs Wm and I went to get lumber sawed at
Barry's AM drilled Oats D and I harrowed in No 6
22nd Fri
Cloudy cool showered some Wm finished drilling in Oats D and I finished harrowing and run
out {faded} in No 6 LP Father put in a trunk
Sat 23rd
Cloudy windy Father went to town Wm & D plowed UP in fall plowing E side of center ditch
Mon 25
Cloudy Wm D & I finished plowing front field next house E side of C ditch AM harrowed it PM
Tues 26th
Fair showered little Wm drilled E side center ditch field in Oats D & I harrowed field No 3 LP
Wedn 27
Fair warmer Ther reached 54 degrees showered morn Father and Wm went to town D & I
finished harrowing No 3 LP, AM, D plowed front field E side of lane I roled ES lane
Thur 28
Cloudy rained heavy all shelled some corn at LP
Fri 29th
Cloudy windy cool Father took 20 bu of corn got 45 cts for bu Wm & I went in also to get
engine to fair round
Sat 30th
Fair Ther reached 54 degrees Father went to town Fair & market Wm & D plowed ES of lane
part field UP
Monday May 2nd
Cloudy rained little rained very heavy yesterday we shelled some corn AM loged some PM
�Tues 3rd
Fair warm Wm & De took mares gin & Doll to Fletcher to Young Wonder gin was in season &
breed Father & Wm weighed out a ton of hay to Wm Rice all greased harness
Wed 4th
Fair warm Father went to town took 25 bu of corn got 45 cts per bu Wm D & I {faded} some
board fence along back of yard UP Breed Polly to
Thur 5th
Fair warm Wm D & I {faded} weigh stands in back ditch behind clearing No 7 LP loged in it
PM
Fri 6th
Fair Ther reached 79 degrees Father and all loged in clearing No 7
Sat 7th
Fair warm rained in evening Father went to town X Wm Drilled D harrowed field No 3 LP in
oats
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Monday May 9th 1887
Fair warm Wm D & I loged in clearing No 7 LP
Tues 10th
Fair warm Father and all loged helped by Isaac Williams and Job Piecce sr in clearing No 7
LP
Wed 11th
Clear warm Father and all loged AM helped by Isaac Williams & Job Pierce latter and Wm
hauled manure PM
Thur 12th
�Clear warm Ther reached 80 degrees Wm hauled manure on ridge for potato patch &c J
Pierce loded it D and I harrowed in back field nat 8 con field for peas
Fri 13th
Fair warm Father & Job Pierce finished shearing sheep AM Wm drilled in Peas on field next
8 con field D harrowed I plowed potato &c patch on ridge harrowed J it
Sat 14th
Fair cooler wind Father went to town Wm plowed D harrowed rest front field finished for coin
UP
Monday 16th
Clear Ther reached 76 degrees Wm went to town AM I rolled pea ground in back field next 8
con field I D cross harrowed cornfield both finished it PM, Wm marked it off
Tues 17th
Cloudy rained little PM Wm finished cross marking cornfield I planted part of it Wm & D
plowed part of front field west side of center ditch
Wedn 18th
Fair warm Wm D & I plowed rest of front field west of center ditch Father and F planted some
potatos
Thur 19th
Fair warm Ther about 80 degrees Father and Wm went to town to bring out traction engine
but got through that 12 & 13 bridge I finished planting corn in field E G of lane UP, D
harrowed W side of center ditch
Fri 20th
Clear warm all went and got engine out of bridge and sun it home helped by F Shreeve & W
Morhead
Sat 21st
�Fair warm Father went to town Wm marked off WS center ditch field D and I planted part of it
Mon 23rd
Clear Ther 85 degrees Wm & I finished WS center ditch field in corn plowed & harrowed
garden put in some sweet corn and squash F planted pumpkins in cornfield
Tues 24th
Clear Am cloudy PM rained heavy shower Father went to Mr Rhece's funeral Wm & D
harrowed part of sod field 8 con field I planted some mellons and potatos
193
Wednesday 25th May 1887
Cloudy showered little in evening Father weed in garden at LP, I planted some mellons
cucumbers & potatoes Wm doble cultivated sod in part, D, & I harrowed
Thur 26th
Cloudy showered PM Father went up to town hall to council meting Wm cultivated De
harrowed in sod for corn in back field next to cornfield
Fri 27th
Cloudy showered some in evening I finished cultivating De finished harrowing & Wm marking
off back field next to cornfield I began planting corn in it PM
Sat 28th
Fair Ther 47degrees to 73 degrees Father went to town Wm & D began to plow clearing at
LP, No 7 I finished planting corn in back field next to cornfield UP
Mond 30th
Fair AM cloudy began rain in evening Wm & D plowed AM in Clearing fixed fence around
clearing PM, LP I rolled corn ground in back field next to cornfield
Tues 31st
�Cloudy rained most of day D & I greased 1 set double harness and single harness Wm
shelled some corn
Wedn June 1st
Cloudy rained all AM, Wm D and I greased other set double harness, shelled corn PM Father
culled it
Thur 2nd
Fair rained toward evening Father & I plowed in clearing No 7 Wm & D cut blocks to go
under fence
Friday 3rd
Fair Father took rye out of wheat LP D & I plowed in clearing Wm worked at fence
Sat 4th
Clear warm Ther reached 86 degrees father went to town D and I plowed in clearing Wm & I
finished laying fence aloud back of clearing No 7
Mon 6th
Cloudy rained PM Wm D and I plowed in clearing
Tues 7th
Fair warm Father took park Bros tank back to town Wm & D plowed in Clearing LP X I
replanted field No 1 UP
Wed 8th
Clear AM rained PM Wm D & I finished half of clea-
194
Wednesday June 8th 1887
-ing LP planted part of it PM
Thur 9th
�Fair turned cooler Father D & F worked in garden Wm & I planted part of Clearing LP
Fri 10
Fair warm Wm & I finished planting plowed part of cornfield No 1 LP, D double cultivated
bean ground UP
Sat 11th
Fair warm Father went to town Wm & I cultivated corn on UP field No 1
Mon 13th
Fair warm Wm & I finished (1 way) corn in No 1 UP D harrowed bean ground Father Wm & I
planted bean PM in field No 5 6 UP S
Tues 14th
Fair warm Father Wm & I finished planting LP beans in No 5 UP D finished roling corn No 1
2
Wedn 15
Fair warm Wm & I cultivated corn No 3 UP D U plowed for sorgum in garden patch
Thurs 16th
Fair warm Father and all logged in Clearing No 7 LP
Fri 17th
Fair warm Ther 85 degrees all loged in Clearing No 7 LP
Sat 18th
Clear warm Ther 90 degrees Father went to town to market rest finished loging in clearing
LP
Mon 20th
Cloudy showered in evening Wm plowed in Clearing LP, D & I cultivated corn in field No 6
UP
�Tues 21st
Cloudy rained Am Father took Kate to Fletcher to get shoe {illegible} Wm & D PM plowed in
corn field No 7 LP for beans I began to plant beans PM
Wed 22nd
Fair shower AM Father got some beans of {faded} Wm & D plowed I planted Father helped
PM
Thur 23rd
Cloudy cooled heavy shower some hail D finished plowing for beans Wm & I finished
planting No 7
Fri 24
Fair cooler Father cut fence corners & c Wm D & I cultivated corn in No 1 & EH No 2 UP
Sat 25th
Fair Ther 50 degrees to 74 degrees Father went to town Wm D & I cultivated rest of corn in
EH No 2 & planted No 5 UP
Mon 27th
Fair warm Wm D & I cultivated corn No 7 UP
Tues 28th
Fair warm Wm D & I cultivated corn in No 2 EH, UP
Wed 29th
Fair warm Wm D & I cultivated part of beans AM UP began
195
29th June 1887
Wed 29th
�To cut hay in N1 & 2 LP
Thurs 30th
Father went up to Town Hall to council got $30 $30 for engine going through bridge Wm & I
finished cutting clover hay in No 1 & 2 LP raked and corked some
Friday 1st July
Fair warm Father & all hauled hay into barn LP A Emal Elare helped us PM
Sat 2nd
Clear warm Ther reached 95 degrees in shade Father went to town rest hauled rest of hay
into barn LP
Mon 4th
Wm D & I finished cultivating beans field No 6 UP
Tues 5th
Clear Wm D & I finished corn (1 way) in No 6 UP began cultivating in No 1 UP
Wed 6th
Fair father cut Aunt Emmaline's clover Wm D & I cradled around No 4 wheat LP also No 3
UP
Thur 7th
Fair all cut raked & shocked Timothy hay in No 4 UP
Fri 8th
Fair warm Ther reached 95 degrees all hauled Timothy to stable UP
Sat 9th
Clear AM cloudy rained heavy PM Father went to town Flav cut Wm D & I bound wheat part
of No 4 LP
�Mon 11th
Clear Father cut wheat took Alfred to town in evening to try examination all bound wheat No
4 LP Chas Simpson helped (finished field)
Tues 12th
All shocked wheat AM LP began to cut No 3 UP
Wed 13th
Finished cutting & binding No 3 and lot in front of house
Thurs 14th
All cut bound & shocked wheat of Aunt Emmaline
Friday 15th
Father cut rest bound (C Simpson helped) part of No 5 LP
Sat 16th
Father & Wm went to town Alf returned D & I finished cutting weeds & shocked wheat in No
5 LP
Mon 18th
Clear very warm Ther reached 102 degrees yesterday all hauled X wheat No 4 LP, Father
began to dig a well by Pond UP Cous Araninta Hughs came up from Windsor
Tues 19th
Father finished digging well by pond all hauled wheat into barn UP from field No 4 C S
helped
196
Wednesday 20th July 1887
Wm went to haul Aunt Emmaline wheat AM rest took brick out of well behind orchard UP
Father layed them in pond well, all finished stacking Aunt E wheat
�Thur 21st
Cloudy all hauled wheat (our share) from 8 corn field of H Parson's to LP barn hauld wheat
out of No 5 LP Fri 22nd Cloudy rained during night Wm cultivated cane rest hoed it Father
cut some fence corners
Sat 23rd
Clear Father & cou Araminta went to town rest cut fence corners Up & LP D {faded} C
Mon 28th
Cut some fence corners & hay lot in 8 cornfield
Tues 26th
Hauled hay from back 8 cornfield & wheat rakings
Wed 27th
Father began to cut oats on No 3 UP rest hauled rakings off LP wheat fields
Thur 27
Father began cut oats for Aunt Emma rest bound & shocked No 3 UP
Fri 29
Father finished cutting oats for Aunt Emma all tied part of hers
Sat 30th
Father & I began to cut oats in No 6 LP rest finished binding for Aunt Emmaline
Monday 1st August 1887
Clear warm Father cut rest bound in No 6 oats
Tues 2nd
Clear warm father cut oats rest bound & shocked
�Wed 3rd
Clear Ther about 93 degrees in shade Father cut oats rest bound & shocked C Simpson
helped
Thur 4th
Clear warm all bound & shocked oats in No 6
Fri 5th
Cloudy rained PM Father finished cutting oats in No 3 rest finished binding & shocking No 6
LP
Sat 6th
Fair Father went to town rest bound little in No 3
Monday 7th
Dear Joseph died at 8:15 this morning Father went to town made arrangements for funeral
Tues 8th
Funeral took PM services conducted by Rev C. A. Washington
Wed 9th
All bound & set up oats in No 3 LP
Thur 10th
D went to Fletcher got tires set on waggon 1 rest
197
-finished oats AM, LP cleared out west line fence UP
Fri 11th
All began to haul oats from field No 6 LP
�Sat 12th
Father & R Hughs went to town town rest hauled rest of oats from No 6 LP
13th Monday
Cloudy rained Am Father took 26 bu of corn to town got 50 cts per bu Wm and F Shrieve
took Engine up on middle road to thrash rest built fence around orchard removed from
between 3 & 4 LP
Tues 14th
Hauled some oats in from No 3 UP pulled stones into well at pond &c
Wed 15th
Cloudy rained PM finished hauling oats out of No 3 UP C Simpson helped preceeding week
and the {cut off}
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19th Century Rural Ontario Diaries
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Garrison Shadd
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1881-1889
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19th Century, Kent County, Raleigh Township
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Shadd Diary & Transcription, 1881-1889: William, 1881-1885
Shadd Diary & Transcription, 1881-1889: Charles & William, 1885-1887
Shadd Diary & Transcription, 1881-1889: Alfred, Charles, & Isaac, 1887-1888
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Garrison Shadd Diary Collection, Buxton National Historic Site & Museum.
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Shadd Diary & Transcription, 1881-1889: Charles & William, 1885-1887
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Charles & William Shadd
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Courtesy of Buxton National Historic Site & Museum
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19th Century, Kent County, Raleigh Township, Ontario
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1885
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Garrison Shadd Diary Collection
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