1 10 2 https://ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca/transcribe/files/original/abb9480251a0573fc3144403e511934f.pdf 4ab4c2597e861e35e95bc512cd4f8b25 PDF Text Text Deborah (Mullett) Haight Bowerman Diary #1,1874 -1882 Deborah M ullett (1804 -1892) lived in Hallowell Township, Prince Edward County. Her first husband was Consider Haight. Their daughter, Mary M Haight, married Levi Vincent Bowerman, author o f another diary held by the archives. In 1850 she married Vincent Bowerman who is the father o f her son in law, Levi Vincent Bowerman. Deborah M ullett Bowerman Diary 1874- 1882: It is held at the Prince Edward County Archives and has the accession number A2001.016.084 100a labelled Journal 1. Note from Robynne Rogers Healey - Anne Adams in Picton suggests that this is not Lydia H aight's book. Its contents indicate that it is the diary of Deborah M ullet Haight Bowerman. Perhaps she used one of Lydia’s old books. Transcribed by Lydia W ytenbroek, history student at Trinity W estern University, Langley, British Columbia and posted here with her permission. Pam Noxon, archivist at the PEC Archives, also grants permission for this posting. Thanks to Dr. Robynne Rogers Healey. Associate Professor at Trinity W estern University, for her role in this effort. Copyright: © Lydia W ytenbroek and Randy Saylor. 2008 Beginning of Diary [Lront Cover] Lydia Haight Book Bloomfield 2 mo 3rd 1874 Paged by T. B. W illiams 7/5/6/ IPg 1] 12mo 3 1st 1874 _ Uncle Arthur & A unt Jane came here, & there [sic] daughter Hannah, stoped [sic] with us untill [sic] the 4th of l mo 1875. going to meeting with us, for the first time in our new meeting house, a very cold day blowing & snowing_ Sarah Clendenan buried the �same day____ l mo 1st 1875_ Andrew Whycot Son & Daughter here _8th Consider & Deborah came here _12th they went home, Mary going with them, _14th Vincent & myself went to Select meeting _16th Lydia went over to Stephen Hubbs [sic], _ _18th Levi went to Belleville with Uncle John’s things, _24th A great snow storm went to meeting, 25 years ago to day [sic] we were married, _ 2mo 5th Select prepartive [sic] meeting Vincent went I did not go Mary sick with the Inflamtory [sic] Rheumatism several Strangers [sic] there, Ellwood Scott, Stephen Cartland & his brother,____ _6th Quarterly meeting Alfred Phelps & his family [Pg 2] here, left us on first day for home, I did not get out to meeting at all, very bad roads,____ _20_ Levi & Mary went to Fredericksburgh, _23_ they came home Elizabeth Nelson & Rachel came back with them, returning on the 27th 3mo 3rd Levi & Mary started for Rome, went by the way of Napanee, _ Nathaniel Sivetman moved his family down on his new place, ____ _ 6 _ Sid Deb & Mary came here again, _ went home the 9th, ____ _10th [Liphet?] Phebe Jane, Sarah Maria & Walter here 1_ All hands went to meeting, got two letters from our folks, & sent them tw o , ____ _12, S. Hubbs & wife, here also George Amy Sarah & Ella K ingston ____ _14_ Benjamin & wife here, went home the 15th a very wet afternoon,____ [Pg 3] 1875 3mo 16th Our folks got back from Rome, _ �4_9th Edith would have been 18, to day had she lived, 5™°?* Lydia birth-day 37, went back to the woods with the children, to gather flowers, _17th A young Colt, Uncle John came here from Belleville a foot, stoped [sic] two nights with us. _22, Anna Sophia & Fanny came here for a v isit. __ _21st Fathers birth-day [sic] 84, Andrew Wycot & Sarah here for a v isit. ____ _26. Silvanus Mullett & his daughter Victoria here for a visit, returned home the 28. _ 29th Nelson & Rachel came up on the boat, _ [pg 4] 6mo 16th Our folks gone to the Sand-banks also Anna Fanny E. Cadman & a Methodist Minister from W hitby, ____ _21st Quarterly meeting over, Rufes King & Margaret Newsome here, seven of our friends here from Huntingdon,____ _23 ,rdAnna & Fanny started for home, _24 Elizabeth went home, Carrie took her to the boat ____ 7_3rd54 years ago to day [sic] my father & mother landed Quebec with 11 Children, 6 boys & 5 girls, _ _8th father & myself went to meeting, after dinner went to see [Liphet?] Levens. Lydia went with us. _9 Lydia father & myself went to see C. G. Bowerman and his fam ily, ____ �[Pg5] _10thWent on to the market with Mary, sold her butter for 19 cents a pound, & 14ca dozen for her eggs, _ _11th Levi Mary & the children gone too [sic] Hubbs, a meeting this afternoon at 4 oclock [sic], father & Carrie gone _14 Stephen, Lydia & Adam Hubbs here for a visit _21_ Dr Nash’s Mother & Phebe Jane & [look?] with us _24 Deborah & Mary Sills came up on the boat, _25, Three years ago this morning between two and three oclock [sic] poor dear Edith breathed her last sitting in the arm-chair.____ 8mo 21st Eliza Brewer & Rachel Cronkite sailed from New York for England,____ 9mo3rdVery warm quick silver up to 88, _11th Father & myself went to Napanee on the little boat [pg 6] 14thWent round the head of the Bay to R Cadman’s Rachel & Nelson going with u s , ____ _18th Robert & Elizabeth took us to the Point to take the boat for Picton, got home about 8 oclock [sic] 8mo 13th Levi Mary & Carrie went down to see the thousand Islands,____ _24th Lydia went to Napanee with S Richardson 9mo29th Levi Mary & Carrie started for Leeds quarterly m eeting. __ lOmo 7th Our folks got home from L eeds, ____ _10 Reuben Haight & Sarah Haight here for a visit _19 Rachel Sills & Lydia came up to dry apples �23 Nelson came up, they all went home the 23rd 28th Cyntha Simons was buried,____ [Pg7] 1875 1 lm o 4th Grandfather Mulletts Birth-day [sic] had he lived would have been 1 1 0 , ____ He was born in Old England at [Flimster?] in [Homersetshire?], the 4th of 1 l mo 1768. __ My grandmother was born at Strech in Somersetshire the 3rdof 7mo 1770, __ Died in Fredericksburgh the 28th of 12mo 1845 My father died near Bloomfield 31st of 10mo 1865 at Vincent Bowerman’s __ _12th Charles G Bowerman & wife here for a visit _14 A great snow-storm, none of the family at m eeting, ____ 20 Went to Picton to see [Jasop?] Peterson Carrie went also & got a new hat, Marys [sic] Birth day [sic] 40, years o ld , ____ _26 Killed hogs, rained all d a y , ____ _27 Thomas Stinson & wife & Thomas Bowerman & John Stinson here for a visit, Carrie went home with [them?] [pg 8] Vincent let Fevi have 35 dollars out of the bank, & Mary got Fydia two new aprons for the morning, this 27 day of 1 l mo 1875 28th Fevi & Mary went up to Thomas Stinsons [sic] for a visit, rained hard all the afternoon,____ 29thof 11thmonth, 1875. My Birth day [sic] 71, A very cold day. quick-silver down to 6 below zero when we went to bed, _Mary trying out [fat?], Fevi cuting [sic] up his hogs, Fydia twisting yarn, Carrie cleaning up the parlor, Vincent cuting [sic] sweet apples, and myself fixing an old flannel shirt & thinking �23 Nelson came up, they all went home the 23rd 28th Cyntha Simons was buried,____ [Pg7] 1875 1 lm o 4th Grandfather Mulletts Birth-day [sic] had he lived would have been 1 1 0 , ____ He was born in Old England at [Flimster?] in [Homersetshire?], the 4th of 1 l mo 1768. __ My grandmother was born at Strech in Somersetshire the 3rdof 7mo 1770, __ Died in Fredericksburgh the 28th of 12mo 1845 My father died near Bloomfield 31st of 10mo 1865 at Vincent Bowerman’s __ _12th Charles G Bowerman & wife here for a visit _14 A great snow-storm, none of the family at m eeting, ____ 20 Went to Picton to see [Jasop?] Peterson Carrie went also & got a new hat, Marys [sic] Birth day [sic] 40, years o ld , ____ _26 Killed hogs, rained all d a y , ____ _27 Thomas Stinson & wife & Thomas Bowerman & John Stinson here for a visit, Carrie went home with [them?] [pg 8] Vincent let Fevi have 35 dollars out of the bank, & Mary got Fydia two new aprons for the morning, this 27 day of 1 l mo 1875 28th Fevi & Mary went up to Thomas Stinsons [sic] for a visit, rained hard all the afternoon,____ 29thof 11thmonth, 1875. My Birth day [sic] 71, A very cold day. quick-silver down to 6 below zero when we went to bed, _Mary trying out [fat?], Fevi cuting [sic] up his hogs, Fydia twisting yarn, Carrie cleaning up the parlor, Vincent cuting [sic] sweet apples, and myself fixing an old flannel shirt & thinking �Children for a treet [sic], their Grandfather not very smart, had another fall & hurt his hip, Grandmother feeling on [sic] year older than usual still able tho [sic] to patch and m end, ____ 12mo25th Christmas morning thunder and lighting [sic] with rain no sleighing, the children delighted with their presants [sic], as well as the older ones, _ Levi read the fourth chapter of John,_ [pg 11] 12mo30th Father Levi Lydia & myself went to meeting in the waggon [sic] warm weather,____ _31st Mild weather yet George & Maim here, fixing to leave, makeing [sic] a Vest [sic] for father,____ 1876 1st i moA wet mild day, G Anderson gone to Belleville with his things, _ _3rd George & Maim left for the West _ _6th Levi & Mary went to meeting. I lent Sarah Ann Derbyshire “Ushers Letters” ____ _8th Cleaned the kitchen, the horse’s ran away with W esley in the w ood s, ____ _9thMild weather yet, went to meeting, William [Bransrom?] & wife here for a visit, lent them two tracks, & the account of Daniel Man, _ [pg 12] lm o 12thLevis & Phebe Jane here _13thW mH Rattan & wife here, Stephen Hubbs came for Lydia, returned the 23rd____ _24th A mild day been married 26th years to day [sic] to V Bowerman, burnt up the meet [sic] in the �Sm oke-house,____ _14 Done my last knitting in the [kitting?] alone with two eyes, done nothing sin ce, ____ 2mo 2nd Mary cooked the turkey did not enjoy it much herself, as the man came to look at the house with the prospect of buying, not a very pleasant feeling to think of looseing [sic] your home, where you have done so many hard days work, poor writing done with one e y e , ____ _3rd Uncle Arthur & W illie came here, for quarterly [pg 13] meeting also Stephen Cartland & several others from L eed s, ____ _8th Stephen Cartland & Ell wood Scot here for dinner I did not get out to meeting at all on account of my sore eye, _ Uncle Arthur went home & left William here with a fever or something e ls e , ____ _25th Levi Lydia Carrie & W illie started for Napanee and so round to see Elizabeth, & Uncle Benjamin, _ 29th Got home bringing Elizabeth with them who stoped [sic] with us till the 7th of 3rd moth when Robert came after her, ____ 3mo 4th Nelson & Rachel came up, stoped [sic] two nights with us, _ Daniel Dorland & wife here lent her Peter Bedford to read,__ sore eye y e t ____ [pg 14] 3mo 10th 1876_ E Cadman’s birth day [sic] 46 our family in trouble, Old Levet here trying to buy the place or rather the farm . ____ _11th Carrie gone to Hubb’s for a weeks visit, �12th V B had symptoms of a fit about four oclock [sic] in the morning, the pulse almost stoped [sic] beating, but got over it nicely in a few hours. _15, Levi went to Adolphus town to attend Daniel Haight’s Sale, saw Robert & Elizabeth there, __ _16th Monthly meeting a very cold rough snowing _day. father Levi Mary went to meeting, & to Levens in the evening. __ _17th the folks moved into the house, _ _18th Mary went on the market got 15“ for her eggs, got me two morning aprons, _ [pg 15] 3mo 20th Levi & Mary went to Belleville, came home next day, a foot o f snow fell while they were gon e, ____ 4mo 9th Edith’s birth day [sic] would have been nineteen, _ Lewis & Phebe Jane here for a visit, myself writing to the R Sills, _ 4mo 28th Levi’s Birth day [sic] 44 a fine day Phebe Ann Whycott here for a visit. _ 5mo 4th Ellwood Scott attended our week day meeting all the family went except myself he also had a meeting at Hiller in the evening which our folks attended,____ _7th Lirst day went to meeting for the first time since my eye was sore, Lydias birth-day [sic] 38, how time flies away, _ she went back in the woods with the children to gather flowers, _ [pg 16] Vincent reading in John Chandler’s journal where it speaks of an Old woman one hundred �years old, walking nine miles to attend one of his m eetings, ____ _16th Cleaning house, Aunt Bathsheba died twelve years ago today in the afternoon. _18th Monthly meeting at Hiller father Levi & Mary went up, _C Daly here left 8lb of tea; paid him ten dollars. ____ _21st Vincents Birth day [sic] 85. A fine day I went to meeting - Jemia Saylor buried, aged 85, & 7 months.____ _24th [Liphet?] Levens birth day [sic] 85, father Lydia & myself spent the day with him found WmGarrett wife & two daughters there also Joseph R ogers. ____ [pg 17] _25th Levi went to Belleville for a Cheese -press, father & Mary went to m eeting, ____ paid Sarah Levens 31- for turning my bonnet _ got two afternoon aprons for myself & a ribbon for my head, ____ 6_2nd Select meeting Vincent & myself went Aunt Eliza WmHenry Alfred Phelps & wife came here & stoped [sic] all night, & eight others during quarterly meeting, two woman [sic] friends from Leray, ____ _10 Rachels birth day [sic] 8 years old, Alace Swetman here for a visit, Levi brought home his new wagon [sic] found the old Cat dead in the cellar, ____ _11th Vincent & myself went to meeting, then to Levi Varney’s for a visit, _ W mBaker’s daughter here for a visit, _ Lydia went to G Leers for a v isit, ____ �[pg IB] 6mo 15th 1876 Monthly meeting Levi Thomas Vincent & myself went, the rest stoping [sic] at home by the stuff, things not going quite pleasant,____ _16thWilliam Cronk buried at Grasse-point Vincent Levi Mary & Carrie going to the funeral,____ _19th Julia Ann Waters buried at Picton, Levi Mary & Carrie went & the Children Eliza Brewer & Rachel Cronkite returned from England.____ _20th Two weeks wash Nelson & Rachel came up on the boat, ____ _22nd Levi Nelson Rachel & Lydia went too [sic] Belleville, back to the same day, found Mary quite unwell with the [Janduers?],____ [pg 19] 6mo 23rd they went home Levi took them to the boat, * ____ _25th All hands went to meeting except Lydia & myself I having a bad sick head-ache * Vincent Mary & myself went to A Derbyshire’s to see E Brewer, the Steemer they returned in was called the Britanick on the ocean seven days & 16 hours, she was 470 feet long, drew 24 feet of water, 700 pasengers [sic] the Crew 100, used 200 Coal a day, eleven boilers drove the Enjine [sic], 24 firemen, they baked four barrels of flower [sic] a day. _ _28th Levi Mary Carrie & Walter Levens, started in the waggon [sic] for Yearly-meeting ____ �7mo7th Returned from Yearly-meeting,____ _9th Deborah Thomas attended our first day meeting _ [pg 20] very hot weather. Mercury up to 92 at ten oclock [sic] in the morning, George Leer & his family here for dinner _13th Prepartive [sic] meeting Thomas Ladd William Allen a colord [sic] person & Ellwood Scott attended the meeting, we all went _ quick-silver at 90, Our folks went up to Hillier meeting in the evening. ____ 16th First day I did not go to meeting, Stephen and Lydia came back to spend the afternoon. _ 19 W mAllen & Ellwood Scott, had an evening meeting at our meeting house, our folks all went, _ _20_ Hannah Vancleaf buried. Monthly meeting W mAllen & Ellwood Scott, attended, & a meeting in the evening at Mount Pleasant, our folks all went, _ [pg 21] 23rdFirst day Levi father & m yself went found WmAllen there, gave us one of the greatest sermons just what our meeting needed, _ Our folks went up to Mount Pleasant in the afternoon, & to Hillier in the evening. ____ 24th Father Lydia & myself went to Stephen Hubb’s met W mGarretts [sic] family there with Charles Vail, also Thomas Stinson & w ife , ____ _27th four years ago to day [sic] Edith was buried, Mary & the Children & myself went down into the Grave-yard, then to the Post office. _29th Levi went to Picton to meet Mary Sills, �got a barrel of Sugar,____ _30th First day did not go to meeting, had a bad cold, our folks gone over to Nathaniel’s . __ [pg 22] 8mo 5th Consider Died 38 years ago to day [sic] about eleven oclock [sic] in the evening, _ Consider Deborah & Lydia came up, stoped [sic] till the 9th Sarah Phelps & her neice [sic] came, went away the next d ay, ____ 7th Samuel Haight wife & son here stoped [sic] all night _8th Our folks went to the Sand-banks & Rachel young fo lk s, ____ _9th Eliza Brewer daughter & her husband here 10th Prepartive [sic] meeting, Our folks went to Hubbs [sic] _19th Arnold Haights [sic] daughter here stoped [sic] all night with u s , ____ 22nd Lydia & Carrie went down to the thousand Islands met with Elizabeth on the boat, Carrie got left at Kingston came up the next night. [pg 23] 9mo 13thWent to Picton with Mary & got myself some muslin for Caps, & two neck handkerchiefs, saw Jacob Peterson & Isabela, who was going to Fredericksburgh for a v isit, ____ _14th_Prepartive [sic] meeting Vincent went out for the first time since his bad cold, Levi Mary the Children & myself went a lso , ____ 16thW ille came back, Mary & the Children walked over to Nathaniels [sic], Levi & Lydia went to Bloomfield for her black luster dress, _ �_21st Monthly meeting Vincent & myself went, Mary Heriss that was came back with us, brought Lydias [sic] dress hom e, ____ 22nd E Cadman came up on the boat for a visit, _ Nelson Rachel & four of the children came up next day with the wagon [sic], and [pg 24] stayed till the 26th 29th Elizabeth & Carrie went to Picton, __ 30th Elizabeth & Lydia went to Picton, 10mo 1st Nelly & her husband & Magge came up to spend the day Levi going after them, _ _2nd Elizabeth gone home Lydia went with her for a visit for a few w eek s, ____ _21st Levi & Mary on the Market with Ducks & fowles got 50c a pare [sic] for them, brought me six yards of factory Cotten [sic] for some shirts, & a ball of Sun threat 50c____ _30th Lydia came home from Nelson’s on the little boat, Levi went down to meet her [pg 25] 31st Grandfather been dead eleven years this e vening, died about seven , ____ 1 lm o 2nd Levi geting [sic] out timber for a wheal-house Mary finishing her Carpet, father & her went to meeting behind Old E llen, ____ 1 lm o 1stThunder & Lightning in the morning about eight oclock [sic], it got so dark we lit a Candle to see if there was not an E clipse ____ �_5th Benjamin came up to see us, spent three days with us, went over to see Nathaniel _8th Benjamin went home, Levi took him to the boat, __ 1 l mo 29th 1876 My birth day [sic] 72 years old, it looks as tho [sic] I was almost to the end of my journey, and Oh that I may be ready, is all that I wish for in this world, _ Lydia washing, Mary weaving[pg 26] father cutting apples, Levi at the factory, Carrie doing house-work, the Children giving Grandmother little presants [sic], myself makeing [sic] flannel shirts for R achel, ____ 30th Father & Levi went to meeting in the buggy quite cold, Carrie gone out this afternoon with her dress to Mrs Hare’s , ____ 12moth8th Mary put down the rag-carpet & paper’d [sic] the room, 9th Went to the market got 60ct for geese 50ct a pair for Ducks, 22ct a lbfor butter _ 12mo 22nd Killed 14 turkeys 6 geese 8 Ducks for Picton market,____ 23rdWent to the Market got 5/shillings a peice [sic] for the turkeys, 3/- for geese [21b?] a pare [sic] for Ducks 22cts a pound for butter 20ct a dozen for eggs, _ [pg 27] 12mo 24th the Children went to meeting with Carrie, there [sic] father & Grandfather. Philip Ward came in the evening also Elisha H uff, ____ _25th Christmas day the Children much pleased with there [sic] presants [sic], -Aman and his wife here on business makeing [sic] a wheel �for Levi, ____ 26th Carrie gone down to see E Cadman went with friend P, W , ____ 28th Nelson Rachel & Uncle Henry came stoped [sic] with us till 2ndof l stmoth 1877 Henry stoped [sic] with us till the 11th Nathaniel took him to Belleville, _ Levi Mary father & myself went out to Prepartive [sic] meeting, _ 1877 l stmo 13th A great blow snow with it, Levi & Jim had a great job to get in from Bloomfield. [pg 28] 1877, l stMo 19th An invitaion [sic] to dine with Eliza Brewer, did not go not feeling very well, in the evening our School-house was burnt d ow n , ____ _20th Carrie came home, a rain storm in the morning, Consider brought her. _ _21st Our folks went to Hubbs [sic] did not get home till three oclock [sic] in the morning. _23rd Charles G Bowerman & his family here for dinner, also Johnson Brewer & Eliza. _24th Been married 27 years to day [sic], Johnson & Eliza stoped [sic] all night with us. _ 2mo5thOur quarterly over a very favourd [sic] one & very fine weather, Stephen Cartland and Sebern Dorland attended our quarter, [pg 29] 26 friends lodged with us, five one night, four another, ten the third eleven the fourth night & sixteen the fifth, Robert & Elizabeth was [sic] in the company, Also my brother Arthur & his son, Vincent & myself was [sic]out to the �Select m eeting. ____ 3Mo5th Father Lydia Rachel & myself went to Leven’s for a v isit. ____ Edward Daly here stoped [sic] all night quite unwell, _ paid him seven dollors [sic], he left 12 pounds of tea . ____ _7th Levi & father went to Prepartive [sic] meeting a heavy rain all day _ Jim went to Stone Mills for Plaster.____ _10th E Cad man’s Birth-day [sic] 47, Levi & Mary went to Napanee, a snow storm in the afternoon, fell ten inches, ____ [pg 30] 3m° 12th, 1877_ Levi & Mary got home from Napanee, have conclued [sic] not to break up our family this summer, for which I feel very thankfull [sic], ____ _15th Monthly meeting father Levi & Mary went, WmAllen there,____ _16th Another Snow-storm in the afternoon, Levi & Mary gone back in the Sap-bush, to clean the buckets.____ _17thWent on to the Market with some eggs & Dried-apples, _ quick-silver two degrees below zeroe [sic ]. ____ _18th First day I went to meeting good sleig-ing [sic] WmAllen there, gave us an excelant [sic] sermon, he also had a meeting in the afternoon, _ Byron Robinson came back to dinner [pg 31] _19 William Allen had two meetings at our meeting house, our folks goin g. ____ �_20th Lydia & Carrie went to Robert Taylor’s for a visit, after attending WmAllens [sic] meeting in the morning.____ _21st W Allen had two more meetings, our folks washing. Lydia went to S Hubb’s, 22nd Meeting day father & Mary went. Seburn Dorland there, WmAllen left for Huntingdon _23rdMary & Carrie bakeing [sic] & ironing, David Ellsworth spent the day here, _ [laped?] the bush yesterday.____ 24th Carrie Birth day [sic] 22 years old, Levi at the Factory a fine d a y , ____ [Letter 1] 6mo 12th 1892 Here I am up with Lydia been here most four weeks, going home to night _ Lydia playing on the Organ_ Lydia reading over some Old [manuscripts?].__ Frank Waring died the 9th of this month. _ Here I am at John Williams _ writing without glasses, 87 years old & six months o ld . ____ Mary been down with Rachel the last four days, comes home to night. ____ Bloomfield 6th mo 12th 1892 [Fetter 2] Hannah [ClaMier?] whose maiden name was Popel, had five �children, Saumuel, Sarah Arthur Martha, Mary 13 of 3mo 1870 A very stormy first day not able to get out to meeting _ My Grandfather Clothier name was James & my Grandmother name Hannah her maiden name was Pople, they had five Children two sons & three daughters Samuel & Arthur, Sarah Mary and Martha 11 of 3mo 1878 Mild weather, no snow [taped?] the bush the 9th of this month. [pg 32] 4mo 4 Lydia came home Stephen & Lydia brought her in the buggy ____ 7th Levi & Mary on the Market, Potatoes five shillings & seven pence halfpeny [sic] a bag, Uncle Arthur W illie came down from Brighton, I heard & saw the first Robin. 8thWent to meeting Matura Bowerman came home with us, Mary & the Children went back to the Sap-bush, _ Willie & Carrie went to Stephen Hubbs [sic] for a v isit, ____ 9th Edith’s Birth-day [sic] would have been 20, makeing [sic] sugar y e t, ____ _11th Lydia & myself walked down to see Phebe Burlingham, in the evening had a poor turn of Heart decease [sic], but it passed over in about two hours, leaveing [sic] me very w eak. __ [pg 33] �[pg 35] 5mo 17th Monthly Meeting at Hillier Father Levi Mary Carrie & the Children went up & took dinner at John Dorland’s . ____ _20th A fine day went to meeting P W , here our folks went to Picton to look for E Cadman the boat was gone, [Wesleyan?] Conference there, 21st Father Birth-day [sic] 86, a fine d a y . ____ 23rdJim went to Toronto to see his father found him dead & buried,____ 24th The Queens [sic] Birth-day [sic], Nathaniel [sic] two Children were here for a v isit, ____ 26th Nelson & Rachel came up with the bugey [sic] stoped [sic] with us three nights, went home the 29th I think its [sic] rather uncertain if she sees us all togather [sic] again, for we little know what a day will bring fourth [sic]. __ [pg 36] 1877 5mo 3 1st Uncle John came down for a visit & to attend the Quarterly meeting, _ 6mo 1st Select meeting Vincent & myself went found two friends there from Philadelphia Samuel Morris & his companion a friend by the name of [Cope??], when we got home found Frederick Sivetman his wife & four Children here had a very pleasant with them. 3rdA number o f our friends made us a visit 20 in number WmAllen & companion among the company, we lodged the whole of them, & after breakfast, had a chapter read & a few words spoken after by some of the company, which was acceptable, then most of them started for home, some went to �the Sand-banks. 4th Robert & Elizabeth left us for home. [pg 37] after spending three days with u s ____ 7th Meeting day Father & Levi went, a fine day Alice Sivetman here to spend her 14 Birth­ day [sic], Lydia doing a large wash, 10th First day Rachel’s Birth-day [sic] 9 years old, a very windy day it blew down the vine off the house, S Hubbs wife & daughter here for dinner also Thomas [Hasard?] wife & three Children, & Willie Mullett, Carrie & myself went to meeting found Wing Rogers there. ____ _13thWing Rogers made us a visit in company with Johnson Brewer, ____ _17th First day I did not go to meeting, our folks went over to Hubbs [sic], in the evening, [pg 38] 1877. 6mo 19th Reuben & Mary Elizabeth Garrett came here stoped [sic] one night with u s , ____ _20th Elizabeth Dorland died aged 33, buried the 22nd our folks went to the funarel [sic] _23rdThomas Clark’s Son & daughter came stoped [sic] all night with us, _24th first day Barkley Jones from Iowa at meeting, A woman friend from England there in the afternoon by the name of Satherwait. 7mo 1st First day Mary & the Children went to �meeting W illie came back with them, Nathaniel came after dinner. A wonderfull [sic] thunder & lighting [sic] storm seventh day night lasted four hours.____ New potatoes for the first. _____ [pg 39] 7mo 2nd Lewis & Phebe Jane’s Wedding day married 25 years, so there was a great many friends invited makeing [sic] in all about 150, Levi Mary & their three Children went, a great many handsome presents made, to the amount of near a hundred & thirty dollors [sic]. _5th Our friend P W _ came on his way back from Niagra & Yearly Meeting, stoped [sic] till the 9th _8th First day a Friend by the name of Redclif & two Colourd [sic] friends from the States attended our meeting had a meeting at Hillier in the evening our folks went u p . ____ _11th Father & myself went out to see Levi Varney found him quite poorly. ____ _12th fifth day father Mary & myself went to meeting our friends home from YM. many forward spirits there [pg 40] 1877_7mo24th Maria Diamond came here for a visit, & her little girl, spent two days with u s . ____ 25th Five years ago to day Edith died about three oclock [sic] in the morning, buried the 27th _ Thoomas Stinson & wife Phebe [Norton? R?] Phebe Bowerman here for dinner, 28th Vincent quite unwell with with (she doubled the word) the Disentry, Levi Sprained his ankle, ____ 22nd James Richardson & Sarah [Satterward?] �attended our First day meeting. 26th Uncle John Mullett came here. 8mo 1stMary Mullett & Fred came here. 2nd I went to meeting & heard the Black -man Preach, Noah M L ean. ____ [pg 41] 8mo5th Consider been dead 39 years to day [sic]. George & Amey here to day [sic], Wm [Bransrom?] and family. WmValentine & wife Jane, Levi Varney & w ife . ____ _11th [Alphes?] Mc Taggart & his father came here stoped all night with us, then on to m eeting. ____ _18th Uncle John left us for home Mary took him as far as Picton with the Buggy, bringing Deborah Sills & her little Sister May back with her. _19th Jim drove Lydia & Deborah out to our meeting, to hear the Black-man preach a very warm day our friend J.C. called on us once m ore. ____ 24th A party of Old Friends at Lewis Leven’s eight in number, their united ages makeing [sic] 647. Vincent & myself being part of the company [pg 42] 26th Frederick Richardson & wife Stephen Hubbs wife & daughter here for a visit, none o f our family at meeting to day on account of Noah M Lain & his companion, we hope they will return home soon . ____ 27th The Colord [sic] man & his Companion gone, 31st Our folks got in their last load of grain. �9thmo 1stArthur Mullett & our brother John came down for a visit, stoped [sic] over first day. they went over to Nathaniel’s. _5th Levi Varney & his Cousins here for a visit _8th Father Lydia & myself went over to see - Amey Leer, a beautifull [sic] day. [pg 43] 9th A fine day, went to meeting, Stephen White & wife here, we went down to see the new School-house with Lewis & Phebe Jane. 10th Thomas Birth-day [sic] seven years old goes to School for the first time, also Rachel nine years old never been to School before. Lydia & myself went to see Jane Cronk about going to Montrehall [sic]. ____ 12th Andrew Wycott & Sarah & daughter here 13th Father Levi Mary & myself went up to Wellington to spend the day with W mGarrett & Patience, it being the Aniverserty [sic] of their Wedding day 59 years married, 54 of their friends took dinner with them, a beautifull [sic] day rather to warm, sleeping with our window open every night. ____ [pg 44] 9mo 14th 1877, A very warm day Sarah Richardson brought Margaret Wright here for a v isit, ____ 15th Mary took the Children and went over to S Hubbs [sic] for Butter got back around nine oclock [sic], a beautifull [sic] moon-light night, Levi & Hugh Morton went to Picton, Carrie D Sills & M Wright went to L Leven’s. �16th First day I did not got to meeting, a fine day, about six in the evening Uncle Benjamin brought Rachel Clendenan & her daughter Mary, E Cadman & R Sills, Benjamin returned home on third day also Elizabeth & Rachel 18th Gidion H Bowerman buried, Aunt Rachel & Mary went to Nathaniel’s , ____ 19thWent to Select meeting, Aunt Rachel & [pg 45] Mary went to Thomas Waring’s, _ 20th Monthly meeting-I did not go, _ 21st R Clendenan’s Birth day [sic] 71, went to William Valentine’s for a v isit, ____ 22nd Started for Huntingdon Levi Mary and the Children takeing [sic] them in the waggon [sic], 24th Our folks returned home about Vi past nine leaveing [sic] Aunt Rachel & her daughter May at Uncle Arthur’s . ____ 29th Our folks went to the boat for Maggie [Stewary?] 10mo4lh Consider & Mary started for home Deborah went with them, after being with us more than six w eek s, ____ [pg 46] lOmo 10th 1877, Levi took Carrie & Maggie Stewart to the Boat, thrashing Buck-weat [sic] in the field got near two hundred bushel, ____ _13th Carrie came home on the boat R Sills came with her to dry some apples, returned home the 2 0 , ____ �28th Lydia went over to S Hubbs [sic] for a visit, returned the 7th of 1 lm o Stephen & Lydia bringing her hom e. ____ 1 lm o 4th My father’s Birth day [sic] had he have lived would have been 112. _5thW illet Hubbs died, buried the 7th 11th George & Amey here for dinner. [pg 47] 13th Carrie went to spend a few days with Margaret Jane Hubbs & her daughter, returned home on the 15th a very wet day _16th Boiling Cider, Edward & Jane Cronk here for a visit, Mary bought some shells of [sic] a Pedlar [sic] at the door, ____ 17th Levi & Mary went on to the Market with Ducks fowls & butter, 25cts a peice [sic] butter 22cts a pound,__ 14th Edward Dayle here for dinner, paid him $7- got 10 pound of tea of [sic] him at 60ct a pound, _21st Nelson Sills came to see about takeing [sic] the farm, returned home on the 23rd_ _23rdMary & Carrie Cleaned the dineing [sic] -room took up the Carpet, Carrie got her boots from G lens. ____ [pg 48] 1877_1 l mo 29th My Birth day [sic] 73 years older than my Mother was when she died, our second flury [sic] of snow fell to day, fifth day Vincent Levi & Mary went to meeting I did not go feeling much older than �I ever did before. 12mo 4th Killing h ogs, ____ _8th On the market with Ducks hens apples, butter, eggs, & hogs [sic] fat, father went down to have a full cloth coat cut a fine d ay, __ _22nd Mary on the Market with geese ducks & turkeys, geese 50ct a peice [sic] turkey 75ct Ducks 60ct _ Mild open weather no snow on the ground, saw several teems [sic] at plow. [pg 49] 12mo 23rd Lydia & myself went to meeting mild weather yet - Stanly White wife & three Children here for dinner, also James Sivetman & sister _ 24th Levi Lydia Carrie & the Children went to Picton in the afternoon to get Christmas presants [sic], did not get back till after dark. 25th Christmas morning open weather yet All the family abel [sic] to get up & eat their breakfast for which I hope we are all thank-full, How uncertain who will see the next Christmas, Six years ago now poor dear Edith was with u s . ____ 1878 l mo 1st Levi & Mary gone to see G Lear who is quite unwell, Huffs young folks came to spend the evening ____ [pg 50] 1878 l stmo 18th Select meeting day Vincent did not go, having a bad co ld . ____ �19th Monthly meeting did not go, Levi and Mary went also Carrie.____ 21st Levi & Mary went to Picton got flannel for Lydia & Carrie, mild weather yet no sn ow . ____ 24th Vincent & myself married 28 years ago to day, meeting day no one went, father showed Levi his W ill, not altogather [sic] satisfied, poor man I feel very sorry for him, haveing [sic] involved himself so much, but we cannot all see alik e. ____ 25th Samuel Baker died, _ 26th Lydia went to Picton paied [sic] for her gold spectacals [sic] or in part 5 dollors [sic], then went to George Leers for a visit stoped [sic] all [pg 51] night with them. Carrie got her new black dress brought home, Lydia got her coat cut & left it to be made, _ _28th Samuel Baker to be buried to day. 2mo 1st Our Quarterly meeting commences Vincent nor myself went to Select meeting owing to the storm Uncle Arthur & Edwin came, also Philip and his Cousin, _W mSpencer & Stephen Cartland attended our meeting, I did not get out at all, _ Reuben Haight was here from Snowden left here the 7th for Belleville, _ And Lydia went to Fredericksburgh Robert comeing [sic] up for her, it seems very lonesome without her. _8th Levi quite unwell he gave me Uncle Arthur’s Note, five dollors [sic] & 28ct due on it up to this date, ____ �[pg 52] 1878 2mo 13th Carrie gone down to Amie Sills wedding, a very fine day. W E, Harard married last evening. ____ _15th Nelson & Rachel brought Carrie home N & R stoped [sic] with us till the 18th makeing [sic] a bargain with Levi to work the farm, which he has conclueded [sic] to do, much against the family’s wishes, a very imprudent thing to seperate [sic] a family so late in the d ay. ____ _26th Lydia came home Willie going for her Walter Morris at our m eeting. ____ When Eliza Brewer was in England in 1875 she stoped [sic] at a friends [sic] house, where they had killed a fat ox that weighed 1400. sold it for one shilling & tenpence a pound, which brought him 143.15s shillings_ [pg 53] 1878_ 3mo 3rd First day mild weather I did not go to meeting, Elizabeth White came back with our folks, stoped [sic] till fifth day, Went down to see [Liphet?] Levens, & Emma Lumbard. _6th Levi & the Carpenter made a hole in the parlour for another door, to seperate [sic] & break up the family that has lived togather [sic] for 43 years. ____ _8th Nelson’s boys came on [sic] to make sugar, Jacob Peterson died, aged 89 years, Levi & Mary gone to the funarel [sic] buried the 10th Saw the first Robin, fine Spring weather 10thof 3rdmo_ E Cadmans birth-day [sic] 48 years old, A beautifull [sic] day no snow, sitting with the door open part of the time. I am �affraid [sic] this will be our last first day alone, a sad thought to think of breaking up a [pg 54] family that has lived togather [sic] so many years, Oh’ Levi, Levi, little did I think what I was living for. but happy thought I shall not know it lo n g . ____ 1878 3mo 13th Nelson & Rachel got here with there [sic] family & part of their goods, a very rough day raining & snow ing, ____ _16th First day fine over head went to meeting in the wagon, met with two strangers there Albert Stover & James Barker, _ _17th Takeing [sic] every thing down to make room for the new comers, a sad change for old fo lk s. ____ _20th George Leer died about nine oclock in the morning.____ [pg 55] Buried the 22nd We all went a very large funeral and a beautifull [sic] day. E Varney had a good deal to say. _23rd Got a Telegraph dispatch saying that Mary Bowerman was not expected to live. _24th Levi went over to Hubbs to let them know it. A snow storm in the morning. _30th Nelson & Rachel went below, All upside down yet, not looking much like home, never expect it to o . ____ _31st First day I went to meeting, had several good sermons, directing us were [sic] to look for Consolation in all our troubles,____ �4mo 1st A beautifull [sic] day, Oh that it was as bright in doors, time may wear it away But the loss of a home, or changeing [sic] homes [pg 56] is a great trial for Old people. ____ 3rd Nelson commenced plowing fine weather 4th Mary & myself went to meeting. 6th Mary & Rachel went on the market bought Lydia a sun bonnet some steemloom for the fam ily. ____ 7th First day W m [Bransrom?] & wife & son here for dinner.____ 8th Moved father’s bed & mine down stairs does not seem much like home. 9th Ediths birth day would have been 21 [Squires?] here. ____ _18th Father Mary & myself went to Monthly meeting a fine day, came home after meeting all things changed, nothing like home any more used to have a comfortable room to sit down in, now I can sit down by the book-stove, quite [pg 57] a change for old people, ____ _20, Rachel & Mary went to market Lydia went to George Leer’s old place, came back on first day, Levi Mary & the Children going for her. _22st [sic] Carrie washing, Levi hunting up milk, _23rdLevi taking away the furnature [sic], it looks rather hard after working so many years to get it togather [sic], then have it divided up & taken away all for the sake of a little paltrey [sic] gold, Oh that they may see the folly of heaping up riches in this world. Drove away four cows to their �new home. _25th Mary took away our little girl & boy in the buggy, a sad sight to see the children taken away from you that you have nursed & tended day & night for ten years, _ Oh that I may be more resigned to my lot, or I do not, [pg 58] know what will become of me, _Elizabeth came up on the boat, Nelson going for her _26th they came back in the evening for some of their things, Lydia & Deborah went to Coopers for some black-water,____ 27th Sarah Levens brought Aunt Rachel’s bonnet, Lewis Levens called in to see how we look in our new home. _28th Elizabeth went to meeting with father & myself also Nelson & Rachel, got our dinner at Levi’s, it did not look much like home, Eliza Brewer had a meeting in the afternoon. Levis Birth day 4 6 __ 29th Elizabeth & Rachel sewing carpets togather [sic] beautifull [sic] weather Cherrie Plumb trees out in blossom. Musketoes [sic] troublesom [sic]. [pg 59] 4mo 30th Elizabeth gone home Rachel took her to the boat. 5mo5th Levi Mary & the Children here also Nathaniel & Isabela, ____ _6th Quite unwell had sick head-ach [sic] Joseph Baker & P W. here for a call, _ _7th Lydia’s birth day 40 years old it does not seem possable [sic], washing no little Children �to go to the woods with her to gather flowers, as in former days, owing to Levis breaking up the family, a cruel thing. _8th Stephen & Lydia here Lydia Haight [has?] hung blankets out of doors in the sun, rather hard after haveing [sic] things so conveniant [sic], beautifull [sic] weather Lylack [sic] in blossom, a very forward spring.____ [pg 60] 1878 5mo9th Prepartive [sic] meeting Father Lydia and myself went out in the buggy, then down to Levis for our dinner. _21st Fathers Birth day 87, Levi & Mary here cut a hole through the north side of the house for Lydia’s kitchen,____ 24th [Lisset?] Levens birth day 87, father Lydia & myself went over to Levis in the evening stoped [sic] over first day with them father walked up to meeting I rode, 6m olst Quarterly meeting none of us women went Thomas being very sick the Dr here, no company here only Joseph & Ann Willby their daughter and her husband, Uncle Arthur & Uncle James stoped [sic] two nights with us. it does not seem much like our quarterly meeting, the family so broke u p , ____ 61 5mo 3 1st Uncle John & Daniel here on account of Deborah Mc Coy’s death which took place the 23rdof 5mo 1878 Aged 5 4 . ____ 6mo 11th 1878. Vincent Lydia & myself had an invitaion [sic] to spend the day at [Liphet?] Levens, not WmGarrett and Patience there also their daughter Precila, Maria Ellsworth & Sarah M aria.____ _13th Nelly Fox & Ellen Mary Castor stoped [sic] all night with us, then started for Belleville with the �horse & buggy. ____ _15th Abby Ellsworth here & her daughter, & Maria Ellsworth with her daughter Sarah Maria, _19th Catharine [Jmpey?] & Amie Mullett came Levi met them at Picton, 20th they went to Monthly-meeting, 21st Went to the Sand-banks, 22nd took the boat for Bellville [sic], 24th took the Cars to Niagra Sailed for England the 29th 1878 _ [pg 62] 1878. 7mo 1st Father Lydia & m yself went over to see Amos Hubbs, & family a very warm d ay. ____ _7mo 7th Went to meeting a very hot day, Levi & his family came back with us, also Isabela Peterson. _7mo 3rd 1821. We landed in Quebec, after a passage of seven weeks, My father & Mother with eleven Children, the youngest two years old. a little boy called Benjamin. _11th father Lydia & myself went to meeting then down to Levis, Came home & found Daly had been here& left 15lb o f tea at 55ct a pound, _ 25th Mary weaving out a peice [sic] of Cotten [sic] [ware??] Six years ago to day poor dear Edith died, great changes since then, it does not seem [pg 63] much like home any more, strangers comeing [sic] and goin g. ____ 28th Amy & Sarah here for a v isit, ____ 21st Thomas Waring buried at our meeting-house 8mo 5th Consider died 40 years ago this evening �about eleven oclock [sic]. ____ _10th S Richardson & Lydia went down to [W oossoos?]-Island,____ 19th I went down to see the Doctor, got myself some muslin for Caps ribbon, Envelops [sic] books for Thomas. $ 1.90, _21st Andrew Whycot Sarah & daughter, Sarah 64 years old, & Lydia Hubbs 50 the 22nd [pg 64] gmo 23rd pather Lydia & myself went out to Levis stoped [sic] two days with them, it seems rather lonesome to come back without the children. _30th Sallie Taylor fell down stairs lived about two hours after, was buried the first o f 9 m° — 8mo 3 1st Henry Mullett came from Whitby on his way to the States, spent first & Second day with us, then Nelson took him to the boat. ____ 1878 10/7 Stephen Hubbs brought my Sister Maria here haveing [sic] come down with his sister Hannah from Pickering. _ 9th Arnold & Rachel Haight & Maria Niles here stoped [sic] all night, ____ [pg 65] 10th Aunt Maria father & myself went over to Levi’s stoped [sic] all night with them, went to our preparative [sic] m eeting. ____ _13th Our General meeting begun, Did not last but a week �_14th Aunt Maria & Lydia started for Fredericksburgh, Levi & Mary takeing [sic] them to the boat. _ Sent Kate [Jmpey?] the minuts [sic] of the Yearly m eeting. ____ I lm o 9th Lydia got home from Huntingdon Aunt Maria takeing [sic] the Cars the day before for Whitby, W ille came back with Lydia, _20th Mary’s birth-day [sic] 43 years old, The first she ever spent without her Mother, a sorawfull [sic], thing for a woman to be draged [sic] about the world by a husband, _ [pg 66] II /29th 1870 My Birth day [sic] 74 years old, it seems like a great age, hardly likely I shall see many more, Oh that I may be ready when the summons comes, Levi Mary & the Children came out in the evening & took tea with Grandmother & Chrisend [sic] Lydia new dishes. _ 1 2 _ lst Gatherd [sic] some rose leavs [sic] at the east end of the house, Elizabeth came up, I read two Psalms without my Spectacals [sic ], ____ Amos Hubbs died in the evening, on his birth-day [sic] 81 years. 14th Mary was on the market with some of her Ducks got brought me five yards of red flannel at 10 cents a yard. [pg 67] 12mo 25th 1878 Eat [sic] our Christmas dinner all alone so stormey [sic] & the roads blocked up lm o 1st 1879 New years [sic] day Stephen & Lydia here for dinner had a turkey & two fowels [sic], Levi and Mary & the Children, also Nelson & Rachel, �_24thW e went out to Levis a very high wind Mary Ann Wright daughter buried, Nelson & Rachel came up from Napanee. ____ 3mo 19thWalter Levens & Mary Sills married, at our old place, queer times to what it used to be no wonder the Old folks feels sad , ____ 4mo 23rd Came back to our old home after an absence of three months, quite lonely to what is [sic] used to be, it may all be for the best but it looks rather hard, after living with your children for over forty years, then to have the family broke up _ [pg 68] 1879 5mo21st Grandfather’s Birth day [sic] 88 years old, quite feeble this Spring & very hard of hearing, we have had some beau= =tifull [sic] fine warm weather the Lilacks [sic] out in blossom, I suppose it’s the last time I shall ever see them so, as Levi talks of selling a cruel thing, after what him & his family has done here, Levi Mary Lydia & the Children back in the woods to pick up some chips, _ the Children going to School here. ____ 5mo 6th Jane Anderson died at Montreall [sic] was brought up to Picton & intered [sic] by the side of her Sister & Grandmother.____ 5mo 7th Lydia’s birth day [sic] 41 years old, Carrie & the Children went back in the woods with her to gather flowers, I suppose for the last time. [pg 69] 1879 5mo 23rdI stroled [sic] down the Lane alone to look for father, pulled off some Maple �leaves, thinking it might be the last time I should ever be there, the way things are going. ____ 6mo 6th Select meeting day Vincent & myself going out for the last time I think, both of us being quite feeble this spring. _ Stanley [Pumphery?] & wife attended our quarterly meeting. _ Uncle Aurther & Aunt Jane down stoped [sic] three nights with us. 6mo 10th Rachel’s Birth day [sic] 11 years old, Mary Carrie & Thomas came out to dinner with us. O, if I, as one forgiven, Reach at last; that happy shore; How shall all the hosts of heaven Shout, and wonder, and adore! The above lines written by Rachel. Bloomfield. 1879 [pg 70] 1879 6mo 4th Nelson & Rachel gone to Napanee myself trying to cut father some shirts quite an undertakeing [sic] more than I expected, shall not try it again. ____ 6_12th Reubie Haight from Snowden brought me M E Garrett Photograph, I sent her mine in return, he returned to Bellville [sic] the 13th. 22nd First day no meeting, Levi & Thomas came out for us did not go, they spent the day with us, took father & Rachel back with them. 7mo 12th Levi & Mary went down & met Nancy Anderson, brought her here, to spend a few weeks 20thW e all went over to Meeting & then down to Levis for our dinner, home again in the evening. _19th took Rachel down to see the Doctor, he gave her a bottle of medicen [sic]. 1879, �[pg 71] 1879 7mo 3rd My father & Mother with eleven Children landed in Quebec in 1821,59 years ago to day. _ 7mo 25th Seven years ago this morning between two & three oclock, Our dear Edith breathed her last, sitting in the Arm-chair in her sixteenth years, __ Maria Ellsworth & daughter Phebe Jane spending the afternoon at Nelsons, father & myself took tea with them. 8mo 9th Levi met Mary Bowerman daughter Lydia at Picton, on her way from the States, to make us a v isit. ____ 12th Met Elizabeth at the boat spent a week with us. _31st Daniel Levens buried at our meeting­ house aged 90 years, Vincent was at the feuneral [sic]. ____ [pg 72] 1879 9mo 1st Lydia & myself heard the Cars for the first time siting [sic] at our dineing-room [sic] window pealing [sic] pears. _3rdAunt Maria & Kate came here for a visit, spent three days with us, then to Levi’s, starting for home on the 8th Second day morning. Levi takeing [sic] them to Picton & bringing back some English friends, James Clark & his two daughters Sophia & Edith, it was a very short visit of two or three hours. ____ _6th Lather Lydia & myself went to Levis with Aunt Maria & Kate, stoped [sic] till the following Sixth day, Thomas Birth day the 10th 9 years old, 1 lm o 2nd Lirst day no meeting, our first snow �Levi Mary & the children here, Carrie gone to Kingston for a visit, N. A here yet _ [pg 73] 1879 1 l mo 9th First day morning-Started our Coal-stove for the first time, Do not like it as well as the Old box Stove, ____ _20th Mary puting [sic] a peice [sic] of cloth in the loom for full-cloth, -drove herself home in the evening very cold. _29th My birth day [sic] 75, not feeling very smart looking towards the end of the journey. & my daily prayer is htat I may be ready, but feel thankfull [sic] that I was able to sew all day for the family __ Patty Bowerman died in the evening about ten oclock [sic], 30th First day no meeting, David Ellsworth here all day, Will Cadman called on us the Children here going to School, Levi & Mary here in the evening. _ [pg 74] 1879 12mo 23rd Father Lydia and myself went out to Levis. & stoped [sic] till the tenth of the fourth month following. 1880 3mo 29th Our folks sold the Old Farm to a man by the name of John Henry [Levet?] for the sum of $12000 twelve thousand dollors [sic], _ 4mo 9th Mary H Bowerman from Maryposa has been with us for several weeks, makeing [sic] her friends a visit, last evening she got a Telegram saying her father was dead, so she started for home Carrie going with her. & stoping [sic] a week, this is �Edith’s birth day would have been 23. _ 10thWe came home, Uncle Arthur & Samuel Haight came here also the former stoping [sic] three nights with us. [pg 75] 4mo 20th Nelson & his family left for Napanee giving him a thousand dollors [sic] to leave the place, we miss them very much. _ 24th Robert & Elizabeth came up, 26th They are gone down to Levens, to day [sic], ____ _28th Levi’s birth-day 49 years, the Children out here, also Elizabeth & Mary. _ 1880 5mo 1st Froze a quarter of an inch, Elizabeth with u s . ____ _7th Lydia Birth-day the Children disappointed at not going back in the woods to gather flowers it being a wet day, Elizabeth with us, also Mary Carrie, & the Children, in all probability it will be the last birth -day [sic] that Lydia will ever spend here. [pg 76] 1880 5mo 6th E Cad man helped Lydia wash the wood-work. ____ _16th Over to Levis [sic] some of them down in the Grave-yard looking at Ediths [sic] grave. _17th E Cadman brought us home behind Topsey, got some dinner, & then went down to see Maria Ellsworth. We are feeling rather sad & discouraged, thinking what a home we have lost, just to gratify one poor man, cannot �have the privilage [sic] of turning a house in the door-yard, Oh Levi ! Oh Levi ! Why not have let thy poor Old father died [sic] on his own farm, where he has been over 65 years. ____ _18th Elizabeth went home on the boat Mary takeing [sic] her down to Picton. [pg 77] 1880 5mo 20th Monthly meeting at Hillier, none of our family there, to [sic] much buried in the cares of the world, Mary haveing [sic] the A g u e. ____ 21st V B ’s birth day [sic] 89 Andrew & Sarah here also Amey, a beautifull [sic] day. 23rdFirst day no meeting for us, Mary & the Children here. 24th The Queen’s birth-day [sic], it will not make much differance [sic] with us, altho [sic] my Sister Mary was carring [sic] of her about the room when she was about twelve months o ld . ____ 6mo 4th Quarterly meeting began Vincent & myself went out to Select meeting, then down to Levis, were [sic] we stoped [sic] till the 7th _ [pg 78] Uncle John & Arthur down to the meeting we had a very good meeting. _10th Rachel’s Birth-day 12 years old, they all came out to the old place & took dinner for the last time, as the place is sold, Grandfather in his 90 year, & Grandmother in her 7 6 , ____ �_7mo 1st Dominion day, W e went out to Levi’s, met with some friends there from the States, by the name of Caleb Gregg & his wife, had some of their company at Edward Cronk’s. _ _3rd 59 Years ago to day my father landed in Quebec with eleven Children after a voiage [sic] of seven weeks, leaveing [sic] England in the year 1821, in the fifth m onth.____ [pg 79] 1880 7mo 27th Aunt Maria & Mary Ann came here, went to the Sand-banks, & over to Nathaniels, started for home the fifth of eighteth [sic] month, 42 years ago to day that Consider died, 8mo 6th Charles Vail called on us a few minuts [sic] I gave him mine & Vincents photograph _22nd Nellie Fox & baby here stoped [sic] three days with u s . ____ _27th Sarah Crawford & daughter called on us, had a nice little sitting, for our encouragement I hop e. ____ 9mo8th E Cadman came up & stoped [sic] two weeks with us, Robert came up on the 18th for her, ____ 17thW e went to Picton Elizabeth Mary & the Children, also myself where I had [pg 80] not been for three years, We also drove round the Sematry [sic], I got myself cotten [sic] for night-gowns, Silk & [wadden?] for Lydia’s quilt, 9mo 14 Amie Mullett & her little neice [sic] from Belleville here spent three days �with us, _19th Edward [Harard?] & wife here for a visit Nathaniel Swetman, M Levens, Amey Leer Robert & Elizabeth, & our folks from B loom field. ____ _24th Lydia & Amey gone down to Reuben Burlinghams for a v isit. ____ lOmo 24th Three inches of snow fell, Icicles hanging on the window frames, _26th Makeing [sic] father a couple of new flannel Shirts, myself two night gow n s, ____ [pg 81] lOmo 31st The Aneversary [sic] of my father last day. _ 1 lm o 1st E [Liphet?] Levens died about three in the afternoon, father & myself went down the next day to see his remains, Mary driveing [sic] us down in the buggy, & then called on Reuben Burlingham 4th Frederick Richardson here also Sarah Foster, _22nd Our fingers sticking to the door latch, so cold, _24 Crossed the Ferry at Bellville [sic] on the ice, with the horse and the Cutter,____ 29th My birth-day [sic] 76, Levi Mary & the Children came out in the evening bringing a roast duck with them, Thomas quite sick , ____ [pg 82] 12mo 5th 1880, We went out to Bloomfield as Thomas was no better but worse, 7th Vincent & Lydia went out took the birds & locked up the house, for three months, Thomas not getting much better, _ �1881 3mo 8th Returned home for a few weeks to pack up our things & take leave of the Old place after living on it 65 years, it looks rather hard to see Old folks give up their home before they have done of it 3m° 10th Elizabeth Cadman’s Birth-day [sic] 51. _13th R Cadman Elizabeth, Carrie Rachel & Levi,_ 14th E Cadman went home, _16th Adam Spencer attended our M Monthly meeting. Came over to the Old place in the evening to see Vincent & wife accompanied by [pg 83] W mValentine Amy Leer & Levi, 17th Joseph Rogers buried E Varney going up to attend the funarel [sic], ____ 19th Heard the first Robin on the Old place 12mo 25th 1880, Christmas Thomas sick a [sic] bed not able to go to Picton, or to see the Christmas tree, ____ 1881 1/1 New-years day Thomas in bed yet not much better, lingerd [sic] along till the first of 4 month, when he quickly breathed his last about Vi past seven in the evening, by the bursting of a blood-vessle,_ buried the third by the side of his sister Edith._ poor dear [Chils?] Oh that we were all with them, the way things are going, it all looks dark after looseing [sic] our home. _ [pg 84] 1880 1 l mo 27th Rachel & Thomas came out to the Old place on the Sledge in the evening, quite cold �after Skeiting [sic] stoped [sic] all night with us, thought he took his cold then, that terminated in his death First day morning the 28th after breakfast he read the 1st 23rd, & 27th Psalms also the 2nd cht of John little did we think it was the last time he would read to us, they went home in the evening.* 1881 4mo 28th Mary & Amy Leer went to Mariposa to see Mary Bowerman, she died the 2nd of 5th month buried the 4th Levi went up to attend the funarel [sic] came back the 9th. on the Cars. _ 5mo 7th Lydia’s birth day [sic], no going to the woods to gather flowers, with the Children, one dear child gone to its long home, which leaves us only o n e . ____ *The next day my birth day the 29th they brought [pg 85] him out again in the evening carring [sic] him in & out of the sleigh, not being able to walk with the pain in his legs, it proved to be the last time he was ever there.____ 1881 5mo 21st Vincent Birth day [sic] 90 years old, Andrew & Sarah Whycott here, & Hannah Maria [Harrard?], Henry Mullett also came in & stoped [sic] two days with u s . ____ 6mo 5th Our quarterly meeting, 7th Carrie went home with Uncle Arthur for a visit, 12th Went for a ride over to [M Donalds Isaland?] Levi Lydia Rachel & m yself. ____ 6m ol0 Rachel’s Birth-day [sic] 13 years old a fine day went for a ride in the afternoon with her Mother Aunt Lydia, & took tea with Eliza Varney. [pg 86] �1881 7mo 1st Maria Ellsworth here for a short visit, We took her up to Levi Varneys [sic] in the afternoon, myself going along, ____ _2nd Lydia washing, Stephen Hubbs came over for her in the afternoon _3rd Sixty years ago this morning my father & Mother landed in Quebec with eleven children,____ _9th Elizabeth Comstock paid us a visit spent part of three days with us. 9mo 3rdWilliam Barker called on me, had a good visit with him, had not seen him for 50 years, __ gmo 24* §aiije Mallory & Mary Jones here for a short v isit, ____ [pg 87] 1881 10mo 18th No frost worth speaking of yet, Lydia & Carrie up in the Village geting [sic] a dress fixed, I have not been as well as usual for the last two weeks, Altho [sic] I have finished this day a day-cap for myself now most 77, most likely it will be the last I shall ever try to make. 1 l_ 4 th Paid Sarah Levens 50cts for makeing [sic] four day-caps._ Made myself three Shimeys, Lydia got herself 6 yards of Cashmeer for a dress & flannel for two shimeys, a pair boots,_ Mary & Rachel gone to Lredericksburgh.____ _28th My Sister Rachel Died about ten in the morning, buried the 30th she 75 years old, took her remains back to Mariposa _29th My Birth day 77, shall I ever see another, if not Oh that I may be ready. Our folks very busy cleaning house Amy helping Lydia. I got a Card from �Maggie Stewart.__ [pg 88] 12mo25 A beautifull [sic] bright day the family all gone to meeting except Lydia & myself John Ward spent the evening with us. _24 On the market with geese sold for 60ct Ducks 60ct a pair, a very full market 1882 1st mo 24th Our wedding day 32 years ago Judith Bowerman & Abigale Ellsworth was married the same day, this is a beautifull [sic] winters day quick-silver 20 degrees below zero, Levi killing two pigs, Lydia getting a dress cut at the neigbors [sic], Amy Leer here. Richard Suthard buried the day before yesterday. 2mo 28th James Morden his brother & his wife here for a visit, just before going to Manitoba 5mo 7th Lydia’s Birth day [sic] 44 years old, her & Rachel went back in the woods to gather flowers [pg 89] _Thomas still missing, only the second time, poor Child taken from all the toils & troubles of this world but how we miss him,_ this has been a fine day also first day & meeting day. father & myself not going feeble & old father 91 the 21st of this month, myself 77 & six months, Nancy Anderson took tea with us, our folks drove out to Leven’s . ____ 5mo 21st Grandfather Birth day [sic] 91 years old some of Children spent the day with im all but Lydia & Stephen, Thomas Stinson & Lydia was here also & Amos Bowermans widdow [sic] from Whitchurch, A very fine day, father & myself went to meeting also Levi & Lydia Haight. Patience Garratt died the same evening about ten oclock . ____ Vincent planted a Maple-tree West of the house. �9mo 28th Levi Mary & Rachel Started for Leeds quarterly meeting, returned 10/4th 1882_ 10_6th Uncle Arthur & Aunt came here from Camden & Leeds, also Annie Fred Dolly & Castor [pg 93, which follows page 91] 1878. 6mo 18th My father’s old Bible was printed in 1578. _ Deborah Bowerman. My father came hear [sic] in 1858, to board with us was with us eight years, _ died the 31st of lOmo 1865 Paid us one hundred pounds while here. D Bowerman 1879 5mo 23rdThe day before Elizabeth Levens was 88 years old, And two days after Vincent Bowerman was 88 years, I stroled [sic] down the Lane alone to look for father, I thought I would pull off some Maple-leavs [sic], thinking it might be the last time I should ever be there, for you to look at when I am gone. Deborah Bowerman 75 years old Bloomfield 9mo 2nd 1879 [pg 92, which follows pg 93] (contains pressed leaves) [pg 95, which follows pg 92] 1881 6mo 12thWent for a ride on Cunninghan’s Island, Levi Lydia Rachel & myself & the two little dogs, we gathered some fern leavs [sic] & several other plants, also three Cedars which are planted or rather set along the garden fence. __ DB_ (pressed leaves) [pg 94, which follows pg 95] A friend writing from the County of �Lennox on Monday the 27th * A few pretty heavy snow squales [sic] yesterday, and a heavy frost this morning, reminds me that 44 years ago to day, I rode four miles in the Cutter on three inches of snow that had fallen during the previous night. The next morning the 14th it began to snow again, and continued all day, mostly melting as fast as it fell. Just at night it began to clear up, & next morning the 15th, the ground was frozen sufficiently hard to bear [sic] a horse, except where there was deep mud. The plumb & Cherry trees were in full bloom, and their fruit was blasted. The apple blows were not open yet, so that the apple crop was not affected. Copied by Deborah Bowerman Bloomfield 5mo29th 1878 * of 5mo 1878 [Separate Paper] 1850_3rdmo 4th I received one hundred dollors [sic] from Edwin Mallory, in part pay for the farm we lived on, _ [illegible amount ?]_ I paid to Thomas T Dorland, for an account he had against the estate, also I paid him two dollors [sic], to get the land Registered, _ eleven dollors [sic] I paid Elizabeth, Cadman, and Rachel Sills as there [sic] share of the hundred dollars_ after paying all other expences [sic]_ Mary’s and Lydias share to pay them yet_ out of my share of what is to come_ Deborah Bowerman 1852_3rdMo 8th_ Received from Edwin Mallory, by the hand of Nelson Sills one hundred and eleven dollars, as my share of the place, _ Ninety of it I let Vincent Bowerman have to be returned, when I want it_ Eleven I gave Rachel �Lennox on Monday the 27th * A few pretty heavy snow squales [sic] yesterday, and a heavy frost this morning, reminds me that 44 years ago to day, I rode four miles in the Cutter on three inches of snow that had fallen during the previous night. The next morning the 14th it began to snow again, and continued all day, mostly melting as fast as it fell. Just at night it began to clear up, & next morning the 15th, the ground was frozen sufficiently hard to bear [sic] a horse, except where there was deep mud. The plumb & Cherry trees were in full bloom, and their fruit was blasted. The apple blows were not open yet, so that the apple crop was not affected. Copied by Deborah Bowerman Bloomfield 5mo29th 1878 * of 5mo 1878 [Separate Paper] 1850_3rdmo 4th I received one hundred dollors [sic] from Edwin Mallory, in part pay for the farm we lived on, _ [illegible amount ?]_ I paid to Thomas T Dorland, for an account he had against the estate, also I paid him two dollors [sic], to get the land Registered, _ eleven dollors [sic] I paid Elizabeth, Cadman, and Rachel Sills as there [sic] share of the hundred dollars_ after paying all other expences [sic]_ Mary’s and Lydias share to pay them yet_ out of my share of what is to come_ Deborah Bowerman 1852_3rdMo 8th_ Received from Edwin Mallory, by the hand of Nelson Sills one hundred and eleven dollars, as my share of the place, _ Ninety of it I let Vincent Bowerman have to be returned, when I want it_ Eleven I gave Rachel �five I gave Mary, for a set of china,_ eighteen shillings to Elizabeth for a set of bed curtains, and seven shillings I kept for my own use._ Deborah Bowerman Picton [12mo 13th_1852?] [There is one more singe sheet here - but I can’t read it very well - only the 2nd half.] �five I gave Mary, for a set of china,_ eighteen shillings to Elizabeth for a set of bed curtains, and seven shillings I kept for my own use._ Deborah Bowerman Picton [12mo 13th_1852?] [There is one more singe sheet here - but I can’t read it very well - only the 2nd half.] � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Deborah Bowerman Diary Collection Subject The topic of the resource 19th Century Rural Ontario Diaries Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deborah Bowerman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy of Prince Edward County Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874-1892 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19th Century, Prince Edward County, Hallowell Township, Ontario Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Deborah Bowerman Diary, 1874-1882 Deborah Bowerman Diary, 1887-1892 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Deborah Bowerman Diary, 1874-1882 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. December 31, 1874 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Deborah Bowerman Diary Collection Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Typed Transcription Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deborah Bowerman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy of Prince Edward County Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874-1882 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19th Century, Prince Edward County, Hallowell Township, Ontario Language A language of the resource English UG Transcription Progress Scripto transcription progress Done transcribed https://ruraldiaries.lib.uoguelph.ca/transcribe/files/original/5b4c16c75ade61c8545b22f4e0f99bd6.pdf 1e7e97baf480fbb257fc52e5d937064f PDF Text Text Deborah (Mullett) Haight Bowerman Diary #2,1887 -1892 This is the second Deborah Mullett Bowerman Diary dated 1887- 1892: It is held at the Prince Edward County Archives and has the accession number A2001.016.096a labelled Journal 2. Click here to see the first diary. Transcribed by Lydia Wytenbroek, history student at Trinity Western University, Langley, British Columbia and posted here with her permission. Pam Noxon, archivist at the PEC Archives, also grants permission for this posting. Thanks to Dr. Robynne Rogers Healey, Associate Professor at Trinity Western University, for her role in this effort. Copyright: © Lydia Wytenbroek and Randy Saylor, 2008 Notes 1. Many of the dates on the left hand sides of the pages were cut off. i.e. see page 3 -the entry before the 5th -the actual month is cut off. So for many of these (if I couldn’t figure out the month) I put “[?]mo, 6th” etc. Also on one page there was a line at the top cut off so I think I made a note to you in the diary with square brackets. I made a few notes for you in the diary in square brackets. 2. Whoever numbered these pages, numbered them differently. Every two pages only has one number (i.e one of your photocopied pages has one number, but there are two pages of her diary to each photocopied sheet)/ So I put an “a” and a “b” after the page numbers, but there was no a or b in the actual numbering. 3. There were more words I couldn’t figure out in this one. Her writing was worse by the end and harder to read. These certain flowers she’s always talking about looks like its spelt “cerus” - I ’m wondering if she means cherries! (at first I thought she meant crocuses or something). See what you think. 4 .1 tried to put in a [sic] when she missed her apostrophe... 5. On one of the pages there was an envelope and then the next few pages were not pages from her diary just loose leaf papers. So I typed them up. Were they what was in the envelope? [Page la] [blank] [Page lb] �Diary of Deborah Mullett Bowerman written in and near Bloomfield 1887-1892 [pg 2a] [blank] [pg 2b] 1887 5mo7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] 49, At home bakeing [sic] & churning, Mary on the Market with the Butter & Eggs, [Fowels?] 60 cents a pair then went too Carries [sic], The above written by my Mother most 83, writeing [sic] without glasses. ____ _18thSallie [Ellicotts?] daughter married to a young man by the name of Thomas of Baltimore, _19 Our monthly meeting, E Varney got home, Discovered buds on the Night, Blooming [Cerus?],_ Mary Jane Williams here to see Rachel, Willie got here from Hamilton,____ _21st Vincent Bowerman’s birth day [sic], would have been 95 years Old. [pg 3a] [88?]/5/23rd Jane Cronk called on us, Stephen & Lydia in the afternoon fixed my dress sleevs [sic] for me. 24th Lydia came home, Carrie went to John William’s, _ 26 Our quarterly meeting began, Levi �went to the boat to meet some of the friends, _ Sarah Wood from the States, Mary Jones, Johan Ward & [Aize?] Willsey, 27 Uncle Arthur here William Robnson & wife here also Levina [Merills], R Sills & Carrie,____ mo 2ndMaturah Bowerman here for a short visit, then went to Stephen Hubbs, 4th Annie Mullett & Katie Impey here. WmHenry & Judith here also, _ Alfred Mullett & his Sister, stoped [sic] one night with us _ 5th Nellie Fox here for dinner [pg 3b] _11th Mary Elizabeth & Merton went over to see Mary Levens, _ _12 E Cad man went to the fast friends meeting, in the morning, then started for home, going to Picton over night, ____ Stanley & Rachel went to the Sematry [sic] _13th Jane Cronk & Lena called in the evening to pay for some butter & Molasses,____ Found our first Night blooming [Cerus?] in [blossing?], which had been 24 days in comeing [sic] out, the largest one we have had at all measuring ten inches across, ____ _2oth The second blossom came out as large as the first No person in to see it but ourselves, Henry Hubbs in the morning, _27th The third blossom came out several came in to see it, Johnson Brewer spent the day with u s, ____ �[pg 4a] 1887 6mo 28th Stanley & Rachel gone out on a fishing partey [sic]. 6/24 Discoverd [sic] some more buds on the Night blooming [Cerus?], ____ [7? I think this is the last number of the year? but it got cut off when photocopied...] 7mo l stDominon [sic] day, took Levi over to the little lot, then we went on to S Hubbs, where I had not been for seven years, neither on the road since last summer 2nd A very hot day, Mary very buisy [sic] in the kitchen 3rd Sixty six years ago to day [sic] my Grandfather & Grandmother Mullett landed in Quebeck [sic] with eleven Children, six sons & five daughters in the year 1821. Levi & Mary gone down to Carries [sic] this afternoon. _ Brought Lydia back, & left Mary there for one w eek, ____ [pg 4b] 1887 7mo25th Edith died 15 years ago to day [sic], Deborah Sills here sewing for Mary, Edwin Williams unwell with a Sun-stroke, Mary down there after buries [sic], did not get home till ten oclock [sic], all alone with Merton. 8mo 20thLevi & Mary went to Belleville with the horse & Buggy, [Anthoey?] Haight & his Nephew Henry Niles called in. _21st First day a dark cloudy day, Sarah Foster & Walter called on me. _30 George Browning the Butter maker cam [sic] �here, talk of putting up a Creemer [sic] in Picton.____ 9mo / 2 & 3rd Mary Richie here plealing [sic] pares [sic] for M ary. ____ _4th Levi & Mary down to Carries [sic]. [pg 5a] 1887 9mo [3rd or 5th? it’s cut off] Stanley Rachel & Lydia gone to Belleville takeing [sic] Merton with them, very much against our wishes, I hope nothing will happen to him before he gets back, A beautiful day, Mary washing Very, very lonesome day without our little boy. And Rachel gone also, ____ Returned the 7th all right & well, 8th Carrie and her Motherinlaw [sic] started for [Kinden?] Carrie to see Mary Elizabeth Garrett the latter to see her Sister, 20, Our travelers returned from [Kinden?] all well & found all well at home,____ mo 14th Frank & Mary Wareing came down for a visit. Left for home on the 2 0 , ____ 21st Nelson & Rachel called on us, on [on?] their way from Huntingdon, took [R: perhaps a word is cut off here?] with us, also there [sic] daughter Mary, [pg 5b] 9mo 19th Levi begun to dig the fundation [sic] for the buttry [sic] factory in Picton. ____ lOmo 19th Uncle John came down on the boat alone, to make us a visit for the last time most likely, spent three nights with us, Levi took him to the boat, �he was 85 years old born in 1802, lOmo 31st Grandfather Mullett died 22 years ago this evening Aged 97, years, 1lmo 29th My Birth day [sic] 83 years old, not a very pleasant day sitting alone most of the day, while the folks were putting up stoves & cleaning the pipes, mailed a letter to my brother James. _ [pg 6a] 1887 12mo 25th Christmas day, also first day, A goose roasted, Edwin & Carrie here & their boys, also Stanley & Rachel, 26th The above ones went to Samuel Yerwoods [sic], left the Children here Ryerson & Levi Sills, spent the afternoon with us, _ Mary down with Carrie. 28th Jane Cronk & Leana here for a visit, _ Some Cards received from Annie who is in England, also one from Rachel Sills. 1888, l mo 1st First day raining Levi & Mary went too [sic] meeting Lydia Merton and myself all alone. ____ _8th Daniel & Deborah here for a evening visit also Walter & Mary, _ Stanley & Rachel & Carried here for dinner, _ Johnson Brewer came & stoped [sic] four days with us. _ [pg 6b] �12th of lmoth_ A letter from Jeramiah Lapp Abbie Ellsworth & E Cadman. _22 First day Quick silver 31 degrees below zero, _ 19th Rachel Sills here for a visit 2mo 4th Our Quarterly meeting a very good one, came & had a little meeting in our house one evening, _ Did not have much company, WmRobinson & wife Thomas Robinson & wife Chester Yerks & wife, & Justine Robinson from Leeds. _6th Vincent Bowerman died about one oclock [sic] in the day, buried on the 8th of 2nd month 1885, Aged 93 years, _19th Robert & Elizabeth Came up for a visit stoped [sic] two nights with us, 29th Uncle Benjamin & Maria came stoped [sic] three nights with us, had a very good visit with them , ____ * [R: there is a funny symbol here she makes that I’ve marked with an asterisk like I did on the other journals. In the other journals she used it to then continue writing about the same entry but in a later place. Anyway, here there is no other asterisk and I’m wondering if maybe the bottom of the page got cut off and so we don’t have that?] [pg 7a] 1888 3mo 4th Carrie & Rachel here for their dinner on there [sic] way to the Yerwood wedding.____ 10th Elizabeth Cadmans [sic] Birth day [sic] 58 years old, does not seem posuble [sic] 11th Johnson Brewer passed away to his long home about five oclock [sic] in the morning, of a first day of the week �mo 22nd Aunt Hannah Mullett died, mo 2nd Moved into our new home again up in Bloomfield, Levi in Picton, 11th Jane & Lena here for an afternoons [sic] visit. ____ 9th Abbie Ellsworth here sewing for Lydia, here three weeks. ____ [pg 7b] 5mo 3rd Nancy Anderson Died at Lewis Levens [sic], aged 73. _ _6 Nelson & Rachel here also Walter & M ary, ____ _7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic], 50 years old. _24 The Queens [sic] Birth-day [sic] a fine day, WmValentine called on us looking very feeble, Mary Richie also called on us. Lydia & myself all alone, been so all the week, Mary down with Carrie, Levi in Picton makeing [sic] butter.____ 6mo 2nd Our quarterly meeting began, no strangers here only Sarah Wood from Laree, _ Elizabeth came up stoped [sic] with us through quarterly meeting then went to Napanee with Lydia to have her teeth drawn, William Henry brought Aunt Eliza down to see us once more, stoped [sic] two [pg 8] nights with us, in her 81 year, �1888 6mo 10th Rachels [sic] birth day [sic] 20 years old, took dinner with us also Stanley The first day of the week, the Hickete Yearly meeting, a great many folks here from the States. Caleb Gibson died, buried tomorrow in Picton. _ mo 2 Uncle James here for a visit, went to the Sand-banks haveing [sic] never been there, spent his birth-day [sic] with us, 80 years old. ____ 3rd My father & mother landed in Quebec with eleven children. Also Joseph Sivetman with his family. 22 Went down to Edwins & Stanleys [sic] stoped [sic] there one week, locking up the house, takeing [sic] the Cats Dog & fish. [pg 8b] This refers to Consider M. Haight’s [daughter? it’s cut off] 1888, 8mo5th Fifty years ago to day [sic], my father died, on first day evening about ten oclock [sic] in the evening Aged 38 years. _6th Margaret Jane Sivetman died Aged, nine Night blooming [Cereas?] blossemd [sic], _ a number of people into [sic] see them. _19 First day, Fevi Mary & Merton gone up to call on Eliza Varney, leaveing [sic] me alone not very pleasant, got a beautifull [sic] bunch of flowers sent me from the Cematry [sic]. 24, Uncle Arthur & Aunt Jane came down for a visit, stoped [soc] three nights �with us. _26th Willie Mullett wife here with her babie [sic], also Abie Ellsworth called on us, [pg 9a] 1888 9mo 1st Elizabeth Cadman came up for a visit on the Cars from Picton, stoped [sic] with us till the fifth, went down to see Carrie & Rachel, also Mary Levens. __ The third Rachel Sills came up & spent two days with us, _ The fifth of the month Anne Mullett & Nellie Fox came here spent two days with u s. ____ [?]mo 8th Uncle Henry came here on his way to the States, _ left on the 17th for Nelsons,____ 18th Debie Brown buried at Hillier. 21_ Levi & Mary gone down to see Amey Leer. _ [?] mo 21st Marys [sic] Birth day [sic] 53 years old, a dark gloomy day, Lydia & myself here alone, Levi & Mary down to Carries [sic]. _ [pg 9b] 1l mo 22nd Very cold quick-silver down to ten, Mary Richie called on us, 1888, 29th of 1l moMy birth day [sic] 84 years, old A roast goose for dinner Plumb pudding & a very nice lemmon-pie [sic], got up by Carrie_ Edwin & Carrie & the Children here, Stanley & Rachel, _ Walter Levens and �wife and son, & Eliza Varney, besides our own family. _ a fine winters [sic] day _ A letter from Belleville & a small Birth day [sic] Card from Cousin Mary. _ 12m° 2nd _ First day Levi & Mary gone to meeting, Lydia down to Carries [sic], _ _25th Christmas day, Lydia & myself here all alone, not a very pleasant day, hope it may be better next time Mary Richie sitting with us part of the time. _27th Cards from England from Sophia [pg 10a] 1888 12/28th Lydia got her pictures from the little boy Eaton _ Grandmother Mullett died 43 years ago to day [sic], Aged 72, _ [?] _ Lydia down to Carries [sic], Mary Richard’s [sic] called on u s. __ [1 presumably, but cut off?] mo 1st 1889 New years day Lydia at Edds Mary home, Lewis Levens called in for the first time [?]th A very heavy wind from the South such a on [sic] that had not been known for years, unroofing houses & blowing down trees & fences, but the worst of all killing my Grandson by the falling of the barn-door on his head, _ living but three or four hours after, _ [R: “Edwin Williams” is written up the side of the page here so I don’t know which line it should go on. I guess that was her grandson?] [?]mo 24th Our wedding day 38 years ago. Taken with a very bad Direah [sic] in bed five days, _ �[pg 10b] 1889 2mo 1st Our Quarterly began not very large but good, No strangers not many friends called on us, knowing our situation Justice Robinson took dinner with us one day, _ Carrie was with us and her three little fatherless boys. _ _6th Three years ago To day [sic] Vincent Bowerman Died aged 93 years. Susan Dorland died about seven in the evening Aged 78, 1889 3m° 2nd My Brother John died aged 86 years buried in Bloomfield, by the side of Aunt Bathsheba,____ _3rd I was taken sick & kept my bed for six weeks, with a bad cold, _ Elizabeth & Rachel up to see m e, ____ 4mo 11 Mary Waring came down for a visit went back into Huntingdon,____ [pg 11a] 1889 4mo 28th Levis [sic] Birth day [sic] 57 years old. Spent the day over to the Lott all alone, makeing [sic] his family feel very uneasy. _ 5mol_ In the year 1819, My sister Mary carried our Queen Victoria about the room, at the George Inn (Hotel) in [Llminster?] Somersetshire Old England. _ DB Aged 84 years, 7 Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] 50, born in 1838, �Not much of a Hollowday [sic], washing Annie Mullett came from Belleville, Lewis Levens [sic] birth day [sic] yesterday _24 Amis Weaver here for a visit _ no other person, rather lonely, hope it will be better before long ____ [pg lib ] _29 Carrie makeing [sic] tea cake _ Lydia picking up in the Cellar, A very cold day for the time of the year ^ m o j st Our quarterly meeting Uncle James & Uncle Arthur down, no strangers here, but they had a good meeting, & an excellent sermon from Eliza Varney. _ Samuel & Jane Bonestill here. 6_9 First day a wet day, none of our family at meeting, no person called on us but Mary Richards, _ the last first day we spend in Bloomfield, _10 Rachels [sic] Birth day [sic] 21, years old, Thought we were going to have a good visit with her, but had none, we moved over to the [left?] Lot, It does not seem much like home, hope it will better [pg 12a] 1889 6/10 _ after we have been here longer Its [sic] not a very pleasant feeling for an Old person 84 years old to be move-ing I did not think it would have [affected?] my mind so much, been thinking about it ever since four �oclock [sic] this morning.____ 21st Merons [sic] Birth day [sic] 6 years old, out in a boat with Grandfather Williams & caught a small fish, _ Stanley & Rachel up in the evening after nine oclock [sic] [most likely 27. cut off] Mary Richards came home from meeting with them spent two days with us, _ 28th William & Mary Ann came over to see us, _ 29 Our folks went to the Sand Banks 30_ Levi & Mary went to meeting, & then over to Levens for their dinner. _ [pg 12b] 1889,7mo 3rd Sixty eight years ago this morning, My father & mother Landed in Quebec with eleven Children 6 sons & five daughters, _ Also Jospeh Sivetman & his family. Mary & Carrie gone to Picton & then on to Stanleys & Rachels [sic].____ _7th Rachel Sills came here for a visit, left on the 10th _ Little Daniel Dye here stoped [sic] one night with us. _ _13th Elizabeth Cadman came up for a visit, went home on the 15, First day evening spent in singing hyms [sic] with Lydia. ____ _25_ Seventen [sic] years to day [sic] Edith died about three in the morning. _ _27th Carrie Lydia & the two boys went down to see Rachel, stoped [sic] one night with her, Aunt Amey here for a visit �[pg 13a] 1889 8mo 1st Consider Haight died 51 years ago the 5th of this month, at Fredericksburg, _ Lydia being three months old the day he [sic] was buried Code [sic] weather a fire in Stove, 10 Stanley & Rachel went down to the thousand Islands, returned on the 12th Lydia kept house for them . ____ 16 Walter Levens & Levi Sills called on us in the evening, sent Rachel a bundle of letters. 20th Isabela Peterson here stoped [sic] all night with us, Mary took her back to Bloomfield this afternoon, _ [?]mo 4th Lydia went a fishing brought a fine black Bass enough for all our dinner.____ 15th pealing pares [sic] yet. [pg 13b] 1889 9mo [?] Benjamin & his grandaughter [sic] [Mimie?] came up for a visit stoped [sic] two nights with us, _13th Carrie started for Toronto, with several others _ [Mimie?] here serving for Lydia goes home tomorrow, Mary takeing [sic] her to the boat. ____ 15th Lydia gone to meeting also Levi, _ took dinner with Jane Cronk, Mary Richards came back with her, to spend a few days with us, Our Rachel and Stanley came up in the afternoon, _ �_23, Carrie came from Toronto, saw a great many sights brought the Children a watch cack [sic], ____ lOmo 23rd Mary Richards came here from Andrew Clarks, not very well, Stanley & Rachel here in the evening,__ [pg 14a] 1889 10mo 23rd Mary & Carrie gone too Bloomfield to paint the floar [sic], _ 27th Carries [sic] little boy Birth day [sic] five years old, Thomas, turkey for dinner, Stanley & Rachel came in, Gilbert Jones & wife called on us, Mary Richards here sick, first day no person went to meeting. Our meeting got very small only two men at meeting to day [sic], 1lmo 12 Levi and Mary brought [away?] the last board from Bloomfield, got here about seven oclock [sic], 14 Elizabeth came up for a visit, Eliza Varney brought her from the Sation [sic] went down to see Rachel, went home on the 18th, _ !7th Mary Levens & Lydia Sills here for a visit, _ [pg 14b] 1889 1l mo 20,th Marys [sic] Birth day [sic] 55 years not a very pleasant day, a girl here sewing for Lydia, Manley Yerwood here on bussiniss [sic] with Carrie, Stanley & Rachel here for dinner, a wet day. ____ �My Birth day [sic] 85 years, not a very pleasant day had three Ducks for dinner, Stanley & Rachel here for dinner, myself not very well, a girl here sewing, for Carrie.____ 12mo 8th Nathaniel & Isabela here for dinner Levi Mary Lydia & Merton went down to see Rachel. _ _9th Washing two weeks wash, myself fixing up an Old Sampler for Lydia marked in the year 1873,____ [pg 15a] 12/ 20th 1889 Carrie & Lydia went to Picton, had to borrow a lantern to get home, A very dark day & night 22nd First day a heavy wind, no one person went to meeting, raining _ 25th Christmas day Stanley & Rachel here for dinner, A large goose for dinner 26th Andrew Whycott died about ten in the morning.__ Aged 83 years. 28th Levi & Mary went to the funeral to the house over night. _ 1890, l mo 1st _ Walter & Mary Levens here for dinner, no sleiging [sic] raining hard most of the day. ____ [pg 15b] 1890 l mo 14th Lydia married to John Williams in Picton at the age of fifty one years, started for Whitby next morning �and so on to Toronto, was gone four weeks, had a nice time with her friends I hope it may prove a happy union for it has been a heavy trial for her [poor?] Old mother, now in her 86 year. ____ _2mo 13th Our Bride folks returned home to John Williams house, took dinner with us the next day. _ _17 Charles Gidion very low, died a few days after 3 mo 2nd Jane Cronk & Lena here for a short visit took tea with us. _7th Dr Nash called here to see Carrie Reuben Branscom & Sarah here for a visit ____ [pg 16a] 1890,3mo 9th Deborah Sills that was once, & Mary Levens here for a visit took dinner with us, no sleighing ____ _10, Elizabeth Cadmans [sic] Birth-day [sic] sixty years old, Levi in the Swamph [sic] choping [sic], saw a robin for the first time, very early we think 8th Lydia came home & stoped [sic] all night with us, a great treet [sic], for the little boy, as well as for her poor old mother, who had lived with her over fifty years. ____ _24 Carries [sic] Birth day [sic], Aged 35 years _26 Samuel Yerwood died Aged 27 Lydia spent the day with us brought her ironing over with her. _ �mo 11th I.yclia came across the feilds [sic] and stoped [sic] all night with us, a grate [sic] treet [sic] [pg 16b] 1890 4mo 13th A most beautifull [sic] bright warm day, the first day of the week, Levi went to meeting alone Mary down with Rachel for a visit gone two nights, have not seen Lydia to day [sic] _ pretty lonesome for an Old woman, or rather her poor Old mother, who lived with her most 52 years. _22nd Rachel Sills up for a visit over with, Mary Levens, ____ Went to John Williams the 21st while she was here for dinner, also Nelson & Rachel Walter & Mary, Mary Bowerman & self _ the first time I have been on the road since I came here ten months ago. _ [pg 17a] 1890 5mo 7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] fifty two years old, Spent the day with us & fixed my flannel dress. _ _14 How strange we should keep the wrong day for Lydias [sic] birth-day [sic] the sixth instead of the seventh. _ 21st Vincent Bowermans [sic] Birth-day [sic] would have been 99, Lydia spent the day with us, helping Mary & Carrie clearn out my room, or their front room �24th Stanley & Rachel here also Lydia Carrie & her two boys went home with them, stoping [sic] there till Second day the 26, [pg 17b] 1890, 5/25, First day no person went to meeting, Levi tired out, wet day all alone, _ _28_ John Williams & Lydia went to Belleville, returned on the first of 6mo 6mo 5thPrepartive meeting Mary & Lydia went, came back here & spent the day with us, a heavy thunder storm, Levi took her home in the evening. _10 Rachels [sic] Birth day [sic] 22 years old expected to have spent a pleasant day with her, but other company comeing [sic] in, broke it all up, we are all liable to disappointments. _ Thomas Stinson & his two daughters came in. also John Williams [sic] Sister & daughter [pg 18a] 1890 6mo 14th Mary on the Market with potatoes & eggs, 11 & 12 cts a dozen, potatoes seventy five cents a bag _ _15th First day _ Levi went meeting alone Rachel Sills here & Lydia also Isabela Peterson, I forgot John Williams. _ Mary Carrie & the Children took Rachel back to Levens in the evening. _ 6_22_ I went to stop with Lydia one week, _ Mary Levens little boy born, our Mary being with her, _ Carrie & Lydia �went for her, First day afternoon, _ 8th Fox & Mary Mullett came here, spent a week with u s, ____ 29_ First day two men friends from the States at our meeting, Benjamin Brown & Thomas Hogue, _ was at John Williams on the 26th, Gilbert Jones bringing them there, ____ [pg 18b] 7mo 1st Dominon [sic] day _ Mary Bowerman & Mary Mullett, gone up to see Lydia, Levi in Picton makeing [sic] butter. _ _2nd Mary Mullett here yet, Carrie has taken her to Andrew Haights to day [sic] Lydia going also, ____ 3_ Sixty nine years ago this morning we landed in Quebec father mother & eleven children, _ Also Joseph Sivetman with his family in the year 1821, _ _5th Mary Mullett left for horn [sic], going to Picton with M Bowerman on the Market _ then on to the Steem-boat [sic] Our Rachel here for a short visit. _ _6, Levi & Mary went to meeting, but few there, ____ Carrie & the children gone over to Levens for a ride, & to see how Mary is, _ [pg 19a] 1890 7mo 8th Carrie & Lydia gone to Picton, to get trimmings for a dress caught in a heavy thunder-shower. �9th A great change in the weather [Geeat?] coats wanted this morning And a fire in my stove, also a brick under my feet. ____ 17_ William Valentine died aged 84 years Buried the 19, at the Semetry [sic] at Picton, * 6_ Rachel Sills here to spend the day with her Mother, also Lydia, continued cold yet, a fire in my Stove, a brick under my feet, mufflers on my w rist, __ * The meeting held at the Methodist meeting house, James M [Lauling?] had a great Sermon for the inhabitants, _ [pg 19b] 1890 7mo20th First day our folks gone to Wellington, to attend a four oclock [sic] meeting appointed by James M Laughin.____ _21st James M Laughlin & two other friends took dinner & tea with us, then went on to Picton to have a meeting in the Methodist meeting-house, Levi takeing [sic] them down. ____ 23rd I was up to John Williams [sic] to spend the day to meet James M Laughlin & two women friends from the States, had quite a nice visit, _ 24_ Carrie up to J Williams [sic] picking berries, _ Stanley & Rachel here in the �afternoon, for a short time. [pg 20a] 1890 7mo 25th Eighteen years ago this morning about three oclock [sic] in the morning, Edith died Aged fifteen years, at the brick house back in the Concession.____ 26_ Lydia came down & stoped [sic] all night with us, & all first day, also John Williams took dinner with us, _ Stanley & Rachel here a little while in the afternoon, Rachel in a peck of trouble, on account of some person breaking into their house while they were at meeting, takeing [sic] away all her little trinkets. _ 22 Mary & Carrie up / John [Wille?] picking berries, [pg 20b] 1890 7mo 3 1st Carrie gone down to Stanleys [sic] with Flora Williams [that?] was once. ____ gm o Lydia Emaley [Harzard?] died about six in the morning, buried the 4th _ Flora Mullett here all night and starded [sic] for home, 8mo 1st __ _ Lydia & Mary & the Children went down to the Semetry [sic] to a [flareupt?] or a something else. Lydia lost her gold Spectacls [sic], so much for these [spreas?]. �[1838?] _ 8/5th Consider [Merritt?] Haight died 52 years ago about three oclock [sic] in the morning _ Fhorty [sic] six years old, Lydia was three months old the day her father was buried. Mary down to Stanleys [sic] picking berries, a very wet day a thunder shower [pg 21a] 1890, 8mo 7th 1838 Consider Haight buried, in Adolphus town, _ A very unpleasant day Mary & Carrie doing up berries.____ Carrie picking berries all day at L W 11th Quite cold fire in my room Levi with his overcoat on in the morning 12_ Went to Jane Cronks for dinner, Mary Lydia & John Williams, eleven of us sat down to [dine? din?] _ 20, _ Rachel came up to see us, went up for Lydia, so we had pretty good time, Levi went to Kingston, to sell butter, _ 16th The teacher came here to board, _21st Monthly meeting at Hillier, none of our folks there a wet day. ____ [pg 21b] 8mo 24 Consider here also Walter Levens, Mary Levens Lydia Sills & Li bey Dimond, _ Levi & Mary Went over to Stephen Hubbs, _ 126, Lydia & Ellen Williams down here �to spend the day. _ 28th Sanley [sic] sick sent up for Mary, but Carrie went, _ 30 A cold day fire in my room all glad to get under the blankets, a letter from [C?] M Collins. The teacher gone to see her sister. _ 9mo 7th First day a very warm day quicksilver up to 82, in my room Levi went to meeting alone, Stanly been very sick for the last week, John Williams & Lydia went down Stanley better ____ [pg 22a] 1890, 9mo 9th Rachel Sills [sic] Birth day [sic] 59 years old is it posabel [sic], And there yet, _ John Williams and Mary Richards took tea with us. 17, Elizabeth went home to day [sic], spent a week with us, Mary took her Picton took dinner with Levi at the Creamry [sic] also John Williams & Lydia, then down to see Cemetry [sic]. _ Mary Richards spent two days with us last week. 10 12th First day Levi & Mary gone to meeting, then down to see Rachel, I have been looking for Lydia, yesterday & to day [sic] up till three oclock [sic], then she came also John Willaims _ how little they know a mothers [sic] feelings, especialy [sic] after living with a child fifty two years, Patience it will all be over soon, _ �[pg 22b] 10mo 13th Carrie gone up to help Lydia about her Carpet, _ her three Boys with the Hooping-cough, _ Lydia lost her gold Spectacls [sic] on the Decoration-day in the Cematry [sic], got them again about six weeks after being picked up by an honest woman _14 Went up to see Lydia or rather to stay with her while J. Williams went a Duck shooting, a great job to get me off, but was glad I went poor Lydia I think she has got out of the frying-pan into the fire. _ 1lmo 2nd Levi & Mary went too [sic] meeting then to Jane Cronks [sic] for dinner, John Williams & Lydia here for dinner John Garrett & wife called on us last week. [pg 23a] 1l mo 4th 1890, Would have been my fathers [sic] birth-day [sic] had he been living, _ Snow last night for the first __ A letter from Mary Mullett saw Uncle Henry at WmHenrys _8th Levi & Mary on the market with Fowels [sic] & Butter, 40ct for fowels [sic] a pair, butter 20ct a pound, _ * 9th First day a very wet day no person went to meeting, very unpleasant day very lonely, miss Lydias very much �* 8th Bought four & a half of flannel for my shimeys, seventeen pounds of sughar [sic].____ [pg 23b] 1890 1l mo 16th First day Levi & Carrie went too [sic] meeting, rather a lonesome day. 12th of this month Lena Robinson married to James Sivetman,__ 17_ Nelson & Rachel here for a visit, brought me a new apron & made it for me, brought me a nice bar of Sented [sic] soap. __ Our little boy Merton sick, better to day [sic]. ____ _20th of 1 l mo Marys [sic] Birth-day [sic], fifty five years old, Not a very pleasant day, Rachel up with Lydia, _ goes home the 22nd _ Levi & Carrie gone up to Monthly meeting at Wellington. 23_ John Williams [sic] & Lydia here for dinner, First day Levi & Mary went to meeting. _ [pg 24a] 24th 1890_ Carrie went up to help Lydia wash with her new machine 26 Sarah Foster & Walter here for dinner, ,29th of 1 l mo My Birth day [sic] 86 years old �Lydia & her husband here for dinner also Rachel & her husband, not feeling very well myself 1l mo 30th of 1l moFirst day dark & cloudy Levi & Carrie gone to meeting. _ Lewis Levens [sic] barn burnt down that evening.____ 12_ 1 st Jane Cronk here for a visit, had not seen her for some time, had a first rate visit with her. _ [pg 24b] 12mo 8th Nathaniel Sivetman and Isabel here for a call to see their Old Aunt once more, had not been here for a twelvemonth. _16th Went out in the kitchen & took my dinner with Carrie & her two children Thomas & John, Merton being up with Lydia, I had not been to the dinner table in eight weeks before, being on my bed complaining of great weekness [sic], or rather Old Age, being now in my 87 year. _ Mary up with Lydia, Levi at Picton,____ 26th Levi & Mary gone down to Stanleys to see Rachel not being very well, Carrie over to Hubbs last evening for a visit also the teacher, _ Sarah Kingston married, & starts for the West this morning a widdoer [sic] [with?] seven children. _ [pg 25a] �91 2mo28th Levi & Mary gone up to John Williams, as he is not well, I think its [sic] conclueded [sic] at last for Levi to go to Picton again this summer to make butter, & I do not know but what Mary is going with him, _ I wonder what they will do with the poor Old woman, it does seem as tho [sic] she outlived her usefullness [sic]. _ I have been complaining for the six weeks, not well yet. what a blessing to have your health.__ a Postal Card from Uncle Arthur this morning.____ Snowing fast a Card from Elizabeth. _ myself being in bed ten weeks to day [sic]. _ not able to do much of any thing y et. ____ [pg 25b] 1891 3mo8th Levi & Carrie gone to meeting, _ After dinner Levi & Mary went down to Stanleys. _ Mary stoping [sic] all night, Rachel not very well. _ 9th Raining Levi going down for Mary, Lydia down there yesterday myself far from well, Sent Mary Richards a letter yesterday, _ I doubt if I ever write her another _10th Elizabeth Cadmans [sic] Birth-day [sic]. Sixty one years old, it does not seem possable [sic], _ Lydia here this afternoon, _ Mary & Merton down with Rachel, ____ 15 �First day Walter & Mary Levens here also Lydia for dinner, brought the baby nine months old, a cold day [pg 26a] 91 3/ 19th _ Monthly meeting to day [sic] Mary stoped [sic] at John Williams [sic] after meeting. _ 24_ Carries [sic] Birth-day [sic] down to Stanleys [sic] with the two children myself with a very lame back 4mo 1st Lydia here for supper, had some sausage meet [sic] for supper [cut off?] Levi gone to Picton, with butter eggs [R: there is a thing in brackets here that says “J. F. Mullett was 52” but it’s someone else’s writing I think] 4mo 2nd John Fry Mullett Died aged 42, Sophia Mulletts [sic] husband in England 9th p repartive [sic] meeting Levi went alone, Amos Bowerman here for dinner. _ 9th Edith Birth-day [sic], 34 years old, _ a bright sunney [sic] day _ A letter from Sallie Ellicott with a photograph [pg 26b] 4m 11th First day Levi & Carrie went to meeting, brought Mary Ann Richardson back with them , __ 15th _ Stanley & Rachel here in the afternoon eating sugar, eat [sic] our last sausage-meet [sic], __ Resewed [sic] John Frys [H unaoral?] Card from England �20_ Lydia & Rachel here for dinner looking for a boy to work for them , ____ 21st Writeing [sic] to Mary Elizabeth Garrett, _ Our Mary killed the first flie [sic]. _ my sight failing fast _ scarsely [sic] read what I have wrote, ____ [pg 27a] 1891_ 4mo 28th Levis [sic] Birth day [sic] 59 years old _ A very cold day, plowing in [he] garden. Four months a go [sic] the 23rd of this month I came down stairs [sic], burnt a light every night since most, And had my breakfast in bed ever since. 28th Considers [sic] Birth day [sic] born in 1802, At Adolphus tow n ____ 30, Jane Cronk & Lena here for a call, also Lydia & her girl Mary cutting my toe-nails, made a great fuss about it [?]mo 3rd Walter & Mary Levens here Carrie Lydia & the Children went over to Stephen Hubbs, found them all gone. __ [pg 27b] 1891 5mo 7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] 53, years old, spent the afternoon at home with her Mother, the last one very likely _ As I am feeling �very far from well but will it not be a happy exchange, from all our trials, _ Edmond Richardson died the day before yesterday.____ 11_ Mary gone down to Stanleys [sic] he being sick _ Mary Richards going to the States, wanting to give her a book but our Mary refuseing [sic] to let her have it, makes me feel very uncomfortable But suppose I shall have to put up with it. 12 A fine day Stanley better Mary comeing [sic] home to night [sic] _ Sarah Foster & Walter gone up to Edmond Richardsons [sic] funeral [pg 28a] 1891 5mo 12th _ Mary Richards here stoped [sic] all night with us, going to Oregan [sic] starts tomorrow with her brother Edward, has a daughter living there, ____ 16_ Carrie Lydia went onto the Market with butter & Eggs got 16ct of butter & 12ctsfor eggs a dozen, let one basket of eggs out of the wagon breaking 8 dozen Lydia got herself a new dress, cloth for a new jacket, [looks like “ttr rung” possibly tire rung?] for the sleigh,____ 21st Vincent Bowermans [sic] Birth day [sic] would have been one hundred years old if he had lived, Born in seventeen hundred and ninety one 93 when he died at 13 Bloomfield in 1885, _ Levi & Mary at Hillier Monthly-meeting.____ �[pg 28b] 1891 5mo 22nd Elizabeth Cadman came up on the boat, 24 Henry Haight here for dinner the first day of the week Levi & Mary went too [sic] meeting. Elizabeth at John Williams.__ 25, Elizabeth here & Lydia also Rachel & Stanley,__ 26, The folks got me up to John Williams to spend the afternoon with Elizabeth,____ 28, Elizabeth going home, Carrie & two of the Children gone with her, Lydia takeing [sic] them down to Picton 30, Mary planting potatoes or rather helping Levi, ____ [pg 29a] 1891 5mo 31, _ My brother James came here with his son Edmond started for home again the next day, 6mo 2st Nelson & Rachel came she stoped [sic] one night with us. _ Carrie came home, after haveing [sic] a good visit 5th Mary Waring came here, stoped [sic] with us three days, through Quarterly meeting My brother Arthur came to attend the Quarterly meeting, also Stephen Robertson and wife. �9th Uncle Arthur going home, Mary takeing [sic] him to Picton, I am going up to spend the day with Lydia, Our Rachel is to be there, her Birth day, 23 years old. [pg 29b] 12th Well I went but did not find my little Granddaughter there, so I spent three days with Lydia _ Nathaniel Sivetman & his daughter came in while I was gone, for which I was sorry.____ 14 First day Levi & Carrie went to meet ing _ Levi & Mary went down to see Rachel in the afternoon, takeing [sic] the little boy with them __ Carrie gone out for a walk with the Children, _ We here [sic] that Samuel Naish is very unwell,____ 19 _ Carrie & Lydia went to Picton got me some letter paper, Lydia lost her veil, _ the second one within a few months. 20 Carrie gone again to day [sic] takeing [sic] all the Children with her, for a ride, [pg 30a] 1891_ 6mo21st Mertons [sic] Birth-day [sic] eight years old, First day of the week, Levi Mary & Carrie went to meeting, But few there most all gone to Yearly-meeting, Mary Ann gave them a good sermon, from the Text,, _ “ They that hunger and �thirst after Rightesness [sic] shall be saved” Carrie cleaning out the little parlor. Rachel came up for her Mother to go down & spend three or four days with her. ____ 23rd John Williams gone to a funeral Daniel Youngs [sic], Lydia came this far with him, helped Carrie a little, 25th Levi went to meeting found some friends there from the States going to have a meeting here tomor-row, at half past three. ____ [pg 30b] 1891 6mo 28, Mary Mullett & Ellen Fox came here from Belleville, stoped [sic] all night with us, also Mary Levens, took dinner with u s, ____ 29th Our folks gone to the Sand-Banks Four friends called on us from the States, _ Barckley Straton & wife, Elizabeth Rusel, & her Nephew Robert Rusel. Elizabeth had a few words of encourage­ ment for m e. ____ 7mo 1st Dominon [sic] day raining most all the day. _ Libbie went home for the Hollow days [sic] wrote too [sic] Sophia & Annie, __ 3rd Seventy years ago to day [sic] my father And mother landed in Quebec with eleven children after a passage of seven weeks, also Joseph Sivetman and his family in the 1821, _ A bright sunny day. _ Deborah Bowerman �[pg 31a] 1891 7mo 3rd Went up to see Lydia spent two days with her, _ 4th A very heavy thunder shower, hail stones an inch round, _ Stanley & Rachel up in the evening for potatoes, mailed a letter for Uncle Arthur. 4th With Lydia, Mary Levens and her Sister May with her, __ 5th First day John & Lydia went to our meeting, Levi & Mary came to J Williams for dinner, Carrie & her two boys, went to dinner with E Varney I came home found a cold house, 6th Cold weather a fire in the Stove Brick under my feet, quite unwell myself,____ [pg 31b] 9th Levi & Mary went to meeting left Carrie up with Lydia to help her about moveing [sic] some things. Thomas Robinson to be buried tomorrow Cold weather y et. ____ 12th Went to meeting were [sic] I had not been for three or four years, A friend from the States there, gave us an excellent sermon, on the subject of prayer & faith, after meeting sent to J Williams & got our supper, also Silvanus [Outwaters?] & his wife 14th Our Rachel here drove herself up �the little girl comeing [sic] with her. 15th Archebald Crosbie & his Sister here for dinner, Attended our Monthly meeting his sister Isabela Henderson, from Norich,__ [pg 32a] 1891 7mo 16, Young potatoes for dinner the first tim e __ _17 Carrie & Lydia went on the market with Butter Eggs & hog-fat 1l ct a pound a wet day, got very wet, _ Nettie Cronk went home, Carrie takeing [sic] her to the Station,____ 19 First day Carrie & the Children went to meeting _ after down to see Rachel _ In the evening Jane Cronk, Lena & James Sivetman made us a call in the evening. 20th A cold morning, glad to put on on [sic] my winter dress again, & get round the stove, warmer in the afternoon,____ 21st Cold morning again a winter dress comfortable again. ____ [pg 32b] 1891 7mo 22nd Another cold morning fire feels good, ____ 21st Sarah Why cot & her daughter here for a visit had not seen her before in seven years, had to be lifted in & out of the buggye [sic], walk with Crutches, made my apron �for or in part, seventy seven years old. 24th Lydia here geting [sic] her jacket made by Nettie Cronk, stoped [sic] all night with us, & the next day fixed my dress for me, spent some time up stairs with her mother reading over some memorandiums [sic] about Edith, made by her Grandmother, during her last sickness [pg 33a] 1891 7mo 23 rd, Lydia came home from meeting with them, We had five Night blooming [Cereses?] out in blosom [sic] no stranger into [sic] see them _ Nettie sewing yet. leavs [sic] to day [sic] or tomorrow.____ 25th Mattie Richardson came for a visit also her little boy gone up to see Lydia, _ Mary & the Children gone up to Wellington to take Nettie Cronk home, _ 26, Lydia & Mattie went to Nathaniel Sivetmans.____ 27th _ Daniel Mullett & wife called on us. _ Mattie started for home, Mary takeing [sic] her to Picton. 30th Lydia down here helping Carrie Mary down with Rachel, Sallie Mallory here for a visit ____ [pg 33b] 1891,7mo 30th Mary down with �Rachel picking berries, Levi and Merton gone also. ____ 3 1_ A very cold day for the time of the year glad to sit round the Stove, & a brick under my feet boiling up the berries that Mary got gmo jst Levj gQne down to help Stanley raining again __ three barns burnt day before yesterday with lightening. A very cold day glad to get round the stove to warm my hands, Mattie went hom e ____ _2nd First day Levi & Mary went to meeting _ Lydia went to stop a few days with Rachel, Levi & Mary went down to see Stephen Hubbs [pg 34a] 1891 [8mo ?] Consider Haight died in the year 1838, Aged 36 years, Lydia was three months old the day her father was buried. _ Was buried the seventh in Adolphustown [sic]. ____ _8th Mary went on to the Market with butter Eggs, & fowel [sic], butter 18cts Eggs 13cts a dozen fowels [sic] or rather Chicken 55cts a pair, _ Lydia down here with her Mother. _ 9th First day Levi went to meeting alone one little boy. _ Carrie down with Rachel. ____ 10 & 11th Very hot weather, quick silver �up to 84 in my room so warm could not do any thing [sic], _ 13th Prepartive [sic] meeting not one man there, a sad job our meeting going down s o ____ [pg 34b] 1891 [date and first line cut off?] And than to Stanleys. Myself feeling quite unwell. 20th Mary just gust [sic] got home from Rachels [sic], been gone five days. Levi gone too [sic] Kingston looking after the butter makeing [sic], poor man I hope he will not miss it [?] leavs [sic] his family in a very unpleasant situation. _ Monthly meeting to day [sic] at Wellington no person gone from here. ____ 23 First day a wet day Levi and Mary went to meeting, in the evening went down to Stanleys, Levi stoped [sic] all night. ____ 25th Thirty eight years ago to day [sic] Levi & Mary married, this day cold glad to put on an extra shawl, and a brick under my feet. ____ [pg 35a] 1891 8/28th A very heavy wind rather cold, Amey Lear here came over a foot, Levi takes her home to night [sic], _ 29 Seventh day of the week, Mary down with Rachel, her baby born about ten in the morning, _ Merton got kicked in his face by one of Shannons [sic] colts, _ Heard that Sallie Mallory �was buried on the 27th also that Elizabeth Comstock was dead, died a few weeks ago, ____ 30th First day _ Mary Levens & her sister Lydia called here, also Mary Jane Bowerman & Sarah Ann Derbeyshire Eliza Varney & Willie Richardson took tea with us, Lydia getting supper Carrie gone down to see Rachel. ____ 27 of 8th month Sallie Mallory buried. [pg 35b] 1891 9mo 4th Lydia And Ella Williams down for a visit, Lent Ella the Diary men daughter.____ 6th Lydia And Merton & Thomas gone down to see Rachel. ____ 5th Carrie & Lydia gone on the Market then back to see Rachel, Mary came home with them . ____ 9 I went up to spend the day with Lydia while the folks went to the Picton show 10th Frederick Richardson & Hannah here for dinner also Stephen & Lydia John Williams & Lydia, _ Levi Mary & Carrie going up there to spend the evening. [pg 36a] 1891 9mo 11th Mary gone back to Stanelys again, will be very glad when Rachel gets w ell. ____ [2?] _ Aunt Rachel came here, [3?] _ Daniel Mullett & Deb called on us in �the afternoon, then Rachel Lydia & John Williams went down to Stanleys, then back to stop all night, next day I went up there to spend the day, with Rachel _ [5?] Rachel came back here, Walter comeing [sic] for her in the evening.____ [?] 3rdWarm weather yet Mary Levens & Mary here for a visit. 20th Carrie Lydia & the Children went down to the Sematry [sic] Levi and Mother at at [sic] home, did not get home till dark. [pg 36b] 1891 9mo 29th And 30th, Quite a change in the weather not very pleasant for Old people, no Stove in their room, _ Lydia went up to Wellington for her Carpet, got very cold, next day came down here & spent a few hours with her Mother. 10mo 3rd Elizabeth came up, left for home again on the 5th _ the sixth was her wedding day 45 years ago, ____ 6th Uncle Arthur came on his way way [sic] from Quarterly meeting at Leeds, stoped [sic] all night with [Aichelans Suthard?] 19th Arnold Haight & wife came here, took dinner with u s, ____ �[pg 37a] 1891 10/12 _ Uncle Arthur left here for home, _ Lydia came down to help Carrie, so as to let Mary stop with Rachel, ____ [?] 2mo Stanley & Rachel here stoped [sic] all night with us, _ Mary Ann Valentine sold all her things off _ going up to Pickering to live 27 Uncle Henry came here Sarah Foster bringing him here, _ Lydia also came down, & took dinner with us mo10 30th Coppied [sic] a verse for S A Derbeshire And Mary Jane Bowerman, [11/12?] Dominon [sic] day, Lydia here fixing of her little girl, send her home [pg 37b] 13th Stephen & Lydia called on us, also Walter & Mary. _ Our Mary went down to stop a few days with Rachel. 29th My Birth day [sic] 87 years old born in the year 1804, in England _ Nathaniel & Isabela Sivetman, happend [sic] in here, after meeting first day also our Lydia, Mary went down to Stanleys _ Nettie Cronk here sewing.____ �6th I went up to John Williams, to see Lydia spent two days with her 10_ Rachel came up to see us, to spend a few days, _ 16th Rachel went home, 18th Mary up helping J Williams clean a lot of flowels [sic] for Toronto market. [pg 38a] 12mo 23rd 1891 Levi took Libbie home, a wet day _ Mary took on the market, with two geese four turkeys & four fowels [sic] _ Lydia here looking after work & the Children myself feeling quite unwell.____ A new teacher comeing [sic] on after the Holadays [sic]. ____ 1892 first month first, so unwell cannot think of any thing. _ Stanley & Rachel here, the former on his way from Belleville ____ My eyesight & memory getting worse ____ 19th Levi & Mary went to Picton a very cold day quicksilver down to 24 below zero _ 22 Abigale Garret & Mary Elizabeth here for dinner went to J Williams, and stoped [sic] all night _ [pg 38b] 1892 l mo 23 _ Stanley & Rachel here 24 Walter & Mary Levens here first day heard that Joseph Baker in England was dead �26th Lydia [re?] helping Rahcel about [tucking?] up the babys [sic] cloths [sic] a very cold day, the Children not at school 26, Had my hair cut did not seem like the right time for Mary, 27, Got word that Elizabeth was sick, Levi & Mary gone down Stanley & Rachel gone over to see Mary Levens, for a visit. _ [pg 39a] 1892 2mo 2nd A rough day Our folks gone down to look at the Creamy [sic] _ Stanley & Rachel here y et. ____ [?] 131st First day A fine day none of our folks at meeting, Levi & Mary got home in the evening, left Elizabeth quite unwell, 2/5 Silvanus Outwaters here for dinner & Ephafram Robinson also from Leeds, _6 Our quarterly meeting began, Thomas Robinson & wife here stayed all night with us. _ 3mo 24_ Carries birth day [sic] _ 37 years old, Levi walked to meeting _ 25th Robert Cadman here for a call up for wheat at [Labon?] Williams [pg 39b] �26 A fine day the Children gone up to J Williams.____ 27 First day Levi & Mary gone to meeting in the buggy _ very bad roads, John Williams & Lydia down here for dinner, made a mistake & did not have the goose 4mo 3 Lydia got her dinner with us Levi & Mary gone over to see Mary Levens little boy quite sick, Lydia set up her stocking 4/4 1892 ____ [pg 40a] 1892,4mo 10th____ Walter & Mary Levens here for a visit _11th Second day washing two weeks w ash ____ 12 _ Lydia all day, _ Libbie Vincent here in the afternoon. 13_ Deborah Dans wife from Belleville also Maud & Mary Levens for a call Carrie gone to Picton with Levi. _ 22 Rachel Gone home, been here the last w eek __ [pg 40b] 1892 4mo 23rd Levi sawing wood with his mitts on all day, very cold. �24 first day Levi & Carrie went to meeting only two men there Carrie went up to John Williams, after dinner. 60 28th Levis [sic] Birth day [sic] 32 years old down to Picton with Rachel, Ella Williams here sewing for Carrie 5mo 7th Lydias [sic] Birth day [sic] 54 years old All of us up to John Williams to spend the day a fine day, Ella Wiliams there also, Oh what writeing [sic] do not think I will try [cut off!! any more, right seems to ? all?] [pg 41a] 1892 5mo 15th Rachel Sills came up for a visit, _ Came to our place the 18th _ next day up to John Williams, with Mother, the eighteenth 24th Henry Mullett came here from the States, stoped [sic] with us five days, then went on to Belleville to W Henry Mulletts 21st of 5mo Elizabeth Cadman came up, gone over to see Mary Levens to day [sic] with Mary Bowerman, this 29th of this month. Yester day [sic] last evening Lydia called me out to see a rain-bow [sic], most likely the last I shall ever see. 6/2nd Elizabeth started for home yes­ terday, went as far as Picton stoped [sic] all �[pg 41b] 1892 6/2 _ night with Stephen & Lydia, went to the Sematry [sic] with Mary & Rachel. ____ 4th Still at John Williams Mary Jones & [Aize?] Willse here to see Mother, gone up to see Hillier to attend the quarterly meeting, 5th Quarterly meeting at Hillier our folks all gone, I am still with Lydia. Got a bit of Aspargrass [sic] for dinner that Eliza Varney sent me, _ so cold I want a brick under my feet, ____ 8th Mary gone down to stop with Rachel a few days, sush [sic] cold weather I have a brick under my feet. _ [pg 42a] 1892 6mo 10th Our Rachels [sic] Birth day [sic] her Mother & Carries two little boys with And Carrie _ Carrie getting the childrens [sic] pictures taken, _ So cold to day [sic] glad to put on another shawl And a brick under my feet. A woman papering the kitchen for Lydia _ My head feeling very light, not much to be wonderd [sic] at, _now most 88 years, _ John Williams brought me in a sprig of the Bay berie [sic] tree, A beautiful bright day. going out to take my [bitters?], and get my lunch, _ expect to go home on first day the 12th of this month. 1 2 th �Came away from John Williams Frank Waring died last w eek __ berried [sic] last seventh day the 10th 16 _ Carrie started for Yearly meeting Amey Leer here for dinner. Rachel gone to Picton with Lydia.) [pg 42b] 1892 6mo 23 Lydia down here, als [sic] three friends from the States, Samuel Moon and his wife, als [sic], Rachel Price, who gave us some good advise. _ 26_ Libbie here with her husband took tea with us, the three friends at our meeting, John Williams and Lydia was there also, Levi & Mary also leaveing [sic] me at home with the children Carrie not got home y et. ____ 23rd Rachel Price & Samuel Moon & his wife was [sic] here, gave me a nice little bit of good advise. _ [pg 43a] 20_ Eliza Clark, and Alace Gregory here, the farmer from England, _ Laura Phelps bringing them here for a call took tea with us. [?]mo 1st Dominion day Eliza Maria Phelphs And Abby Ellsworth here, also Thomas Clark, _28th George Grubb here an Irish Friend, a minister. _ Robert Taylor brought him here, gave us a good sermon. �5th My father & Mother landed in Quebec 70, years ago to day [sic] with eleven children Also Josephs Silvetmans family Mary up to John Williams makeing [sic] soap, Rachel here again, ____ [?]th Rachel gone home, & down to see Elizabeth, _ I am going up to stop a few days with Lydia _ [pg 43b] 1892_ 7mo 15th Still up with Lydia very hot weather, John Williams came home last evening _ not feeling much better, complaining of his head a good deal, myself copping [sic] a peice [sic] of poetary [sic] for Phebe Jane Levens. _ Lydia fixing my old dress, __ Levi hived a swarm of bees. _ Mary at Lredericksburg yet. A heavy thunder shower about five oclock [sic] in the afternoon. _18 Our folks got home from Napanee & Lredericksburgh. _ Rachel comeing [sic] with them, 22 A very heavy thunder shower, killed a horse a short ways from our house writeing [sic] to Uncle James, _ mail it the 25th 1892 [pg 44a] 1892 7mo 29th Mary Waring came down t omake us a visit went over to Nathaniels after meeting Mary takeing [sic] of her �8mo 2nd Gone up to see Lydia Mary Bowerman cutting my toe nailes [sic] not at all ready to do it, Mary & Carrie up to John Williams picking berries picked most a hun-dred boxes, Mary Waring stoping [sic] with me, _ Levi helping George Hubbs, _ 4 Mary waring went home, _ 12th Columbus Clothier & Katie came 14 Went up to John Williams to tea went to meeting in the morning _ [pg 44b] 1892 8mo 28th____ Lydia here looking over some old papers __ 20th Columbus & Katie left here for Bellville, And so back to [Hauntingdon?] Went down to see Uncle Benjamin 30th Carrie up to J Williams picking berries.____ [envelope] [loose piece paper 1] Life! we have been long togather; Through pleasant & Cloudy weather, Tis hard to part, when friends are dear Perhaps, twill cost a sigh, a tear; Then steal away, give little warming, Choose thine own time, Say not, good-night, But in some brighter clime, �Bid me good morning. Vincent Bowerman [loose paper 2] My Grandfather Bowerman Died at Bloomfield On the 6th of 2nd month 1885 Aged 93 years & 8 months Found a Memorandum of Grandfathers this morning, which I coppie for Carrie,____ “ l mo 24th 1882 Is the 32nd year me and my wife was [sic] married 32 years ago this day we were married, in the Friends Meeting-house in Bloomfield.” Deborah Bowerman Aged 80 The above was written without Spectacls [sic] Vincent Bowerman Died at Bloomfield On the sixth of 2mo 1885 [pg 45a] [blank] [pg 45b] Deborah Bowerman died near Bloomfield Tenth month 24th 1892 aged 87 years and 11 months �[pg 46a] [blank] [pg 46b] For Those Grown Old By Wilhelmina Stitch I pray you be not angry, hard or cold With those grown old Two things there be that torture me (How shall such pain in rhyming lines be [told)?] The sound of children crying bitterly, And words like spears, hurled at the [maimed?] old. They are so tired; no longer are they girls with youths brave armour warding off Life’s blows, They are defenceless; very swiftly hurt; One sharp word hurled, and lo? the hearts blood flows. They are so very tired; one never knows When they may slip into the arms of Death And sob like children lost and found again And with this hurt, tear-laden breath Till Death, the friend, how they’ve escaped from pain. [pg 47a] Oh, sin indeed to make the old weary of life; They who have had their share of misery & strife Oh, wrap your tenderness about them like a shawl To comfort them and keep them from the cold And let your love build up so high a wall _ The spears of life find not the [maimed? unarmed?] old Copied by Carrie E. Williams July 1928 [pg 47b] [blank] �[pg 48a] [blank] [pg 48b] [Newspaper Clippings] LIVING BY THE DAY “I COMPARE,” says John Newton, “the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bun­ dle of fagots, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another which we are to carry to-morrow, and so on. This we might easily manage if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday’s stick over again to-day, and adding tomorrow’s burden to our load before we are required to bear it.” PATIENT WITH THE LIVING Sweet friend, when thou and I are gone Beyond earth’s weary labor, When small shall be our need of grace From comrade or from neighbour, Passed all the strife, the toil, the care, And done with all the sighing, What tender truth shall we have gained, Alas ! by simply dying? Then lips to chary of their praise Will tell our merits ever, And eyes too swift our faults to see Shall no defect discover Then hands that would not lift a stone Where stones were thick to cumber One steep hill, path, will scatter flowers �Above our pillowed slumber. Sweet friend, perchance both thou and I, Ere love is past forgiving, Should take the earnest lesson homeBe patient with the living ! To-day’s repressed rebuke may save Our blinding tears to-morrow Then patience-e’en when keenest edge May what a nameless sorrow Tis easy to be gentle when Death’s silence shames our clamour, And easy to discern the best Through memory’s mystic glamour; But wise it were for thee and me Ere love [is?] past forgiving To take the tender lesson to beBe patient with the living! THE MEDICINE OF SUNSHINE - The world wants more sunshine in its dispo­ sition, in its business, in its charities, in its theology. For ten thousands of the aches and pains and irritations of men and women we commend sunshine. It soothes better than morphine; it stimulates better than champagne; it is the best plaster for a wound. The Good Samaritan poured out into the fallen traveller’s gash more of this than of wine, and oil. Florence Nightingale used it on Crimean battle fields. Take it into all, the alleys, on board all the ships, by all the sick-beds, -not a phial full but a soul full. It is good for spleen, for liver complaint, for neuralgia, for rheumatism, for falling fortunes, for melancholy. We suspect that heaven itself is only more sunshine. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Deborah Bowerman Diary Collection Subject The topic of the resource 19th Century Rural Ontario Diaries Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deborah Bowerman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy of Prince Edward County Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1874-1892 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19th Century, Prince Edward County, Hallowell Township, Ontario Table Of Contents A list of subunits of the resource. Deborah Bowerman Diary, 1874-1882 Deborah Bowerman Diary, 1887-1892 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Deborah Bowerman Diary, 1887-1892 Date Created Date of creation of the resource. May 7, 1887 Is Part Of A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included. Deborah Bowerman Diary Collection Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. Typed Transcription Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Deborah Bowerman Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Courtesy of Prince Edward County Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1887-1892 Language A language of the resource English Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 19th Century, Prince Edward County, Hallowell Township, Ontario UG Transcription Progress Scripto transcription progress Done transcribed