William Beatty Diary, 1871-1874

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Beatty,

Walter

Journal

January 1871

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February 1874

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1871	the S. Lillie cow took own Bull	June 4th
	the Shepard 2 year old Do Do Do	Do 11th
	the old Lillie cow took the Gananoque Ayrshire Bull	June 15
	Youngs cow took own Bull	June 25
		again July 16
	the White cow took own Bull	July 29
	the Ennis heffer Do Do Do thinks	Do 30th
	Redmons Bull	August 4
1872	Pett heffer took our own Bull	June 15
	let the Bull out with the cows on the 20th of June
	the Lillie cow took the Bull	July 8th
1873	Let the Bull with the cows June 7
	Youngs heffer took the Bull June 13
	Kittie Do Do Do	Do

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January	22	State of the weather the Thermometer stood at 10 degrees below zero
23	20
little snow	24	10
	25	11
little snow	26	12
	27	zero
	28	Do
	29	10 above
rain	30	12
	31	freezing
Feb snow	1	12 above
snow	2	freezing
	3	zero
	4	12 below
	5	20 Do
	6	10
	7	10
		Zero
		Freezing
		Do
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1873 April Ad got out the following timber & agreed with Rupert & Perry to raft it & take it to the following places 21 pieces of Barn timber to be taking to the outlet 12 1/2 cents a piece 43 sawlogs 5 of them is pine the rest is hemlock to McCreadys steem sawmill 15 cents a piece 20 pieces of shingle timber to be taking Marblerock 20 cents a piece all to be takeing as soon as the water will allow Wm Bennet {illegible} Barley 50 of Wheat 7 of peas the {illegible} on the pease that we plowed on {illegible}

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January	1	The Revd Mr Fraser preached in the schoolhouse
snow	2	I Acted as Returning officer in the Division of the Township there was snow & wind thawing & freezing
snow	3	A very storming day wind & snow with heavy drift Ad came home fromo Newborrow with his visitters Lizie came with hime Delta
	4	there is no travel on the road what is is through our fields I attended on the cattel
	5	Ad & Geordy helped B Younge to Thrash the roads is very bad
	6	drew the rails out of the lane to make a fence from the road to the woods at the church so as to fence in the New field the we plowed this fall
	7	Billie went to Delta with Lizie Watt did not come fine day very little travel on the roads
8		the Revd Mr Gordon preached in the schoolhouse
	9	Geordy helped Cris Young to thrash Ad & Billie drew wood from Armstrongs
	10	Geordy helped Cris Younge to thrashe Ad & Billie drew wood fine day
	11	Geordy helped John Johnston to thrash Ad & Billie drew wood
	12	Ad helped J Johnston to thrash Geordy run a knif into his hand he cannot do much with it him & Billie drew a little wood fine day
	13	drew wood I attended the Annual Meeting of our Agricultural Socitie was reelected President
snow & rain	14	stormy day cleaned up some grasse seed
15 rain		the Revd Mr Geordin preached in the forenoon I went to the funeral of Mr Elisha Landon he was buired at the Ebenezer Church the Revd Mr Follock preached there was over 30 slaughs & cutters heavy rain most of the day the roads is all ice
snow	16	I went to Gananoque to the annual Meeting of our Riding societes fine meeting I went with J Cook a little snow Ad went to Delta with the cutter got the horses shod
	17	Ad came home with Hiscocks they came to go to a tea meeting at R{cut off} to night he left his horse for Watt to come with tomorrow

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Jan	18	Fine day nothing doing there is visitors from Delta here
	19	Wat & Lizie came here from Delta drew 1 load of wood
	20	drew 2 loads of wood Wat went to Toronto with Express Ad went to John Youngs with the cutter
	21	drew 2 loads of wood a little snow fine warm day
22		the Revd Mr Follock preached at night inthe schoolhouse the Revd Mr Gordon came here this afternoon there was no apointment
	23	went to Escot & got a side of harnefs leather it is the half of old Lillies skin that we killed last year cold day
snow	24	Ad came home from J Youngs David is here a little snow
	25	I intend to go to grannoms with Elen this afternoon
	26	went to Lyn from Granmoms paid Wm Clow sixty four dollars as 2 years intret on my note that pays it up to the 16 of October 1870 I bought 20 lbs of good sugar for $2 cold day
	27	came home from Granmoms to day the roads is good grammams is no better I left Ellen there
	28	fine day David is working for Robert White he was here last night drew some wood
29		no meeting to day
	30	I went to Younge to see John Ferguson Ad wanted him to go to Parry Sound with him I had to go to John K Thompons for him & then he would not go the boys drew some wood
	31	drew 2 loads of wood fine day

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