William Dixon Diary, 1854-1878

{mottled brown book cover, very worn}

mang m grammer gaming to

To from the tack and raise thy nobler part

To mend the mortals and to warm thy hart

To trace the genarle source me nature call

And prove the god of nature friend of all

Heavy fore this his mental landscape drew

And sketch d the whole creation out to vew

Th enamelled bloom and variegated flower

Whose crimson changes with the changing hour

The humble shrub whose fragrance sents the morning

With humble buds disclosing to the erly dawn

The oaks that grace briteannia s mountain side

And spicy libor superior pride {gaming like fung}

All loudly sovreign excellence proclame

And animated worlds confess the name {CJ forman}

The asure fields that form the extended sky

Amos and Bildan

A man visited only his friend Bildad and be hold he found him suporting this grey hed upon both his hands and weeping bitterly and Amos said to his friends why weepest thou thus Bad raised his hand and ponted to a bed lay the dead body of a youth the only sone of bildad who had died of a contagious disease then said blind Behold there lies my hope a prey to coruption Thy hope answered Amos mournfully but will not the fath of my friend soothe and conquer his grief then answerd Bildad Alas my fath is faint and week since my love and hope have been so crully disppointed Have I not carfully and diligently watched over the lovely disposition of my body have I not cultivated and fosterd his ~~{illegible}~~ powers and now when my work was so nerly accomplished

Tune Abbey Lloyd 119 Psalm

1 a How bright these glorious spirits shine

Whence all there bright array

How came they to the blissful seats

Of everlasting day

2 Lo these are they form suffering great

Who came to relems of fight

And in the blood of christ have washed

Thare robes which shine so bright

3 His presents fills each hert with Joy

Tunes every voice to sing

By day by night the sacred courts

While glad Hosannas ring

Hungry and thurst after no more

Nor suns with schorching ray

God is there sun whose cheering beems

Diffused etarnal day

When snows desend and robe the fields

In winter s bright array

Touched by thy sun the luster fades

And weepps itself away

When spring appears when vilants blow

And sheds a rich perfume

How soon thy fragrance breathes its last

How short lived is the bloom

Fresh in the morn the sumer rose

Hangs with ring ere tis noon

We scarce envy the balmy gift

But mourn the plesure gon

With gilding fire an evening stare

Streaks the Atumnal skies

Shook from the atumal it darts away

And in an instant dies

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For zion sak Williams tis yours to bid the canvas were by art illustrated Verys from and What number of our race survey the monarch of the golden day night ample my name is James {illegible} Flor invis soak William Down Trafalgar 1858

Mary had a little lamb it was as white as snow and whereever Mary went the lamb was shure to go it followed her to school One day whitch was against the rule whitch made the

this is the way to know the lord and this with A repenting sinner quickly fly Moments make minutes from the hour and willing hours the day and night compose Days forms the week and months the weeks devor and at the the months the year its fullness on yet moments minuts hours we throw away and heed not time that sings his rapity flight me body we consume the flitting day in lenght till slumber wast returning might and weeks flew on and months and sesons too and years are lost as if too light to frese and as we older grow alas tow few grow with our years more diligently wrse of summer heven of glory and the waves that rool in bending gold or hill and feld in and on the tempest when it {illegible}ends forth in folds of blackness from the northern skys moments make minutes minutes from the hour and circling hours the day and night compose oys from the Came from the sun with zyphers and with shus Walking the earth to beauty and the woods to musicke and the atmotspear to blow swetly and calmly without its breath of balm O how i gase upon the darling blew

Ho the old old clock of the household stroke

Was the brighteous thins and nerst

It hands thoughts old had a touch of gold

And its chime rang still the whilst

Twas a monitor to thought its words were few

Yet they live thought nations alterd

1854

30	of march	we put in the saw logs into the mill
31	of march	we tuck a load of things down to patricks
1	of april	we went to pile the lumber at the mill
2	of april
3		on the third of april we comensed fencing at patricks
8		and finished on the fencing on the eight of april
12		on the twelf of april we ware boring caps fences
14	of april	anty fitchpatric went away on the
15	of april	we finished fencing on the outside of the farm
17	of april	we comensed ploughing at patricks
20		I comensed making a chrn for Joseph Cuningham
22		we comenced sewing peas fine growing wether and showers on the twenty first of april first lamb came
24	of april	we finished sewing peas
25	of april	we sewed the barley went for willows to simpson
26		we went to simpsons for willow finished ploughing
27	of april	a snow storm finished a churn
28	of april	we comensed turning the dung
29	of april	cool and cloudy wether and flying snow
30	of april	warm and plesent with a slight groth
1		fnished turning the dung on the first of may
2	of may	we ware (turning) ploughing oats ground
3	of may	i was framing at the sheep house
4	of may	was sowing oats at home and finished at
5	of may	was the fare day in milton cold wether
6	of may	finished sewing the oats and burley
8	of may	i was framing at the sheephouse
9	of may	we went to Jacob chines to the funerl
10		i went up to the saw mill to fetch a load
11	of may	the ground for the potatos and corn
12	of may	we planted the potatos mangbrustls
13	of may	we pulled down the old sheep hous
14	sunday	the fourteenth 1854

15	of may	comenced harowing the folow
16	of may	comensed turning the dung at patricks
17	of may	we planted some potatos down below
18	of may	comensed to wed red root
19	of may	washed the sheep
20	of may	we raised the sheep hous And cut the lambs
21		growing and showry wether
22	of may	went to finished closing in the barn in a squay
23	of may	wacol commensed drawing out wheat
24	of may	we went up to the saw mill for lumber
25	of may	we comensed shingling the sheep hous
26	of may	we comensed shering the sheep and finished on Wed
27	of may	comensing siding the sheep hous
28	sunday	great groth in those days
29	of may	we finished shingling the sheep pens
30	of may	we finished siding the sheephous
31	of may	we comenced drawing out dung shold three s{cut off}
1	of june	drawing out dung fine drie weather graz{cut off}
2	of june	comensed ploughing f across {illegible} 4 Dees ward
3	of june	cut the colts I maid a shuvel handle
4	of june	sunday warm and plesent with cool breeze
5	of june	we comencsed the road work down below
6		andd finished the road work below
7	of june	we finished the road work
8	of june	it rain graying wether
9	of june	we went out to the street to plough
10	of june	we goot a point upon the plough
11	sunday	plesent and growing wether
12	of june	comensed drawing out dung
13	of june	we comensed cross ploughing down below
14	of june	dry and plesent warm and misty
15	of june	we molded the potatos and corn

16	of June	we ware ploughing down the tislels 1854
17	of June	warm and plesent wether misty and dry
18	of June	plesent )16 thare is some wheat shot
19	of June	ware ploughing down below very warm
20	of June	we ware ploughing
21	of June	we finished ploughing down below
22	of June	we comensed drawing out the dung
23	of June	we sold twenty bustle of oats 1 ton of hay
24	of June	we finished drawing out the dung at home
25	sunday	cold and plesent those days lately
26	of June	of June went to tooronto for money
27	of June	we comensed coulturing and harowing
28	of June	we finished cross ploughing and spieding don
29	of June	comensed cutting the hay
30	of June	we drilled the potatos and corn
1	of July	we went to hamilton to get a mare
2		very warm and dry and sultry
3	of July	we comensed drawing in the hay
4	of July	thare came tow mares and tuck a Job
5	of July	very sultry and warm
6	of July	a storm of rain which knocked the wheat down
7		more plesent and cool I finished the haying at home
8	of July	very warm and sultry and showers
9	sunday	plesent and cool after the rain
10	of July	we comensed cutting gras down below
11	of July	we finished drawing in hay at home
12	of	comensed drawing in down below
13		finished mowing below
14		finished drawing in hay the bees swarmed
15	of July	we cut the barley built a seat upon the reaper
16	sunday	plesent and busey blasts

1854

17	of July	we gatherd the barley and acked it
18		we comensed cutting the wheat with the reaper
19	of July	very warm and sultry and rain
20		raney and hot blincke down
21		very warm and sultry heat the wheat is all
22		very rany wether very little done
23	sunday	dry and d
24	of July	very warm and sultry cutting lying wheat
25		reaping with the mashine eight acers
26		we cut a hundent stook very warm
27	of July	we cutt seven ackers with the reaper
28	of July	went down to below to cutt finished cutting
29	of July	comensed drawing in not so warm as Thurs
30	sunday	plesent and cool
31	of July	we were cutting wheat rany
1	August	drawin in wheat
2	of August	we ware drawing in
3	of August	very unplesent rany wether
4	of August	rany and storms and blinck
5	of August	we finished cutting wheat
6	of August	sunday cool and plesent
7	of August	we comensed bilding a stack of wheat
8	of August	we went down below to draw in the wheat and cutt the barley finished the wheat
9	of August	we comensed cutting the oats and peas
10		we finished binding the oats dry and plesent
11	of August	comensed stacking the peas and finished
121		we comensed stacking the barley and finished at home warm and sultry dry and misty
13	of August	sunday cool and plesent and windy
14	of August	comensed ploughing the thisels and cutting the oats down below

1854

15	of August	we ware ploughing thristles
16	of August	we ware binding oats and finished binding
17	of August	we finished ploughing thistles
18	of August	we comensed drawing out dung and laying the plough irons dry and plesent wether
19	of August	of August we ware settling up the trashing machine
20	sunday	dry and cool and plesent
21	of August	we comensed rigging up for wheat
22	of August	very warm and sultry and dry
23	of August	we trashed some seed wheat
24	of August	we trashed some oats for the horses
25	of August	we brought the cattle home for want of water
26		we have riged up thwenty foure ackers clening seed
27	sunday	cool and dry and plesent and shmookey
28	of August	we finished ploughing the field at the line thirteen ackers
29		comensed to sow wheat
30	of August	comensed finished sowing 13 ack
31	of August	comensed sewing in the field at the barn
1	of September	hevy rains very graying wether
2	of September	finished sewing the field at barn
3	of September	sunday plesent and warm
4	of September	we finished sowing at home
5	of September	finished water furring at home very warm
6	of September	I went down below warm and sultry
7	of September	comensed to tow sowed thwelve bustle
8	of September	sowing and harowing mor cool and plesent
9	of September	rain comensed raised the lightning rods on the 6
10	of September	sunday cool and windy the fields look green
11	of September	we ware sowing and harowing
12		we comensed ploughing next to old Jo
13		comensed sowing in flat field

1854

14	of September	we finished sowing the wheat the rain came on we sowed thwenty bushels in the field at the line eighteen bushels in the field front of the barn thirteen in the field at the woods barn thirty one in the larg field down below eighteen nine to do
15		misty and rany and sharpy cool in the morning
16	of September	trashed the barley and some oats
17	of September	sunday dry and plesent
18	of September	comensed trashing the stack of wheat
19	of September	We finished trashing the stack
20	of September	went to help Jonkpid to trash
21	of September	comensed bilding a coal pit
22	of September	remived the lightning rods
23	of September	pulled the apples below warm
24	sunday	warm and plesent and cloudy
25	of September	we set fire to the coal pitt
26	of September	went to help foords to trash
27	of September	comensed making the doors for the squesing hous
28	of September	comenced drawing out the barley
29	of September	we comensed drawing san to the hous
30	of September	went to mill comensed taking out the coal
1	October	sunday rain in torents cool
2	October	comensed finishing of the house in a squez{cut off}
3		comensed ploughing went help foords to trash
4		comensed drawing out some wheat
5		comensed tathing and hanging the doors
6		we went for the brick and bilt the chimney
7	of October	~~sunday~~ warm and plesent
8		sunday charls strained his foot
9	of October	maid the morter set 2 Wheals
10	of October	put in the glace into the shash
11	of October	comensed plastering the hous

1854

12	October	we war plastering plesent wether
13		finished plastering the squesing hous and took the pimmen moddle to Crance
14		we finished the house of cool winds
15	of October	sunday coald winds the leeves are falling
16	of October	we trashed tow hundert bustles
17	of October	went below to put out the dung
18	of October	was the show day in milton
19	of October	set up the mashine below
20		we trashed the wheat and oat and barley
21		we came home with the mashine
22	of October	sunday cloudy and plesent
23	of October	rain and plesent wether
24	of October	comensed drawing out the wheat below
25	of October	we finished below tow hundert and fifty
26	of October	went to Tronto with fifty bushels
27		we trashed at home eighty bushels
28		i braced the mashine warm and plesent
29		sunday misty warm
30	of October	we trashed at home foure hundert
31		comensed taking it to old proud foot
1	November	i comensed iron of a neck yoak
2	November	i making hors shoues coald and frosty
3	November	was the fare day
4	November	i banded the waggon hobs
5	November	sunday coald and frosty implesent
6		cold and unplesent wether
7		we tuckout the last load of wheat in the fall
8		comensed making a wagon cool wether
9		comensed to make a moer
10		more plesent wether hevy frosts at night
11	November	we finished ploughing at home

1854

12	November	sunday cloudy and chilley
13	November	we comensed ploughing below
14	November	i comensed making a waggon
15	November	we parted the sheep and let the ram
16		flury of snow implesent wether mud comensed
17		more plesent and warm finished the woark
18		went to the fulling mill at macanns
19		sunday frosty and cloudy and chilley
20		we went to proudfoots for money
21		frosty wether coald and chilley
22		comensed making the doors for the sheephous
23	November	sold tow steers to cragy 100 -20
24		rain finished ploughing down below came home
25		went to old brooks for rail timber comensing the m{illegible}
26	November	sunday coold and windy and cloudy and fine
27	November	killed a hog
28		we comensed taking out timber for a barn
29		working a way plesent wether
30	November	cold and windy frosty froseup
1	December	finished flatting the timber came home
2	December	working at the mo{illegible} washing
3	December	sunday great snow storm comensed
4	December	we comensed edging the timber
5	December	finished edging the timber snowin
6	December	skidded the timber and came home
7	December	comensed cutting saw loggs coald
8	December	cutting of loggs coaldd
9	December	skidded the logs more plesent
10	December	rain and windy thewing sunday
11	December	we killed the hogs and bought out noor
12		comensed cutting railcutts mild and plesent
13		getting up wood thewing wether 1854

14	December	cutting railcutts thewing
15	December	plesent wether for the season
16	December	more cold in the morning
17	December	snowstorm comensed colad winds sunday
18	December	we killed the beef
19		comensed saw loging coald and frosty
20		drawing sawlogs and skidding railcutts
21		the same work cold and blustry
22	December	cold and frosty
23	December	we have forty loogs at the mill
24	December	thewing quite soft sunday
25	December	christmas thaw
26	December	comensed to show the horses
27	December	cutt twenty saw logs
28	December	hevy rain quite soft
29	December	trashes for macaltry and brock a primery
30	December	went to the strat for a new wheal
31	December	sunday plesent and warm no snow 1854
		Year of 1855
1	January	we ware mending the wheel
2	January	we trashed for david mariaty
3	January	cutt a shingle tree and fetch a load
4	January	comensed to make the shingles
5	January	fixed the horspower now snow school mary
6	January	went for a load of blocks warm and plesent
7	January	rain and windy and blustering an such
8	January	plesent wether no snow
9	January	an inquest held upon c{illegible}
10	January	trashed the oats pleesent wether
11		comensed to iron the wagon no snow
12		blacksmith woork adooing no snow
13		went for a load of shingle blocks

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13	August	comensed cutting the oats rain
14	August	finished the wheat plesent with
15		comensed pulling the peas
16		finished binding the oats at home and pulling peas
17	August	comensed cutting the oats below dry wether
18	August	finished cutting oats comensed pulling peas
19	August	sunday dry and cool
20	August	stacked the peas at home dry wether
21	August	stacked the peas below and bown the oats
22		fnished the oats at two lots trashing and fords
23	August	comensed to rig up dry wether windy
24	August	settin up the mashine below dry wether
25	August	we ware trashing a stack below warm
26	August	sunday windy u and dry
27	August	i was starting a machine for side
28	August	trashing at rick plesent whet
29	August	trashing at Rids plesent wethe
30	August	helping robsons to trash Dry wethe
31	August	helping James red finished plough at home
1	September	comensed below to plow warm
2	September	dry and plesent sundy
3	September	rain trashing at linsys
4	September	ploughing below trashing at linsys
5	September	dry and plesent wethe hard ploughing
6	September	cleaning seed wheat below dry and plesent
7	September	warm and dry comensed on moor place to plough very hard and dry
8	September	shower of rain cloudy and warm
9	sunday	warm and plesent
10	September	comensed to sow at home very dry
11	September	very dry and windy
12		warm and dry with showers

13	September	sewing in the field at the line
14	September	finished at home very dry and windy
15	September	comensed sewing below warm and dry
16	September	dry and misty and smokey sunday
17	September	cloudy and misty with some rain
18	September	rain comensed hevy frost
19	September	sowing below cool and plesent
20	September	comensed sowing on moor place
21	September	rainy and plesant
22	September	sewing plesent wether
23	September	cool and plesent cloudy sunday
24	September	are finished sewing wheat
25	September	helping Mr sid to trash
26	September	trashed at hom me harder & Burk
27	September	we sold the lambs hevy frost
28		comensed to draw out wheat
29	September	pulled the apples below
30	September	rain sunday cloudy
1	October	rain trashing att John redds
2	October	hauling out wheat mudy roads
3	October	showing the horses round
4	October	rain and mud in abundandts
5	October	comensed drawing out dung {illegible}
6	October	rain in toronto and mud frows
7	October	sunday cool and implesent windy
8	October	we ware putting out dung
9	October	went to the wedding of J Dixon
10	October	drawing out dung plesent wether
11	October	making a rake to cary straw away
12	October	makin a neck yok cun again frosty
13	October	comensed mowing the clover seed
14	October	hevy rain and mud and snow sundy

1855

14	January	cold and frosty sundy with a flury of snow
15	January	no snow
16	January	we ware setting the machine up
17	January	we trashing wheat pleasent weather
18	January	i comensed making the axel tong of a wagon
19	January	went for a load of blocks
20		finished the wood work of a wagon finished 10 thousand shingles
21	January	cloudy and cold no snow sunday
22	January	a great snow storm comensed this day
23		comensed drawing rail cutts we fetched the coalts
24		comensed drawing saw logs to forlish mill
25		finished saw loging at forbus mill
26		skided the logs at the mill taking rail cuts
27		went to mill a foot of snow upon the ground
28	January	snowing and stormy sunday
29	January	drawing rail cutts cold and stormy
30	January	i was ironing of a wagon
31	January	mending a stay cold and snow fluries
1	Febuary	went to a weeding of mis cumings
2	Febuary	i was making a fraim for a saw
3	Febuary	rail cutting drifting and blocking
4	Febuary	coald and frosty sunday piles of snow
5	Febuary	drawing rail cutts coald plenty of snow
6		cold and frosty and cold
7		i was iron of a wagon very coald working
8		Finished drawing the rail cutts cold weather
9		comensed drawing timber plenty of snow
10		more plesent not so frosty iron of a wagon
11	Febuary	plesent plenty of snow sunday
12	Febuary	I finished iron of the wagon
13		I was panting the wagon thewing

14		started our sirclar saw with great speed
15		taken out sleepers in nausgogy
16		great snow storm took a lod of timber down
17		went up to the block to tak in rafter logs sill out
18		sundy plenty of snow flurrying of snow flying
19	Febuary	we went for a load of shingle timber
20		comensed drawing lumber plesent soft
21		lumbering plesent and soft
22		comensed making the moer
23		comensed taking out wheat more cold
24		finished drawing lumber ran forbushes mill
25		sunday stormy and cold and frosty sood slay
26		I was making moer Good slaying
27		drawing out wheat more plesent
28		we took a load of poles down below 1855
1	March	comensed to trash out the remainder
2	March	finished trashing wheat more plesent
3	March	we went up to the block to take out a summer sill and sleepers plesent
4		sunday plesent plenty of snow good slaying
5	March	making the moer plenty of snow
6	March	getting up wood more plesent wether
7	March	turned roalers andy foord {illegible}esser heer
8	March	old pe came up plesent wether for the season
9	March	we cutt the wood and piled it up
10	March	making shingles and d{illegible} peas in
11	March	sunday cool and cloudy plenty of snow
12	March	started to the grand river
13		went to anamosy for potatos great storm
14		came home with twelv bustle
15		the court comensed sofl and thewing
16		at the court soft and thewing

17	March	stormy snow and rain and sleet
18	March	plenty of snow and frost sunday
19		went down to draw old rails
20		came home very cold and un plesent
21		comensed splitting rails very cold and unplesent
22		came home very unplesent plenty of snow
23		snow storm great winds very frosty and bitter
24	March	very cold and frosty not much a doing
25	March	sunday stormy and windy frosty snow
26	March	stormy snow cold a tone of hay
27	March	stormy wether plenty of snow
28		splitting rails plenty of snow
29		we went to tomsons to put in the logs
30		comensed to thew crow came of this t shee{illegible}
31	March	thewing fast great gushes of water
1	April	sunday cold and blustering winds sunday
2	April	i was working at the reaping scythe
3	April	i was at the court in milton
4	April	comensed to sow the clover seed
5	April	the snow thewing fast away
6	April	splitting rails below the hay eatoller
7	April	we went to pile the lumber at tompsons
8	April	thewing wether sunday
9	April	April we cutting chunks and drawing them
10		we finished splitting rails comensed bilding
11		we comensed the outside fence the ground soft
12		finished the out sid fence the blocks of snow
13		comensed the senter fence wheat selling at $2
14	April	we finished fencing at moors place sowed cabbage seeds
15	April	still some lumps of snow sunday cold wind
16		I was laying plough points the snow dem{illegible}
17		comensed framing the barn warm and plesent

18	April	comensed ploughing sodd warm
19	April	raining showers of rain finished fencing
20	April	groth comensed the wheat looks great
21	April	finished the posts warm and plesent
22		plesent and growing wether Sunday
23	April	we ware framing at the barn
24	April	comensed ploughing for the spring crop
25	April	rain all day that we shantyed
26	April	led the foundation of the barn
27	April	comensed framing the purlines posts
28	April	comensed framing the braces and studs
29	April	sunday rain cool and cloudy wether
30	April	rain and storm making pens
1	May	rigging plough drying up growing wether
2	May	comensed sowing the peas and ots
3	May	finished sowing the peas and ots at home
4	May	comensed sowing peas an ots below
5	May	cutting studs putting stone under the foundation
6	May	cool and cloudy looks like rain growin wether
7	May	I was making pike irons went for pines
8	May	a snow storm three inches deep
9	May	we raised the barn at pattricks
10	May	we comensed {illegible}edging the barn
11	May	working a way at the barn
12	May	rain went up to the sawmill for lumber the leeves cuming out upon the trees growing wether
13		growing wether cloudy wether sunday
14	May	comensed siding the barn
15	May	comensed shingling growing wether
16	May	plesent wether windy and cloudy
17	May	we ploughing the folow {illegible} made
18		I was at bingmans raison

19	May	we planted the potatos and finished shingling the one side cloudy and growing
20		sunday plesent the trees in bloom
21	May	we washed the sheep
22	May	went blow to work at the barn
23		planted the potatoes below and corn
24	May	comensed clipping the sheep dry wether
25	May	finished shingling the barn and laying
26	May	came home to show the horses frosty at night
27	May	cool and plesent wether for the season sunday
28	May	comensed drawing out wheat to {illegible}
29	May	finished drawing out wheat
30	May	comensed the road work at home
31	May	finished the road work at home
1	June	finished shingling the barn comensed Diging a well finished siding the barn
2	June	comensed harrowing the follow and cross ploughing
3	June	great rain growing wether sunday
4	June	diggind at the wall some ploughing
5	June	came to the rock growing wether
6	June	comensed to drill the rock
7	June	finished drilling great rain drilled twen{cut off}
8	June	comensed stoning the wall cross ploughin
9	June	finished the wall and 10 ackers plough
10	June	rain sunday rowing wether
11	June	comensed making the higes for the barn
12	June	comensed the road work below growing wether
13	June	finished the road work showery wether
14	June	comensed finishing of the moer
15	June	Bees swarmed and staind fence cross ploughing cool wether for the season
16	June	finished the more am finished i crosploughin below and came home mand the hinges for the barn

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17	June	cool and plesent and breezy wether and growing with cool showers sunday fine pasturs
18	June	comensed drawing out dung some wheat spor{illegible}
19	June	rain comensed and stoped us
20		comensed to plough down the dung got a pump below
21	June	making hasps for the barn
22	June	the bees swarmed growing wether
23	June	cross ploughing the bees swarmed
24	June	sundy rain growing wether
25	June	comensed making the gangway to the barn
26	June	comensed w hanging the doors
27	June	comensed putting the scaffold poles
28	June	reigm bees swarmed
29	June	comensed to cutt the hay warm and unplesent
30	June	warm and unplesent mowing
1	July	sunday cool and plesent and dry
2	July	finished mowing seven ackers
3	July	mowing plesent cool in the morning molded potatos
4		came {illegible} bites and tock a f Job of
5	July	comensed drawing in and raking
6		rain cloudy wether great quantity of bites
7		finished mowing at home plesent wether
8	July	sunday plesent and cool the opening of the sleemill meeting to day
9		rain not mutch hay got in day
10		Dry we got most all in
11	July	went down below to cut the hay
12	July	great rain below warm and unplesent
13	July	mowing a way rain very warm
14		finished mowing below and gathered some
15	July	cool and plesent wether sunday

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16	July	comensed gathering and drawing in
17	July	finished gathering and drawing in
18		comensed cutting the wheat hred at man
19		very warm and unplesent
20	July	rain all day more plesent and all cool
21	July	four bites cutting with reaper plesent
22	July	sunday and cool and bresy with cloudy
23		we have cutt
24	July	cutting wheat rain in abundance
25	July	rain and hot blincks
26	July	cloudy and rainy sultry no wind
27	July	we went below to cut with four men rain
28	July	cutting at home with the reaper plenty of mud sent the men away very warm an sultry
29	July	sunday dry and plesent and bright
30	July	finished cuttin at home
31	July	comensed below with the mashen
1	August	cutting with great fury lyin down
2	August	finished cuttin eighteen accker with the help of mister t{illegible} very warm
3	August	comensed cutting in the field next to the old {cut off}
4	August	rain tar left us very warm and unplesent
5	August	cloudy and cool after the rain
6	August	drawing in at home and cuttin below
7	August	finished cuttin wheat plesent
8	August	drawing in dry and plesent
9		filled the barn chuckk full plesent
10		comensed bilding a stack in the filed next {illegible}
11		came home put in a field at the road plesent
12	August	sundy cloudy and rainy cool

15	October	we trashed four hundert bushels of wheat
16	October	took a load out to proud foot
17	October	cutting the clover seed milton show
18	October	drawing out wheat plesent wether
19	October	finished moying the clover warm and plesent
20	October	comensed drawing in the clover seed plesent
21	October	October cloudy plesent withe drying up sunday
22	October	comensed to digg the potatos frosty
23	October	out with a load of wheat snow storm
24	October	inplesent wether for digging potatos
25	October	comensed to plough sodd cold and unplesent
26	October	helping linsey to trash stormy and unplesent
27	October	helping linsey to trash barley unplesent
28	October	rainy and unplesent sunday
29	October	went to tronto with barley got a{illegible}
30	October	ploughing more plesent frosts at night
31	October	making a spindle for the trashing nas{cut off}
1	November	spredding dung and ploughing sodd
2	November	fare day in milton cool and plesent
3	November	spredding dung and ploughing sodd
4	November	sunday a hard frost plesent leves of t{illegible}
5	November	trashing for andy orr
6	November	trashing plesent wether
7	November	rain broak down the horsepwer
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8	November	went to oakville unplesent
9	November	plowing sod plesent wether
10	November	plesent wether forplowing mudy
11	November	sunday rany warm and plesent
12	November	rain muddy and unplesent wether
13	November	killed a pigg more plesent wether
14	November	went to look for rail timber
15	November	plowing sodd very mudy and unplesent let the ram with the yous {ewes}
16	November	paying mrs patrick the mony
17	November	I was digging a drain g snow storm
18	November	sunday stormy looking wether snow
19	November	we killed the pigs stormy wether
20	November	went for balsams
21	November	I went to help bingman to trash
22	November	trashing at binghmans stormy
23	November	fnished plowing sodd
24	November	we sold the hogs unplesent wether
25	November	sunday rany and unplesent
26	November	making a shaft for the hors power
27	November	comensed taking out timber for a barn
28	November	frosty and the roads rough

29	November	more plesent we flatted the timber
30	November	came home plesent wether frose a little
1	December	we bilt a coal pit fine and plesent
2	December	sunday soft rain quite soft
3	December	finished flatting the timber plesent wether
4	December	comensed edging the timber plesent wether
5	December	timbering burning a coal pit plesent wether
6	December	comensed to draw out the timber finished edging
7	December	comensed cutting rail timber at ningys
8	December	came home plesent wether maid a pare of rings
9	December	sunday rany slaapy and mudy
10	December	blustering and cold flury of snow
11	December	comensed splitting rails
12	December	finished splittng rails at ningys
13	December	came home plesent wether
14	December	more plesent now snow rought roads
15	December	sold a load of hay at sixteen dollars
16	December	sunday cloudy and plesent soft
17	December	trashed the oats very rought
18	December	trashing oats and wheat showing
19	December	killed the beef now snow

20	December	comensed making the rake
21	December	thrashing of the floore below snow
22	December	sunday snow storm unplesent
23	December	sunday snow storm unplesent
24	December	cold and unplesent wether
25	December	christmis day unplesent
26	December	comensed trashing below cold
27	December	trashing wheat very cold
28	December	trashing very cold and unplesent
29	December	finished trashing wheat
30	December	sunday snow storm tow feet deep
31	December	making shingles unplesent
1	January	making shingles plenty of snow 1856
2	January	cutting sawlogs cold and unplesent
3	January	cutting sawlogs cold
4	January	cutting shingle timber cold
5	January	cutting shingle timber skidding the logs
6	January	sunday plenty of snow more snow
7	January	comensed drawing saw logs snow storm
8	January	blustering and storming making shingles
9	January	blustering and cold making shingles
10	January	making shingles unplesent
11	January	went to cummings to cut wood
12	January	cut wood blow more plesent
13	January	sunday snow storm comensed great fury
14	January	drawing in saw logs cold plenty of snow
15	January	finished sawlogs cold

16	January	comensed drawing timber cold
17	January	trashing for davy mcartney plesent
18	January	trashing plesent drawing hay to milton
19	January	finished trashing for davy cold
20	January	sunday frosty and unplesent wether
21	January	drawing timber cold and unplesent
22	January	timbering cold and unplesent
23		plenty of snow timbering with fred
24	January	timbering more plesent
25	January	finished timbering very frosty
26	January	coutting wood and putting cloth upon rak
27	January	cold and unplesent sunday
28	January	puting cloth upon the rake cold
29	January	rigging upto trash cold plenty of snow
30	January	comensed to trash cold plenty of snow
31	January	trashing outt the wheat cold plenty of snow
1	Febury	finished trashing wheat cold and unplesent
2	Feburary	making shingles very cold and unplesent
3	Feburary	sunday blustering cold and frosty
4	Febury	comensed taking out timber for a shed Jock
5	Feburary	finished takin out the timber very cold
6	Feburay	went to tompsons for lumber
7	Febury	comensed taking out the wheat

8	Feburay	comensed framing the barn for tutle
9	Febury	very cold and unplesent
10	Feburay	sunday plenty of snow unplesent
11	Feburay	drawing out wheat snow storm
12	Feburay	very colld and windy drifting
13		went for shingle timber very cold
14		went for shingle timber to the block
15		making shingles unplesent wether
16	Feburay	snow storm out with wheat
17	Febuary	windy and cold unplesent sunday
18	Febuary	drawing out wheat and framing more plesent
19	Febuary	out with wheat more soft and thewing
20	Febuary	broke out Jupiterbar framing soft
21	Febuary	out with wheat soft and thawing
22	Febuary	went to mill framing soft and mild
23	Febuary	drawing timber out with last load of {illegible}
24	Febuary	windy and cold sunday plenty of snow
25	Febuary	drawing timber down which was framed
26	Febuary	went to the grand river killed tree
27		drawing timber more plesent soft
28		came home from the river drawing {illegible}
29	Febuary	the horse was sick cold
1	March	the hors could not stand any longer
2	March	very great snow storm sunday the horse is {illegible} Tree died great snow storm tuck place
3	March	unplesent wether
4	March	Went down below to clean wheat

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		And got the roads got drifted up
5	March	I came home with great dificultity
6	March	making shingles cold and unplesent
7	March	making a Jumper finished the blocks
8	March	turning phulleys for andy foord very cold
9	March	sunday cold and unplesent frosty drift
10	March	very cold and implesent frosty drifts
11	March	trashing the clover seed blustering
12	March	finished trashing the clover seed
13	March	lilley cunnigams shanty Burnt and {illegible}
14		went for shingle timber more plesent 1 to milton
15		went for shingle timber shuvling the roads taking some hay sesser came
16		cloudy and snow looking more plesent sunday
17	March	the court took place more plesent
18	March	at court comensed to thaw got a paire of boots
19	March	making shingles thewing plesent and warm
20	March	went to parlimo for castings thewing fast
21	March	went for shingle timber thewing fast
22	March	went to mill thewing fast
23	March	finished fetching shingle timber home sleighing gettin bad and implesent travling
24		sunday plesent for the season
25		trashing some wheat of mister ore
26	March	making shingles unplesent wether
27	March	bought a yoak of of oxing at one 100-27
28	March	John bought a hors at tow 200 and 50
29	March	making shingles unplesent plenty of snow

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30	March	getting up wood very unplesent and making shingles
31	March	sunday windy quite sunny and gusting
32{?}	March	getting wood up and sawing it
1	Aprill	sawing wood thawing sloly
2	Aprill	rain and thawing fast quite mudy
3	Aprill	making shingles unplesent weth
4	Aprill	taking out some potatoes out of the pit
5	Aprill	sunday plesent thewing fast
6	Aprill	plesent wether thawing sunday
7	Aprill	comensed sowing clover seed the snow all away
8	Aprill	mortising wagon {illegible} thewing fast
9	Aprill	putting the rafer logs in the mill
10	Aprill	sewing the clover seed
11	Aprill	the came a lamb very mudy and sloppy
12	Aprill	rain making casing for tosttles hous
13	Aprill	sunday frosty and cool
14	Aprill	plesent wether for the season skidding logs
15	Aprill	rain hevy very mudy and unplesent
16	Aprill	rain and sloppy weather snow disipearing
17	Aprill	cleaning peas and clover seed unplesent
18	Aprill	taking the potatoes out of the pit unplesent
19	Aprill	piling lumber at tompsons and forbushes
20	Aprill	quite a hard frost cool and windy sunday
21	Aprill	pilling lumber at forbushes comensed to plough
22	Aprill	planing lumber for tostles hous plesent wether
23	Aprill	groth comenced plesent comensed to drie up
24	Aprill	ploughing sodd plesent wether
25	Aprill	framing girts of a barn plesent wether
26	Aprill	piling lumber and plough my sodd

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27	Aprill	plesent and growing sunday g{illegible}
28	April	comensed taking out sill for a barn
29	April	comensed framing them warm and growing
30	April	drying wether windy unplesent

1	May	framing unplesent wether rainy
2	May	cutting studs and braces unplesent wether
3	M	slow groth windy and unplesent wether
4	May	comensed to dress the tenents getting stone
5	May	windy wether drying up fast
6	May	laying the foundation windy wether
7	May	rain came with great fury cutting studs
8	May	rain quite a storm comensing making pins
9	May	raising the sleepers and came home
10	May	windy and unplesent mudy roats sowing the oats
11	May	sunday plesent windy warm and su{illegible}
12	May	taking a lumber down below the roads sowing to
13	May	framing the purlines plates and girt
14	May	making studs rainy looking wehter in the south
15	May	we raised the barn on Absoloms
16	May	comensed pulling rafedgs on and criple studs
17	May	cloudy wether looking like rain leaves coming out
18		sunday great rain very wet and unplesent
19	May	comensed sidding the barn mudy roads
20	May	{illegible}ging growing wether sla{illegible}
21	May	comensed shingling the barn windy
22	May	shingling unplesent and Windy
23	May	rain growing wether sowing the peas
24	May	planting the potatos and corn
25	M	sunday windy and cold and unplesent

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26	May	shingling the barn plesent wether
27	May	shingling quite windy and unplesent
28	May	siding unplesent weher cold
29	May	rain and cold unplesent wether raised meeting house
30	May	hevy frost cold putting on siding
31	May	snow storm I went to foord's raisin cold and unplesent siding finished ploughing
1	June	sunday cool and unplesent
2	June	I was showing my horses went below
3	June	comensed drawing out the wheat below
4	June	ploughing at the barn unplesent wether
5	June	rany wether and sloppy clipping the sheep
6	June	harrowing the folow below breaking out the asses
7	June	rainy wether sloppy wither sunday cloudy
8	June	finished shingling the barn rainy wether
9	June	drawing out wheat unplesent wether
10	June	growing wether rainy wether unplesent
11	June	finished drawing out the wheat at 6 - and 6
12	June	finished siding the barn rainy wether
13	June	framed the hous and raised it rany wether
14	J	sunday cold and unplesent wither for the season
16	June	comensed siding the house warm and unplesent
17	June	finished siding the hous dry and warm
18	June	rufedged the house comensed the road work
19	June	went to hamilton to get a f caray bees swarmed
20	June	comensed to shingle the hous bees swarmed
21	June	very warm and unplesent withe
22		sunday windy

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23	June	fnished shingling the hous warm
24	June	laying the barn floor hevy rain
25	June	came home comensed makin window shash
26	June	making sash very warm and unplesent
27	June	went to oakvill for the reaper
28	June	trying it in hay warm and windy
29	June	warm and windy sunday bees swarmed
30	June	we bilt the gangay to the barn at toslols
1	July	making window sash and fin around
2	July	comensed making hay and cutting with the more
3	July	cutting hay with the moying mashine bees swarmed
4	July	cutting hay plesent wether be the season growing
5	July	working at the hay plesent wether
6	July	finished cutt the filed front of the house
7	July	sundy cool and plesent growing wether
8	July	drawing in hay warm and plesent wether
9	July	cutting hay plesent wether for the season
10	July	cuttin down below came hom bees swarmed
11	July	cutting hay warm and unplesent
12	July	raking and drawin in hay below finished mowing
13	July	sundy cool and plesent wether
14	July	drawin hay warm and plesent wether
15	July	drawing in hay warm and unplesent
16	July	finished our hay warm and windy

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17	July	sharping house fence very warm and unplesent
18	July	unplesent with heat windy and warm
19	July	cool and plesent wether rigging cradles
20	July	cool an plesent sunday dry wether nothing a long
21	July	rigging up for cutting wheat
22		comensed cutting wheat it stays warm
23		finished cutting wheat for John warm
24		comensed cutting at home with Binders
25		coutt away very warm and dry riggin a mashine
26		cutting warm and dry and unplesent weth
27	July	sunday brasey and plesent
28	July	finished cutting wheat at home rain
29	July	comensed cutting at Absoloms rain
30	July	finished cutting below warm an unplesent
31	July	went to a {illegible} to cutt warm
1	August	finished cuting wheat at a new mill
2	August	comensed to draw in wheat warm
3	August	Sunday cool and plesent for the season
4	August	drawin in Wheat warm dry and fine
5	August	finished at home went to a b{illegible}
6	August	finished below came home dry
7	August	went to the block to draw in wheat
8	August	cut the barley ploughing thistles
9	August	finished the drawin in of the wheat
10	August	sunday cool and unplesent lazy
11	August	cutting the oats and binding them
12	August	trashing for linsey cool and plesent and dry

13	August	trashing linsy pulling the peas
14	August	trashing finished trashing cool and plesent
15	August	setting the hors power up in a block
16	August	trashing in a Aqusing finished plesent
17	August	sunday cool and plesent wether
18	August	comensed to rig upp plesent wether rany
19	August	finished drawing wheat from the block
20	August	rain riging up cool and plesent
21	August	cuttin the peas plesent wether
22	August	got the iron plough from the mill
23		finished the field at the old barn
24		sunday cool and plesent and windy
25	August	trashing for robert forest
26	August	pulling peas plesent wether
27		pulling out dung cool and plesent
28	August	riging up plesent and dry
29	August	finished pulling peas trashing beens
30	August	twas stacking the peas
31	August	sunday plesent wether dry and plesent
1	September	comensed to sow wheat dry and dusty
2	September	dry and dusty wether cool and plesent
3	September	dry and dusty plesent wether
4	September	fnished sowing at home
5	September	comensed ploughing at tostels
6	September	rain comensed misty wether
7	September	sunday rainy and misty
8	September	comensed sowing below plesent
9	September	sowing plesent wether
10	September	finished sowing wheat great rain
11	September	helping Sony to finish

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12	september	making a wagon wheal
13	september	plesent withe for the season
14	september	sunday plesent wether cool
15	september	making hinges for totles barn
16		hanging the doors laying the floor
17	september	trashing at {illegible}
18	september	setting the mashing showing the bucks
19	september	trashing at tostles
20	september	finished trashing at tosles
21	september	sunday cool not much Groth
22	september	comensed drawing out the wheat at
23	september	drawing out the wheat plesent
24	september	plesent wither dry roats
25	september	finished below drawing out the wheat
26	september	comensed the dung dry and plesent
27	september	trashing old peas and puttin dung out
28	september	sunday dry and plesent tab
29	september	went to set the mashine up at {illegible} rain
30	september	trashing S wheat rany wether 1856
1	October	finished trashing Ann James went a way linsey
2	October	comensed gathering wood to saw it plesent
3	October	comensed sawing the wood plesent wether
4	October	setting up the mill and trashing barley
5	October	sunday plesent wether for the season
6	October	trashing at home plesent wether dry
7	October	trashing at home six hundred bustles
8	October	comensed to draw it out dry and plesent
9	October	drawing out warm for the season

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10	October	drawing with tow wagons make sh{illegible}
11	October	drawing out wheat leeves comensing to fall of<
12	October	sunday cloudy cool and plesent and dry
13	October	drawing out wheat dry and plesent wether
14	October	drawing out wheat plesent wether kept the horse at night
15	October	making a neckyock comensed to dig the potatoes
16	October	pulling the apples dry and frosty at night
17	October	Ain Jane sent a letter plesent wether
18	October	rain and plesent withe warm rasping some {illegible}ves
19	October	smoky and cloudy some like rain sunday
20	October	comensed to fraim the shed misty wether
21	October	cutt my self framing finished taking out wheat killed the hogs
22	October	came home comensed to plough dry and plesent
23	October	ploughing cool some rain helping benjaman to trash
24	October	ploughing cool plesent wether
25	October	rany and unplesent ploughing
26	October	Sunday plesent wether and sun shine
27	October	ploughing windy and unplesent wether
28	October	sold the wheat and went to the show
29	October	plowing coald the leeaves are off the trees
30	October
31	October	finished ploughing a field windy and unplesent
1	November	trashed the oats and some wheat old charley beging
2	November	sunday cloudy and plesent wether
3	November	rain went below to plough and to frame
4	November	framing at the shed cold and unplesent
5	November	framing cold and unplesent
6	November	framing more plesent wether
7	November	framing plesent and warm finished ploughing below
8	November	raised the shed stormy adn blustering
9	November	sundy cloudy un{illegible}
10	November	went below and raised the rafters over the shed

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11	November	comensed to side the shade plesent wether
12	November	siding the wether {illegible} gathering stones for a well
13	November	comensed to dig a well plesent wether ploughing
14	November	snow storm and rain unplesent
15	November	siding at the shed diging a well plesent
16	November	sundy cloudy and plesent the mud are raising
17	November	digging well plesent wether some frosts
18	November	comensed the bucket plesent wether
19	November	ploughing wether som frost in the morning
20	November	got to the spring mudy diging
21	November	got below the sand bed plesent wether
22		comensed to drill drilled ten feet plesent rain {illegible}
23	November	sundy plesent wether cloudy warm
24	November	comensed stoning the well for absolom
25	November	stoning plesent wether
26	November	finished the well drawing the lodg hous
27	November	finished rufedging shed plesent ploughing
28	November	comensed shingling plesent wether good ploughing
29	November	great snow storm comensed fell about a foot of snow
30	November	unplesent snowing quite stormy and unplesent with about a foot of snow upon the ground things look gloomy
1	December	cold and unplesent wether ironing of {illegible}
2	December	killing the beef cold sleighing plenty of snow
3	December	cutting up the beef comensed to draw wood
4	December	iron of allay cold and unplesent & Jeny getting
5	December	getting wood for the old woman
6	December	drawing and piling snow

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7	December	sunday cold and unplesent frosty
8	December	iron of a slay plesent and soft
9	December	comensed cutting sawlogs went to the river
10	December	cutting sawlogs plesent and soft very good sleighing
11	December	great reign stoped the sawlogs iron of sleigs
12	December	making rake frame soft and plesent
13	December	making at the rak mister mentin here
14	December	sunday snow and reign unplesent
15	December	comensed cutting sawlogs in misgay cold
16	December	comensed halling them to the mill very cold
17	December	halling logs to the mill and cutting
18	December	comensed cutting wood for Jony blow
19	December	hevy rain comensed making a rak
20	December	cold and frosty and windy cold and unplesent
21	December	drawing sawlogs to pluas mills cold
22	December	sawloging cold and unplesent
23	December	sawloging cold and unplesent good sleighing
24	December	chrismis day
25	December	sold the farm more plesent
26	December	finshed saw loging more plesent
27	December	sunday cloudy some hale pulling good sleighing
28	December	making a rak plesent wether
29	December	sawing wood for culmings
30	December	making a Jumper plesent nice slaying
		1857
1	January	selling Absaloms farm plesent wether
2	January	blacksmithing nice sleighing
3	January	drawing hay and breaking out a coalt
4	January	plesent and mild sunday and plesent

1857 1857

5	January	cold and unplesent wether
6	January	ironing a cutter cold and good slaying
7	January	setting the hors power to trash
8	January	bought the wilmit place
9	January	trashing wheat cold
10	January	trashing finished snow storm
11	January	sunday cold and unplesent
12	January	sawing wood for bengman cold
13	January	comensed drawing sand cold and unplesent
14	January	drawing sand cold and unplesent good sleighing
15	January	drawing sand cold unplesent wether
16	January	sand drawing good sleighing
17	January	cold and unplesent drifting sand
18	January	sunday cold and unplesent good sleighing
19	January	finished drawing sand from darlings
20	January	went to the point was cold plenty of snow
21	January	taking out timber for to the hous
22	January	cutting coal wood cold and unplesent
23	January	cutting coal wood cold and unplesent
24	January	taking out timber cold and unplesent
25	January	sunday cold and unplesent
26	January	iron of a slay more plesent
27	January	cutting coal wood soft and plesent
28	January	ironing of a slay drawing hay
29	January	good sleighing working at the slay
30	January	finished the ironing of the slay
31	January	snow storm comensed

Febuary 1857

1	December	sunday cold and unplesent great pile of snow Febuary unplesent cold plenty of snow high wind
2	Febuary	cutting some logs and taking them into the mill
3	Febuary	cuting logs soft and thawing plesent
4	Febuary	reign thawing quite fast warm winds
5	Febuary	trashing at saints davy thawing
6	Febuary	pulling in the logs into the mill thawing
7	Febuary	sunday stormy and windy and tu{illegible}
8	Febuary	cutting shingle timber unplesent travling
9	Febuary	drawing hay thawing quite soft drawing lumber
10	Febuary	cutting oak loags at robings forests
11	Febuary	drawing in the logs bad slaying mud
12	Febuary	framing at tostles hous plesent wether
13	Febuary	framing plesent wether thawing
14	Febuary	raining the cerk oping to day sunday
15	Febuary	comensed making a wagon thawing warm
16	Febuary	making at the wagon rain and warm winds
17	Febuary	making at the wagon great fluds
18	Febuary	mudy roads rain soft and thawing
19	Febuary	snow storm mixed with mud great rush
20	Febuary	thawing warm taking a load of hay to snufy
21	Febuary	sunday cold winds frose a little
23	Febuary	making a wagon thawing no slaying
24	Febuary	piling lumber at elges mills thwelve thousant
25	Febuary	making at the wagon warm and plesent wether
26	Febuary	making at the wagon quite plesent wether
27	Febuary	frose quite sold and firm warm and plesent
28	Febuary	making at the wagon
29	Febuary

1	March	sunday colons furnel tuck place quite a snow storm
2	March	cold no slaying making fanninmill
3	March	went below for som hay verry rugh the roads
4	March	making at the wagon cold and unplesent
5	March	making at the fanimill and framing
6	March	cold unplesent now snow
7	March	sold the steers to speers
8	March	sunday cold and unplesent
9	March	snow storm went to celly funarl with of Jumper
10	March	drawing oak sawlogs plesent cold took the slays away
11	March	went to mill cold the roads rough
12	March	went to fronts for iron the cars ran into the canal at h{cut off}
13	March	went for shingle blocks puting in wagon boxes
14	March	sunday plesent wether for the season snow snow
15	March	sunday plesent not cold sunshine
16	March	flury of snow plesent wether quite mudy
17	March	iron of a wagon mudy unplesent trashing
18	March	ironing of the wagon plesent wether
19	March	flury of snow making everything mudy and slopy
20	March	quite soft and unplesent geting a bout
21	March	ironing of the wagon flury of snow making hous carpter
22	March	plesent the ground frose quite solid bright
23	March	seting the wagon tires plesent wether
24	March	ironing at the wagon plenty of mud
25	March	working at the wagon plesent wether
26	March	finished the wagon ironing
27	March	painting the wagon plesent wether
28	March	making a {illegible} for the wagon plesent wether
29	March	sunday cool windy not plesent lambs came
30	March	painting the wagon plesent wether roads dry and fine
31	March	went to masawing for Aabsoms plesent travling
1	April	comensed making a roler dry and plesent
2	April	working at the roler making bolts for it

1872

25	December	crismis day snowing fast all day cold hard frees
26	December	shuvling roads cold and frosty day nothing a dowing
27	December	nothing a dowing to day cold Blowing fast
28	December	more plesent day nothing a dowing frosty
29	December	sunday more plesent day plenty of snow to day
30	December	drawing wood to out of the old swale with muga{cut off}
31	December	Breaking wagon out goos weel drawing wood
1	January 1873	drawing wood plesent day plenty snow
2	January	thawing sloly to day not so cold
3	January	riging up helping saint to trash warm and ples
4	January	sawing wood for John to day cold and Blustering
5	January	sunday snow storm was plesent day
6	January	thawing sloly to day cold and frosty
7	January	makaking a pea trasher setting the strawd
8	January	making att straw cutter to trash peas
9	January	thawing fast to day the change great
10	January	snow storm making they unplesent
11	January	went to mill with nugan went well
12	January	sunday thawing fast windy warm turbulent wethe
13	January	unplesent wether for the season
14	January	thawing comenst again making hay mor plesent
15	January	thawing fast to day piles of snow upon grund
16	January	thawing fast to day hie winds to day making thy
17	January	reguy th cutty peas for John to day raining
18	January	snow storm trashing som peas in the men Barn
19	January	sunday cold and Blowing fast unplesent
20	January	cold and unplesent thawing fast making thigs qu
21	January	cold and frosty and cold hay 20 dollars tun
22	January	som cold winds making unplesent day
23	January	snow storm about 18 inces of snow
24	January	snow storm piling upp fast to day
25	January	grinding peas and Barley for J and myself
26	January	sunday snow storm Blocks of snow

1873

27	January	cold snow storm Blustering very stormy
28	January	making Bee hives to day cold and plesent
29	January	making Bee hives cold frosty 2 feet of snow
30	January	cutting peas to day cold and unplesent
31	January	went to naragay to in spect a road mor plesent
1	February	cold and frosty day making Bee hives cold the cattle
2	February	sunday cold and windy plenty of snow cold to day
3	February	thawing som to day plesent not so cold
4	February	soft and warmer to day the Bees flying to day
5	February	plesent day grainty Bee hives plesent day
6	February	miss sprall came to day plesent day
7	February	dowing Blacksmith woork the fare to day
8	February	putting logs in to the mill to day very plesent
9	February	sunday cold and frosty to day making thigs
10	February	cold and unplesent day snow
11	February	nothing a dowing to day cold and unplesent day
12	February	more plesent day plenty of snow to day
13	February	taking a load of peas to milton J Bells 70c
14	February	more plesent day not so cold to day making
15	February	drawing lumber to day plesent day
16	February	sunday plesent cloudy to day m 8 Dolars for the 8 of Shugar
17	February	comenst drawing seeder to day the snow rig B
18	February	cutting seeder to day snow very deep in the tr
19	February	drawing seeder to day plesent warm thawing
20	February	thawing fast to day the hills Bare
21	February	snow storm to day r Drawing straw
22	February	drawing seeder to day cold
23	February	sunday cold old clements funeral to day
24	February	snow storm cold and frosty to day
25	February	drawing seeder to day good slaying to day
26		att the seeder to day warm and plesent day
27	February	att the seeder to day plesent day
28	February	att the seeder to day plesent day
1	March	working seeder plesent day thawing som to day