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James Cameron Diary, 1893

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9th Sept 1893 Fine put the cornstalks in the Barn Made a stack of 40 coils in the Marsh cutting Brush in the upper Field the Indian here for a Dollars worth of Butter Lewis Bosell passed to the shanty
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10th John H and Annie went to Dundee Fine 4 Men here From Valleyfield Looking for Grapes put up their Tent in Bell-Bay one of Them Lalonde Curvett Their names Gordon and  I went up to Their Tent Treated us wind Raised high from the East
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11th Fine Day putting out manure in the Grove Windy took in some nuts
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12th Fine Gordon to the Fair in Williamstown Took up 4 Rows of Potatoes for the Pigs Boiling them Bacons Wife here for Butter Lucias for Butter Narcisse got a Dollar John H and Annie came from Dundee Bought 9 yds of Ticking 1..62 got the Loan of a Dungfork Heard the Rocket was aground  Fair in Williamstown

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Mr James Cameron Island

2nd of Sept 1893 Rain Fixed the Jumper Gordon at it Ground some of the Tools Got a Sturgeon on the Line High NW Wind Water Falling

3 Dan McMasters Birth Day 1846 Hard Rain Gordon Crofsed to Summerstown

4th Fine cut the corn and Pulled the Beans Husked the corn Gordon to Summerstown

5th John Angus B Day 1850 Fine Gloomy put the Hay in From the Back Marsh {illegible} the Barn Floor and Stable loft Finishing off the Big stack in the upperfield Arquet here for Butter

6th Fine Day Made a stack of Marsh hay cut and coiled 40 coils on out edge of the Marsh Gordon and John and Stanley

7th Rain hard Thunder and Lightning East and West Wind very squally cool Water Falling shelled the Beans all that was in the corn

8th Fine Making North side Fence of The Tobacco John H Went to the Point Leander went for his Gun paid 25 cents Lemays came home Narcisse to Butter 1 Dollar

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Mr James Cameron Island

9th Sept 1893 Fine put the cornstalks in the Barn Made a stack of 40 coils in the Marsh cutting Brush in the upper Field the Indian here for a Dollars worth of Butter Lewis Bosell passed to the shanty

10th John H and Annie went to Dundee Fine 4 Men here From Valleyfield Looking for Grapes put up their Tent in Bell-Bay one of Them Lalonde Curvett Their names Gordon and I went up to Their Tent Treated us wind Raised high from the East

11th Fine Day putting out manure in the Grove Windy took in some nuts

12th Fine Gordon to the Fair in Williamstown Took up 4 Rows of Potatoes for the Pigs Boiling them Bacons Wife here for Butter Lucias for Butter Narcisse got a Dollar John H and Annie came from Dundee Bought 9 yds of Ticking 1..62 got the Loan of a Dungfork Heard the Rocket was aground Fair in Williamstown

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