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Mr James Cameron Island

January 1st 1887 New Years Day East Wind snowing Fine not cold Kind of warm Bismarck crofsed to Post Office for the Papers Watering the cattle in the swamp Back of the Barn Fox tracks plenty a Big air-hole before the Door a good many shut up with this cold

2nd snowing W Wind got a Live Duck on the ice

3rd Allens Birth Day very Cold and Frosty W Wind put in the Bottom of the 3 Ton stack

4th E Wind Fine some Frosty cutting stove Wood cutting Waterholes cutting Bruch seen a 2 men and a horse and cutter crofsing to Summerstown and they came Back tonight A Great many air-holes shut up with this

5th cold weather 5th a very Fine Day Bushing the Road up the south side of the Island

6th a Fine Day Epiphany old Christmas crofsed to Summerstown Fetterly Thrashing at Hamiltons sent A Letter to Mr James Lee for a Dollars worth of Prizes Heard Laurie was Froze a Fortnight ago Bought of Mr Purcell 1 l of crackers 10 1 Bottle of Pain Killer 25 got a Bottle of cod Liver oil with it as prize paid 3 cents on the Letter

7th cold Frosty a cutter crofsed up the ice to Hamiltons from the south side cleaning the pipes W Wind Frosty to night

8th Bismarck crofsed to Summerstown Bought of Mr Ward court Plaster 10 E Wind cold

9th Cold Windy

10th cold seen a sleigh coming from Lancaster to Rofs Island cutting Brush EW

11th very windy W Wind Drifting putting in hay not well

8th Hugh Anns B Day 1866

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Mr James Cameron Island

12th of January 1887 New Years Day old style cutting Brush in the upper Field West Wind some snow Fine Kind of soft seen a Fox crofsing from the south side

13th W Wind Kind of Fine Frosty Leander crofsed to Summerstown got the prize from James Lee 3 Lockets and 3 necklaces cork screw combination cutting Brush wind changed to night to East seen 2 Foxes crofsing

14th East Wind a Big Storm snowing Blowing Drifting Great Bankings of snow the cattle did not go to Drink to Day

15th EW Kind of Fine snowing some Bismarck to Summerstown Bought of J Summers Tea 25 Buttons 15 Pain Killer 25 Bought of Mr Ward Tax 5 cents put in a Ton of the 2 Ton stack all in of it shovelling snow as theare is Lots of them Bought of Nicholson 1 Plug of Tobacco 5 cents sweetys 2 cents

16th Cold W Wind Fine

17th East Wind stormy changed to sout and West Blowing very hard to night Digging at snow took a Barrel out of the shed to put ashes on churning to Day not very well

18th W Wind cold and Frosty Frosty Digging at snow Banks cuting stove wood

19th cutting Brush Windy John cut his hand

20th SE Wind snowed Frosty Rained to night Bismarck crofsed to Summerstown Bought of Mr Ward 1/2 lb French Tobacco 13 spool of Thread 5 cakes for Rowena 5 cents

21 St Agnefs Day W Wind Cutting Brush got warmer

22 E Wind hailed Rained Soft cutting alders Broke on 3 1/2 Ton stack

23 Raining Kind of crust icicles on the Trees

24 C Tuppers Birth Day icicles Falling WW