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James Cameron Diary, 1866
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19th Took 10 and 1 peck -/10 Bush got 5 lbs of Iron 4 Bottles 11/9 to 46 cents take out {illegible} the {illegible} account | 19th Took 10 and 1 peck -/10 Bush got 5 lbs of Iron 4 Bottles 11/9 to 46 cents take out {illegible} the {illegible} account | ||
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| + | Went to Dundee paid 46 cents clear the old account to this Date 6/2 to New account of What I Bought to Day To sack of Flour 2..30 cents 1/2 lb Tea 37 1/2 Tea 1/2 lb 34 cents 1/2 lb Tob 19 2 Rakes 7 1/2 each 25/Scyth 1..25 7 yds at 28 1.96 Matches 10 Whiskey 12 3 small Bowls at 4 12 cents 3 cups & saucers 12 1/2 took up to Day 7..13 1/2 cents take 6/2 out Leaves 5..89 1/2 Due Jim Hopkins and Family here helping George with the Potatoes | ||
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| + | 20th Charlie went home Gave him a Bottle with vinegar 3 packs of Matches and some Mowing some | ||
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| + | 21st Helping George to put the plough through the Potatoes Mowing some Grant Gillis Campbell McGiffin here for Berries got some Fish Gave me 15 cents George took the Horses home got my clevis put a coil of Hay in the Barn | ||
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| + | 22nd Sunday Bill and Emanuel here after Blood Root very unwell this afternoon | ||
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| + | 23rd Mowing John Cambells is Dead | ||
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| + | 24th Mowing in the Grove | ||
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| + | 25th St James Day steamer L Renaud a Pleasure Trip Running the Cornwall s{illegible} Betsy and Mrs Morris here put in the first Hay 16 cocks Ground the new scythe | ||
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| + | 26th Dog Days commences {illegible} Doctor Shaver Thomas Munroe here Gave Pat 2/6 worth of EEls out of Lasheys Barrel sent 2 to Mary John Hamilton Getting Married to Day | ||
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| + | 27th Mowing Back of the Garden and in the Grove spreading hay salting eels | ||
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| + | 28th Mowing on the Bank of the River Raining Thunder and Lightning cut a Road through the Rushes | ||
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| + | 29th Sunday Pat Irons Thomas Munroe Jimmy Pat here eat cucumbers To 1 1/2 lb Tea Gave 3 Pick{cut off} to Pat Livinia Gordon Mary and the Baby out in the hill {illegible} | ||
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| + | 30th Put in 16 cocks of Hay spreading Moved around the Butter stump Livinia Rake a Little Got 2 catfish | ||
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| + | 31st Made 18 lbs of currant Preserves | ||
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| + | 1st of August John Gray here at night Got the fat pine to Fish Kept the cows in | ||
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| + | 2nd Marys Birth Day shooting commenced yesterday a Race yesterday the L Renaud and Salaberry Renaud a head of the Salaberry Finished Mowing the Grove Francis here Looking for his {illegible} | ||
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Our John's Birth Day Salaberry Down Before the Renaud this morning Picking strawberries Gordon Mary and I Plaining the seats of my canoe
6th Washing the Wool Raining Thundering
7th Fixing the Canoe Found a nest 10 eggs in it the Cat Killling the chickens and curly
8th Sunday Raining & Blowing went Round the Island with canoe
9th went Down to Charles Gordon and I Lot os Indians came down to Day to Fish Lashey to Dundee for Flour 25 1/2 lbs
10th hoeing the Corn Potatoes Tomatoes Beans Pumpkins Before the Door Lashey set his line at the head of the Island The Gun Boat Royal Began shooting at our Island I answered them came down to the Foot of the Island then turned up again Fishing got 6 got an eel on my line Drew 2 Barrels of Water and a Load of Wood from the River Mosquitoes Bad Deer Flies Bad 11th George Betsy and Maryann Bone came to hoe for the first hoeing of the coarn and potatoes above the house
12th Orangemans Day The Passport & Grecian went up with either Soldiers or emigrants Loaded
13th Planted some Tobacco plants
14th Gordon and I Fishing over at Christees a pleasure trip on the Salaberry for Raising Money for the St Regis {torn off}orch Lashey and me to Fish at night
15th St Swithens Day its a Raining this Morning when it Rains to Day it Rains for 40 Days
16th Got Pike and an eel on the line Mowed a Road to the 2 Gardens Made a coil of Hay
17th George and Betsy came with the scow hoeing I went Charlies Gordon with me Charlie came up took up home Tansy old Mare and Pennys a Flower Christee here and Moccasinmouth Got Potatoes put out some Tobacco Plants George Brought me a Tin Basin full Mrs Norman McDonald sent me some newspapers
18 Very wet put out some Tobacco cabbage Tansy old Man Grinding syths me and Lashey working at his Line
19th Took 10 and 1 peck -/10 Bush got 5 lbs of Iron 4 Bottles 11/9 to 46 cents take out {illegible} the {illegible} account
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James Cameron Island
Went to Dundee paid 46 cents clear the old account to this Date 6/2 to New account of What I Bought to Day To sack of Flour 2..30 cents 1/2 lb Tea 37 1/2 Tea 1/2 lb 34 cents 1/2 lb Tob 19 2 Rakes 7 1/2 each 25/Scyth 1..25 7 yds at 28 1.96 Matches 10 Whiskey 12 3 small Bowls at 4 12 cents 3 cups & saucers 12 1/2 took up to Day 7..13 1/2 cents take 6/2 out Leaves 5..89 1/2 Due Jim Hopkins and Family here helping George with the Potatoes
20th Charlie went home Gave him a Bottle with vinegar 3 packs of Matches and some Mowing some
21st Helping George to put the plough through the Potatoes Mowing some Grant Gillis Campbell McGiffin here for Berries got some Fish Gave me 15 cents George took the Horses home got my clevis put a coil of Hay in the Barn
22nd Sunday Bill and Emanuel here after Blood Root very unwell this afternoon
23rd Mowing John Cambells is Dead
24th Mowing in the Grove
25th St James Day steamer L Renaud a Pleasure Trip Running the Cornwall s{illegible} Betsy and Mrs Morris here put in the first Hay 16 cocks Ground the new scythe
26th Dog Days commences {illegible} Doctor Shaver Thomas Munroe here Gave Pat 2/6 worth of EEls out of Lasheys Barrel sent 2 to Mary John Hamilton Getting Married to Day
27th Mowing Back of the Garden and in the Grove spreading hay salting eels
28th Mowing on the Bank of the River Raining Thunder and Lightning cut a Road through the Rushes
29th Sunday Pat Irons Thomas Munroe Jimmy Pat here eat cucumbers To 1 1/2 lb Tea Gave 3 Pick{cut off} to Pat Livinia Gordon Mary and the Baby out in the hill {illegible}
30th Put in 16 cocks of Hay spreading Moved around the Butter stump Livinia Rake a Little Got 2 catfish
31st Made 18 lbs of currant Preserves
1st of August John Gray here at night Got the fat pine to Fish Kept the cows in
2nd Marys Birth Day shooting commenced yesterday a Race yesterday the L Renaud and Salaberry Renaud a head of the Salaberry Finished Mowing the Grove Francis here Looking for his {illegible}
