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William Dixon Diary, 1854-1878

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   <td>14</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>cutting railcutts  thewing</td>
 
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   <td>15</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>plesent wether for the season</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>more cold in the morning</td>
 
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   <td>17</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>snowstorm comensed colad winds sunday</td>
 
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   <td>18</td>
 
   <td>18</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>we killed the beef</td>
 
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   <td></td>
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   <td>comensed saw loging coald and frosty</td>
 
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   <td>drawing sawlogs and skidding railcutts</td>
 
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   <td>the same work cold and blustry</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
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   <td>cold and frosty</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>we have forty loogs at the mill</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>thewing quite soft sunday</td>
 
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   <td>25</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>christmas thaw</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>comensed to show the horses</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>cutt twenty saw logs</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>hevy rain quite soft</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>trashes for macaltry and brock a primery</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>went to the strat for a new wheal</td>
 
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   <td>December</td>
 
   <td>December</td>
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   <td>sunday plesent and warm no snow  1854</td>
 
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   <td>1</td>
 
   <td>1</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
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   <td>we ware mending the wheel</td>
 
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   <td>2</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
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   <td>we trashed for david mariaty</td>
 
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   <td>January</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
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   <td>cutt a shingle tree and fetch a load</td>
 
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   <td>January</td>
 
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   <td>comensed to make the shingles</td>
 
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   <td>5</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
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   <td>fixed the horspower now snow school mary</td>
 
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   <td>January</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
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   <td>went for a load of blocks warm and plesent</td>
 
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   <td>January</td>
 
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   <td>rain and windy and blustering an such</td>
 
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   <td>January</td>
 
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   <td>plesent wether no snow</td>
 
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   <td>January</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
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   <td>an inquest held upon c{illegible}</td>
 
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   <td>10</td>
 
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   <td>January</td>
 
   <td>January</td>
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   <td>trashed the oats pleesent wether</td>
 
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   <td></td>
 
   <td></td>
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   <td>comensed to iron the wagon no snow</td>
 
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   <td></td>
 
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   <td>blacksmith woork adooing no snow</td>
 
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   <td>13</td>
 
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   <td></td>
 
   <td></td>
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   <td>went for a load of shingle blocks</td>
 
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Revision as of Jul 2, 2026, 12:03:12 PM

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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