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Mr James Cameron Island March 30th 1874

Went to Williamstown sent Mrs Summers Bag home with George Bosell in Williamstown

31st in Williamstown

1st of April all Fools Day Got a Tin Tea Pot From Sullivan the Tinsmith and Big Pan Gave him my Pipe

2nd Came home hens Began to Lay Bought of Burbanks 1 Patent Pail 25 cents Plug of Tobacco John Angus came with the Buggy to the Front to Angus McDonalds Gate came home

3rd Good Friday the Heifer Rosy calved it is a heifer calf Made sugar the Moles Full and a 2 lb cake home I Eat no meat to Day set traps for the Mink

4th George came took home 2 cakes of sugar they went home found the ice not very good and came Back the ice opened at Francis Island to Day George and I Fishing EEls before the Door Got 30 EEls cold and Windy Old Mrs McLaughlin Died

5th Gathered about 10 Pails of Sap Easter Sunday the Ice opened at the Little Island

6th helped George to making For 8 Troughfs George Tapt the Rest of the Trees to Day Raining mist Dingwell snowing some fair very cold Drifting Windy

7th Boiling sugared about 44 Gordon and I Fishing EEls got 4 Lost one he went in the hole

8th Splitting the Birch and Ash Logs at the River split a Basswood for Rails sugared about 40 lbs to Day Began to snow heavy to night skinned the calf Sun a swallow for the First cranes came Grassbirds came heard nighthawks

9th a very fine Day sap running well put out the canoe for the First went to the Sturgeon Island Randolph and I Sugared about 33 lbs Peggy and George crofsed Left the canoe at Hamiltons Island Gordon and I Gathered about 15 pails about 60 pails of sap in the Barrels to night Drew the Bun to the River and the Jumper to the Barn opening slowly 12 Years Married to Day

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Mr James Cameron Island April 10th 1874

Began to snow hard from the N East went to the Bush covered the Barrels and Pots Mending Randolphs Boots George Pete and Peggy came sugared the Molasses and 6 lb cake Pete and George crofsed

11th Fine turned to snowing hard N West wind Sugared the Moles and 3 of the 7 lb Basins 1 2 lb cake Windy cold ice going Down stopt all night and a Going home in the Morning some Drifting stuff going Down some saw Logs wind too high to Get them got a Hemlock Plank Randolph and I Randolph and I in the Bush Gordon in the Bush with them all Day

12th Low Sunday George Peggy and Pete crofsed Peggy and Pete came Sunday night ice going Down some

13th Sugared Cutting Brushin the upper Field Made some troughfs for Gordon in the swamp and tapt some soft Maple Trees running well

14th George Renshaw here had a Bottle of Good stuff John Gray and his 2 Brothers here Fishing EEls stopt al night Got 4 EEls from John Gray Sugared 2 Moles 2 Basins Gordon and I chopping some wood for the Raining Thunder and Lightning to night the first thunder we had this spring

15th John Gray went of high Wind calm and Foggy Raining hard Made it in Molasses and crofsed Peggy and Pete came Back