Mr James Cameron Island August 1st 1871 Lamas day mowing on the pit Point fixing fence caught a good many pickerel Creed sick the two boys Mowing and cock 37 cocks very warm second gave them the upper field on the haves stabbing and Josie came Creed went home with Josie Gordon Randolph and I went to see if the scow was on Alexis Island Mary's birthday 1864 commenced to stack help them to stack third commenced pain Charlie and I went to somersetown for one gallon of each wines Commons firing to cannons firing today seen Sandy Snyder on the front pain treated me in summers 4 went to Alexis Island 5th stocking wood went to Summertown I went to somerstown went to see John Kerry got $7 from him he owes me too on the Lambs yet gave AJ Baker three and a half to give to Bill McLeod the other three and a half I gave to Thomas Monroe got 50 lb of flour on credit from AJ Baker bought 2 lb butter at 17 cents One Bowl 7 cents matches one cent tobacco 4 cents paid this with 50 cents a white ball sex Randolph's birth day 1867 Sunday a fine day Liz The Flash and John Schneider here had a bottle stop this evening 7th gathered six cocks about finished all the stocks they took up all their begging and went off forgot their hay Fork about 40 cocks in pain stock I put eight cocks of my own in and 40 cocks of pains 55 cocks in the barn now page two Mr James Cameron Island August 8th 1871 found a pine tree in the upper field above the house it's about 2 ft high now pain and I found it when clearing a place to build his stock yesterday the 7th the Harris here camping at the head of the island a large party of them some from New York and some of them from Chicago they came on Monday the 7th 7th a very windy time day heavy rain loud thunder and sharp lightning when Eric's party was coming from Christy's Island they very near got swamped Christopher McRae and Josie gallernia fishing I showed them the spot for pickerel mowed the road in rushes beside the marsh on Monday the 7th caught one bass two perch two pickerel or walleye Pike as some call them 9th went I went to fish caught one Gordon and Ito head of the Island the herricks went off lost a vest George bozal came with his horse we went with the ark for the bowl on Alexis Island and this morning Jim Hopkins took him away I knew nothing about it till Josie gallernia told us after going up to the horse Island Josie put me across I gave him stuff for a paddle