1854

Day book and Memoranda

November 5th. Sunday

This day I commence keeping a Meoranda of weather work and { } transactions. Cold with a thin layer of snow.

Monday 6.th

Raining all day. 3 ^1/2 dozen herrings at a York shilling per D.

Tuesday 7th.

Forenoon rainy but cleared off in the afternoon.

Wednesday 8th.

Fine weather. 2 white fish from 9 Iden Goble at 7 ^1/2 each. Cow sick.

Thursday 9th.

Friday 10th.

Cutting corn stalks. 43 pounds of { } from Thurner. 11 lbs of candle fat. Cow improving

Saturday 11th.

Digging potatoes and odd jobs. 2 doz. herrings at 7 ^{1/2 d} and P.d. and 8 lbs. of white fish at 3 cents per lb. Began to rain at night.

Sunday 12th. Cloudy all day with a sligh fall of snow in the evening.

Monday 13th.

Sleet and snow from the South-west. 87 ^1/2 Dox. herrings at 7 ^1/2 p. Doz. from Iden Goble which we had him pack in a pork and whiskey barrels.