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William Beatty Diary, 1883-1886
William Beatty 1883-1886 Diary 45.pdf
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1884
| Nov | 19 | Dan cut & drew the dead wood that he could get in the bush & drew to the house Ad & me filed some of the outside windows for the house |
| 20 | Dan drew sand from the pit to bank the house Ad & me finished all the windows they had all to be made smaller & fitted inside the new casings fine weather | |
| 21 | Dan is overhauling the old fence along the road of the midle field I fixed some of the Bales in the Stables | |
| 22 | Dan drew the old rails that not fit to put up again to the house for wood & Philo & him brought the heffer Dan brought {illegible} | |
| 23 | Mr Linton went to Fairfax this morning Ad took him he did not go to Sand Bay there was very heavy rain most of the day & night | |
| 24 | Dan plowed to 3 furrows both sides of the post that was set along the road Ad shoveled the furrows Dan then plowed in the northeast corner field turned very cold & freezing hard with North Wind | |
| 25 | Dan is drawing the corn stocks that is behind the barn then he went to Bruces for the horsepowr & saw | |
| 26 | they set the horse powr & saw got a coupling fixed | |
| 27 | Ad & Dan with Bruces Boys & team sawed the wood this forenoon Ad went to Gananoque for wire for the road fence in the afternoon fine day | |
| 28 | they are fixing for beginning to put on the wire put some fine day | |
| 29 | they put on the rest of the wire along the road of the midle field they had very little off the 2 bunches of barbed wire they lack some of the one bunch of Buckthorn to finish the two rows on the top it was after dark before they finished | |
| 30 | Revd Mr Lincon preached this morning he is a probationer he went to Fairfax in the afternoon |
