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William Dixon Diary, 1854-1878

William Dixon 1854-1878 (23).pdf

1855

<table>

<tr>
  <td>16</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>comensed gathering and drawing in</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>17</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>finished gathering and drawing in</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>18</td>
  <td></td>
  <td>comensed cutting the wheat hred at man</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>19</td>
  <td></td>
  <td>very warm and unplesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>20</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>rain all day more plesent and all cool</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>21</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>four bites cutting with reaper plesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>22</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>sunday and cool and bresy with cloudy</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>24</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>cutting wheat rain in abundance</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>25</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>rain and hot blincks</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>26</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>cloudy and rainy sultry no wind</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>27</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>we went below to cut with four men rain</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>28</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>cutting at home with the reaper plenty of mud sent the men away very warm an sultry</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>29</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>sunday dry and plesent and bright</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>30</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>finished cuttin at home</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>31</td>
  <td>July</td>
  <td>comensed below with the mashen</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
  <td>1</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>cutting with great fury lyin down</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>2</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>finished cuttin eighteen accker with the help of mister t{illegible}  very warm</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>3</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>comensed cutting in the field next to the old {cut off}</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>4</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>rain tar left us very warm and unplesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>5</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>cloudy and cool after the rain</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>6</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>drawing in at home and cuttin below</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>7</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>finished cuttin wheat plesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>8</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>drawing in dry and plesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>9</td>
  <td></td>
  <td>filled the barn chuckk full plesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>10</td>
  <td></td>
  <td>comensed bilding a stack in the filed next {illegible}</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>11</td>
  <td></td>
  <td>came home put in a field at the road plesent</td>
 </tr>

<tr>
  <td>12</td>
  <td>August</td>
  <td>sundy cloudy and rainy cool</td>
 </tr>

<table>

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1855

16	July	comensed gathering and drawing in
17	July	finished gathering and drawing in
18		comensed cutting the wheat hred at man
19		very warm and unplesent
20	July	rain all day more plesent and all cool
21	July	four bites cutting with reaper plesent
22	July	sunday and cool and bresy with cloudy
23		we have cutt
24	July	cutting wheat rain in abundance
25	July	rain and hot blincks
26	July	cloudy and rainy sultry no wind
27	July	we went below to cut with four men rain
28	July	cutting at home with the reaper plenty of mud sent the men away very warm an sultry
29	July	sunday dry and plesent and bright
30	July	finished cuttin at home
31	July	comensed below with the mashen
1	August	cutting with great fury lyin down
2	August	finished cuttin eighteen accker with the help of mister t{illegible} very warm
3	August	comensed cutting in the field next to the old {cut off}
4	August	rain tar left us very warm and unplesent
5	August	cloudy and cool after the rain
6	August	drawing in at home and cuttin below
7	August	finished cuttin wheat plesent
8	August	drawing in dry and plesent
9		filled the barn chuckk full plesent
10		comensed bilding a stack in the filed next {illegible}
11		came home put in a field at the road plesent
12	August	sundy cloudy and rainy cool

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William Dixon Diary, 1854-1878

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