1856

March 17 Went to Lansdown to look at land that the Messers Colmans wanted Father & Jock to take for the damage that is done to there Land it was lot No 10 & the west half of 11 on the sixth consesinon the snow was so deep we could not travel on it but we looked at the frount of it it is one compleet set of nolls or rocks with very little good land we gave it up for A bad job Samuel Yonge went with us

18 drew wood Benj Yonge & his Wife & Boy came with us & stopt all night so as to go to Johns

19 Father & Jock went to Lyn to let the colman know that the Land is no good & that they will not take it & diged up some of the cabage they were good

20 drew wood

21 drew wood fin Day

22 Jock went to McElheneys Mill with 13 bushel of Scotch wheat & 4 bushel of peas & went to Brockville gave A Turner A barrel of spitzenburg Apples & I had some cabage sold for 6 & 7 1/2d each attended Sidney Jones Esqs funeral

23 23 went to Brockville & heard the Revd Mr Spence of Bytown he Baptized Elizabeth fine Day Mr Watson daughter was likewise Baptized

24 drew wood snow in the afternoon

25 drew wood fine Day

26 went to Younge Mills with 54 flour barrels for Elingham & brought {illegible}

27 drew 2 load of wood then fixed the appels

28 Jock went to Brockville with 3 barrels of Appels got 3 dollors per barrel & 4 A head for cabage & went to John Yonges to make a lader for him cold with Snow

29 came home from John Yonge cold

30 no meeting to Day fine Day

31 went to Brockville took 1 barrel of appels sold them for 3 dollors Pomgrees sleighing nearly gone hard frost last night

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