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William Beatty Diary, 1858-1860
William Beatty Diary, 1858-1860_44.pdf
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1859
| Dec 1 | Thrashed 8 1/2 bushel of wheat cleaned & went to Mill & took 2 bushel corn little rain |
| 2 | stormed all Day wind & snow chored |
| 3 | helped W Hogan to put tow logs on his stable in the forenoon killed 3 sheep in the afternoon very cold Day |
| 4 | no meeting very stormy Day |
| 5 | went to Charlestown with 3 pork barles to Bews & took our full cloth to Farmersville & a check web for Mr Clark left them at Parishes |
| 6 | went to John Younges with Elen & Jock fine morning began to rain about noon rained all night so that we had to stay all night snow all gone then snowed |
| 7 | we came home with the slaugh after dinner roads bad |
| 8 | killed 3 sheep for Jock & 2 hogs 1 for Willson Granpa went to Mallorytown with {illegible} |
| 9 | David helped W.H.Davis to thrash & mended shoed seen him for 37 years {not sure what this related to} |
| 10 | cobled shoes & thrashed some oats |
| 11 | went to caintown & heard the Revd Mr Willson preach cold Day |
| 12 | cleaned 22 bushel oats sold a South Down Ram Mr John Green 4$ |
| 13 | thrashed some of the little oats |
| 14 | made shoes for Bill |
| 15 | Do Do Do George |
| 16 | thrashed oats for Jock |
| 17 | went to Brockville with sauguses got 7 1/2d per lb met Jonney & Watt they came from Packinham |
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