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John Jardine Sr. Diary, 1870
John Jardine Sr 1870 Diary 7.pdf
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| 19 | Friday Mitchel & Theodore & me finished cuting all my oats we got in one load it came up a shour of rain stoped us of geting eny more to day |
| 20 | Saturday I finished cuting my flax in the forenoon Theodore went to stoney point for to get som tobacco |
| 21 | Sunday I went to church |
| 22 | Monday Theodore and I finished binding oats in the barn field and drawed them all in |
| 23 | Tuesday Theodore harrowed in the forenoon I bound a few oats in afternoon it was weet |
| 24 | Wednesday I went to the poling for the ra{cut off} Theodore cut the hay around the corn field |
| Thursday I went to Dunkens for one of the girls I did not get one of them in the afternoon Theodore harrowed I shook hay in the corn field | |
| Friday in the forenoon Theodore harrowed I was looking for a girl cannot find one in afternoon we drawed in the last of the oats and Theodore finished rolling the orchard field | |
| Saturday Therodore drawed manure to day I was looking for a girl all day to day got none | |
| Sunday I went to church to day | |
| Monday Thodore manure I went to Ainslie for Maggie I drawed manure in the afternoon | |
| Tuesday Theodore and I drawed manure | |
| Wednesday we drawed manure |
| Thursday I plowed and Theodore drawed manure | |
| Friday I plowed in the forenoon and helped John {page torn off} ing thrash afternoon Theodore drawed Manure | |
| Satuerday it is rainy I thrashed the flax |
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