Feb 5 Long boat Defeated Shrubb in Marathon Race Madison Squar garden New York.

Feb 6 Hamilton. Toured the town.

Feb 7 Hamilton. Fine and warm.

" 10 Went to the ceder swamp.

" 11 cut cedar. Mr Sault helped 1 day

" 12 cut cedar Mr Sault helped 1 day.

" 13 cut ceder Mr Sault helped 1/2 day.

" 13 Paid Mr Sault three & one quarter Dollars in full for work. and eggs.

" 9 Paid Charles Morries seventy five cents in full for work.

" 9 Paid Mr Peterfin one Dollar in fall for work.

" 15 came to Hamilton. Stormy

" 16 Very stormy. Hamilton.

" 17 Cold. Hamilton.

" 14 Work & eatebles in connection with swamp

March 3 Hamilton. Stormy.

" 3 WHowell and Paterson Duit.

" 4 Hamilton Windy.

" 15 To cedar swamp. for tools.

" 16 Bought and paid. Noah twenty dollars in full for his interest in sprayer.

" 16 Sold two white oack logs & an axe to (Noah) for $9.00.

" 16 Sold 150 feet in log length to Noah for eleven dollars.

" 17 Sold to Noah 60 feet log length for six dollars.

" 18 Helped Noah draw logs

" 19 Bought and paid in full three Dollars for his interest in large cash.

" 20 Helped Noah cut and draw logs. to the amount to 122 feet in log length. and has 58 feet to his credit

" 20 Paid Seth Vansickle three Dollars in full for work cutting cedar sometime ago. through the hands of George Fornell.

" 20 Simpson and Shrubb foot race. Toronto.

" 21 Hamilton over Sunday.

" 22 Paid G Fornell $3 in full sometime ago for work.

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