T 30th. Settled with John Davidson By giving him an order on L & Ruby for 3.12^1/2 cts. Dug 36 pail fulls of potatoes. Paid one Dolr. to Fred.

W 31st. Dug 42 pail fulls of potatoes. 1 Dozen Herring of Iden.

Th 1st Dug 39 Pails full of potatoes.

F. 2nd. Received from D. Lambert the Sum of Fifty Dolrs for fifty Bushls of fall wheat. Paid to L & Ruby Fifty Dolrs. Received from John Smith Seven & a half Dolrs being the price of the fall wheat he had of me for seed. Dug four bag fulls of potatoes.

S 3rd. Dug four bag fulls of potatoes. Bought an old Shovel of Fred for 2^1/2 Bushls of potatoes.

M. 5th. Dug three bags of potatoes & finished diging. Five hundred Bricks from William Stafford at per hundred. Hauled two loads of Brick for Stafford at 37^1/2 cts per load.

T. 6th. 58 lbs of Pease to Christian Richard being part payment for cutting pease. Mr John Goble ^1/2 day fixing for chimneys.

W 7th. Mr John Goble fixing for chimnies ^1/2 day

S. 10th. 3. Bushls 34 lbs of pease to Christian Richard & this makes his 4^1/2 Bushels. William Stafford

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