Nine for each winter month that he has served. Fred One meal. Bought box of Fred at One Dolr. Me & James ^1/2 day each sawing rail lengths for Phil.

F. 5th. Mr & James branding up with my Steers for Phil. Beauty Cow went to Bull ^1/2 Dolr. to Mr Delf.

S. 6th. Branding up for Phill me Oxen & James.

S. 7th.

M. 8th. Building fence splitting rails etc. me & James for Phil. Let Born have 69 lbs of corn bag & all, for which he is to give me corn again weight for weight

S. 9th. James splitting rails ^3/4 of day and myself fencing half day for Phil.

W 10th. James splitting rails all day & myself making fence ^3/4 of a day for Phil Phil working with my Oxen all day. Mr. J. Goble pease 36 lbs.

Transcription Tips

• Follow the example of transcribing provided in the first few PDF files of this diary.
• Click Edit when you’re ready to start transcribing.
• Click Detach to move the transcription box to a convenient location.
• Copy the text as it is, including misspellings and abbreviations.
• Start each new day with a new line. Otherwise ignore spacing and alignments.
• Use toolbar heading options for any headings in the text, i.e. diary titles.
• Use toolbar table generator for any tables in the text, i.e. finance records.
• Use toolbar comment option to add your own comments, i.e. illegible text or uncertain names or description of drawings.
• Use toolbar stroke through text option to transcribe crossed-out text.
• When done press "Save Transcription" to save your work.
• Note: If a line on one page appears to carry over on the same line on the next page, please check the next page and (if applicable) transcribe both pages together as if they are one page. Type your unified transcription under the first of the two pages.
• View more transcription tips.(Opens in new tab)