Mr James Cameron Island

29th of January 1891 Drew 4 Loads of Basswood Fixing the Things we Brought From Williamstown yesterday E Wind snowing Blowing

30th Rained Drew some wood chopping stove Wood WW

31st a very Fine Warm Day W Wind Bismarck and I crofsed I to Hamiltons Brought a Hat and a Iron-neck-yoke got our Mail there Bismarck to Summerstown chopping stove Wood 2 Ell Fishers at the sturgeon Island Last Day of January

1st of February sunday 4 of Lewis's children here Bismarck came snowed some Fine

2nd Candlemas Day the sun shines The Bear and Raccoon will see their Shadow a Fine Day West Wind cutting stove-wood all of us

3rd an unfortunate day E Wind Rained West wind north wind snowed hard Broke a Tooth in the crofscut saw putting a set in it Had a Bowl of oysters none of the Rest will eat them

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Mr James Cameron Island

4th of Feby 1891 West Wind very Cold and Frosty Windy Did not do anything to Day but Feeding the cattle took a Barrel of Water Looking over Papers Broke a Fork-handle Fixed it

5th Cold E Wind put Marsh hay out of the stack on the the Ginnie's stable snowed some sawed some stovewood Looking over Paper & Receipts

6th E Wind snowed some Put the Bottom of the Last marsh hay stack on the shed Fixing the sheep Place warm on the inside as they soon will Lamb put a Lot of Hay-seed in the upper Field Bismarck crofsed went with Tom Jack to Fort Covington

7th unfortunate Day E Wind Bismarck came had the Mail John H sick Leander and Bismarck sawed a Basswood Log in stove-wood Lost a 10 Dollar Bill Taken out of his pocket Book

8th Gordon's Birth DAy 1863 Bismarck crossed to see if he could hear or see anything about his 10 dollars snowing Blowing

9th Bismarck crofsed to Jo Ducquets to see if he or anyone changing a 10 Dollar Bill Did not hear of any cutting stove wood Rained to night snowed

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