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Henry Snary Diary, 1882-1883
SNARY Diary 1882-1883 (5).pdf
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{page one} Camden Gore September 1882
| Fri | Sept 1st | cloudy most of the day and not so hot as yesterday. I was ditching Duncan helping William Law John plowing |
| Sat | Sept 2ond | clean fore noon and hot. after noon cloudy a little rain. Duncan and I helping Bilton Snary thrash the fore part of the day, latter part of the day went to help John W. Snarey rain Stopt us John was plowing |
| Sun | Sept 3rd | clearn and pleasant |
| Mon | Sept 4th | clear and cool. Duncan and I helping John W. Snarey thrash in he fore noon after noon helping Bilton John plowing |
| Tue | Sept 5th | clear and hot. Duncan and I helping Bilton Snarey thrash. John commenced to plow the clover field |
| Wed | Sept 6th | clear and hot. Duncan and I helping Bilton Snary thrash John plowing |
| Thu | Sept 7th | clear and hot. Duncan was ditching John plowing. I was pulling beans in the fore noon after noon went to Florence |
| Fri | Sept 8th | clear and cool. John was plowing Duncan helping Peter Farlasdeau thrash. I attended the arbertration at the School house for an extention of the School Site. in the after noon was ditching |
| Sat | Sept 9th | clear and hot. Duncan and I . |
| Sun | Sept 10th | clear and pleasant |
| Mon | Sept 11th | clear high wind, from the North East and warm. Duncan and I. helping Peter Farledeau thrash this fore noon after noon ditching. John plowing |
| Tue | Sept 12th | clear and warm, quite cool, in the morning very nigh a frost the last four or five nights. Duncan and I hewing a few Sticks for a culvert on the road the fore noon after noon digging a ditch and putting in some tile. Albert Ketchison drawing tile for me. John plowing |
| Wed | Sept 13th | cloudy part of the day and warm I was digging and putting in a fiew tile John harrowin. Duncan helping John Greenwood thrash in Albert Ketchisons place Albert drawing tile for me. |
| Thu | Sept 14th | clear with very high wind from the West. I was digging in the forenoon in the afternoon helping John Smith thrash Duncan helping John Greenwood in the fore noon and Smith in the after noon John was harrowing |
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