The Life Of George Holcomb – Brother Sylvester’s Child Lives For Only A Week

Friday, July 27, 1827: We hayed on my Rodgers Farm but some rainy….on last evening brother Sylvester had a daughter born, its weight was two pounds, (?) ounces. Saturday morning I rode through this town and to Hancock Village to notify the people that Mr. Butler the Episcopalian priest from Troy would preach tomorrow in [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – Negotiating With the “Poor Masters”

Thursday, July 12, 1827: On this day I rode to Dalton by way of Pittsfield and called on Doctor Right’s and I got a bundle of clothes that brother Wm’s wife’s sister left there.  That was Lucretia Barnhart a little deranged, and travels from place to place.  I called to Dalton today by a request [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – Fixing The Barn

Thursday, July 5, 1827: Today I took the cart and oxen and borrowed Mr. Hazard Morey’s screw to hoist the corner of our barn. Friday: We underpinned the barn in a number of places and raised the corner with said screw, and sawed some posts and put under and brother Wm helped.  I had the [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – Buying A Farm For Brother Wm

Sunday, July 1, 1827: Today I took the wagon and carried my wife over to Dr. Graves and she had two teeth drawn, and I had one drawn.  I paid him 12 cents, which was all he did ask.  We then went to Cousin Samuel Holcomb’s and stayed until after tea.  This evening I rode [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – George is 36 Years Old

Wednesday, June 13, 1827: Tonight I came home with the cart and oxen and fetched butternut bark. I am 36 years old. Thursday: this forenoon I hoed in the garden and prepared butternut bark and tub for coloring wool and helped plow out potatoes. Saturday: Today brother Wm takes the single wagon and my sorrel [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – Still Dividing Property With William

Thursday, May 3, 1827: I walked to Pittsfield and Dalton to market oats, rye, and corn, and flax, and returned home this evening. Friday: Today I took the wagon and horses and carried 16 bushels of rye and four bushels of corn to Pittsfield and sold it for 15 dol.  I got 37 cts for [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – George’s Wife Has a Bad Cough

Tuesday, April 10, 1827: This morning I walked over after doctor Graves, for my wife continues a pain in her side and a bad cough.  He came and bled her.  Today we plowed.  Tonight I walked up to the Presbyterian meeting house and heard a young man that had been a Shaker deliver a discourse [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – A Division of Property Agreement – Called Off

Wednesday, April 4, 1827:  Today the arbitrators came on, Adam Brown, Solomon Carpenter, and John Russell, and they proposed to Wm and me for one to buy the other out, and I proposed to Wm to set a price and I would agree to take it or let him likewise.  He did by holding a [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – More Talks With Wm On Dividing Property

by Alex Brooks In the last episode, George and his brother William (always referred to as Wm) were trying to come up with an equitable arrangement for dividing their property, which had become common property by years of the two of them working together on everything.  Together they had worked the home farm passed down [...]

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The Life Of George Holcomb – Division Of Property With Brother Wm

Thursday, March 15, 1827: This forenoon I hoed in the garden and prepared butternut bark and tub for coloring wool and helped plow out potatoes. Saturday: Today brother Wm takes the single wagon and my sorrel mare and carries his wife to Hoosic on a visit. Tuesday: I rode about the neighborhood to hunt up [...]

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