John F. Finds No Match For His Horse

Wednesday, February 22, 1854: Today Geo P. and wife went to Berlin to temperance meeting and then he drove his four cows home that he left last week, for it was icy — them, he paid Mr. Hull three dollars for keeping them. One of said cows had two calves last Sunday and his wife drove the wagon and fetched said calves.
Friday: This morning Geo P. came and helped me tend to the chores and then I went with him and he drove home his lame ox and cow that my ox hooked in the head to my Rodgers barn and this afternoon John F. and two sisters returned home from Pittsfield. John F. bought himself a vest pattern and trimmings and he bought an umbrella.
Saturday: I only tended to a few chores. This evening Edward Brown drew writings with John F. for the Rodgers house and garden at 25 dol to be paid in haying.
Sunday: Today quite a thaw of rain and blow, some snow.
Monday: I am quite lame. John F. rode his horse ro Nicholas Gardner’s vendue and Geo P. went to vendue and bid off a bottle and other small articles.
Tuesday: Today Henry Cranston came and paid four dollars and 50 cts for John F. calf four weeks old and this morning John F. starts to go north to buy a match for his horse, and today Geo P. works my horse on side his to draw logs to saw mill. Today Jane Wylie came and made a vest for John F.
Thursday, March 2: I this forenoon took my horse and wagon and carried Sarah O. to R. A. Brown’s store but we got no boosums to make. We fetched some boosums for sister Welthy that had been on hand. I sold two dozen and ten eggs at 1/6 pence and got it in sugar at eight cts per. We came by way of Gustus Rollo and got my candles 48 pound, that he made at two cts per and I paid the cash 96 cts.
Saturday: This evening John F. returned home, he had been into Vermont as far as Sandgate to look for a match for his horse but he did not get any.
Wednesday: Today rainy. Mr. Jacob Horton came and paid one hundred and thirty five dollars to John F. for a pair six year old working oxen.
Thursday: Today I trusted Edgar Brown for two bushels of potatoes one dollar six cts and ten pounds of beef sixty three cts.
Saturday: John F. carried our hams and put into the widow Eliza Wylie’s smoke house to be smoked and Geo P. tapped his sap trees.
Tuesday: Today John F. took his horse and wagon and carried the widow Freelove Wylie and son Milton to Lebanon to take the stage to Albany, and John F. went to the Shakers and got the carrot seed that they cleaned for us, 50 pounds of it, and paid them the cash for cleaning, one dollar 50 cts and I paid for cleaning half.