The Eastwick Press Newspaper

Eastern Rensselaer County's Community Newspaper

Dividing Up The Carrots

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Thursday, October 5, 1854: This morning I took my wife and went to the fair to Pittsfield. While there I bought three dresses patterns and paid one dollar and 75 cts, for our three daughters.
Thursday, Oct. 12: Today I and Thomas piled wood in the wood house. This morning at three o’clock John F. starts for Albany with his two horse wagon with his two sisters and cousin Lewis and wife and Mrs. Doxon and cousin Caroline Bennet. Towards night I and Thomas with my horse and wagon got 20 bushel carrots  in the celler, which makes 45 bushels we had and John Merrils had 50 bushels of the 95 bushels that said Merrils had got dug.
Friday: I and Thomas cut weeds and burdock and gathered a few apples and I gathered some walnuts that John F. shook off. Today at two o’clock John F. returned from Albany. He paid one dollar and 12½ cts for two bushel coarse salt.
Monday: This afternoon I worked on the highway and John F. and Thomas worked all day with the ox team and scraper, and today Mary Green came and washed for us and fetched Geo P. washing.
Wednesday: Today John Merrils sold Jabez Babcock 50 bushels carrots and we divided 8 heaps, he says had ten bushels in a heap. He took one heap that was divided to make out his 59 bushels. Today Geo P. had a Shaker come with jacks and raised his house up and Nore Merrils helped him. He paid the Shaker 5 dollars.
Friday: This morning John F. carried Sylvester Howard’s jack home that Geo P. had to help raise up his house, paid 25 cts to Howard for the use.
Saturday: This evening Thomas’s father came and reckoned with us and found that we owed him 47½ dollars for Thomas, five months work and we paid 7½ dollars and 40 dollars remains unpaid. I paid 5 dollars of it and John F. paid two dollars and 50 cts.
Sunday: Today James Bennet fetched my two daughters home from Albany with his wife and Doctor Dickerson wife, they stayed to said Bennet’s last night.
Tuesday: I and my wife pulled turnips, and today noon Thomas Lindsay he worked out his five months and he quit this afternoon.
Wednesday: I and my wife cut and pulled turnips and charlotte cut this afternoon and Louisa Merrils cut 20 bushels and I paid her 25 cts.