Moving The Barn

Friday, June 15, 1855: This morning I took my horse and wagon and carried the Shaker and one of his jacks home, and John F. paid him for his day’s work two dollars. On the way home I called to the widow Broad’s to see if I could get Mr. Holdridge to help move the barn, I tried to get Jonathan Gillet and Judah Rowley but could not. Ezekiel Goodrich and Sylvenas Carpenter came before noon and stayed till night, and John Cohklin came in the afternoon, our own help, the same as yesterday that is Geo P. and Edward Manning and a new hand Irishman, name I did not learn, and our hired men Patrick, Edward and Michael, and John F. quit toward night, he was unwell. We moved the barn today, the width of it. This morning John F. rode up Goodrich Hollow after help.
Saturday: Today Geo P. and his two hired hands helped the same as yesterday and our own hired help the same Patrick and Michael but Edward Hatch did not help today and today James M. Glass helped and this forenoon Herman Horton and Frederick Russell and Gustus Rollo hired man, and them three went home at noon, and this afternoon Thomas Horton helped. They got the barn turned round onto the ground where we wanted it to stand but not raised up and leveled. Today John F. was well enough or able to work at the barn. Francis Merriwell helped this forenoon and got offended at Mr. Glass and quit, did not stay and help this afternoon.
Monday: This morning John F. rode to the Shakers  to see if Shaker Hiram would come with and level up the barn but he was unwell and did not come and John F. did nothing today, he is unwell.
Tuesday: I am quite lame, a cow ran over me. Today John F. had Mr. J. M. Glass and boy Francis to help raise up the barn and Geo P. and his two hired Irishmen, Edward and a stranger. Geo P. quit a spell in the middle of the day and went with his wife over to Mr. Bronson’s to meet her uncle Charles Doolittle and he fetched her  a pair canary birds. John F. hired men worked at the barn, Edward Hatch, Michael Manning and Patrick Rafferty.
Wednesday: today John F. and hired hands and Geo P. raised up the barn and leveled it, got it high enough and tonight John F. carried the Shakers’ jacks, three of them back and paid for the use of them 12 dollars, and used them about a quarter of the time we had them. This forenoon Patrick went with Geo P. oxen and cart and fetched two loads rail road ties 40 of them to block up as we raised the barn.