The Eastwick Press Newspaper

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George & Son Unwell – A Big Doctor Bill

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Monday, October 29, 1855: I am better today of my gravel complaint. This afternoon at or nearly four o’clock Geo P. starts to go up to Vermont after cattle and sheep and Edwin A. Carpenter with him, and pays fifty cts per day for his passage.
Tuesday: I am not quite so well as yesterday and today rainy. This afternoon John F. rode to Lebanon with his two horse team and reckoned with Dr. Joseph Bates and found that balance due him  was four dollars and 14 cents and John F. paid up and took a receit in full for doctoring all my family, his whole amount 24 dollars and our whole amount 19 dollars and 86 cts.
Thursday Nov. 1: Today rainy, Geo P. wife had my horse and wagon to go to Pittsfield and buy a parlor stove.
Sunday: I am quite unwell.
Monday: I am a little better, and walked up to the widow Eliza Wylie’s. John F. went to Hancock with his two horse team and carried 26 bushels carrots to the Barker Factory, he took the carrots from the Rodgers farm and fetched a load carrots home from said farm.
Tuesday: Today John F. went with his two horse team and I with him to Election to Manning’s which is called Hiram Brown’s old stand. I am unwell with my gravel complaint.
Thursday: John F. and Michael Manning worked mortaring the wall under the barn.
Friday: Today John F. went to Hancock with his two horse team with a load of carrots of 15 bushels to Mr. Taylor.
Saturday: John F. went to Pittsfield after his sheep he bought of Elisha Tracy two weeks past.
Monday: I am a little better and John F. put carrots in the celler that Michael Manning raised to the halves, nearly 100 bushels, our half. Tonight a hard blow and rain.
Wednesday: I am not any well, John F. not very well. Tonight Geo P. returned from Vermont, and Edward Carpenter and Geo P. drove home his cattle and sheep.
Saturday: Towards night I and my wife walked up to the widow Eliza Wylie’s to see the corpse of the widow Freelove Wylie, was fetched there from Albany on the cars to Canaan and John F. and his two sisters went with his two horse team and Geo P and wife went in their top carriage to Canaan to company the friends of the deceased.