The Life Of George Holcomb – Sylvester Returns

Friday, April 4, 1823: I took the horses and wagon and went to Pittsfield to one Robert Stanton’s to get an old lady to come and take care of brother Wm’s wife, but I could not get her. She said she would come in two weeks. I called in Pittsfield Village to Bissel’s store and sold one bushel of apples for 34 cents. I bought three skeins of cotton floss, nine cents, and I paid 25 cts for opium that Father sent for Sylvester’s wife, and I sold a pair of socks for 25 cts worth of opium for Mrs. Newton.
Monday, April 7: This forenoon I returned Capt. Adams’ Brown Cow that I took and kept for the milk this winter past. This afternoon I took the single wagon and carried my wife to Solomon Carpenter’s to Mr. Benjamin Sacketts Jnr School Exhibition. I contributed a few cents for the music. This morning about one o’clock as I lay in my bed I see the house in flames that Luther Rich and Jerry King lived in. Said house belonged to the widow Tryon. It took fire by the ashes being taken up with fire in them. Today some rainy.
Tuesday: This afternoon I walked over to Nancy Griggs Inn and took my warrant as a pathmaster. The district under me was assessed 99.5 days in the highway. I signed a paper to show I accepted of the highway overseer on the district I live in.
Holcomb spent most of Wednesday trying to resolve a misunderstanding about a debt, after which he returned to Isaac Newton’s house.
We took tea, and then we took Aseneth Newton in to the wagon and fetched her home with us. She sat up with me and watched with Sylvester’s wife. She had fits all night.
Thursday, April 10: Today Sylvester returned from the westward with the remainder of his goods.
Saturday: I took the oxen and sled and carried Sylvester’s wife and some of her things over to my Rodgers farm. Sylvester moves there today. Father and Mother rode over there a spell today to help them move. I gave brother Sylvester flour and meal and potatoes to go to keeping house with.