The Life Of George Holcomb – Charlotte Is Sick

Friday, March 24, 1826: I chopped wood to the door, some rainy. We had a cow jump out of the lot. I went to E Pierce’s and H. Morey’s and Adam Brown’s and Ezra Sackett’s after her, but could not find her. The said cow James Glass had turned into the highway and she ran away, but brother Wm had found the said cow in Sylvenas Carpenter’s swamp before I had returned tonight from looking for her.
Saturday: I am quite unwell with a bad cold and head ache.
Saturday, April 1: This forenoon Wm and I went to Hancock mountain on to Elijah Douglas land to chop coal wood but it was so steep that we returned home and concluded not to get any wood there.
Monday, April 3: I see Henry Hull to Gardner’s and he came with me down to my Rodgers Farm and he bought four cows of me at nineteen dol per head and gave me a note on demand. I then walked over to Jobe Green’s this afternoon where this town was putting in town officers.
Tuesday: I took John Wylie’s single wagon and went to Lebanon to Jones to town meeting. I carried five dollars worth of Bull’s gingerbread at 3 cts a card and sold it at five cts per card, and sold six gallons of cider and one peck of apples. I got six dol and fifty cts in cash and a new half bushel for my day’s work. Today I carried my mother to Mr. A.J. Booge’s and left her until I returned at night. Today brother Wm sold five dollars worth of gingerbread and five gallons of cider in this town to Joseph Green’s to town meeting and he cleared four dol and fifty cts.
Thursday: This morning Wm and I helped Mr. R. Danford get a hearth stone and place it in the south room of that house where he lives. Today a young girl that was brought up among the Shakers came here to get work. Her name is Eunice Adeline Welch.
Friday: Today I tended to helping to make soap and chop wood to the door yard. Today this said Eunice Adeline Welch began to spin for us a week at fifty cts.
Saturday: Today we gave Charlotte some phisic for she is quite unwell and has been for two days with a pain in her head and ear and swelled neck and lost her appetite.
Sunday: Our daughter continues quite unwell. Today the funeral of thc daughter of old Mr. Salmon Wheeler, aged about 13 years old. She died at Mr. Sylvanus Carpenter’s and the funeral at his house, and we did not hear of it, not until it was too late. She died yesterday. Elder Jones preached.
Monday: I am quite unwell and today a very snowy day.
Tuesday: We yoked up two yoke of steers and drew manure with one yoke a spell. We, Wm and I, then made corn brooms. Today Moses Hunter came and paid up the note of one hundred and four dollars for the sheep he bought of us last month, the money nearly all of it on Pittsfield bank and the remainder on Albany excepting two bills, one on Greenfield and the other bill on New York. Tonight brother Wm went up to Edward Carr’s and paid him seven dollars, the interest on the one hundred dollars that was due last May, and Wm went to Calvin and offered him the money for my note I gave the 20th December last, but he refused taking the money, for he said the note was on demand, and he had not demanded it, and Wm fetched the money home again.
Wednesday: Today I walked up to Erastus Brown’s store. I reckoned with him. When I returned home I called to Calvin Carpenter’s and took up my note of 106 dollars and 26 cts interest and principal given the 20th of December last. I paid him all in Pittsfield bills except in one dol and 26 cts in specie. He had a choice not to take his pay yet.
Thursday: This forenoon I took the single wagon and my wife went with me and we carried Charlotte to Doctor Graves and he gave us some drops and castile soap to put in her ear, and some phisic and some things to put into wine. We called to H. Platt’s and paid 12 cents for a bottle and nine cents for wine, and today I paid Eunice Adeline Welch 50 cts for her week’s work and she went away.