The Life Of George Holcomb – George is 36 Years Old

Wednesday, June 13, 1827: Tonight I came home with the cart and oxen and fetched butternut bark. I am 36 years old.
Thursday: this forenoon I hoed in the garden and prepared butternut bark and tub for coloring wool and helped plow out potatoes.
Saturday: Today brother Wm takes the single wagon and my sorrel mare and carries his wife to Hoosic on a visit.
Tuesday: I rode about the neighborhood to hunt up Dr. Graves and Elisha Dark’s young horses that was a missing out of my pasture. Said Dark took them without notice to me. On this day I took my bay mare the second time to Simon Cranston’s horse. This afternoon I was cutting timber on the hill. I cut my foot, but not very bad.
Today Wm returned from Hoosic. On this day I heard of the death of Uncle Josiah Holcomb. He was buried on Friday last, I heard.
Wednesday: This forenoon I took the cart and Wm’s oxen and carried timber to E. Goodriches to be sawed for cart axeltree and body.
Thursday, June 21: Today I took the single wagon and carried 17 pounds of cheese to Randal Brown’s store and traded it at 7 pence per pound.
Friday, June 22: This morning some rainy.  We made a lane and milk yard.  I took the single wagon and went to Elijah Goodriches and paid one dol and 63 cts for two pigs, and this afternoon I carried my wife and Mother Spring to the Widow Booge’s on a visit, and then went with brother Wm to Judah Rowley’s and he bought two pigs.
Wednesday, June 27: Today rainy.  This afternoon we pealed hemlock bark in my swamp.
Friday, June 29: Samuel and I plowed and hoed potatoes.  Tonight brother Wm returned from Troy on a petty jury.  He has been gone all the week.  On this morning I rode to the pool to John Bull’s and got three dol and 31 cts worth of cake to sell to the wolf hunt, but there was a mistake.  There was no hunt at present.  Platt Wylie hoed for me this forenoon and I rode to Hancock and found out there was no wolf hunt.