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The Life Of George Holcomb – Returning Garret Hirse’s Cow To Him

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Monday, March 30, 1829: Today brother Wm came and we divided the scraps of iron and steel in the blacksmith shop and I agreed to see him paid 25 rails and 12 panes of glass and not demand of him for the three week keeping of the cow that I an keeping for him that he took of said Garret Hirse for house rent.  All this I do to have him give up said cow by paying him nineteen dollars in cash that I got signed by subscription but not all paid, and Wm signed off one dol from the 20 dol house rent, but still retains damages to make the debt 23 dol that I do agree to pay as is before stated.
On this day Old Mr. John Bristol fetched me his son’s note Henry Bristol for the remainder of my house rent which was four dol and eighty seven cts to be paid by the first of June.
Wednesday, April 1: This forenoon I walked over to Mr. Jay Moffitt’s to see if I could get a house for Garret Hirse to live in but could not.  Said Hirse chopped for me while I was gone. This afternoon I split wood
Thursday: We chopped and split some wood but some stormy.  today Asa Sheldon moves into my house.
Friday brother Wm called and I handed him the nineteen dollars as is stated on Monday this week, and he delivers all claim of the Hirse cow up to me.
Monday, April 6: Today I took my single wagon and went to Lebanon and fetched Mr Rowland Danford’s family, he moves today into the house that he bought of brother Wm and Garret Hirse packs his goods in my still house from said house of brother Wm.  For moving said Danford I charge him fifty cents.  I drew 25 rails from my stack yard to Rowland Danford’s fence where Garret Hirse burned them up for firewood and agreed to take said Hirse pay master one dol and likewise agreed not to call on brother Wm for the three weeks keeping if said Hirse cow and agreed to take said Hirse paymaster one dol and 50 cts, all this in addition to the twenty dollars I raised by subscription to redeem said cow that was in brother Wm’s hands for house rent, which makes the cost of the cow 22 dol and 50 cts.
Tuesday: Today I went to town meeting to Abner Bull’s.  I voted on the Union Freemason ticket, and it was elected, Claudius Moffitt Supervisor, Randall Brown Town Clerk, and the rest to please us.
Wednesday: Today I split wood and took the single wagon and carried Garret Hirse family and left them in the highway near Mr. Reuben Andrews house.