April 16, 1829, Thursday: This evening Deacon Ephraim Pierce and other subscribers called to my house and we took a receipt of Garret Hirse and delivered him the cow that was obtained by subscription on these conditions, that if the subscribers call for her that we could take the cow wherever we could find her. Said Pierce took the receit and the subscription paper into keeping.
April 22, Wednesday: Today I engaged Charlotte Cole to keep our school 16 weeks at 75 cts per week. I bargained conditional, that is I don’t want her I am to let her know it.
May 23, Wednesday: This afternoon I took the single wagon and carried my youngest son John Franklin to Lebanon to Doctor Right’s. Said boy had a swelling on his throat or neck. He ordered a plaster of honey, a yolk of an egg and flour and some phisic for a relax. I called to Gilbert’s store and paid 14 cts for half a yard of calico. On the way home I called to Judah Rowley’s and got a little honey.
June 1, Monday: Today Mr. Asa Sheldon sheered my sheep in the way of changing works at my Rodgers barn, 15 in number, I attended to catch and do up the fleeces.
June 2, Tuesday: Today we plastered corn and in this evening I walked up to Henry Stanton’s and carried him seven dollars which makes out the one year’s interest, twenty one dol I paid on the three hundred principle, but said Stanton handed me back a five dollar bill on Stockbridge bank that he said was not current. Said bill I took of old Mr. John Bristol this morning on condition that I could pay where I owed if not I would return it. Tonight I likewise returned said bill this evening but the old man refused taking it back on account that his son Henry had given his note to me for the old man, but told me to go to the son to return the bill.
June 3, Wednesday: This morning I walked to Henry Bristol with a five dollar bill that he sent me yesterday to take up a note I held against him, but refused taking said bill, and I returned home with it.