Thursday, May 16: I went to Troy with my double wagon, my wife and daughter Angeline went and I carried sister Eleanor and she took the canal for the westward. We carried nearly 14 pounds butter and sold it at 1/6 pence per. We carried three new cheeses and sold them at six pence per pound. We stayed in Troy to Jeremiah Harrington’s. I went into an oyster celler and paid nine cts for oysters for my wife to eat with her supper and tea.
Friday: This morning my wife and I went out to the stores and did our trading. We bought our two eldest daughters dress handkerchiefs 63 cts apiece and our youngest daughter Sarah a straw bonnet and we bought John Franklyn a cap, one dol, and myself a vest pattern 31 cts and self a palm leaf hat 1/6 pence and I had said hat stole. I paid 88 cts for an umbrella and one dol and 50 cts for Fanna Roberts a dress handkerchief. I gave L. Angeline 59 cts and she bought beads with the money, and I gave her a number of cts and she bought sugar toys and oranges. I paid my bill to Harrington, which was 63 cts and gateage 50 cts. We came on to Henry Withees and took dinner and we got home about eight this evening.
Saturday: I planted cucumbers and melons and I tended to a cow that is about to loose the milk of two tits.
Tuesday, May 21, 1833: I walked to the east and north and west of the district taking the value of property in order how much to assess each man for to pay taxes.
Thursday: I worked on the highway with my team and plow and boy. I had on a plow one and a half days. My pathmaster credited me seven and a half days. Today I called on a number of my neighbors to take assessment.
Tuesday, May 23: I went on the west part of my district taking valuation for county tax.
Wednesday, June 5: Today I met the assessors as before and we completed the assessment and my bill was 90 cts for victuals and drinks for the three days.
Monday, June 10: Today the schoolteacher Miss Minerva Mattison began to board with us.
Thursday June 13: On this day I am forty-two years old.
Friday: I plowed and hoed potatoes in my meadow and towards night I took my wagon and horses and drew home the hemlock bark I had in J. B. Maxon’s lot. Today I gave my hired boy Charles Booge a play day.
Monday: I hoed corn. Today my wife went to Hancock and carried some butter to Wm Lapum’s and bought in exchange indigo and six tumblers and ribbon.