Friday, August 15, 1834: This forenoon Tacy’s Father (Tacy Hinkley is working for George making cheese) came after her and carried her home on account of her sick sister.
Sunday: Today I and my wife rode to Lebanon to cousin Josiah Egleston’s and took tea and his daughter Eliza came home with us to work for us one week. Quite rainy this afternoon.
Wednesday: We hayed on said Rodgers farm. Today John Wylie’s son died, about two years old.
Thursday: Today Tacy Hinkley called and I paid her for the four days works fifty cts.
Friday, Aug 22: Tonight brother Wm and Joseph Barnhart stayed with us. They had been to Hudson to carry brother Wm’s wife and put her into the mad house by paying fifty dollars for three months, and this evening brother Wm had a severe spell of the colic.
Monday: Today we hayed it. Henry Ostrander helped towards his rent. Today my son Geo P rode to Pittsfield with Platt Wylie to the Caravan Shows.
Sunday: Today I rode to the west part of the town to Tabor Roberts and fetched his sister Fanna home with me to stay a few days and help us.
Wednesday, September 3: On this evening I took my covered wagon and carried my family over to the select school house to a Universalist meeting but the preacher did not come, and after waiting a spell we came home.
Saturday: I and my wife rode to the south part of Lebanon and got a girl by the name of Margaret Ann White to come and work for us and we got home at dusk.
Sunday: Today I took my covered wagon and carried Fanna Roberts home. I paid her seventy five cts for her week’s work.
Monday: Today some rainy. I nailed up the barn doors and mended brush fence and went to Nathaniel Bishop’s to have him take his horses out of my meadow.
Tuesday: Two men from Williamstown stayed with us, their names are Mills and Tower. They came to bargain for my cheese.
Wednesday, September 10: This morning I engaged my cheese to the before-mentioned Mills and Tower at seven dollars per cwt and a priviledge to deliver said cheese to Troy for twenty five cts per cwt, if I can conveniently, by going to Williamstown after the casks. They paid me five dollars to bind the bargain and agreed to take the cheese by the 16 October and pay the cash at that time and take what was dry and take the remainder of my cheese as soon as it was dry after we had done making. Today I picked corn where my cows had broken into my corn field and broke down my corn.