Thursday, October 9, 1834: Some rainy. This evening I went to our annual school meeting. I was re-elected trustee with Mr. Nathaniel Bishop and Platt Wylie. I contributed 12½ cts and the district generally each man for the repairs for the school house.
Friday: We wired the pigs noses to put out into the pasture. Quite cold and frosty.
Sunday: Today my wife and daughter Charlotte went with me to the south part of Lebanon about ten miles to carry our hired girl home by the name of Margaret Ann White. She worked for us five weeks and I paid her three dollars and seventy five cts.
Monday: Today I went to Williams-town with my two-horse team after the cheese casks as I before bargained with Tower and Mills. I took dinner to said Tower’s and my two sons with me. I went to four coopers to get said cheese casks.
Wednesday: This evening I walked to Hiram Madison’s and bargained with him to teach our school four months and a half at ten dollars per and to begin the tenth November.
Thursday: Today Alonzo Rodgers gun went off unexpectedly and shot partly through his or on one side of his cheek.
Friday: This evening Mr. Tower and Mills from Williamstown and fetched the third man and they weighed my cheese what I sold them, which was 4646 pounds and paid me the cash, which was $336.83 and what we have weight to pay for the use of cows and for our own eating about six cwt besides late made and we got done about midnight.
Saturday, October 18: This morning at two o’clock I started for Troy with a load of cheese and Ira Sheldon with me. We went the new road by Maj Bushes. We got into Troy about noon. I delivered my load to the tow boat office and took a receit. I paid 25 cts at the Troy Bank for one hundred dollars of their bills in exchange for my Adams money I had in payment for my cheese. We came home by the way of Sand Lake. We got home about midnight.
Sunday: Today quite rainy.
Monday: I started for Troy with my second load cheese. I went to Sand Lake and stayed to Henry Withees tonight and I paid up the interest to Rufus Withee on the three hundred dollars and gave a new note. Interest I paid 17 dol, 93 cts.
Tuesday: I went into Troy this morning from said Withees and left my load cheese at the tow boat dock and took a receit and I loaded home with Henry Platt’s goods and he credits me 25 cts per cwt. Weights I have not ascertained. I stopped at Uline’s and bated, three cts for beer and got home about eight this evening.