Saturday, July 25, 1835: Jointed shingle and worked at hay. R. Danford and boy came and helped get in one load of hay, a shower rising today. Brother Sylvester came and finished shingling the east side, the roof of my house. He worked 3/4 of the day and I let him have half a bushel of rye and the other day a peck of fine salt. This afternoon a quite hard thunder shower and raised the water quick and high.
[private] Saturday, August 1: Said Peter Surdam helped hay towards rent. Quite rainy this afternoon and this evening I took my single wagon and rode to Lebanon to N. Nichols store and carried butter and eggs and traded. My two oldest daughters went with me. We went to Pool Hill to see the borders dance a few minutes. I called to Taylor’s carding machine to get a small bundle rolls I had carded but I could not get them, they were not to be found tonight.
Sunday: I raked up hay that lay through these rains. Brother Isaac Newton fails fast.
Tuesday: I hayed on said Rodgers farm and Hiram Newton helped 3/4 of a day. Today A. Chapman left me or stopped working for me because he claimed a privilege in my barn and I refused him on account not the bargain.
Wednesday: I hayed on my Rodgers farm and Hiram Newton helped. Brother Newton fails fast. Today my wife took the wagon and rode to the west part of town and fetched home Fanna Roberts to work for us for a few weeks, and this evening brother John Twichel returned here from New York. [/private]