Wednesday, January 25, 1837: This morning I and my wife started on a visit. We went with the cutter and old sorrel. The roads were drifted and we had to go round by the Douglasses to get on to the turnpike. [private]We called to cousin Samuel Holcombs to warm us and cousin Holcomb made my wife a block to heat and put to her feet to keep warm. We went on to cousin Chauncy Rows and took dinner and then we went on to Mr. Henry Withees and stayed tonight. This evening the whole horizon was lighted with red streaks and held on two hours and then it disappeared until nearly midnight and then lighted again but did not hold light but a short time.
Thursday: Today we went from Mr. Withees and Rufus Withee and wife went in company with us to Troy. We called to the Poor House. I gave Rusha Buten thirty cts and the man six cts that showed us to the different apartments and then we rode down into the City of Troy to Mr. Henry Meanicks and took dinner in company with said Withee and wife. We found Henry Meanick sick and confined to his chamber and from there I and my wife rode up through Lansingburgh across the river on the ice into Waterford to cousin Samuel Potter’s and stayed, but said Potter and his wife were gone to Ft. Edward to wedding. We visited our old Aunt Potter.
Friday: We started from said Potters and crossed on the ice into Lansingburgh. We then went eight miles into Pittstown to cousin Ira Humphrey’s. We got there about one o’clock this afternoon and we stayed.
Saturday: This morning quite a snow storm. We started from cousin Humphrey’s at nearly ten o’clock and stormed hard for two hours. We rode on the McAdams road to nearly Hoosick Corners and then we went to Hoosick Falls to Mr. David Barnhart’s and stayed. We got there about one o’clock this afternoon. Said Barnhart informed us that brother William lives in the town of Collins and County of Erie in this state, thirty miles south of Buffalo.
Sunday: We rode home from Hoosic from David Barnhart’s. We started nearly ten o’clock this morning and got home nearly day down. We called in Berlin to Asher Wheeler’s and took dinner, but said Wheeler nor his wife was not to home. Mr Garret Hirse stayed and did chores for his board while we were gone.[/private]