The Eastwick Press Newspaper

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Selling The Cheese

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Tuesday, February 12, 1838: Today we returned from the widow Potter’s at Waterford to Lansingburgh. There we traded, and then we came down to Troy. There on the sidewalk we met with two boys that said they had found two rings in the street. I paid them 44 cts for the rings. The rings had diamonds. I paid 17 dollars for two barrels of super fine flour and then we came on to Sand Lake to Mr. Henry Withees and stayed. [private]
Wednesday: Today we came home by the way of sister Eleanor’s and took dinner there. We got home at nearly sundown.
Thursday: This afternoon I started for Troy with nearly eight cwt hundred of cheese and one sack of apples.  Laura Ann Chapman rode with me. She is going to Rome. We got to Troy and stayed to the first ward house to Barton’s and stayed. We had tea and our own victuals.
Friday: This morning I got a passage in the stage for said Laura Ann Chapman to go to Albany and there to take the railroad. She paid me 50 cts for carrying her out and this morning I had coffee bitters and my horses’ keep last night and my bill was 71 cts. I then sold part of my cheese in Troy and the apples and the remainder of my cheese I sold up to Waterford. I sold the cheese from eight dollars and 62 cts to nine dol per hundred, and tonight I returned from Troy and stayed to  John D. Miles in Troy. I had coffee bitters, and quite a snow storm.
Saturday: this morning I paid my bill to John D. Miles in Troy, I had horsekeeping and tea or coffee twice and bitters twice and I paid 75 cts. I called into the jail to see Joshua Crocker. I gave him six cts to buy tobacco. I started out of Troy nearly noon for home. I got home about eight this evening.
Tuesday February 20: This forenoon I chopped wood to the school house and this afternoon I shovelled snow on the highway.
Wednesday: I took my cutter and rode up to the post office to see if I had a letter from Waterford from one Mr. King to let me know if he wanted my cheese, but I did not get any letter from him.
Thursday: I shovelled snow on the highway and in the afternoon I chopped and drew a load of wood from my swamp.  Today I paid 38 cts for a fresh codfish, nine pounds, 12 ounces.
Saturday: I carried my last cheese to Troy and sold it to Defreese and Allen, seven hundred and four pounds at nine cents per and two bags apples for one dol and 84 cts. [/private]