Tuesday, October 8, 1839: This forenoon we gathered apples and today it makes nineteen weeks that Fanna Roberts has worked for us and I paid her nine dollars and gave her my note for ten dol and I took my two horse team and carried her home and my wife went with me.[private]
Sunday, October 13: Today I took my two horse team and carried my two oldest daughters to Hancock to Mr. Wilcox Universalist meeting at the meeting house and we returned to cousin Samuel Holcomb and took dinner and then I carried cousin Samuel and wife with us to the Select School House and heard Mr. Wilcox preach again.
Tuesday, October 15: We gathered apples today. Mr. Washington Carpenter and wife and Mr. Burr Green wife made us a visit and said Carpenter paid us twenty dollars for Angeline’s keeping school sixteen weeks, and said Carpenter paid me eight dollars and eighty eight cents for one hundred and eleven pounds of cheese.
Wednesday: We gathered apples. This evening I went with my two horse team to the school house in Goodrich Hollow in Hancock to hear a black man preach and my whole family went to meeting.
Saturday, October 19: This forenoon we drew stalks and pumpkins and a small load of corn and this afternoon I rode over to Hiram Brown’s with Alabirtus Cowan. There I met Elbrige Green the Supervisor and Hosea Brown the town clerk and Joseph Tayer and Alfred Webster, we assessors. There we made an appointment for the election. I rode part of the way home with Mr. Kirk. I rode with him to Mr. Sylvenas Carpenter’s the second. I went to see said Carpenter to see if we could get a school this winter. He told me I must act as I thought best and he would be agreed.
Sunday: Quite cold and froze, we gathered in apples and pumpkins. [/private]