Thursday, January 23, 1840: Today we tended to shoveling snow about my yards and buildings and this afternoon I and boy shoveled snow on the highway.[private]
Friday: I and my boy shoveled snow on the highway.
Saturday: This forenoon I and my boy shoveled snow on the highway and today I chopped wood to the door.
Tuesday: I chopped and sawed wood and I made a wood saw horse. Today some stormy and this evening I rode over in my cutter with the school master Mr. Wheeler and my two daughters as far as Platt’s Store and then I walked to Washington Carpenter’s and he handed me a three dollar bill on the bank of commerce of Buffalo for the counterfeit bill I returned on Steuben County bill. I went to said Carpenter’s on a subpoena that he sent on Monday morning to go to Troy on a case that Wm Clark had taken said Carpenter in behalf of the people concerning said Clark’s daughter had been married to Perry Gardner unknown to her parents and the report was that she was persuaded to be married by Carpenter and family. The trial is put over and I returned home. I walked home by 10 o’clock this evening. It was bad walking. It made me quite lame.
Monday, February 10: I tended to my chores and tended to Platt Wylie’s chores. I tended foddering his cattle for he is taken sick with the quinsy in his throat.
Wednesday: I tended to my chores and Platt Wylie’s chores and this afternoon I chopped and split wood on the hill.
Thursday: I tended to my chores and Platt Wylie’s chores. On this evening our school master Mr. Willard Wheeler took my horse and cutter and carried my two daughters to singing school up to Samuel Holcomb’s and the singing master Mr. Bush came home tonight with my children and stayed.
Friday: I tended to my chores and I tended to Platt Wylie’s chores and Mr. Bush stayed with us til after dinner.
Sunday: I tended to said Platt Wylie’s chores and this afternoon Simeon Wylie went after Doc Wright for said Platt.
Monday: Today I took my horse and cutter and carried my wife and Mrs Caroline Surdam’s child to Hancock to Mr. Barber’s factory, where the said Caroline Surdam worked, for her to see her child. We took dinner with said Barber. Tuesday: I chopped some wood on the hill and shoveled through a snow drift to get wood from my hill.[/private]