Thursday, June 11, 1840: Today I took my covered wagon and carried my wife to Pittsfield partly on a visit to brother F. Jay Wylie’s.[private] I carried six bushels of potatoes and sold them for two dol and my wife left her leghorn hat to be whitened. We came home by the way of the Shaker’s villages and I bargained with a Paddy on the railroad to work to sell him a load of potatoes. We got home at ten o’clock this evening.
Friday: I am some unwell.
Saturday: I took my team and carried a load of potatoes over to the railroad near the Hancock Shakers and sold them to a Paddy on a contract that I agreed on on Thursday as we came home from Pittsfield. I got seven dollars for the twenty one bushels.
Sunday: Today my son Geo P took my two horse pleasure wagon and carried his two oldest sisters and Fleetus Pierce and his sister to meeting.
Monday: Today cousin Samuel Holcomb called to see me and to conclude to get up a subscription to pay Wm Wilcox for his last years services for preaching and to hire him for part of the year to come. We drew two subscriptions and he signed ten dollars on one and I signed ten dollars on the other and we each took one for circulation to get subscriptions. Wednesday: We plowed and hoed corn and this afternoon I walked over in the neighborhood of Elbrige Green’s at the factories and got a few dollars subscribed for to pay Wm Wilcox for preaching, and on my return home I called to H. Platt’s store and got my newspapers.
Thursday: Today a Universalist priest by the name of Grosh called and took dinner at my house and this afternoon I took my single wagon and carried brother Grosh to cousin Samuel Holcomb’s and left him on his way to Troy.
Friday: This morning Geo P. took the one-horse wagon and carried our foels over to Hiram Newton’s to keep and have half the eggs for they did mischief in our garden and corn field and today we had a long spell looking after a cow before we found her in my swamp and she had a young calf.
Saturday: This morning and part of the forenoon rainy and this afternoon I took my covered wagon and carried my two oldest daughters to Pittsfield. They carried their straw hats and left them with Mrs Frances and came to be whitened, and I gave them 94 cts to trade to get trimming for their white dresses. [/private]