Thursday Feb 10, 1842: I called up to John Smith’s to have him call at my house when he was passing by to have his council what to have done to my chimney in my cheese house, for the cauldron kettle had falled down. Then I and my wife returned home, or I left her to the widow Eliza Wylie’s to stay while I rode to our school house to a debating school and Caleb W. Goodrich and sister returned home with us and stayed tonight.
Friday: Today said cousin Goodrich and sister and my daughter Angeline went to Pittsfield on a visit to brother Jay Wylie’s.
Saturday: I chopped wood on the hill and my two sons drew five loads with the ox team.
Wednesday: Today a snow storm. Today Aaron Merrels butchered a veal for us. I paid him in turnips.
Thursday: This afternoon I took my cutter and went to Lebanon. I carried Edwin E. Griggs three bushels of corn at 75 cts per and a cheese 23 pounds at 7 cts per and a veal 15 pounds, 46 cts.
I sold a quarter veal to Rice and Wheeler, 52 cts, and I sold the hide 8½ pounds at ten cts and a quarter veal at 4½ cts to Wm Gay for one dol and 58 cts cash, and I sold Thomas Bentley a quarter veal at 4 cts, 70 cts cash, and I called to N. Nichols store and paid 19 cts for one pint of gin and I returned home.
Friday: I chopped alders on my Rodgers Farm and my two sons drew home the wood with the horse and ox teams. They drew three loads each.
Tuesday: Today I and my son John F. we cut alders and willows in my meadow on my Rodgers farm. I broke my glass lantern.
Thursday: Today I prepared a small load for one horse for market of nine cheese of nearly two hundred pounds and 3½ bushels of apples.
Friday: Today I went to Troy with one horse wagon and carried the before-mentioned cheese and apples. I sold the apples on the road before I got to Troy at 75 cts per and I sold part of the cheese at seven cts per and it was evening when I got to Troy. I stayed to Allen’s tavern at the foot of Congress Street.
Saturday: This morning I sold out all my cheese at seven cts per excepting a small one I sold at six cts, and a skim cheese at four cts. Then I called to the Budget office and paid in advance one dollar and fifty cts for budget weekly paper, reckoning from 13th Feb 1842 to the 13th Feb 1843. (The Troy Northern Budget was Rensselaer County’s first newspaper.) I then returned to Allen’s tavern and paid my bill 37½ cts for my horsekeeping and 12½ cts for my lodging. I then left Troy at 11 o’clock. I called to Worden’s tavern and bated. I paid 3 cts for bitters and then I came on to cousin Chauncy Row’s and stopped a spell, for it stormed and blew quite hard going to market yesterday. I stopped and bated here and said Row paid me one dollar and 33 cts for a cheese at seven cts per, weight 19 pounds, and on the way from Row’s I called to Mr. Daboll’s and got the new wash tub that I had paid him in cheese for making nearly one year past. I got home about seven o’clock this evening.