Tuesday, March 1, 1842: Today I took my one horse wagon and carried my wife over to the widow Anna Moffitt’s. She had sent me a line to come and help appraise the stock and produce on her farm for she is about hiring out the same together with the farm. Mr. Sylvester P. Webb with me took the value as follows: hay in the barn two or three inches below the south center girt and eight inches past the center of the mow considered to be six tons and hay in the west shed 3½ tons and hay in the east shed 1½ ton and hay in cider house 1½ ton and corn in the south crib one inch below the top of the east and west center girt, ten hogs, weight 1400 weight and 17 cows in as good condition and eighty bushels of potatoes. All this Mr. Everts takes and returns one year from today as the lease directs. We stayed and visited this afternoon and cousin Guy Moffitt with us.
Friday, March 11: This afternoon Mr. James Bush returned with my daughter Charlotte E. She had lived with him from the time she went home with them, which was on the seventeenth of Nov. last, and said Bush presented her with a bible and notebook. He stayed tonight and went to Mr. Bliss Maxon’s to prayer meeting tonight with me and family.
Saturday: Today I walked up to Mr. Robert Runnals and returned an umbrella that we borrowed. Today my second daughter, L. Angeline, returned from Canaan on a visit to Calvin P. Sackett’s. His son Daniel stayed with us tonight when he returned with L. Angeline, and tonight cousin Orra Holcomb and sister Jane and Miss Vary stayed with us on a visit.
Sunday: This morning I walked onto my Rodgers farm and hunted up a cow that had gone to the swamp and had a calf. Today all my children walked on to Lebanon West Hill school house to a protracted meeting.
Tuesday: Today I went to vendue to Mr. Zach Chapman. I bid off a wagon chair at 37 cts and towards night I took the one horse wagon and carried Rice and Wheeler’s two bushels of corn.
Friday: This forenoon I walked over to Jessy Egleston to see old Aunt Egleston for we heard she was very sick. This afternoon I chopped wood on the hill and on this evening I walked up to cousin Samuel Holcomb and watched with him, tonight he is dangerous sick.
Saturday: On this morning I returned home from cousin Samuel Holcomb. Today we chopped and drew wood off the hill and today my wife and Charlotte rode up to cousin Samuel Holcomb and spent the day with him and at night my wife returned home and my daughter stayed for cousin Samuel remains dangerous sick.
Sunday: This morning before daylight we had news that cousin Samuel could not live. We took our two horse team and my wife and L. Angeline rode up to cousin Samuel Holcomb’s and found him in awful distress in body but ease of mind, believe in a Saviour of all mankind. He remained through the day in great distress in his breast and died about half past four and at sunset we returned home all but L. Angeline, she stayed there tonight.
*Samuel Holcomb was 45 years old when he died.