Thursday, April 6, 1843: Today I walked over to my Rodgers Farm to my new tenant Mr. Daniel Brady. He came in possession of my Rodgers house and garden on the first day of this month, but he moved in on the 21st day February and he hired out the south part of the house to Westalo Rodgers for 18 dollars and said Rodgers moved into said house on Monday this week. The terms of payment said Brady is to pay his rent one half that is fifteen dollars to be paid on the first day of July and the other half fifteen dollars to be paid on the first of January next. This evening I paid james Glass 75 cts for the fifty bundles of straw I had the other day.
Friday: Today I took my cutter and rode to Berlin to Streeter’s to see the lawyer Lotridge concerning what is called the Samuel Holcomb Debt and how I am to collect the debt for the articles that Orra Holcomb bid off and inquire after many other questions in law and I gave said Lotridge fifty cts for counsel and I returned home by eight o’clock this evening. Today Mr. Aaron Merrills moves out of my house which makes two years’ rent he has not settled for, which is 24 dollars which is to balance on borrowed money and four days works yet due for the winter he first lived in my house.
Saturday: This afternoon and evening Mr. Stephen Van Rensselaer Jolls and wife and Mr. Guy Moffitt and wife visited us.
Monday: I called to Wm. Bailey’s to have him look at a survey bill of my farm, and I called to old widow Booge’s to buy straw.
Wednesday, April 12: Today my wife rode in the cutter to the widow Eliza Wylie’s, which is the first time she has been out after she returned from her journey last fall from the west.
Tuesday, April 18: We tended to chores and cut some appletree wood in our orchard.
Thursday: On this morning while we were finishing our chores at the barn we were alarmed that Mr. Ephraim Pierce was hurt at the fall of a tree. I and my son Geo P., we run to his woods to render assistance and we found him lying lifeless and his head the blood gushing out where a limb of the tree cut a hole and his brains were mangled, one hip broke and the other was jammed badly. We carried him to his house by hand, five of us, distance 40 rods and one hour and a half the breath left his body. Three doctors sent for, but neither of the doctors got there until said Ephraim Pierce was dead.
Friday: I went up to Mr. Zach Chapman’s to Mr. Prentice Johnson’s and got some lobelia and mandric to puke my wife but it did not answer and this evening we sent for a little more. Tonight we broke off our rest for my wife was in much pain taking a puke.
Saturday: I and my two sons walked to the funeral of Ephraim Pierce at the Baptist Meeting House in the town. Elder Sands preached.
Sunday: My wife continues feeble. I walked onto my Rodgers farm and gathered a few cow slips for my wife for greens.
Monday: I called to Ezra D. Sackett’s and I paid his wife 12 cts for some powders she had prepared to loosen the phlegm and to raise. Today my two sons began to take down the chimney in the cheese house to draw the building.
Saturday, April 29: My wife continues feeble and more unwell.