Monday, October 30, 1843: We made cider and picked up apples. On this evening I walked over to Sylvenas Carpenter’s 2nd and there he and Joshua B. Maxon and myself agreed to hire George Maxon to teach our school for four months at eleven dollars per month.
Tuesday: Today I went to Pittsfield with my ox team and wagon and carried the barrel of cider to Yale Clark’s which pays for the 12 pounds of tallow and I carried two 40 gallon casks of cider to Pomeroy’s Factory hands and they paid me half cash and half store pay at said Pomeroy store at one dollar and 50 cts per barrel, and I sold eight bushels of apples at said factory hands at 25 cts per bushel.
Wednesday, November 1: This morning I walked over to brother Simeon Wylie’s to see brother Reuben Morton and wife start for home. Brother Simeon carries them to Troy to take the canal.
Thursday: Today I took my two wheel carriage and carried my wife and daughter Charlotte to Jesse Egleston’s to the funeral of Aunt Abigail Egleston, age 93 years. I called to Hiram W. Brown’s to a political meeting.
Friday: Today I went to Pittsfield with my single wagon and carried about 14 bushels of apples and sold twelve bushels at 33 cts per, cash, and carried two bushel to the blacksmith which pays him for shoeing my horse the other day.
Tuesday, Nov 7: I went to election to Hiram W. Brown.
Thursday: We made cider and I took the ox team and carried Wm. Gat three quarter-barrels of cider.
Friday: I took the single wagon and went to Pittsfield with apples – 13 bushels. I sold eleven bushels at 37 cts and two bushels at 33 cts per. I bought tea and raisons, codfish and candle wicking and writing paper. I paid the cash to West and Tracy’s store for three bushel salt at 50 cts per. I paid ten cents for two pounds nails. Today some stormy.
Tuesday: Today I took my two wheel carriage and rode to Berlin to see Lotridge but he was not to home and I returned home. I called to Nicholas Gardner’s and took supper and fetched Charlotte home. I left her there while I went to Berlin and left my wife to Philander Hatch’s until I returned.
Wednesday: This evening I and my son Geo P. rode to Hancock and I carried the saddler Wells a barrel cider and I bargained with him to make me a gig harness with plain trimming for 21 dollars and to pay him in barter except what he pays for stock and trimmings.
Thursday: Today Henry Lyons helped me butcher a beef and credit him for the same for cider 50 cts.
Friday: Today I took my one horse team and carried three quarters beef to Hancock and Wells had one half beef and tallow, 220 pound at 4 cts and he credited me for the hind quarter 108 pounds that the tanner Mason had at 3 dol and seventy five cts per cwt, and the whole amount that Wells credit me for beef and hide is 13 dol and fifty seven cts.
Saturday: Today I went to Pittsfield with a single wagon and carried a fore quarter of beef without the tallow weight 103 pounds, and sold it for cash two dollars and 56 cts, and I sold nine bushels of apples for two dol and 87 cts cash.
Sunday: Today I walked to Berlin to what is called Hammond Village. I went to see the Lawyer Lotridge to know what way to proceed to sell a certain lot of land that Nathan Howard had secured to me for being obligated and paying a debt for Samuel Holcomb. I went on Sunday to see Lotridge because I had failed in finding him to home on week days.
Monday: Today I banked up the house. Today the school teacher George Maxon began to board with us.