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The Life Of George Holcomb

January 14, 2021 By steve bradley Leave a Comment

Another Trip North To Buy Sheep

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Saturday, Sept. 28, 1849: This evening I carried potatoes and apples in the celler and on this evening my two sons watched to catch the dogs that killed two of my sheep on my Rodgers farm but no dogs came.

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The Life Of George Holcomb

December 19, 2020 By steve bradley Leave a Comment

A Lost Umbrella

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Friday, July 27, 1849: I and my son Geo P. went to Pittsfield, each a one horse wagon with new potatoes and we both carried seventeen bushels.

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The Life Of George Holcomb

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The Widow Perry’s Hay

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Monday, July 2, 1849: This morning I rode down with Geo P to the widow of Abner Perry’s and Geo P. bargained with her for the grass in her two meadows.

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The Life Of George Holcomb

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Charlotte’s Court Is Postponed

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Monday, June 18, 1849: Today I took my one horse wagon and carried four of my meanest pigs to Pittsfield and sold them for one dollar apiece.

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The Life Of George Holcomb

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Geo P. Defends Himself

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Saturday June 2, 1849: Today while Geo P. was plowing out his nursery on R. G. Pierce’s farm James B. Chapman insulted him by taking his horse by the bits and then kicking the horse, which startled the horse and broke the harness.

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The Life Of George Holcomb

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Shingling The New Hog House

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Sunday, October 8, 1848: This morning Geo P. took the two wheel carriage and rode to Doctor Right and he came up to my wife for she is taken with a relapse of the disentery.

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Charlotte’s Shopping Spree In Albany

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Monday, July 10, 1848: On this forenoon I and my two sons dug ten bushels new potatoes and this afternoon I went to Pittsfield with them.

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Shearing The Sheep

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Friday, June 9, 1848: This morning I took my one horse wagon and carried 17 fowl to Lord’s on Pool Hill at 1/6 apiece and I carried Ludwick Babcock one bushel corn.

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John F.’s Scarecrows Don’t Work

by George Holcomb • Transcribed by Betty McClave • Edited by Alex Brooks

Monday, May 15, 1848: This morning at one o’clock I took my one horse wagon and Charlotte with me, we went to Troy.

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