Thursday June 21, 1855: This forenoon John F. went with his horse and wagon and Charlotte E. to Latham Ville, he went to see to his sheep, and this afternoon he was unwell and he only cultivated a few potatoes and did chores.
Friday: I am quite lame, I only tended to a few chores and John F. unwell, he did not do anything, and today Edward Hatch and Patrick Rafferty and Francis Merrivill hoed potatoes in the young orchard til four o’clock, then it rained.
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George Holcomb
Moving The Barn
Friday, June 15, 1855: This morning I took my horse and wagon and carried the Shaker and one of his jacks home, and John F. paid him for his day’s work two dollars. On the way home I called to the widow Broad’s to see if I could get Mr. Holdridge to help move the barn, I tried to get Jonathan Gillet and Judah Rowley but could not. Ezekiel Goodrich and Sylvenas Carpenter came before noon and stayed till night, and John Cohklin came in the afternoon, our own help, the same as yesterday that is Geo P. and Edward Manning and a new hand Irishman, name I did not learn, and our hired men Patrick, Edward and Michael, and John F. quit toward night, he was unwell. We moved the barn today, the width of it. This morning John F. rode up Goodrich Hollow after help.
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George’s Last Birthday – He Turns 64
Thursday, June 7, 1855: Quite a rainy day. Today my two sons washed their sheep, Geo P. and hired man Edward Manning and John F. hired man Patrick Rafferty washed said sheep and John F. and hired boy Allen Smith put them in the water and then John F. put his sheep in the widow Freelove Wylie’s pasture near Sq Leland Sheldon’s, he had bargained with James M. Glass for to hire said pasture, they washed sheep in the river that Adams Mill stands on near.
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John F. Mysteriously Unwell
Monday, May 7, 1855: Today John f. and Patrick got timber from Geo P. hill and Patrick bruised his leg with a skid and John carried him home at night. Today Edward Jolls scored timber and Michael Manning scored half a day and Lias Jones hewed timber.
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Beginning A New Barn
Friday, April 27, 1855:: Today Geo P. went with two horse team and John F. went with his two horse to Pittsfield and they carried fruit trees and John F. returned home by sunset.
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The Fruit Tree Business
Monday, April 16, 1855: This forenoon Geo P. rode one of John F. horses to the Shakers to count the fruit trees he had bought of them, and this afternoon Geo P. starts for Troy to buy fruit trees to carry on north where he has engaged a selection of fruit trees. He is going from Troy to Cambridge to take up a nursery that he had bought.
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Doctor’s Diagnosis: “Strained Nerves”
Saturday April 7, 1855: Geo P. wife and Sarah O went to Doctor Dickerson’s to have Mary’s tooth pulled but the doctor was not home but he called before night and pulled Mary’s tooth, and this afternoon Colonel Tanner the butcher of New Lebanon called and paid John F. one hundred and seventy dollars for a pair of fat oxen that he bought of his uncle Samuel Beers last fall, and this evening John F. walked to his uncle Beers and paid him for the oxen which was 98 dollars and four dollars interest, and stayed there tonight.
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Geo P.’s Kitchen Ceiling Falls Down
Wednesday, March 28, 1855: John F and Patrick bought and fetched home Patrick calf at two dollars, it was two weeks old. This evening Geo P. returned home from the north, he had to bargain to sell trees. Today I did but a few chores for I slipped down and lamed my right side yesterday.
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John F. Buys Cows
Saturday, March 10, 1855: Today John F. and Patrick Rafferty walked to the north part of the town and John F paid to the widow Green thirty two dollars for a cow and twenty two dollars for a heifer and drove them to the Rodgers farm.
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Patrick Moves In At The Rodgers Farm
Tuesday, February 27, 1855: John F. went with his two horse bobsled to Lebanon and called to Squ Wm. Hands and consulted him concerning getting Edgar Brown to move out of our Rodgers house. Geo P. went to Pittsfield and bought sugar and oysters. There he met a boy by the name of Allen Smith, he came home with Geo P. to live with him, he came on trial. Said boy is from Windsor.
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