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George Holcomb

The Life Of George Holcomb

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Unsatisfactory Tradesmen; Legal Papers Filed

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

Monday July 15, 1844: I called to Sylvenas Carpenter the second and got nine of my cheese boxes that he fetched for me from Pittsfield.

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George Prepares A Lawsuit

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

Friday, July 12, 1844: I walked over to Simeon Wylie’s to find out if he knew of any of Gillett Goodrich’s hands would testify that I gave my consent to have one of the sills cut into and only a part of the sill put under my Rodgers house.

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A Journey To Vermont Is In Vain

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

Monday, July 8, 1844: On this morning I and my son Geo P we started for Vermont to look for a match colt that we were recommended to look of by John Covey.

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

Finishing The Two Wheel Carriage

Wednesday, May 29, 1844: I stayed three hours in Albany to see the funeral procession of the Colonel who fell in the battle at Sackett’s Harbor in the late war which was 30 years ago and his remains were fetched to Albany and interred in the front of the Capitol. I returned across the river to Bath. Ferrage both ways, 4 cts. [Read more…] about The Life Of George Holcomb