ENJuly 18, 1851 - July 31, 1851
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1851 July 18th Hilling up new ground Tobacco
Plowing Lots Tobacco - Dry & Hot
19th Plowing & Hilling up Lots of Tobacco, still Dry
& nights Hot went to Mrs McC 18th & to see Hester.
Sent Fed to mill 2 Turns of corn for me 1 for overseer
& also 3 Bushels wheat for overseer —
20 21 & 22nd Clear & dry & nights a little cool
21st 22nd Plowing & Hilling up fresh ground on mountain
Sent new waggon to shop again & Mrs Colmans Iron
Going to day to Mrs McC. to grastys & Rice & in the
route see about machine at Yates —
23rd Thrashing wheat & finished this day - Joel Hubbard
machine — fair & Dry — fixing to Thrash at Mrs
McCullocks, Keatts machine
24th going to carry the machine to Crew Miller
this morning Fed sick yesterday & done the wheatnothing in
choping in corn - finished Hilling up Tobacco [on?]
28th Halling Rock to build chimny to Henrys
House still cloudy & like for Rain, wind
Blew hard yesterday Sunday —
Malissas child a Girl was Born Thursday
morning before day Break say Juste after
midnight, on the 24th July 1851.
29th went to Colo Smiths Plantation & to Mrs McCullock
a little shower rain after I got home & in
the night it rained again Smartly, my the tooth achwife got
30 Cloudy & like for more rain, We are
Replanting our 2 Lots & fresh ground
to day - plants from Capt Fitzgerald quarter
31st Replanting in second yrs ground nearly
done will get done soon this morning
A Fine Rain last night, & still cloudy
J D owen went to Colo Dickinsons to get an overseer
place this day
augt 2nd now gone to Mr Watson Wamacks on same business
— 11 now gone to Wm Tuckers I don’t Know what for
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This page ends with entries for Aug. 2, Aug. 11, and Sept. 3. These must have been added here later on, because the next page begins August 1st and continues consecutively for more than 2 pages. Further, the entry for Sept. 3 later on notes that "Owen [is] gone."