ENNovember 3, 1856 (& Oct. 27-31) - November 5, 1856
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1856 Monday 3rd Rained as hard as I ever
I saw it but Once in my life stayed &
Tuesday Election day it Rained in morning
I arrived at strait stone by 12 Oclock
acted as Commissioner & then got home by night
in the rain found all well at home
Thanks be to God
4th Election over at S.S. F. & A J D 22
Buchannon & B. 50 — Worked done in the
above time
27th Faned out wheat Fed & Sandy fired Toba
the rest commenced working on Ice pond pomd
Henry Jordan & Lowry Plowing - Henry
got out Guano & wheat say
28th Fed etc opening Drains, claiborne etc
Picking out cotton —
29th Fed etc Grubing in new ground Henry &
Plowing finished picking cotton
30 Lowry etc Plowing Jordan gone to
Mill finished sewing other Johns Branch
alse etc grubing claiborne etc cutting
31 Fed etc grubing Jacob etc cutting Henry
etc Plowing — Wyatt & Sandy getting
Shingles all the week
Henry Sewing wheat sawing etc — this evening
Novr 1st Henry Jordan etc Plowing balance
Corn, Halled Load corn shucked it out
& put it Halled wheat etc —
2 Sunday Pleasant day
3. Shoemaking making Brooms etc etc
4 Striping Jacobs Tobacco - etc -
5 Cutting & Grubing in new grounds
Shoemaking Mr wyatt getting shingles
with Henry. Cleared of[f] very cold
this morning ground very wet
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Notice that the entries go from Nov. 3rd, 4th, then back to Oct 27. It is possible JWG is recording the work done while he was traveling from Oct. 26 to Nov. 1. and even while he was at Straight Stone on the 3rd.
entry on the 4th: I can't understand F. & JD 22; Buchanon & B.? 50. Are these two people running together? Is "JD" JD Hunt?
Could the entry on the 4th be a reference to the 1856 Presidential Election counts at Straight Stone? Democrats James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge were running against Republicans John C. Frémont and William L. Dayton and also Know-Nothings Millard Fillmore and Andrew J. Donelson
"Buchannon & B" could be Buchannan and Breckinridge. "F & J. D" could be Fillmore and Donelson. The Wikipedia Article on Donelson doesn't mention anything much that might explain the J, but I could ask a colleague who's written on Donelson about the reference.
Got it -- It's not "& J. D.", it's "A. J. D.", which is definitely Andrew Jackson Donelson.
Wonderful! That would have never occurred to me.