December 6, 1856 - December 16, 1856

6 Decr 1856 Halled Mr Yates 1 Log &
Did not get any meal to day yesterday
Sent 2 Bags wheat for flour 5 Bushels
Fed alse & Kitty Grubbing Sandy & claiborne cutting
stacks & wood - Owe Mr Yates 2 logs now Small
= Jordan has not come back yet, ^{about 10 Oclock}Come back
Jacob Turning out his Hh^d Tobacco to day
etc Bro^t Scantling 1 Turn Chop stuff & 3 Turns
meal this morning & evening 1 D^o & left 2 of Corn & 5 of wheat
carried another log for Yates in evening & 2 Turns Corn
for meal standing Turns etc Sent 2 Logs this evening
making 3 trips to day last time 1 for Yates the other for
¾ Square Edged to be divided —

7th clear cool day being Sunday

8th Killed 8 Hogs this morning Cut them out
Salted them Grubing & Cutting at new ground
Halled up stack fodder this morning
Jacob fixed cart shelter etc etc etc

9th Grubing cutting & Halling wood - etc
waggon starts to Lynchg to day

15 The last week we have been to Lynchg
Carried Jacobs Tobacco & some for me & Turkeys
sold the sorry Lugs for $6¾. Turkeys 60¢ round
Cut & Grubed while we were gone, & striped
some Tobacco in new prize Barn, bot a
Carriage & Brought Home from school
She came to Lynchg last week say
about the 15th decemr 1856 - Did not
bring any of her accounts with her

16th Put Plank in Barn Cutting stacking
wood Fixing Corn & Cob Crusher to day
Malissa, Catharine Fannie Johnson &
Nelson I sent up to Fannie W Fitzgerald
to stay one year.