ENMarch 3, 1859 - March 10, 1859
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1859 March 3rd Sent to Mill for overseer
Brought Turn meal for us left his there
we Thrashed Out one stack Oats
4th Mr Roby quit on acct of no coal about 3
Oclock Halling leaves wood Claiborne malling
Covered Potatoe Patch halled leaves in
Big lot & Corn field, I went down to Yates
Mr Lewis’s & aspen Grove, fine windy day
My Boar gone Two or Three weeks –
5. Winding & Cleaning Oats to Sew. Henry
laying off Corn Land claiborne beding
Fencing etc etc Mr W Chumbly & Balance
This day Swapted off Rose with Tom
Owen for a Jenny named Jane & her
Jenny Colt. Jenny about 4 yrs old little
Colt about 4 or 5 months old,–
jenny is a female donkey
6th. Beautiful day & all gone to Edge Hill to
meeting but myself,- weather moderate
7th Jonathan Dawson came here very tight last
night & stayed all night, very sick from it -
This morning about light it commenced
raining all morning till 12 then we were
Shelling Corn & fixing plows & Harrow to Plank
Corn, in evening pulled down & Halled old
shop to burn etc etc etc Jacob left this
evening with Mr Moses,
8 Nanny & Kate Sallie & negro Catham went
to Doct Thompsons got some teeth drawn &
wewere fixing overseers Garden etc till night
9th Finished overseers Truck Patch this morning
Squared barn Logs & Plowing for Oats in
big Lot fine weather
10th Plowing for Oats & fencing Began this
morning to Sew Oats, Jacob commenced
Plowing this morning. Here fine weather
I went yesterday to Aspen Grove gave out
Notes and Questions
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5th: A Jenny is a female donkey, I believe; however, a Jenny Colt doesn't make sense.
9th: A truck patch (I think this term has been used elsewhere in the diary) is a small vegetable garden, I believe.
Line 31: Mr Moses might refer to either William Moses or his brother Jacob Moses. William Moses marries Fannie in 1869. Jacob Moses marries Fannie's sister Catherine (Cate, Kate)