August 4, 1862 - August 26, 1862

1862 augt 4th Finished Plowing Corn Plowing & Hilling up
Tobacco in fresh ground Hot weather Cutting out clothes at old ^Place

5. Finished Plowing Tobacco & Garden & Finished up
Our Fresh ground Tobacco. Sewed Turnip in
Tobacco & Garden, - fair Hot weather

6th. Halling Rocks for chimney & sand - to day
Rained in evening pretty hard. - -

7th augt. Halling Sand all day Sent 3 Horses to Mrs Miller
nailing 3 pr shoes 2 new pair one on Fill & one on Bill before[front legs]
carried one oak Log to Mr Millers mill.

8th Halling Bricks for chimney to day claborne my
Boy & Henry of the Est. of Jno D Hunts gone to Salt. work,
to Cut wood for Salt. Mr John Word Manager for us all^{17 hands gone}

9th. Toping worming & succoring Tobacco - to day
Covering Plant with Brush putting up fence at new ground
took Bees last night Small turn out, Hot weather

11th. John Clark came here to work on chimney
Taking down tobacco this morning fine
Rain last evening - ground wet enough
Sent John Hodnett by Girl 56 bags for Government

12 Sent Ja^s Kelly 25 - prizing Tobacco, John Clark
last ½ the day nearly for Rain this evening

13th. my wife & sallie went to see Fannie & Kate
I went to strait stone to see about [sm?ing] wheat
Mr Dejarnett about apple mill & then to Plantation
& Post office & then home Prizing our Tobacco
Topping worming & succoring Tobacco to

14 Prizing Tobacco making fence around
Granary. worming & toping over –

15th. Nobody met but 3 to drive mountain for runaway
went over Corn, went to Pannills quarter 2 Mr Harry
to get hands to work on road tomorrow.

22nd. got up & Beet some apples. wormed over & succoring
& topping Tobacco now rained last evening & Sal
& me got caught last night after dark in a Rain

23rd. I went to old Place to see Crop, Miss S McCullock
gone this evening, beeting apples to day

24 Finishing prizing Tobacco mending waggon tonight
Beeting apples, one of my hogs come home this morning
Beeting apples, - I went to Plantation & P.O –

²⁵26²⁵ We are cutting down weeds, working on road
this morning fine Rain yesterday Sunday –

26th. John Clark commenced again this morning
went to Plantation got sheep - corn sheller [shattered?] Co[rn]
etc from there carried Wyatt’s tools home & my Boar