July 11, 1861 - July 21, 1861
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1861 Thursday 11th Hilling up Cotton & Prizing tobacco
this evening. claiborne & Bob rounding & Jointing shingles
12th Plowing corn Prizing Tobacco & Hilling up
Cotton, I went with Mrs Hunt to her old place
13th. Finished prizing Tobacco & Plowing & cleaning
out Corn & give negroes Holiday - I went to meeting SS
14th clear day, cool weather indeed –
15 Sent all our hands this morning to aspen Grove
to help work out Cotton & Tobacco except Bob & clem
they worked in Tobacco here, charles went with me
to CH to see his mama
16th this morning threatening to rain, ready to hall
up wheat, Henry sick to day
17th Finished Halling up wheat out of Lot
& part in fresh ground - Rained in evening
18 Finished Halling up wheat & Halled up
some oats to day weeding Lot Tobacco
Started Bob after Pride down at Mr Richards
Claiborne gone to Mrs Fitzgeralds went after
her steer yesterday at 12 oclock & up there
this morning & will work there till Friday
evening. We are weedingHilling updown Tobacco
ground dry, weather cool, nights & morning
made cow pen on roads by barn
Started Bob this Thursday morning after
Pride at Mr Richards –
19th Plowing & Hilling up Tobacco Claiborne
Henry in House yet Bob gone to Charlotte
after Pride I went to Plantation to day
20th Rained last night & this morning I was Patrolling
till 2 oclock & Rained from then till sometime in
morning Bob & Pride come in night to night
replanted Tobacco this morning Plowing & Hilling
up Tobacco fine growing weather now
21st Mr Bybee Chumney & myself went Patrolling caught 4 negroes
1 at Kelleys with a Pass, 1 Mr Hubbards Socky at JP Lewis s
carried her to Doct Estes, give her ten lashes stayed at
Prayer meeting, went to Mr Millers Plantation & to Mr
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