July 22, 1861 - July 28, 8161

E. G Lewis caught Jim & Jordan lashed them come
on home gone about 7 Hours the other patrollers
were to go up above agreeable to promise,-

[2]2nd Raining all day prized Tobacco, Mr Chumney shoe
making Henry making a Basket Balance Picking
Our wool Turned cooler - a little

[2]3rd Covered old Corn House to day working on
Barn or Granary Halled 1 Load wood Halled out
2 Loads manure on Turnip Patch Plowed that
went to Chalk Level got 1 Lock for Granary & 14 lbs nails

[2]4 Raised Granary clem spining all day, got
hand from Mr Hunts place 1 from Hodnetts 1 from whitehead
from my plantation James Kelley did not Send altho
owes me 3 days work or more.-

25th Mr Chumney & Bob at work on Granary balance
at work in Tobacco, Henry gone to Mr Millers
with a Log for sheeting & then,
Mrs Hunt went to Mrs Coleman with Mary Hunt & another
^{hilling up Sweet Potatoes}this evening
Henry carried one Log 14½ feet ^long had it sawed & bro^t home
[in margin] pieces, nearly 12 & 14 Inches made a little upwards
of 200 feet bro^t from Millers for granary -
After he come home he went to whiteheads &
[?]32 feet sheeting from there,-

[2]6 finished stacking Oats put ^up Eight stacks here
Cut pig & Turned in Pasture all in the pens except
one & 1 pig to to Kill

[2]7 Finished working out old field Tobacco fixing
Bridge at Spring, gathering clover seed chumbley
gone to Chalk Level Henry gone to Millers Mill
Carried 1 Log for sheeting & to get it & 2 Turns
meal there for us. - went Patrolling last night none
[in margin] but Chumbly & Bybee Raining a little & me returned,
& are to go out Sunday morning

[2]8th Chumbly Bybee & myself Patroled yesterday from 10 Oclock
in morning till 5 or 6 in evening going to a great many
places finding all right, - the others done but little so Cap^t
whitehead told me.