December 6, 1861 - December 17, 1861

to be sawed into square edge & Divide

6th Sent same day 2 Bags Cotton to Pick 102 lbs
bags & all, - & got slab Plank for steer stable -

7 Finished steer & cow shelters etc Halling wood
Sewed wheat where corn was in field
Cutting wood for Plant Bed -

8th Shrubing on Branch & Cutting in new ground

9th. Sent Henry to yates Mill after flour & meal
& then he went to Plowing on Branch Cutting
& fixing to burn Plant Bed left side of Road
Had to send claiborne after Rolands toll wheat

10 – Burning Plant Bed here & at aspen Grove
& at Mr Hunt Plantation to day
Henry Plowing this morning

11th. Sewed Plant Beds & covered here at aspen
Grove in slash & also one at Mr Hunts place
before Bybee moves at Hackworths,

12th. Shrubing & Plowing on Creek to day, Bybee
has moved & sent for Owen to day

13th Sent claiborne to day to John Hodnetts after
Pork for Mr Hunts Est. their teams gone after
Thomas Owen, nearly all day
Edward H Doss quit my business on Friday
the 13th without my consent & without giving
or having any understanding about it,-
Put up Still in House to day here,

14 Halled another stack fodder from Creek
Plowing & Halling wood Cutting –

15 went to Aspen Grove read to negroes etc
started to Court in evening –

16. at CH Chumbly made bolster to waggon
Henry Plowing balance cutting & Halling
wood to day ^17th chumbly going to move
to aspen Grove to day, expect to Kill
kill Hogs there in the morning

17. chumbly moved to day, delivered keys this evening
Cutting in new ground,