January 11, 1863 - February 7, 1863

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11 & 12th. Went to meeting 11th Cutting & Halling wood
Sent to Mill 12th 10 Bus. Corn for meal

13. 14. 15. Cut wood at at Hancocks to burn plant
Bed fencing & Plowing on Creek & finished
down there to day & began to clear in old fieldto day –
Kitty cleaning up along road fence –

16 17. 18th & 19 - I went to Court. Sunday Come back
Monday night. Our folks cutting in pines to day

21st. Sent 2 Bags seed Cotton 55. lbs 56 lbs grass to Millers
Hanging up our meat in part to day
Rained & snowed last night striped Tobacco.

24. Halling Logs to Mill & leaves & wood. Sent
claiborne to Francis Blanks s to roll Logs
Sent 1½ Bbl Corn for meal, & one for overseer.
Cloudy to day - Aunt Filles & Nancy sick at
old place – yesterday I went to plantation
& Post office, etc. they have carrd 7 Logs to
Millers Mill from Plantation & 1 to Yates for me

Janry 24 Carrd to Whiteheads or Keans 5 Logs to day
Turn Corn for meal & 1 for overseer Neal.
Recd meal & this 25th Card 4 Logs morge [more?] 2 Oak 2 Pine

26 Halling wood malling wood & Rails & shrubing
new ground to day sent claiborne to A Scruggs
to Roll Logs making 2 days he has rolled

[2]8 & 27th. Snowing & Halling these Two days & on the
29th. Snow about 12 or 14th Inches Deep We are
striping Tobacco. Two days –

Feby 5th. From the 29th Janry it has snowed Twice been
snow ever since last night snow 6 Inches Deep now.
raining snowing & hailing dreadfull weather
We have been getting wood Cutting one day & strip
ing Tobacco most of the time, - shucked corn broke
flax, & expect to continue to break f[l]ax & swingle

6th. this day as we no Tobacco to strip hang our
meat up sometime ago. Smoking that —

Saturday 7th went to meeting Sunday staid at home

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fransalman

January 24: the word in question must be "more," but the "g" in the word that JWG wrote is quite clear.