Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

Miss Sarah Crews Dr

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Alexander A S Garotte

By making 1 coat & 2 pair pantaloons making 3 pr pantaloons out of nanki[?] & 2 pair Drawers making 1 Bombazete Coat -- 12/- making 1 Home Spun

By making 1 frock coat @ 15/- making 2 pr. Pantations making 2 pair Pantaloons @ 6/- making 1 pair Plantations - 4/6 amount carried to folio (6)

Pannill & Dickenson By 1 Looking Glass SEnt me by Mr Wyatt (Small)

E. Y. Wimbish By 1 pr Spectacles — 5/3 Cndry Goods as pr Bill paid in full [todo]

Abram Neale

Abram Neale

To vamping & mending shoes new Bottoming my Boots

To PL Grasty for this sum paid him in full of my a/c PRect in full

To P. L Grasty for this sum paid him in full of yr acct agst me pRect

To this sum settled with PL Grasty in full of yr a/c agst me as pr a/c & Rect

To this sum paid the Ertx of P L Grasty decsd in full as pr Rect 2½ Bush

Dr Mrs Lucy A Clement Cr

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1817 Aug 21 Peaches Started to lay out[?] My waggon loaded for old place[?] my kids[?] Bill[?] [?] sick till midnight Monday night when I got home from [?] [?] fine growing pot. Plister[?] on some tobacco in[?] lot of season[?] on some, [?] it up after plowing [?] in sorghem [?] it some [?][?][?][?] oat]?] late in evening [????]Days[?][?] pasture th there[?] home[?] [???] little last night, noticing[?] [???]__bacco has [?] awhile this morning [????]at this time [??] peaches [?] but

1872 Janry 8th Pork hung ^up to day 12 Shoulders 12 Hams 12 midlings 36 ps 12 " 12 " 12 " 36 ps 12 Joles & Some Chene 12 84 ps beside Joles &C Janry 8th 1872 Hung up this 8th Janry 1871 Killed 1 little Beef & got a Stall Cow Cherry up now & Expect to Kill her Shortly, Killed her this 15th Janry 1872 Weighed 280 lbs Salted in Smoke^house Kill last Decr 1 Hog & 3 or 4 Shoats weighing about 200 lbs & Salted them

1872 Feby 1st Hung up 7 ps of last Killing & Bot 2 good Hams of Mrs Wyatt & them up Weighing 30 lbs @ 10 ¢ now Smoking them

1872, Feby 29 Took down our Bacon today Hams in Box ^Hhg in Smoke house 15 ps Midlings in Box ^hogshead D^o D^o 20 ps Shoulders in HhC D^o D^o 19

54 ps in HhC Hams in Box in Smoke House 10 ps Midlings in Box in D^o D^o 6 ps Joles in Box in D^o D^o 12 ps Shoulders in Box in D^o D^o 7 ps in all took down 89 ps

1872 March 14th Mr Sam Mattherly began to work on my Shed at Granary & stable

March 14th Worked 1 day 15th Mar worked 1 day 2

— 18. Worked 1 day 30 " Worked 3 days this week 4½

April 2 Here to day 1- 3rd ^April worked 1 day 2

— 4. Worked 1 day 1. 8th worked pt of this day 2

" " 9 Worked on Shed 1 10 D^o D^o 1 day 2

" " 11 here to day 1- 12 D^o D^o 1 day 2

" " 13. here to day ½ - 18 D^o D^o 1 day 1½

" " 19 -- -- 1. 20 D^o D^o 1 day 2

[torn corner]here to day finished & Entered

1870 List of Tobacco stacks Cut & Hung made by JWGraves & Sam Gilbert in year & Housed in New prixze barn Sept 21st & 22nd 1870 First Cutting 20th Cut & House mine^{fresh ground}300 Stacks D^o 21. out of new ground 56 " [JWG's signature ] 1871 April 5th Lent Jacob P Graves one large 2 Inch Auger 1 Broad Chissel 1 Hand Saw 1 Broad axe 1 X ^returnedcut saw 1 Square, Iron, 1 foot adds 1 trowel

13th ^I Lent Jacob again this morning 1½ Inch Auger - 1 Chissel 1 Pad Lock Straw Bed 1 Shirt 1 Comfort 1 Tray 1 Skillet ^{& lid} 4 Tin plates 2 Cups 2 Tea spoons 2 Knives & forks & give him some Irish Potatoes & Lent him also 1 wood Bucket give him a Basket also April 29th lent Jacob [lost in margin] Jack [illegible]

[damaged] Cut & put in the above house out 21st Sept 1870 out of fresh ground – 256 sticks

1871 Novr 15 Memorandum of weights of Hogs Killed this day Killed 1 little Beef & sold ¾ Kept _{1 quarter} 1 House Hog weighed 165 1 D^oD^o D^o 160 1 Hog been in woods out 75 1 D^o D^o 60 1 D^o D^o 80 1 D^o D^o 100 640 640 lbs

1871 Nov 29 Hogs Killed Very last salted up 1 Hog Weighing 90 1 D^o D^o 80 1 D^o D^o 110 1 D^o D^o 133 1 D^o D^o 80 1 D^o D^o 75 Salted this day 568 lbs

Killed 1871 Novr 1208 lbs 150 1358 lbs

1871 Decr Killed Sow & 3 Shoats weighing at least 150 lbs & salted up in Smoke House Entered [torn page corner] the other side 2 [torn page corner]

1869 Aug 14 Due Doron Hunt for his work $1.80 " " "Cash paid him this day 25 Due Doron Hunt $1.55

Oct 26 Plowed 1 day 15¢ 28th Plowed 1 day 15 30

29 Plowed 26 & 30th making 4 days this week 60 2.45 Cash pd Sallie for you 5 Novr 1st Plowing 1 day 15¢ settled 2.40

1869 Novr 18th John Keatts began to work on Hou[se] at Mountain Spring Hired Sam Roper to help Cut Logs Hired Sam Gilbert & Sam Mattherly help Mr Keatts finished the House & my My Cash Book will Show what I paid, $3.50 Mr Keatts has been at work on the house & Mountain Spring ever Since Christma till this 20th Janry 1870, Since X is my time above 3 weeks, what I have paid this time I put at $10 which he will have to pay [page damaged] lives there 1876 agreeable to Contract & build & Cover the Kitchen

1869 Oct about the first ^{this month} I hired Jorden Pa[lost in margin] to fallow up Lot & we Sewed 3 Bushels toll Come from Shields Say 3 1 Bushels

Oct 28th Sewed toll Come from Hodnetts 2 Bushels & By the side of that Sewed the Lot ½ Bushel more of toll Come from Irbys] 6 ^sewedB[lost in margin] Sewed in ps] of Tobacco Land where we had where this year 1869 Bushels making in all sewed

The question has been asked of old why Woman was made of one of mans Ribs. answer She was not taken from the head of man lest She Should rule over him, not from the feet of man lest he should trample upon her, but she was taken from his Side, that she might be equal with from him from under his arm that he might Protect her, from near his Heart that might cherish and love her [JWG's signature] J.W.G

1874 Janry 15th Hung up our 4 first Hogs Killed 9th Nov 1873 as follows 8 Midlings 8 Hams & 7 shoulders & 4 Joles 27 ps

Feby 13 Took down the above meat --smoked 7 Hams 7 Shoulders 14 ps 7 midlings 3 Joles all but Joles ^{put up stairs} 10 ps " Hung up 6 Hogs Killed 1st Janry 1874 24 ps " 12 Midlings 12 Shoulders 12 Hams 36 ps 6 Joles took down 6 ps 42 ps

1873 Feby 26 Hog Killed this day weighing about 130 lbs salted up 2 midling 2 Hams 2 Shoulders 1 Joles 7 ps in salt

1874 Mar 1 Tobacco striped by Ed Dews in 1874 E D old prize Barn 38 Second rate 20 Geo 84 Good --- 25 Lugs 34 Lugs 30 Entered on Book 10