Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1846 Jany 26th Finished cutting I expect to day & then striping Tobacco ———

27 Began to mall in new ground Phil & Fed Henry gone to shop with^Cart Lila & alse finishing striping in the Middle Barn

28. 2 Hands getting gate Post Fed malling alse & Lila stacking wood Mr Myers came here last night & set in this morning to set up Tobacco Hh^ds my wife & F.W. at Mrs Hunt last night & went to Doct Sutfins Beautifull weather about this day

29 Weather moderate, cloudy - Halling up gate Post towards granary Malling in new ground & Piling wood

30 Malling & Henry gone to mill & got 74 feet Hh^d heading

31 Henry & Phil gone to Shields to roll Logs Balance took down Tobacco nearly all day Feby 1st cloudy this morning & like for falling weather my wife gone to Prayer meeting Mr Myers set up 2 Hh^ds & gone home 17 Lambs in Jany lost 5 —

2nd Malling Halling up Tobacco – 3rd Henry Halled wood this day

3. Malling & Prized Tobacco

4th Still fine weather clear Lila been Plowing all this week, Prizing^{to day} Lugs _Lugs malling in new ground — Halled a stack oats yesterday 3rd

13th Rained hard till 12 Oclock & then broke off Cool, we did do much out this day

14 Housing Tobacco & shoemaking

15 gone to Mr. John D Hunts to get apples to put up for winter = ground still full wet to sew wheat — = Picking out cotton

16th Sewing wheat in fresh ground next to orchard - spreading f[l]ax to rot 16 Sewing wheat in fresh ground next^orchard

17. D^o D^o & spreading out flax cutting down corn stalks next to middle^barn

18. Sunday S.S. meeting clear fine day

19. Finished sewing wheat in Granary lot & Killed Beef. weighed 200 lbs

20 Digging sweet Potatoes large frost & up for seed 1 Bbl in closet & Box & Bbl in stack ——— Top stack

21. Sewing wheat in fresh ground & putting up apples & Irish Potatoes

22nd Finishing fresh ground^sewingwheat & Pulling corn & halling wood

23. ^{sewed square opposit[e] to middle Barn}My wife taken sick before day this morning & about 8 Oclock in morning had her second children ^{Doct Sutphin & Mrs. Neal here} Girl Pulling & halling corn out of Big field left hand side of Path towards Barns —

24 Halling up corn etc —25th Sunday

26 Halling up corn & finished the big field

27. Shucking & Housing corn — & had at night a Shucking & finished

28 & 29th Finishing Housing^Corngot big corn House nearly full & short corn to Fatten Hogs & cutting down & getting up corn stalks to sew wheat —

30 Halling corn stalks & began t[o] Break up ground for wheat

Dr Henry Smith Cr

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Dr Doctor John Sutphen Cr

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