Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1845 June 18 Working Out Our Garden & hilled up Our Pea Patch etc

1845 June 17th Tuesday Mr. Johnson came here last evening & began to work for me this day - at $1 [six?] shilling per day 6/- June 19th A fine shower of Rain

1845 June 19 Planting Tobacco, expect to get over once Tomorrow & Replant Weather Warm,- Hilling up Corn by Malissas House & back of Garden

20th Finished planting and replanting tobacco this day & began again at Ten Oclock to cut wheat

22. An Elegant Rain & on 23 we replanted over again, cleaned off wheat yard

24. Plowing & Halling up wheat 25 Hilling up cotton etc etc Mr Johnson is about to finish covering passage this day. pulled up a part of our flax yesterday

26. hard rain & wind on yesterday. sewed Buck wheat this day — pulled up flax —

1845 June 28th. Mr. Johnson is this day finishing off the Comb of Brick House which Moon & Irby half done. Mr Johnson says he thought they knew how to comb off a House better than they did mine - he took off 4 Courses of shingles & is putting on 4 to stop the leak which is owing to bad shingling. The valley boards between old House & passage which Moon & Irby put up & the weather boarding on passage is taken off & done over by Mr Johnson, who says they were no valley boards at all merely a little thin piece of plank put under the shingles with a little groove on it which is not worth a cent — Chopping over corn this day on mountain Sewed turnips in garden about 26th or 27th Inst.

30. Halling up wheat, finishing laying by corn with plows this day -

July 3 Worked out Tobacco on Branch near house, began to Top tobacco Mr Murphys Nat Spencer & 2 white began to Plaster House or getting lathes this morning, began to cut oats 2nd July

3rd cutting oats tho cloudy & like for rain