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Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 3
October 13 - 30, 1846
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 nextorchard
17. Do Do & spreading out flax cutting down corn stalks next to middlebarn
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 groundsewingwheat & Pulling corn & halling wood
23. sewed square opposit[e] to middle BarnMy 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 HousingCorngot 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
December 11, 1846 - January 3, 1847
1846 Dec 11th Cutting & Grubbing in new ground
12. Same sort of work —
13 Sunday — 14th cutting & Grubing
15. Cutting and Grubbing —
16 Halling wood waggon & cart Grubing & cutting — began to snow about night
17. a dreadfull night Raining hailing & snowing — & Keeps at it all day — striping Tobacco Lila spining
18. Same striping Tobacco — Sent waggon & cart to saw & Gras[ty] Mills, short Log to be sawed into Hhd heading & the other into Hhds staves.
19. Cloudy & we all are cutting in new ground —
25. The weather generally cold & at this time cloudy Halled wood 24th etc etc
26 weather moderate & a fine day
27 cloudy this morning but not cold all of us went to Mrs Hunts Saturday in Christmas a fine day
28 Warm moderate 29 Still moderate 30 Still moderate & cloudy& cutting in new ground31 still moderate 1847 Jany 1st Still moderate & cloudyMrs Colemanwent to [asso?] Hung up Pork this day took down new ground Barn Tobacco yesterday Halled up Oats & straw about thistime cutting hill growth in new ground
2 Still cloudy & warm cutting
3 A little cooler but moderate yet my wife gone with Mrs Coleman to Mrs Hunt
Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 4
September 17 - October 2, 1847
17th Sept47 Began to Cutt Tobacco on Johns Branch wednesday evening 15th now Cutting on Spring Branch put up seven stacks fodder & some in house Went to Lynchg Last week & carried 27 B 24 lbs wheat & 1½ Bus Corn very wet time, sold wheat for 90¢ corn for 55¢
27 Since the Seventeenth we have finished our Blade fodder, 12 stacks 9 Double 3 Single & finished this morning finished cutting Tops Cured 600 Hundred Stacks Tobacco in prize Barn & Expect to begin to Lot Tobacco this evening, Several of our family have been sick, Jerry sick at this time Doct Thompson has been one visit & 2 Call visits to see him, Now he is mending - Thanks be God Weather warm & no frost yet, -Great deal of Tobacco to cut last week Talton worked on chimney 2½ or nearly
29 Weather a little Cool & yesterday
28 Cut Lot Tobacco 400 stacks - & this day Halling Tobacco in middle Barn & firing new ground & succoring Mr or Elder Joel Hubbards trial at Rices Meeting House this day
Oct 1st Weather warm Cured nearly 3 Houses 800 sticks in middle barn Tobacco & have Cut all but Lot & new ground clean -
Oct 2nd Halling up & stacking Top fodder gathering Beans Peas & snap seed, etc etc, carried the 1st of this week 2 Bbls Corn to mill for meal my wife gone to Mrs Hunts Jerry better
Oct. 2nd weather good & began to stack our tops this 3rd likely for Rain
October 4 - 26, 1847
1847 Oct 4 Stacking our tops Talton here finishing chimney — weather finebusinessfor
5. Housing lot Tobacco this day. —
6th Raining this day —
7 Thundered & Rained nearly all day & in the evening the most sever Thunder & lightening I most ever saw –
8th Turned cooler & the sun shining this morning ground very wet - etc etc
9 Went down with Talton to see Land cutting Our Buck wheat & housed Tobacco Second cutting - weather still moderate Our new ground Tobacco still standing nearly ½ of it.
11 began to Pull fresh ground corn, this morning cloudy & like for Rain, warm, Halled up 5 loads Corn yesterday, made 11 in fresh ground
15 Frost this morning cut all our Tobacco yesterday Hanging & Housing this day
16 sewed second years Tobacco Land in wheat - 3 bushels. Choping round the stumps & cutting off Bushes Housed 20 Barrels Corn
18 Plowing for wheat Housing Load corn fresh ground. Made 25 Bbls Digging sweet Potatoes this morning
19 weather fine about this time,-
23. 59 Bushels cleaned out, sold, in 2 Hhds & used together to this day
26th myself & wife & Jacob Jerry & Henry started for Orange went on by the way of Lynchg & Charlottesville had a good trip & got to my Fathers in Orange on Saturday before night. Jacob & myself went to Capt Boxleys on the 9th Nov 1847. We started back for home by the way of Louisa CH
Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 5
January 14, 1848-January 30, 1848
1848 Jany 14th Sent 1 Log 10 feet long for Hhds staves & also 3 Bushels wheat for flour, & after 3 Bags meal & 1 chop for cows Burnt last night cutting in new ground Jerry Smith on his hands etc etc.
15 Finished Cutting little growth in Small new ground this day - cloudy
16 Raining nearly all day this day
17 Cutting big growth on side Path going to Kings place - cold & cloudy
18. cutting in Ditto ———
19 Cutting & Halling wood Sent Henry Monday 17th to Mr Hunts for Iron to put on waggon wheels,
20th Cutting wood to burn plant Beds above our House & gone after waggon at shop weather Cold but fair, N my D. gone to MrsColeman
21 & 22nd Burnt & finished plant Bed above House, Largest one
23rd Beautiful day Sunday
24 Cutting up old Logs in new ground began to mall, treading out Buck wheat, cloudy & like for Rain 4 of our sows has 22 Pigs this day
25 cloudy this morning, sent Henry to mill with 20 Logs, Balance striping Tobacco sent 3 Bbl corn 2½ Bus. Buck wheat & ½ Bus for Homminy Finished striping new ground Barn done all but prize Barn - wood etc
28 Halling leaves & malling, piling
29. Malling, piling wood & Plowing weather windy & moderate
30 cloudy & cold - like for Rain or Snow.