Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1st Febry 1842 I had been at the House & Eat Dinner on this day as I Started my son Jacob wish to go with me I told him he could not go with me My Dear Nancy had gone in the Kitchen to put a p^s of flax in the loom Jacob came in the House by himself & built a fire in a chair by the side of the Bed which burnt up the chair burnt all the coverleds ^someon the Bed & was burning the under bed & scorched the Bed burnt up my Wifes Bonnet & was very near burning up the House but was discovered by Malissa nothing else Seriously injured JWGraves