Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1846 Feby 21 Weather moderate snow melts smartly striping Tobacco on Hh^d Lug Tobacco ready to turn out

22nd Weather moderate snow melting very wet & sloppey my^wife Complain[in]g about this time her Birth Day —

28 Saturday the past week we have made our new ground fence go to mill Hall wood Turn out one Lug Hh^d Tobacco. the weather very cold, yesterday Friday we rolled our new ground Logs this day shelling corn gone to mill & cutting & malling up big pine beyond Turnip patch. Snowed last night about one Inch deep Thrashed out 1 stack oats this week 12 B Halled up one D^o to feed with sold Selam to Pidlar & traded for goods $20 for him

1st day March 1846 yesterday it began to rain & we were mending shoes making Rakes etc This morning Friday 1st day of March Dreadfull weather Trees hanging with Ice some snow on ground. Thank God we are all on foot lost nearly half of our Lambs only got 14 now.