Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

11th Oct Housing Tobacco firing etc -

12 ^{Sale of Mr Hunts Hunts Household property} Same work Cool weathering

13. Rained ^{& Mrs Hunts Land} went to meeting etc

14 Mr Moses Baptised^{gave an Experience}Raining all day & Baptised Sunday all came here Saturday night Sunday Raining all day

15 I went to Court firing Tobacco Cutting down & Plowing for wheat —

16th. delivered property to day not done

17. gathering apples Halled furniture from Mr Hunts place, shrubing Halling wood

18 Halling wood Halled up our old Blade fodder & 1 stack Oats & 1 Load leaves Malled up some wood & I went to aspen Grove, cloudy nearly all Capt clements Daughter Buried here this evening

19th Raining this morning & very cold got out Peas firing Tobacco & making Baskets & Jobing about got our apples in Granary yesterday or day before Diging [H] in Barn to put up apples

20. Raining again putting up Irish Potatoes & apples to day in cellar & Barn. Sent to Mill this morning checking stables Let Buck Jerry Smith Lila Jordan & Lowry have Soles Buck & Lowry Caps firing Tobacco

21st stayed at home all day nannie went to Mrs Colemans, tolerable day

22. Began to sew wheat Digging Sweet Potatoes etc I went to see Edd — Mr Bybee has put up Sweet Potatoe seed & also the Estate of J D Hunt If they Keep I am to have seed from Mr Bybee We ran 3 Plows to day charley Plows well

22nd Finished shucking corn what we had up, etc

23 Let Mr Burroughs have my hides again. he got six hides one Rat Eaten his Rec^t only for 5. error, I Know he got six because we lost 3, 2 milch cows & my Bull & Killed 3 Beefs. this I know Housing corn & stacks, Raining this morning a little, — we finished Housing corn all that halled up, & done all but Peach Orchard. Henry making loft to stable, put Plank in Corn House & Granary.

24th Cleared off very cold & windy last night to day cutting & malling wood & Halling fixed stable Loft, etc, I went to Mrs Colemans Mrs Hunt & Bob here, nearly every day this week, give out shoes to negroes

25. went to meeting at Strait Stone cold day not many persons

26th Halled up our Corn & finished shucking & Housing - this evening & Halled up stalks from fresh ground & sewed wheat looks very like for falling weather, my Boar spotted that was at JD Hunts plantation is now gone from there & I dont know where he is - I told Bob to get some Corn & fodder there to feed his Horses as Mr Bybee is complaining & I found him in Bed,

27 Shucking corn finished, Halled wood & Cut this day all day nearly

28th Raining nearly all day & we are striping Tobacco in Barn on Road -

29. Sent Smith to Chalk Level, Henry gone to Faris Mill 8 Bushels wheat & 1 Log to be sawed into sheeting & to get flooring Plank Bot at Colo Dickinsons sale

11th I went down to Plantation monday Henry went to Millers Mill got all my plank there, we have one Log at Yates

12th Began to Plow finished stilling only made last time about 15 Galls Sent Bob to Yates to get my Buggy mended Cutting Pines etc in old field to day – 3½ Gallons Brandy in runlet for FWF Cider Turned out very little - apples rotten The mare I Bot for Mr Hunts Est Died sometime the 1st of the fall

13 I went to Chalk Level to see Cap^t Tate but did not see him, got Blankets etc for myself & Est JD Hunt Due Henry went after waggon to move Mr Doss Plowing here rounding & Jointing Shingles Cutting down Pines Bob gone to Hubbards after corn for Rent

14 Gave Out negroes Blankets Little^Big Henry Smith claiborne & Clementina Milly Ann had^{Rhoda had one too} one in house here, Malissa Abram & Kitty at Plantation aspen Grove Little ^Henry Had a Hat, here & Lowry & Sandy at Plantation cold sure enough to night

15th. Snowed last night & till after 12 Oclock to day nearly ½ leg deep Sent Henry & claiborne after my Pigs got some of them Cap^t Tate & Jerry come here to day & Jerry went to Mrs Worshams to get his coat cut & made Bybee come to see about Plank Jerry staid all night still very cold & cloudy

16 at home all day cold snow near one foot Deep melted but little

17th. getting wood Bob has not been here more than one day in 10 days. halling

Janry 10th Sent Jerry Smith to Chalk Level. Mr Chumney gone to Plantation to make alse coffin & see about her, my wife going to Mrs Colemans to see Mattie who is sick we hear Our folks are cutting & malling wood Henry is Barking ribs this morning & then to cutting wood still cloudy & like for Rain, I am going to Mr Hunts place to sell Bed, bot by allen, & he fail[e]d to comply with turns of sale & then I want to go to aspen Grove to see about burying alse this morning she was buried Mr Chumney made coffin

11th Mrs Hargrave here last night & went home^{this morning} Raising cider house to day clem spining

12th. Mr Chumney looking for white sow this morning, cutting & malling & Halling wood to day cleaning of [f] Plant Beds to Burn, Halled up one Stack Oats yesterday I am going to meeting to day

13. went to meeting House to meeting

14th Hired Fannie & Johnson Fannie to Fannie W Fitzgerald for Valuals & clothes Johnson to Joseph M Moses on same terms all went from here yesterday evening This morning Hailing raining & freezing at night nearly still raining & freezing Bob & Henry making Brooms & claiborne Little Henry at work on Basket Smith picking Cotton Clem spining overseer made [ing] Blades & whitted saw - dolefull weather -

15 no better Rained all night & to day Our Dining room is nearly wet all over water standing fixed it to day shelled Corn & striped Tobacco in prize Barn, sent Jerry Smith|Smith]] to Mill,-

16th Rained nearly all night again, shelling & this morning still cloudy & like for Rain, cleared off

Halling wood, Claiborne Jointed some shingles Chumney & Jerry Smith at work on Kitchen Raining before night regularly – little Henry in House not much the matter tho taking Physic, I stayed at home all day

2nd Rained all night Raining this morning hard taking down tobacco in new prize Barn little Henry & his mammy in house Tobacco not hight enough to take down Just done to strip, did not get down any Rained all day Just about night,

3rd looked like clearing off sometimes to day toward evening cloudy & began to rain, & about 10 oclock in the night sunday began to snow sent for Doct AW Thompson for Betsy at JD Hunts place

4th. This morning snow about 3 Inches Deep not very cold, going to hang up Our meat to day – Doct A.W.T. staid all night This day is Election Day for members to convention at Richmond, Hung up 139 p^s Bacon & 23 Joles, getting & halling wood, I went to Election & left my Bundle Papers, & sent Henry for them to night, Jerry I reckon took them out when he took out some apples & chestnuts. got my Papers Henry got back at 12 oclock

5. Cutting & hewing Granary work on Kitchen Halled up stack Oats & 1 stack fodder I went to Plantation in evening

6th. Finished shingling Kitchen & Granary Logs & Halled leaves all day nearly – Bob came this morning from CH

7th Bob gone to shop, fixing Kitchen this morning