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Diary of Jeremiah White Graves, Volume 2, Book 6
May 5, 1849 - May 19, 1849
1849 May 5th Beding Cotton Patch & Planted Cotton Watermellon Simblings etc etc this day & negroes have Holliday after Picking Plant Beds etc — Henry come back in a little more than 2½ days
6 cloudy all day & Rained a little
7 Taking down Tobacco, short, this morning prizing & Hilling cloudy & like for Rain - a little cool this morning
8 prizing Tobacco & Hilling new ground
9 Coltering & Hilling new ground rained a little this morning - cloudy & like for Rain
10 cloudy & like for Rain - Finished yesterday Collering our new both ways ground & expect to get done Hilling this day new ground fine growing weather. preparing for greens & Irish Potatoes this morning etc began to Rain in evening & we lacked a little of finishing the new ground
11th Rained all night & very cool indeed wind N E, quite cold children stayed all night at Bro. Dews at Miss Marthas wedding Planted out greens yesterday prizing & steming Tobacco this morning - Tobacco Plants small Henry gone to mill cart 7½ Bus. Cornmealfor stoped raining about 12 Oclock tho cloudy
19 It has been quite cool & Rainy all the week, nearly done hilling second yrs Land went to Lynchg on Tuesday Broke down & pestered tho not a great deal Mr John Ward lent us a pr of wheels & we went on & Returned Friday sold our Tobacco 3.80 3.30 4.55 & $5.90