Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1845. March 26 Sewed Plant Bed over on the Branch this day - weather has been very cold for more than a week. 1845 Our new ground nearly half coltered

27. weather moderate finished sewing oats

28 Went to saw mill paid off Mr Miller in full to the 30¢ in my Debt

31 weather moderate Stripping Tobacco & hope to finish this day & prizing Lugs Yesterday our new ground fence got burnt say 40 pannels fire got out from our new ground Saturday

29th monstrous fire in the woods towards good Hope gathered a good many hands & stopped it. done no mischief

30. Fire at new ground & burnt 40 panels fence entirely for me

April 3rd Finished coltering new ground this day - Plowing for corn Planted snaps and corn in Garden

2nd April, 4th planted snaps, cucumbers & simlings in garden etc etc weather dry & warm at this time

8 April commenced making new ground Tobacco Hills still for Corn ground hard and very cool every thing Kill allmost Killed this morning 9th April 1845 Smart - Ice in places

1845 Sept 23. Cutting Tobacco, 24th cutting Tobacco in second years ground & new D^o

25 Cutting Tobacco & finished  — over once

26 Housing Tobacco this morning & then for stacking Tops

27 Stacking Tops this day -- began yesterday - Light crop of Tops this year —

29 Finished stacking Tops

30 treading out white wheat to sow & succoring Tobacco

Oct. 1st Sewed Tobacco Lot on Branch ^{1845 in wheat} by the Bridge ^{sewed 1/2 Bushel} & cutting^{on mountain}down corn

2nd Cutting down corn in mountain field & Henry Halling logs to Millers mill

3 cart broke down & axeletree made by abbot at meeting House this year alse getting out flax seed & spreading flax Balance Jinking Tobacco House Wrote to Ja^s. D. Moon this day etc etc

6 cutting Tobacco etc etc housing new axletree made by Mr Myer & old Irons put on by him sent 39 lbs seed cotton to Millers Mill

7 Halling up & Housing Tobacco

8 Put up Hogs Pulling corn & cutting trough to feed Hogs getting up 2 Lots Corn at Home Fine rain Last night ——

9. Wet weather 10th still raining

1846 Oct 31. Raining nearly all day

Novr 1st drizling rain nearly all day — 2. ground too wet to Plow Fed sho emaking. Henry gone to saw & Gras[ty] mill cleaning out stables & spining

3. Henry carried another large stack to saw mill Fed shoemaking Lila spins alse & Ann fencing etc etc wrote to Mr Dove to saw the Log sent yesterday into Hh^d Heading & the one carried this day into flooring^Plank out of the Hh^d Heading I am to return Mr Dove 74 feet of the same sort lent Spring

4th Sent to Saw mill & Gras[ty] Mill to day

5 Plowing up Land for wheat

6 Plowing up land for D^o

7 Raining a little nearly all day Henry went to shop & Mr. W^m Dews

8 Still cloudy Fed & Henry^{1 or 2 days this week}shoemaking this evening it cleared off Just before sun down

9th Sent another good size log wrote to Mr Dove to saw it into^full¾ squared ^Plankedges

10. Sent 2 Logs to saw mill this [da]y wrote to Mr Dove to saw first car^d into weatherboarding & next into squared edged Plank getting ^anext [skirting?] on sides — Fed shoemaking began to Grub in new ground yesterday & at it to day —

11 Plowing & Bushing inn wheat in Big field & Halling Stalks etc

12 Bushing & Plowing in wheat in big field Choping round stumps & etc etc etc Put up Steer mark, to fatten several days ago

13th nearly done the square by middle laid off first to sew in wheat & choped round the stumps etc etc

1846 Nov 13th The weather has been & is still cloudy for nearly 2 weeks tho has not rained much this week - quite warm last night or this morning killed 2 small Fat Hogs - - done shoemaking Sewed about 15 Bushels wheat to this day

18 Weather yet Warm Finished this day sewing^{in Lot by prize barn}wheat served about 20 Bus.

19th This morning Raining pulled corn yesterday ½ the day & its now on the ground - weather yet warm fine for wheat coming up shelling corn & striping Tobacco ——prize barn

^{card a stack to Millers mill}Decemr 1st Finished housing corn & we have ^been grubbing & cutting for several days Started to Milton this day after Fanny White - gone 3 days & got home

3rd got home about 9 oclock this night, Henry sick when I got home

4 Grubbing & cutting in new ground, Mr. Lewis yet sick,

6 Striping Tobacco in prize barn Henry^sickyet Began to Rain yesterday morning & Raining this morning. very wet indeed Settled with James D Moon 30th Nov & took his rec in full of all claims to date Killed all our Hogs 23rd Nov 1846. Sent another Log to saw mill & wrote to saw it into weather boarding 30 Nov 46

7 Cloudy day not much rain

8 Still cloudy & like for Rain

9 Rained very hard last night & in the night cleared off fair all this day & a very pretty day

10 cloudy & Rainy this morning turned cooler wind N. E.

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 Hh^{d heading} & the other into Hh^ds 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 ground}31 still moderate 1847 Jany 1st Still moderate & cloudy^{Mrs Coleman}went to ^[asso?] Hung up Pork this day took down new ground Barn Tobacco yesterday Halled up Oats & straw about this^time 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