Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

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. Corn^mealfor 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

22nd Beautifull weather for business. nearly done Halling up our corn except Hog Corn next to orchard ——

23 Finished gathering & Housing Corn except about 3 Loads next to Orchard for our Hogs yet on stalks Housed nearly ^Bbls150

24 began to cut little growth in new ground joinging[adjoining] Mountain field Sent Henry to mill with 1 Log for Hh^d Stans[?] 3 Bus. wheat & 1 Bbl Corn —

30 Went to Lynchg this week with 41½ Bushel wheat sold at 90¢. got back in 3 days cutting all the time while we were gone little growth in new ground - quite dry & fine weather this day Halling up corn for Mr. Neal & Mr Myers came this morning to work on new House on cutting in new ground — —

Dec. 1st Covered cutting House Mr Myers & me Sent Jacob & Jordan to mill 1 of them for Mr Myers, for a days work Henry Halling corn stalks up & Lila — Balance cutting little growth & grubing in ^groundnew Rained a little in evening —

2nd Raining snowing & Hailing all day very disagreeable day indeed Give our Poeple out their winter shoes And, Malissa Henry alse Jane Ann & Jordan & Fed had Blankets

3. Striping Tobacco in middle Barn 36 33 sticks short 73 sticks Lugs. Fed Made Sally Shoes Lila spining, cleared off to day

4 - cutting little growth in new ground Henry cutting slab Timber for stable

5. Mr Myers getting Boards for Hester Anns stable Henry helping him

3rd Augt 1850 while we were gone to Lynchg Our folks finished weeding corn in Lot choped out new ground, done up some fencing & then went to cutting in new ground

-8th. This week we have been Halling Rails Hilling up our second yrs Land Tobacco & it has Rained nearly every day this week ground very wet., clear this morning weather remarkably hot. & Rains generally from North East. Thunder cloudy, — worked, cutting Halling Rails & shrubing fresh field.

12th cloudy this morning, choping in new ground Fed Toping at new ground - Henry & Jane Plowing Lot Tobacco back of Garden, –

13th worming over Tobacco clear warm weather

14th Plowed & Hilled up little second yrs ^Tobaccoground

16 Went to Mill 1 Bb^l Corn getting up apples

17th Beeting apples for Cider & drying Lilas child a Girl Born this morning about Sun rise, nights cool, weather dry & Hot in day

18th cloudy all day & Rained a little — cool

19th. worming succoring & toping Tobacco — Mr Whiteheads machine came saturday evening broke We have not commenced getting out our ^yet wheat

20 Getting up apples & Baling Sewed little Hog pen in Turnips — by spring —

21 Machining wheat had David & John neal A Crews & son abram Mrs Colemans Kit & James

22. Finished my own by 12 Oclock & then got out Mr Neals & moved the machine

23rd worming new ground Tobacco & choping it over this day — — A Fine rain this evening —

24 Rained a little last night, fine weather Mr Dan^l Johns has been sick at Mr Lewis for some time & Died the 22nd in night —

1850 Sept 9th Rained we were Plowing, ^{& Hilling} up our tobacco by new Barn & Rain stoped us Fanned Out Wheat & shelled corn Rained nearly all night

10. worming & succoring & toping Our Tobacco cloudy & like for Rain ———

11 Pulling Fodder in Johns’s field till 12 Oclock & then finishing Hilling up lot by new Barn — tying up fodder in evening

12 Sold W^m Waller A p^s Land supposed to be over 100 acres to be surveyed^shortly by next to Mrs Hunts for 3$ pr acre $100 to be paid next June 1851 & then from 1st June one & 2 years for Balance, to be settled as soon as surveyed.

13. worming & succoring new ground Tob^a & Covering Barn there — etc etc

14th Sent to saw mill waggon & Cart 3 Logs 1 Long & 1 short. both, to be sawed into squared Edged Plank[s] 3 Bushels wheat for negroes & 1½ Bushels sent for flour, 1 Bushel of which got of Mr Neal who made 17 Bus. ½ Bushel of mine own crop toping over new ground to day wormed & succored ^alsoit & Covered our Barn ourselves this day —

⁼15. Rained in evening did not go to ^{at Rices}meeting

16. Rained in morning cleared off in evening Succoring & worming Tobacco at House Some spining Fed making Cates shoes,-

17. clear & cool Toping & worming & succoring ^{all over}Tobacco not Hardly half done Pulling fodder yet & not cut a Plant of Tobacco Pulling fodder in Johns’s field this –

18th Pulled fodder till evening & then so cloudy & like for Rain we stoped wormed some Tobacco & toped some & cut fresh ground tops

19 Pulling fodder, Put sheep in lot this morning I went to Mrs Colemans’ to see about her Bay stand stole clear & warm my wife gone to Mr JD Hunts. & a day or Two ago went to Mrs Hunts

1852 July 23rd Have ^{sowed Cow Pen in Buck wheat}been to Lynchg this week, sold our Last Tobacco, returned on Thursday Folks have been Hilling up fresh ground Tobacco hand weeding our new ground yesterday morning we finished plowing Our Corn, fine Rain yesterday we put up 4 Stacks Oats,- & some shocks, Fair day, Treading out wheat, hand weeding Tobacco & replanted Lot this morning ———

26 Plowing & Hilling up our Lot Tobacco Rained a little fine growing weather - Plowing Turnip Patch Pea Patch in cotton Patch & sowed Turnips in Garden etc fine weather about this time

27 Sewed Turnips in Garden & Plowed Patch Plowing Peas by Cotton Patch Harrowing Tobacco to kill the Grass etc etc —

28th Halling up wheat cleaning lot Tobacco on Branch Irish Potatoes etc etc

29. Plowing Halling up & finished Stacking^wheat Oats & fencing them in Hilling up new ground

30 Hilling up new ground & trying to get ^{this morning}done Henry Plowing Tobacco on Branch in Lot — Hilled up Broom Corn & Peas at Cotton Patch, Turned Hogs in Pasture at Stony Pint My wife gone to John D Hunts Cate Mr Fitzgerald

31 Choping fresh ground corn & working Peas in corn field shower rain yesterday —

augt 1st went to J D Hunts myself — 2 Plowing & Hilling up Branch tobacco in Lot 3. Henry sick choping out new ground Tobacco We went to Major Grastys

4th Fine Rain last night, little cool for 2 ^{days & nights} this morning all in house spining etc etc sent by major Grastys for to Evard for my watch

5th Foggy this morning & warm growing weather Toping & Hilling up fresh ground Tobacco —

6th Sowed Turnips yesterday Hilling up second years ground Henry Riving boards, fine growing weather, Mrs Smith Funeral this day etc etc ——

9th went to Capt Fitzgerald after machine got it began to thrash about 12 oclock & finished Tuesday Evening 1 hour by Jacob sandys axe lost, ^{not found yet}