Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1849 June 12th Went to S. S. M H. to try Tho^s East for stealing Stephen Redgrages oats. got clear from evidence, - Plowed Peas & corn Plowed ^drillcorn second time by middle barn, & below Plum bushes Weeding drill corn next to orchard - Cloudy damp weather -

13. Plowed out Garden Sweet Potatoes cotton Irish Potatoes, begun to lay ^{for tobacco}of[f] Lot. weeding & Plowed fresh ground next to orchard

14. Beding Lot this & thining drill^{Just Plowed} corn

15. Finished Planting Tobacco & Replanted all new ground & little second yrs ground weather warm & moist - Working cotton & branch corn to day Plowing & weeding. Finished weeding cotton this 12 oclock & gone on branch Hot weather about this time —

16 Rained a little last evening. Weeding & resetting corn on Branch where missing. Planting watermellons simbling^Pumpkins Potatoes setting out some Beet, Turnip, screan the seed of which Mr Tucker said came from ^DenmarkDenmark

17 Fine clear weather, Finished yesterday weeding out Branch. Corn, not quite done weeding corn yet. began to Plow Hill next to orchard, second time also next to ¹⁸woods by middle Barn, replanting corn on 19. Branch Lower part, - done weeding & Plowing our corn second time one this side branch & began second time on the other side branch runing 4 Plows, weeding or Hilling up Sweet Potatoes etc - clear weather nights cool, great talk of mad Dogs this Spring. cholera about very much this Spring Mr C. A Hunt Died of it at Independence Mo. on his way to California, - its now in Richmond V^a Extra session Legislature moved to^{to finish}Fauquier Cty