Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1852 May 7th let Mrs Neal & W^m Burnett have collared plants, Finished coltering over new ground once & began to crop a little Henrys arm sore

8th Jordan Coltering in fresh ground balance Halling up wet part there, cloudy & like ^Rainfor

9th Went to meeting to day scramentul day

10th Planting Cotton this morning, cloudy & like^Rainfor

11 Coltering & Hilling in fresh ground & in ^groundnew

12 Rained in the evening & life for Rain Started to Lynchg this morning with waggon Hilling & Finished fresh ground Picked Plant Beds Hilled all ground crossed in new ground replanted Hillside drilled by middle Barn, etc waggon got home from Lynchg saturday evening one of John Hunts little negroes Died Friday night cleared off & quite Cool,

20th Plowed Lot for Tobacco yesterday, planted yesterday about 8 or 10.000 Tobacco Hills some in new ground & some in fresh ground Replanting corn to day planted corn & Peas in Cotton Patch, Henry Harrow Corn on Branch, Lila yet in House - clear & dry

22 Jordan Plowing in Corn mext to orchard Henry Coltering in new ground balance Hilling in new ground

23. Two or Three fine showers of Rain to day

24 Planting Tobacco this morning in Second yrs ground, & new ground - warm fine weather

25 Finished freshed ground except little part thats new ground cleared off & Hot Planting this evening all the Hills that made in new ground, Henry coltering Harry Set up on Hh^d to day for 37½ [?] the staves being Jointed - & is to set up one more at that price & one more staves to Joint ^{for 3 [?]}etc

29th A little shower of Rain yesterday, we have finished Hilling & Planting our new ground yesterday Plowed 2 or 3 days in our corn Began to weed corn on Branch this morning cloudy & like for rain, worked out Sweet & Irish Potatoe seed.