Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1848 15 July Weeding Lot Tobacco Planted a week or 2 ago Pickle cucumber

[lost in margin] clear & Cool weeding Lot Tobacco cotton & Sweet Potatoes Laid by this day stacking Oats this day & [Hi]lling Grass -

[lost in margin] Finished stacking oats & weeding down our Lot Tobacco, Hilling up in Johns Branch & Plowing it cutting & Halling up Grass clear & cool nights

19 & 20 & 21. Plowing & Hilling Tobacco sewed Turnips in fresh ground

22 Finishing Hilling up second years ground Toped over Twice, put up 2 stacks grass & Halled out manure on Turnip Patch

23rd Rained a little & cloudy ground dry

24. cleared off & no rain to do any good Dry & Hot corn suffering very much Began to Grub & Cut in new ground Henry balled stacks etc.

25 Thrashing out wheat & sent 7 or 8 Bus corn to mill & ½ Bbl wheat & 1 stack to Doct. Whites mill

26 began to tread out our wheat shrubbing etc A fine Rain Thanks to the ^{Ruler of all things}

27 Treading out wheat, Fixing Turnip Patch etc Shrubing wheat land

28th A Fine Rain in evening & at night Grubbing & worming Tobacco & toping Henry fixing stacks forPaling for yard

1848 July 29th Weather warm. Grubing cutting & choping out mountain field corn

30 Rained yesterday last night & this morning cloudy & Rainy fine growing weather — yesterday went with Mr. McDaniel to see land & he is to say in 10 or 12 days whe =ther we trade, —

31 Misting of Rain this morning & last night Finishing choping corn at mountain field Spining etc etc. ——

1848 1st Augt. Clear & cool Plowing & Hilling up lot Tobacco etc Sewed Turnip Seed in Patch

2nd Plowing & Hilling up lot Tobacco 3rd Toping etc Fed Sick

4 Treading out 1 floor wheat, Toping & succoring Tobacco new ground succoring second yrs Tobacco Put Lady to Mr Jones^Horse Grey

5 Treading out wheat this morning working Greens in Garden

9 Finished Treading out wheat toping^worming second yrs ground

10 - Paling apples etc —

11th. Raining Toping & worming^groundnew & Branch - in Lot — Sent ½ Bushels corn to Doct Whites & 1 Log

1848 Augt 14th Thomas Templeton came after a search warrant this morning to search Mrs Garrotts House for his Tobacco, lost — We got apples for vinegar at stony point in evening a fine Rain indeed

15th Cloudy & foggy this morning. we Beeting apples & getting up for vinegar I am sick & have been for 2 weeks & several have desperate coughs it may be Hooping cough. —

18 Worming & succoring Tobacco & going to meeting all this week. Revival at Strait Stone at this time W^mH Plunket Pastor Several showers of Rain in 10 days past, beautiful one last night

20th began to Rain to day about 11 or 12 oclock we were all at a great meeting at strait stone

21 Still Raining & wind Blows from N.E. ground very wet indeed cool wet weather

22 Fair day Toping & worming Tobacco

23 Same work, began to Plow for wheat, cloudy & like for Rain ——————

29. Sent to Doct. Whites mill 1 Large Log for Paling & 5 or 6 Bushels corn — Henry gone worming & succoring branch & lot to day & Granary Lot -

31st & 30. Getting up & beeting apples for Brandy finished over Tobacco 30th Inst. weather fair & warm

31st Pulling mountain field fodder

1848 Sept 1st pulling fodder Mr Myers work on yard all this week, 6 days -

2 Pulling fodder & Tying up D^o

3rd Sunday a fine dry day ——

4th Fine weather for fodder, pulling at home & stony point^{& tying up}

5 Finished pulling to day 12 oclock worming & succoring & toping^Tobacco & tying up fodder etc Lilas child a Girl born about 11 oclock

6 Worming succoring & toping Tobacco. Tying up fodder

7 same work this day - clear & cool

8 worming & succoring & toping —

9 same work - 10 Sunday a fine day

11th Finished toping & succoring this morning cut & stacked up all the tops at home this day - 12th cutting & stacking tops

12th at mountain field first & then at stony point weather cool^nights& clear

13th Finished cutting Tops & stacking fodder

14. Stilling & cutting Tobacco in big^groundnew

15. Finished cutting over by new ground & stilling to day 550 stacks cutt & made 15 Gallons Brandy — weather warm Sent 9 Bushels wheat to Glenns Mill for flour about the 1st Sept 1848—

16th Raining this morning, sent Henry to Doct Whites Mill, Large Log for Railing 1 Babl corn sent - Fed shoemaking Planted Peach Kernels in Garden

1848 Sunday 17th Sept cloudy & like for Rain my wife gone to Mrs Hunts

18th Cut over little new ground & little side of Fresh ground in first 225 in other 150 sticks.

19 Cutting still in second yrs ground this day sticks 450 Our Ram got with the flock yesterday. clouday night

20 Cut this^day200 sticks in second yrs Ground & 470 sticks on branch & lot

21st^{cutting all on branch & 550 sticks —}worming & succoring Tobacco & Halling rails for fodder stack frames

22. Gathering Peas tops etc etc.

23 Frost this morning stacking tops. quite cool this morning

24th a little frost this morning clear & cool ——

25. no frost this morning stacking Tops & Done this evening clear fine weather 2125 sticks sticks of Tobacco cut in all first cutting

26. Housing Tobacco filled new ground barn & middle barn at home & some^{to go}in prize barn the 27th Sept 1848 —

27. Housing Tobacco this ^{quite cool}morning

28. ^{cut all our good Tobacco in Lot etc}Sent to Doct Whites Mill 7½ Bus corn & 1 Log for Railing for yard Hanging Lot Tobacco which we cut yesterday began to Hall & House in prize barn

29. Housing Tobacco, cutting ⁱⁿ big new ground & Lot by Granary & Halling wood more Pines in woods & old fields every where this summer & fall than ever was seen one summer before since I could recollect