Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

1858 April 1st 1st Henry Plowing for Corn on Branch, Sandy Plowing for Oats at Crews I am going down to Mr Millers about trying Garrot & Forest released Garrot Balance of Our Hands raking cleaning up new ground at Crews Fired leaves raked to day to night after it begun to Rain, raining moderately quite cool to day Mr Chumbly helped us roll Log tho very much complaining & to day he is laid up, Jordan Crossing at Crews for hilling, did not getting raking up there

2nd april 1858 This ^morning & last night was really a rainy & windy time, & to day The windy is Sev[ere] & Rains hard water coarses high my hogs all up last night & doing well as far as I know quite cool with the wind & Rain, took down Lugs in old prize Barn,= Overseer still in the House sick

3rd wind ceased this morning cloudy all day Halled Tobacco from mountain spring burn & Fresh ground Barn put it in new ^^prizeBarn & – little in one Back of Garden,4th A Beautifull day Easter Sunday — 5th Negroes striping Tobacco for themselves Jerry & little Henry gone after Sweet Blade Seed my wife gone to Mrs Hunts — Fine day Rained again last night

6th Beded up Sweet Potatoe Patch & Planted 1½ Bus from Mr Farmers & 1 peck yams in Bed Plowed a part of Hill for Tobacco, gone to sewing Oats @ 12 Oclock at Crews, Sent Jerry down after Mr. Forest Gray mule Jim which I am to give $140. for payable next March 1859. to go to Plantation & take Netty away —

1858 april 6th Jordan Croping new ground at Crews & Began to make Hills late this evening, fixing Plows & halving hoes etc. Mr Forest has come up & agreed to take $30, too Boot between Netty & his mule which is made, & have only give him my note for $30 & let him have Netty & I am [a]foot still, Fine weather about this time,-

7th Sewing Oats at Crews to day, crossing new ground Crews cleared, & Hilling same —

8th Finished Sewing Oats 10th Oclock to day Jordan Coltering Plowing Tobacco Land at Crews Hilling Crews last years clearing & Plowing overseers Potatoe Patch etc Hitched Jenny my oldest ^^mule to Plow to day & she done remarkable well,- Began to Rain about 10 Oclock &

9th Sent to shop 2 pr traces to make a little longer p^s chain Sent to do it colter to pint 2 H Hoes to Lay swingletree & old Irons to Iron it sent for 2 back band hooks & bands to Iron Jerrys waggon wheels etc etc 4 Bushels Corn & 2 for overseer & 1 Log for Hh^d staves by Jordan watching Logs Heaps striping Tobacco etc Jacobs mule got out of the stable & went down to Mr Forest, Jacob went after him - got 2 Bushels Oats more Haller & mule Bet etc

10th Plowing for Corn Beding Jordan & Buck Halling up fodder 2 stacks Balance Hilling at Crews’s to day fine weather

11th Fine day meeting at Straigtstone

12th cloudied up last evening & Rained nearly all night hard striping Tobacco Forking up manure in Cow pen this morning Raining all day nearly hard quite cool