Jeremiah White Graves Diaries

Grastys Store Mount Airy 5 Oct 1824 I planted my Peach nursery at Green Grove this day. the nursery is 16 yds wide & upwards of Twenty yds long - Containing Twenty Three or four Rows ——— Jer. W Graves Dark moon in march, for planting forward Irish Potatoes, & the Dark moon in June for planting winter Irish Potatoes = The 2nd day of april 1825 being Saturday it commenced Snowing in the morning, & continued untill ½ past Six O^cClock in the Evening, the Snow is full¹⁴⁺ Inch[es] Deep, & Several poeple have began to plant Corn I have never seen the like before JWGraves

Daniel Ring planted me a Peach nursery on the place he lives in Septemr 1825 — J.W. Graves

1833 Thursday Evening the 28th & last day of Feby it comm= =enced raining and it Freezed as it fell & continued so doing that night,- the next day the 1st day of March it was cloudy & Rained Smartly & Continued freezing & in the Evening the wind began to blow & for several hours & never saw^{& heard} the trees break so much in my life, they have so much Ice on them, on Saturday the 2nd Mar the Ice has scarcely melted any it being a very cold day the wind is from N. W quite clear & such a time I never saw in my life; the reflection of