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Page 2 Brig Halcion Castaway 3 Cold 5 ° below Zero. 1839 3 To establish a Telegraph 3 Memorialize the Legislation on Spirituous Liqour 3' Hard SSE Storm 4.5.6 Town House 7 Hurricane in Liverpool in England 8. Annual Meeting 9 Recevd [RECEIVED] a letter from Dan'el [DANIEL] > 9 Fire 9. N Eastrn [Eastern] boundary > 12. Towns. [TOWN'S] Committee report to build a new Assylum [ASYLUM] at Quaise > 13 Circus, Steam Boat, Soldiers &c 14 – Henry C Wright .... > 13 Episcopalian Church building...Jarred Coffin house > 15 Silk Factory 19 Finished rebuilding the North T of Straight Wharf 20 .. 12m uncommonly stormy 21. Dreadful Gale of Wind 21 Sloop Fame Isaiah Folger got ashore at Holms Hole 22. Tellegraph [TELEGRAPH] Very useful 1840 22. Channel cut from the Wharf to Brant Point 24. Steam boat Lexington burnt 25. Zenas Coffins. [COFFIN'S] lighter on the Bar & in danger 25.. Small Pox and Kine Pox. 26. I was vaccinated 26. Vaccination through out the town , at the town E xpence 27 Annual Meetg [MEETING]. House at Quays [QUAISE] finished 27. Russian Empire Census 28 Spring like weathe [WEATHER] " Three Ships arrived " Oil sold to be shipped to England 28. Ship Phoenix arrived at the Wharf 29 {Violant [VIOLENT] Tempest. Abner Smalls. Vessel struck } { with lightening & took fire, & much damaged } 30. Wm. Giffords. [WILLIAM GIFFORD'S] Vessel stranded on the Bar 31. Anti slavery Meeting, &c 31. Aron [AARON] Mitchell building a large store. 30. Isaiah Robbinson, both Thighs broken 30. Eunice Ross. High School &c 31. A refreshing shower of Rain " Population of Nantuket. 31 Small Pox un ck c̅. [UNCHECKED WITH] 34 32 Schr [SCHOONER] Hope & Susan bilged on the Bar " Number of Inhabitants on the State of New York
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34 - Small Pox
37 - Talk of Wm. H. Harrison for a new President. 37 Some of the Society of Friends not active in Politics from principle
39 83 Ships belonging here & only 3 in Port
41 State Election -
42 Remarkable Gale of Wind
44 Snow Storm
44 22d 12m/o Gilbert Coffin married
44 Harbour cover with ice
45 French Spoliation
46 Small Pox
46 Baptist Meeting House finished
47 Camels talked off [OF]
48 We got an air tight Stove
48 We got a Matrass [MATTRESS]
49 Ammiel Russell in Sloop Union lost at sea
49 Henry Coffin took down his house to build another
49 Death Wm H Harrison President of U- States
50 James H Barnard his Vessel
50 to 5 Memorable cold and Snow storm John Tyler takes his place as President -
51 Built Pots over the smokes on the North Chimney
52 Hard stormy weather - Cold
52 Albert C Macy & the two Marys went off visiting
53 Licence granted by the town to a Circus Company
53 Description of a jaw bone of a whale
54 Public friend here on a visit
" Our cistern is out of water
" Whale fishery in the U.S.
55 Edmd. [EDMUND] W Macy went whaling
56 I was quite unwell 4 weeks
" Thoms. [THOMAS] and Eunice & Mary Swift returned from Phila. [PHILADELPHIA] had their eyes operated on for squinting -
" A good supply of rain
" Judith Gilbert & Elnathan left to go visiting
57 Geo. [GEORGE] M Wood here on a religious visit " Reuben & Hannah and Nathaniel gone Q. [Quarterly] Meeting
57 Rode out to Peter's farm
58 Prince Gardner's wife broke her arm
" David and Phebe arrived home
" No. of New Ships in 1841
59 A fine rain after a sharp dought
" Benjamin Coffin son of Obed broke his leg
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59 │ Lectures on Intemperance 60 │ Lectures on Slavery " │ Went out to Peters farm, " │ Rain, Thunder, & Lightening " │ Seth Mitchell wash house struck with lightening " │ at Siasconsit [SIASCONSET] " │ John Hawkin [HAWKINS] here Lecturing of Intemperance 61 │ Steam Boat Erie Burnt " │ Laking is here delivering lectures &c on Intemperance " │ A great rain " │ A change of weather. " │ Much doing to promote Temperance 62 │ A Great Storm did much damage 63 │ Storm Contued [CONTINUED] 64 │ Eunce [EUNICE] Lawre's [LAWRENCE'S] Wood house burnt down 63 │ A great storm which did much damage " │ Camels building 65 │ Damage by the Storm at Cape Cod 66 │ Obserations [OBSERVATIONS] on the present State of England 67 │ Intemperance __ State of the weather __ " │ Alarm of Fire, occasined [OCCASIONED] by the Moon setting " │ Negro dancing Hall burnt down " │ Fire in Coffin & Gardners Cooper Shop " │ Nathl [NATHANIEL] Barney upset with his Carriage, not much hurt 68 │ State of the weather " │ Number Ships belonging to this place " │ Remarkable dull market " │ Temperance cause floureaches [FLOURISHES] 69 │ Alarm of fire in the Cooper Shop of Coffin & Gardner " │ James W Dennison " │ A remarkable day of excitement " │ Chs [CHARLES] E Macy came here to live from Chs [CHARLES] Hussey 70 │ Alarm of fire. Lawrence & Coffin Store 71 │ James W Dennison put into Jail to await his trial " │ James W Dennison put into Jail " │ Sickly in the Town " │ A town meetg [MEETING] to see what to do with Quaise 72 │ List of alarms of fire 73 │ Mild Winter 74 │ Chs [CHARLES] Barnards [BARNARD'S] house struck with Lightening 75 │ Difficulties in the State of Rhode island 76 │ Great complaint with laborers for want of work 77 │ Large quanties of Shad are caught 78 │ A large School house building 78 │ The New Steam boat Massachusetts arrived