ENOctober 8, 1855 - November 10, 1855
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1855 Oct 1st Smart Frost last night & [illegible?]
& Finished stacking Tops to Day & Cutting
Tobacco yesterday Sunday we had to Cut
Filled & Cured 3 Houses with nearly 5
Thousand stacks in them lost 2 of our
Cattle & 2 more sick with distemper
11 Finished Housing Tobacco & Hanging this day
Firing tobacco shining Bull Died in my
field, fixing to Raise shoe makers shop
& corn House & cutting wood at Barn etc
12th went to see Mr Fitzgerald & Riceville
this day yesterday Election for Commr Atto.
quite cool this morning Did not rain
last night after we thought it would
23 been to Lynchg Sold wheat for $1.95
got Ton Guano from Richmond
got Sugar molasses & Carpet[?] etc
Cutting & Stacking Corn Raised corn
House Rose one of our milch
cows Died yesterday sewing
wheat Just commenced etc Mr Evans
came yesterday to finish ditching
went to see Bro. Dews last Sunday
24 Rained to day began to strip Tobacco
in new prize Barn, Fed making my
wife a pair of shoes etc —
Novr 3rd 1855 Quite warm cloudy weather
Firing Tobacco not quite done Sewing
wheat.- sewed Tobacco Land above house not
quite finished that ps Cutting down & halling
stacks Right side path by middle barn for
wheat got up the Corn this week –
10 Finished Seeding wheat getting out Cotton
Shoemaking Cutting Stalks Sent yesterday to Yates
mill 8 Bus corn for meal & 6 Bus wheat for flour &
got home 1 Bus meal
Notes and Questions
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1st line: the corner of the page is damaged.
Oct 23: Carpet: is this the word? Is it possible they got carpet in Richmond?
I think "Carpet" works well given the context, and it seems pretty clear.
No idea on the damaged corner; the first two letters look a bit like "my" or "mg".