Ellen Stabler Diaries

4th. mo.

[?] came in the afternoon: then I fixed a party for the children in the afternoon, and a little while after it was one, the children went out to play and Ellen fell down and broke her arm. Dr. came to set it.

15th. 2d day

Cloudy all day with snow then hail and a hard rain after night. Thomas and Mary went home: Uncle Joshua went up with them to take the carriage.

16th. 3d day

Clear cold and windy: Uncle Joshua came home.

4th mo.

21st. 1st day

Clear and very mild. Uncle Joshua and Aunt Rachel went to meeting: Isaac and family and George Elliott came over and spent the day.

22d. 2d day

Clear and windy: I came home, left Pleasant Hill about 7 o'clock, got home at 4 o'clock, called at Uncle Samuels a few minutes: Father met me at Laurel, he went down 1st day, staid all night at [Curtiside?]

23d. 3d day

Clear day: Emily dined with us. Lucy at Uncle Charlie's to supper. Father at Ingleside in the morning

4^th mo. Durborow came in the stage: father took him to Brooke & Pleasants's shop in the afternnon: Anna Stable here awhile in the afternoon. the men at work at Ingleside: I went to see Aunty Sally awhile in the morning.

30^th 3^d day Clear and widy: father and the young man down at the Annie Hopkins land surveying all day. Lucy came home from Brooke Grove in the afternoon: Emily here to tea the men a Ingleside all day, begun to plant corn there in the afternoon.

5^th month 1^st 4^th day Cloudy a good deal of the day, and windy. Durborow went in the stage: father and mother went to Baltimore: Sally Anee Chandlee dined here, took Lucy home with her

5^{th. mo} in the afternoon: I called at Harewood awhile in the afternoon Kate came after supper to stay all night: the men finished planting corn at Ingleside:

2^d 5^th day Clear most of the day: some rain last night.

3^d 6^th day Clear day, Lucy came home for Chandler's in the morninin, went to see Aunt Sally in the afternoon, to Harewood a little while after supper: Father came home from Baltimore. Kate dined here.

4^th 7^th dat Cold and windy: father at Ingleside Ashlin in the the morning: Lucy at

5^th mo at Ashton in the morning:

5^th 1^st day Clear day" Emily and Lucy called before meeting, Emily dined here: father at Ingleside and Cleora Palmers in the afternoon: Lucy at Harewood awhile

6^th 2^d day Cloudy awhile in the morning cleared off early warm and very windy all day a cloud passed over in the evening. Lucy spent the day a Ingleside: father dined at Walter Brookes, went on to Rockville in the afternoon: Hoe went to Laurel. Juliet Green here cleaning my room and the dining room

7^th 5^th 3^d day CLear until toward evening a cloud with very hard wind about between 6 and 7 oclock: father came home from Rockville at noon: a man named Fulton from near Laurel here to see him. when he came home, here to dinner.

8^th mercury 88 4^day Cla=ear and very warm: Lucy at meeting father at Hollands store and Ingleside in the afternoon: Juliet Green here cleaning the kitchen and Joe's room Richard nd Mary Maughan came here in the stage: father took them and myself to Uncle Samuels after tea

5^thmo. Aunt Lizzie came for the Vaughans and took them there to dine. Kate & Anna and Gilpin here after tea.

10^th mercury 91 6^{th day} Clear and warm. father at Ingleside and at James Tyson's place in the mornings, as Ingleside in the afternoon took the Vaughans and myself a ride after tea: Gilpin here again in the evening.

11^th mercury 88 t_{th day} Clear most of the day, very windy in the afternoon, father took the Vaughans to Laurel in the morning he came home by Hollands store. Henrietta, Frank and Mary here to tea

12^th 5^th 1^st day Clear and warm: Uncle Samuel here before meeting: I went to Uncle Charlie's from meeting, came home after supper: the young folks from Ingleside called here in the afternoon: also Kate: Joe not well went to see Frank Thomas before meeting did not go to metting: father at Unlce Charle's after supper: clouded up after night, turned cool.

13^th 2^d day Clear and cool: father at Ingleside in the morning: I went there to in the afternoon, to tea: I went to the store and to see aunt Sally in the morning, to Harewood awhile after night.

14^th 3^d day Clear and cool: father went to Rockville and on to the Falls with George Peter: Helen came up in the

5^th mo morning, went with me to Olney Mechancisville and Dr. Magruders in the afternoon.

15^th 4^th day Clear most of the day: Henreitta called before meeting, mother went with her as far as Uncle Charlie's after meeting: I went for her after supper: father came home from the Falls in the evening: Lucy called at Richard Bentley in the afternoon.

16^th 5^th day Very smokey all day, cool: cousin Eliza Brooks here to tea: Aunty Nancy and Gilpin here after tea

17^th 5^th mo 6^th day Cloudy both morning and evening, very smokey all day: I spent the day at Uncle Williams.

18^th 7^thday Cloudy all day, with rain about 4 oclock: Joe at Brighton in the morning: father at Hollands store in the afternoon.

19^th 1^st day Some rain in the morning, cleared off about noon: Charles Stabler came from meeting and staid until after supper: Gilpin here to supper: Phil called here after meeting: Lucy came home in the evening.