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August 1st. Went to Mr. Owen's and brought away 34 bushel of corn. 2d. Digging a cellar. 3d. Digging a cellar. 4th. Went to Solomon Bryant's and bought one bushel of corn. 5th. Laid my foundation for my chimney. 6th. Peeled bark for a chamber floor. 7th, 8th. Rainy. 9th. Peeling bark and covering corn crib. 10th. Went to a lecture at Mr. Hutchinson's. 11th. Spent the afternoon at Merrill Chase's, where they had a company of quilters. 12th. A very severe gale of wind passed through the opening in a northerly direction and did but little damage, as it struck but one corner of the standing corn. 13th. Lopping limbs. 14th. Work for Mr. Thurlo. 15th. Went to meeting at Caleb Fuller's in Paris, and heard Mr. Hooper. 16th. Went to a lecture at Mr. Becklar's and heard Mr. Grant. 17th. To work at Mr. Thurlo's. 18th. To work for Mr. Nason. 19th. Went to mill. 20th, 21st. To work for Mr. Nason. 22d. Sunday. 23d, 24th. To work for Mr. Nason-a very severe thunder storm in the evening. 25th, 26th. Work for Mr. Nason, and finished reaping for him. 27th. Owen and Mr. Thurlo here. 28th. Rainy. 29th. Sunday. 30th. Went to mill. 31st. To work for Jacob Whitman.
September 1st. Weeding my corn. 2d. Reaping for Mr. Pollard. 3d. Reaping for Mr. Pollard in the forenoon-tying up and shocking grain in the afternoon. 4th. Weeding corn. 5th. Went to meeting at Luther Whit- man's. 6th. Began falling trees to lay over the season. 7th. Went to
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Solomon Bryant's and got a bushel of corn. 8th. Went to mill. 9th. Went to Levi Berry's to reaping, and was beat off by the rain. 10th. Falling trees. 11th. Ditto. 12th. Sunday. 13th. My wife went to Thurlo's visiting. 14th. Falling trees. 15th. My father and mother arrived here from Minot. 16th. Looking land with my father. 17th. Ditto. 18th. Ditto. 19th. My father and mother returned home. 20th. Building corn crib. 21st. Began cutting stalks. 22d. Went to mill and had the first new corn ground. 23d. Stormy. 24th. Very stormy. 25th. Cutting stalks. 26th. Sunday. 27th. Cutting stalks. 28th. Went to Nason's and Becklar's, and brought home two kittens. The first frost. 29th. Second frost. 30th. Frost con- tinued.
October 1st. Frost continued ; finished cutting stalks. 2d. Went to mill. 3d. Sunday. 4th. To work for Mr. Thurlo. 5th. Digging cellar drain. 6th. Covering cellar drain. 7th. Digging potatoes. 8th. Finished digging potatoes ; put them in the cellar-about 40 bushels. 9th. Banking house. 10th. Sunday. 11th. To work for Mr. Nason. 12th. Gathering corn. 13th, 14th, 15th. Ditto. 16th. Went to mill. Rainy; left my grist. 17th. Sunday-Christopher Bryant brought along my grist which I left at the mill the other day. 18th. To work in cellar. 19th. Gathering pumpkins. 20th, 21st, 22d, 23d. Finished gathering pumpkins. 24th. Sunday. 25th, 26th. gathering corn. 27th. Went to meeting, and heard Mr. Tripp, at Luther Briggs'. The first snow of the season fell. 28th. To work in cellar. 29th. Gathering corn. 30th. Went to mill. 31st. Snow storm.
November 1. Severe rain storm. 2d. Finished gathering corn-raised about sixty bushels. 3d. Snow storm. 4th. To work in cellar. 5th. Ditto. 6th. Finished digging cellar. 7th. Sunday. 8th. Began cutting butt stocks. 9th. Building oven. 10th. Finished oven. 11th. Baked in oven. 12th. Stacking fodder. 13th. Finished stacking fodder. 14th. Sunday. 15th. To work on chimney. 16th. Went to mill. Michael Little, Esq., came here, and Simeon Deering with him. 17th. Went to mill. 18th. Got sundry roots and trees at Packard's, and set them out. 19th. Set away for Minot, and arrived at my father's. * * 22d. Returned home and drove an ox. Edmund accompanied me. 23d. Killed my ox. 24tlı. Sold 14 to Edward Pollard, and went to the County road to work on the same, and nobody to work. Agreed with Luther Whitman to go to work Friday next, and returned home. 25th. Thanksgiving day. 26th. To work on chimney. 27th. To work on road. 28th. Sunday. 29th to work on road. 30th. Ditto.
December 1st. To work on road in the forengon. In the afternoon, driven off by the rain. 2d, 3d, 4th. To work on the County road. 5th. Sunday. 6th. Killed my hogs; weight-sow, 25912; barrow, 20414. 7th. Went to mill. 8th. To work on the road. 9th. To work on my chimney. 10th. Esq. Little and William Pottle came here. We went to Abraliam Walton's. 11th. To work on my chimney. 12th. Sunday. 13th. Topped out my
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chimney. 14th. Went to mill. 15th. To work for Merrill Chase. 16th. Hauling barn logs. 17th. Severe cold morning. 18th. Weather moderated. 19th. Sunday. 20th. To work on barn. 21st. Laying up barn. 22d, 23d, 24th. Ditto. 25th. Collecting bills of work on County road for Esq. Little. 26th. Sunday. 27th. Mr. Thurlo hauled in my loom. I agreed to allow him one day's work. 28th. Took Solomon Bryant's horse and set away to Minot, and arrived at my father's. 29th. Went to Esq. Little's and delivered him the bills of work done on the County road in No. 3; got a bushel of salt and went to William Pottle's in the evening, and returned to my father's. 30th. Returned home. 31st. To work on the road betwixt my house and the Bryant opening.
1803.
January 1st. Went to mill. 2d. Sunday. 3d. To work on looms. 5th, 6th. Ditto. 7th, 8th. Ditto. 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard Mr. Whitman. 10th. Made warping bars. 11th. Got the loom a going. 12th. Went to mill. 13th. Weaving. 14th. Junking. 15th. Weaving. 16th. Sunday. 17th. Ruhamah very sick with dysentery. 18th. Went for Dr. Croswell. 19th. Dr. Croswell returned home. Ruhamah better. 20th. Weaving. 22d. Cutting wood. 23d. Sunday. 24th. Got some basket stuff and began making baskets. 25th. Hunted after wood for basket stuff. 26th. Went to mill. 27th. Got barks for dyeing cloth. 28th. Cutting wood. 29th. Weaving. 30th. Went with Esq. Little to Solomon Bryant's. 31st. Went to Christopher Bryant's for my hogs.
February 1st, 2d, 3d. Weaving. Very rainy, with thunder. 4th. Weaving. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Mr. Pollard spent the day here. 7th. Tapped some maple trees. 8th. Sundry jobs. 9th. Weaving. 10th. Went to mill. 11th, 12th. Junking. 13th. Very rainy. 14th. To work on barn. 15th. To work on hog pen. 16th. Junking. 17th. Went to Mr. Pollard's, and he was moving his family to the other part of the town. 18th, 19th. Junking. 20th. Went to Mr. Hutchinson's, expecting there was a meeting, and there was not any. 21st, 22d. Junking. 23d. Settled with Merrill Chase, and passed receipts in full of all accounts. 24th. Chopping. 25th. Went to mill. 26th. Went to Jacob Whitman's, and got a bushel of rye due for reaping. 27th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's, and heard Mr. Whitman. 28th. To work in barn.
March 1. Making bedstead. 2d. Finished the same. 3d. Mending up hog yard. 4th. Went to mill and bought 12 bushel of salt for 34 bushel of corn. 5th. Cutting wood. 6th. Went to meeting at Mr. Fuller's, and heard Mr. Whitman. 7th. Went to mill. 8th. Went to mill with Mr. Bryant. 9th. Carried my hides to Mr. Bryant's. 10th. Making sap troughs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. Cutting wood. 13th. Went to Bryant's. 15th. Went to New Gloucester. 16th. Went to Lewiston. 17th. Went to Pejepscutt. 18th. Returned to Minot. 19th. Returned home. 20th.
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Went to S. Bryant's to meeeting. 21st. Tapping maple trees. 22d. Help- ing C. Bryant hunt for his cattle. 23d. Went to Caleb Fuller's for my barrel. 25th. Drove my cow to Levi Berry's. 26th. Snow storm. 27th. Sunday. 28th. Went to Abraham Walton's, and bought ten bushels of corn, and carried one bushel to mill. 29th. Junking-rainy. 30th. Began to boil sap for sugar. 31st. Junking; caught 100 gallons of sap from 50 trees.
April 1st. Junking. 2d. Ditto. 3d. Sunday. 4th. Junking. 5th. Fin- ished junking. 6th. Began lopping my fell trees. 7th. Very rainy. 8th. Snow storm. 9th. Picked over my potatoes. 10th. Sunday. 11th. Went to Abraham Walton's and gave him my note of hand, seven dollars and fifty cents, to be paid the first of March next. Took one bushel of corn and went to mill. 12th. Lopping limbs. 13th, 14th. Ditto. 15th. Snow storm. 16th. Snow storm increases, the snow falls very fast, with the wind at N. E. 17th. Storm continues-the snow has fallen about one foot deep, which is the greatest quantity of snow we have at any one time the winter past. 18th. Fair weather. 19th. A great run of sap. 21st. Lopping limbs. 24th. Sunday. 25th. Brought my cow from Levi Berry's. 26th. Fenced a garden. 27th. Piling. 30th. Went to mill; got a bushel of corn at Walton's.
May 1. Went to meeting at Samuel Bryant's and heard Mr. Whitman. 2d. To work for Solomon Bryant. 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th. Ditto. 8th. Went to meeting at William Swan's, and heard Mr. Whitman. There fell about 10 inches of snow this day. 9th. Getting out my seed corn. 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th. Piling. 15th. Meeting at our house. 16th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 17th. To work for Samuel Bryant on Solomon Bryant's account. 18th. Burned my fell trees, and had a pretty good burn. 19th. Sowed my hay seed. 20th. Went to Nason's and got half a bushel of seed corn. 21st. Had Solomon Bryant's horse and went to Abraham Walton's and got two bushels of corn, and went to mill. 22d. Sunday. 24th. Burned the old ground. 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th. Junking the new ground. 29th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Becklar read. 30th. Finished piling my new ground.
June 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th. Planting. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and read a discourse of Bunyan's works. 6th. Mr. Ricker, of Somersworth, came here. 7th. Spent the day with Mr. Ricker looking of land. 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th. Planting. 12th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard Mr. Beck- lar read. 13th. Finished planting corn. 14th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 15th. Planting potatoes. 16th. Went to Abraham Walton's, and took one bushel of corn and went to mill. 17th. Finished planting potatoes. 18tb. Planting. 19th. Went to C. Bryant's. 20th. Fencing. 21st. Ditto. 22d. Falling trees. 23d. Ditto. 24th. Christopher Bryant to work here. 25th. Falling trees. 26th. Sunday. 27th. Falling trees. 28th. Solomon Bryant to work here. 29th. Went to Mr. Becklar's falling frolick. 30th. Went to a lecture at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Tripp.
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July 1st. Falling trees. 2d. Finished falling trees. 3d. Spent the day hunting for my cow. 4th. Went to Abraham Walton's, and took 2 bushels of corn and went to mill. 5th. Went to Minot. 6th. Went to New Gloucester. My wife got to bed with a daughter. 7th. Returned home with my sister Sally, and had Mr. Bryant's horse home. 9th. Began weed- ing corn. 10th. Sunday. 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th. Weeding corn. 15th. Hoeing grass seed. 16th. Ditto. 18th. Weeding corn. 19th. Sticking beans. 20th. Weeding potatoes. 21st. Went to Minot with Sally Chase. 22d. Got Mr. Bryant's horse shod. 28th, 29th, 30th, Hedging for my cow. 31st. Sunday.
August Ist. Had Mr. Bryant's horse, went to Abraham Walton's and got 2 bushels of corn and went to mill. 2d. Peeling bark for crib. 3d. Peeled bark and covered my hovel. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Tripp. 5th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 6th. Ditto. 7th. Sunday. 8th. Lopping limbs. 9th. To work for Solomon Bryant 12 the day. 10th. Lopping limbs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. To work for Solo- mon Bryant. 13th. Ditto. 14th. Mr. Thurlow and wife here. 15th. Lopping limbs. 16th. My wife and children went to Thurlo's. 17th. Lop- ping limbs. 18th, 19th, 20th. Ditto. 21st. Sunday. 22d, 23d. Finished lopping limbs. 24th. Began to fall trees to lay over. 25th, 26th. Ditto. 27th. Burned my fell trees ; got a good burn. 28th. Had seven men here stopping fire among my corn. 29th. Watching fires. 30th. Ditto. 31st. Fencing.
September 1st. Fencing. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 5th. Falling trees. 6th. Hunting my cow. 7th. Worked for Christopher Bryant. Esq. Little and Capt. Tyler came here. 8th. Capt. Tyler went home. Went to Mr. Bryant's expecting a meeting, but the preacher did not come. 9th. To work for Mr. C. Bryant, 10th. Ditto. 11th. Sunday. 12th. Falling trees. 13th, 14th. Ditto. 15th. Began cutting stalks. 16th, 17th. Ditto. 18th. Sunday. 19th. First frost. Cutting stalks. 20th. Ditto. 21st. Beat out my flax seed and had my flax out rotting. 22d. Cutting stalks. 23d, 24th. Ditto. 25th. Sunday. 26th. Went to mill and carried new corn. 27th. Went to Paris and got 5 gallons of rum, for the men to work on the road in No. 3. 28th. Went to the Bryant's. 29th. Cut up my corn where I did not cut the stalks. 30th. Falling trees.
October 1st. Shucking up my corn. 2d. Sunday. 3d. Went to mill. 4th, 5th. To work on the road. 6th. Went to the raising, of Seth Benson's barn, 7th. Went to Solomon Bryant's, and agreed with him to come Monday and haul my crib posts. 8th. To work on the road. 9th. Sunday. 10th. Hauling crib posts. 11th. Making crib. 12th. Ditto. 13th. Began digging potatoes and gathering corn. 14th. Ditto. 15th. Went to mill. 16th. Sunday. 17th. Digging potatoes. 18th. Gathering corn. 19th. Snow. 20th. Digging potatoes and gathering corn. 21st. Ditto. 22d.
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Finished digging potatoes-had ninety bushels. 23d. Sunday. 24th. Went to mill. 25th. Gathering corn. 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Rainy. 30th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's, and heard Mr. Whitman, 31st. Went to meeting with Mr. Bryant's horse, and went to Mr. Swan's raising.
November 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th. Gathering corn. 6th. Sunday. 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th. Finished gathering corn ; had 190 bushels. 12th. Prepared to put my cow up. 13th. Went to meeting at Mr. Cole's and heard Mr. Whitman. 14th. Had Mr. Bryant to haul logs for fence. 15th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 16th. To work for Mr. True. 17th. Severe snow storm. 18th. Went to mill. 19th. Very cold. 20th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 21st. Threshing my wheat. 22d. Cleansed my wheat. 23d. Went to mill with Mr. Bryant's horse. 24th. To work in my hovel. 25th. To work for Mr. True. 26th. Went to Minot. 27th. Went to Esq. Little's. 28th. Returned home. 29th. Swapped my steer for a heifer, with Merrill Chase. 30th. Worked for Solomon Bryant.
December 1st. Thanksgiving Day. 2d. Cold. 3d. Very cold. 4th. Sunday. 5th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 6th. Preparing for putting up fence between myself and Merrill Chase. 7th. Had Mr. Fuller to help lay up fence. 8th. Had Mr. True, and finished laying up fence betwixt myself and Merrill Chase. Begun stacking fodder. 9th. Rainy. 10th. Went to husking for Samuel Bryant. 12th. Rainy. 13th. Ditto. 14th. Stacking fodder. 15th. Ditto. 16th. Finished ditto. 17th. Went to a plantation meeting, and was appointed a delegate to go to Paris on Wednes- day next. 18th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's, and heard Mr. Whitman, who came home with me and spent the night. 19th. Fencing stack-yard. 20th. Set up the loom. 21st. Went to the convention at Paris. 22d. Re- turned home. 23d. Weaving. 24th. Went to mill with Mr. Bryant's horse. 25th. Sunday. 26th. Weaving. 27th. Ditto. 28th. Went to Mr. Nason's. 29th. My hogs ran away to the County road. 30th. Preparing to weave a piece for Mr. Bryant. 31st. Had Frank Becklar and 1 pair oxen hauling wood.
1804.
January 1. Kept Mr. Becklar's oxen. 2d. Hauling wood with Frank Becklar and oxen. 3d. Ditto. 4th. Weaving. 5th. Killed the old sow. 6th. Weaving. 7th. 'Went to Mr. Nason's. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 9th. Pounding out corn. 10th. Ditto. Went to Mr. Bryant's and got his horses to carry corn to the County road. 12th. Ditto. 13th. Went to Paris, carried 1112 bushels of corn to Mr. Woodbury, and returned to Mr. Bryant's. 14th. Returned home. 15th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 16th. Cutting wood for Mr. Bryant. 17th. Pounding out corn. 18th. Severe storm. 19th. Helped Mr. True in from Mr. Thurlo's. 20th. Went to mill. 21st. Severe cold. 22d. Sunday. 23d. Killed my hogs. 24th. Went to Mr.
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Bryant's. 25th. Pounding out corn. 26th. Ditto. 27th. Carrying corn to Mr. Bryant's. Esq. Little and John Carr here. 28th. Went to Paris with corn, and .29th. Sunday. 30th. To work at home. 31st. Went to mill.
February 1st. Went to Paris and bought a horse. 2d. Returned home. 3d. Returned my horse to the man I had him of. 4th. Returned home. 5th. Carried Sally Becklar home. 6th. Got out 412 bushels of corn for Esq. Little. 7th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 8th. Got out some corn for John True. 9th, 10th, 11th. Weaving. 12th. Sunday. 13th. Weav- ing. 14th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 15th. Went to mill. 16th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 17th. Went before Daniel Stowell, Esq., to give evidence in a case between Luther Whitman, plaintiff, and David Becklar, defendant. 18th. Took a pair of steers coming in three years of age, to keep them for their work, until three years from next June, then to be de- livered to John Robinson. 19th. Sunday. 20th. Yoked my steers. 21st, 22d. Ditto. 23d. Went to Abraham Walton's and promised him 12 bushels of corn at 3s. per bushel-took the money and went to Paris and settled with Mr. Woodbury and Mr. Hooper, and left the money which I owed Dr. Croswell with Mr. Woodbury, and took his receipt for the same. 24th. Severe storm. 25th. Very cold and windy. 26th. Sunday. 27th. Continues windy. 28th. Hauling wood with my steers. 29th. Began making my sled.
March 1st. To work on sled. 2d. To work for Solomon Bryant. 3d. Stormy. 4th. Sunday. 5th. Work on sled. 6th. To work for Solomon Bryant. 7th. Preparing to go to Minot. 8th. Went to Minot. 9th. Re- turned as far as Seth Benson's, and spent the night. 10th. Returned home and went to the County road. 11th. Sunday. 12th. Went to Benjamin Bacon's. 13th. Finished my sled. 14th. Making sap troughs. 15th. Ditto. 16th. To work on a bridge in Paris. 17th. Ditto. 18th. Sunday. 19th. Went to Bacon's and Bryant's. 20th. Making sap troughs. 21st. Ditto. 22d. Went to Bryant's and Brigg's. 23d. Went to Christopher Bryant's and got a bushel of rye. 24th. Making a large trough for sap. 25th. Sunday. 26th. Tapping trees. 27th. Began boiling sap. 28th. Delivered John Starbird 9 bushels of corn for Mr. Abraham Walton. 29th. Went to mill. 30th. Boiling sap. 31st. Very stormy.
April 1st. Very cold. 2d. Went to Mr. Bacon's to have a pair of shoes mended. 4th. Went to Nason's for Max seed. 5th. Fast Day. 6th. Making sugar. 7th. Snow storm. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Whitman. 9th. Went to mill. 10th. Ground my new axe. 11th. Begun to junk my timber. 12th. Good weather for sugaring. 13th. Ditto. 14th. Went with Solomon Bryant to look land. 15th. Went to meeting at Samuel Bryant's and heard Mr. Whitman. 16th. Went to Paris for grass seed ; gave my note to Capt. Rawson for five dollars and forty-five cents, to be paid in the month of March next. 17th. Junking and piling.
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18th, 19th, 20th. Ditto. 21st. Went to mill. 22d. Rainstorm, which is the first rain of any consequence since the middle of December last. 23d. Storm continues. Went to Luther Whitman's and got 1 bushel of rye. 24th. Ditto. 25th. Sowing rye. 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Sunday. 30th. Went mill.
May Ist. Sowing rye. 2d. Ditto. 3d. Sowing wheat. 4th. Ditto. 5th. Junking. 6th. Sunday. 7th. Sowing flax. 8th. Went to a planta- tion meeting and was appointed a delegate to meet in convention at Paris. 9th. Built my cow yard. 10th. Piling. 11th. Junking. 12th. Ditto. 13th. Sunday. 14th. Piling. 15th. Went to Paris to represent the plantation of Stover in convention. 16th. Returned home. 17th, 18th. Piling. 19th. Set fire to the piles in my old ground. 20th. Sunday. 21st. Came on rainy. 22d. Piling. 23d, 24th, 25th. Ditto. 26th. Finished piling and went to mill. 27th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Chase. 28th. To work for Luther Whitman. 29th. Ditto. 30th. Burning piles. 31st. Planting.
June 1st. Planting. 2d. Ditto. Had Consider Fuller and Frank Becklar at planting. 3d. Sunday. 4th. Planting. 5th. Ditto. 6th. Finished planting corn and went to mill. 7th. Fencing. 8th. Ditto. 9th. To work for Mr. True. 10th. Sunday. 11th. Carried Mr. Whitman's potatoes to Solomon Bryant's, and went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Hooper. 12th. Falling a hedge fence. 13th. Planting potatoes. 14th. Went to Minot. 15th. Returned home. 16th. Went to mill. 19th. Falling trees for Esq. Little on Mr. Ricker's lot. 20th. Ditto. 21st, 22d, 23d. Ditto. 24th. Sunday. 25th. Falling trees for Esq. Little on Mr. Ricker's lot. 26th. Ditto. 27th. Rainy. 28th. Falling trees. 29th. Finished falling trees on Mr. Ricker's lot. 30th. Weeding corn.
July 1st. Sunday. 2d. Went to Paris and agreed with Mr. Lurvey to keep my steers and heifer. 3d. Drove my steers and heifer to Mr. Lurvey's. 4th. To work for Asa Hutchinson. 5th. Weeding corn. 6th, 7th. Ditto. 8th. Went to meeting at Mr. Tripp's and heard Elder Tripp. . 9th. Weed- ing corn. 10th, 11th. Ditto. 12th. Went to mill. 13th. Falling trees. 14th. Ditto. 15th. Sunday. 16th. Went to the raising of Abner Benson's barn. 17th. Went to Norway and got 10 pounds of wool carded. 18th. Cut some grass. 19th. Ditto. 20th. Rainy. 21st. Went to mill. 22d. Went to Christopher Bryant's. 23d. Got in some hay. 24th. Making hay at Mr. Benson's. 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th. Ditto. 29th. Returned home. 30th. Weeding corn. 31st. Went to mill.
August 1st. Cut a little rye and pulled some flax. 2d. Getting in some hay. 3d. Weeding corn. 4th. Ditto. 5th. Sunday. 6th. Peeling bark. 7th, 8th. Ditto. 9th. Pulling flax. 10th. Went to mill. 11th. Same. 12th. Went to Mr. Bryant's, expecting a meeting. 13th. Pulling flax. 14th. Reaping rye. 15th. Carried some new rye to mill. 16th, 17th, 18th. Ditto. 19th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard Deacon Berry. 20th.
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Cutting rye. 21st. Ditto. 22d. Went to Mr. Bacon's to have some shoes mended. 23d. Cutting rye. 24th. Ditto. 25th. Threshing rye. 26th. Went to meeting at Paris, and heard Mr. Hooper. 28th, 29th, 30th. Reap- ing wheat. 31st. Mr. Ricker here.
September 1st. Went to Paris. 2d. Went to Mr. Bryant's. 3d, 4th, 5th. Fencing. 6th. Spreading out my flax. 7th. Ditto. 8th. Burned Mr. Ricker's felled trees. 9th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Chase. . He and Mr. Whitman came here after meeting. 10th. My wife set away for New Gloucester. 11th. Very rainy. 12th. Abigail Bryant came here. 13th. Lucy Swan went home after sleeping three days. 14th. Cut- ting stalks. 15th. Ditto. 16th. Sunday. 17th. My wife came home. 18th. Rainy. Brought my steers and heifer from Mr. Lurvey's ; had some new corn ground. 20th. Stocking up my apple trees. 21st. Cutting stocks. 22d. Ditto. 23d. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th. Ditto. 30th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's.
October 1st. Cutting corn. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Drove my cow to Rumford. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Cutting up corn. 7th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 8th. Set a gun for a bear; he fired the gun the same night, and got wounded and made off. 9th. Snow storm and a severe wind. 10th. Storm continues. 11th. Began gathering corn and digging potatoes. 12th. Ditto. 13th. Digging potatoes. 14th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard Deacon Berry. 16th. Setting up corn. 17th. Went to a lecture at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Low. Went to mill, and to a husking at Curtises. 18th. Digging potatoes. 19th, 20th. Ditto. 21st. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Tripp, and to a conference meeting at William Swan, Jr.'s. 22d. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's, and was baptized, together with three others. 23d, 24th, 25th. Digging potatoes. 26th. Finished digging potatoes. 27th. Went to mill. 28th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's and heard Mr. Ricker. 29th, 30th, 31st. Harvesting corn.
November 1st. Ditto. 2d, 3d. Ditto. 4th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard Mr. Drake. 5th. Went to mill. 6th. Went to a funeral at Christopher Bryant's. 7th. Went with Mr. Ricker and Mr. Wentworth to look land. 8th. Harvesting corn. 9th. Ditto. 11th. Snow storm. Went to Mr. Swan's to meeting, and heard Elder Low. 12th. Harvesting corn. 13th. Went to mill. 14th. Husking corn. 15th. Severe snow storni. 16th, 17th. Splitting rails. 18th. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's. 19th. Hauling rails. 20th. Stacking fodder. 21st. Ditto. 22d. Fencing stack yard. 23d. Finished husking corn. 24th. Finished fencing my fodder. 25th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Elder Woodward. 26th. Went to Minot, and carried Clarissa. 27th. Returned home. 28th. Went to mill. 29th. Thanksgiving day. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 30th. Banked up my cellar.
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December 1st. Hauling wood; Mr. Ricker came here. 2d. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Mr. Ricker. 3d. Mr. Ricker preached here. 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th. To work on the road. 9th. Went to meeting at Luther Whitman's. 10th. Sundry jobs. 11th. Ditto. 12th. Went to Benjamin Bacon's to get shoes mended. 13th, 14th, 15th. Sundry jobs. 16th. Went to meeting at Mr. Swan's and heard Deacon Willis, and to a conference meeting at William Swan's. 17th. Sundry jobs. 18th. Mr. Whitman and others here. 19th. My wife went to Mr. True's. 20th, 21st, 22d. Sundry jobs. 23d. Went to meeting at Mr. Whitman's and heard Deacon Willis. 25th. Threshing. 26th. Went to mill and to Paris. 27th. Very rainy. 28th. My wife got to bed with a daughter. 29th. Elder Chase called here. 30th. Stayed from meeting on account of my wife being sick. 31st. Hauling wood; broke the road to Mr. True's.
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