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January, Sunday 16
January, Thursday 20
Pleasent [sic] and moderate for the
season Wind in the east and
blowed hard the most of the day
did not go any where [sic] to day [sic] to
church
It rained hard to night while we
were doing the chores and the wind
blowes [sic] harder than it did in the day
time Finished a letter to Truman
Cloudy and looks like a storm
butchered this fore noon
Mary McCanns came down to help
Samantha in the afternoon drew
up some wood and cut up one
hog in the evening and loaded
the pork to take to market
January, Friday 21
January, Monday 17
Rained most all night warm this
morning the wind in the west
and blowing hard and freeseing [sic]
went down in the wood to chop
but the wind blew so hard that
I came to the house I went to shell
-ing corn I shelled three basket [sic]
it is very cold to and the wind is high
January, Tuesday 18
Very cold this morning but ple
asent [sic] wind west did not do
much but the chores and chop
-ed [sic] the wood for night I had
a lame arm done by shelling
corn finished shelling a bas
-ket of corn that I commenced
last night and did not finis
-hed on acount [sic] of my arm
January, Wednesday 19
Pleasent [sic] wind in the west choped
[sic] a load of wood and drew it
up and done the chores and
went up to Mr McCanns and
Mr Toxens to see if they would
help me to butcher to morrow
we staied [stayed] a while in the
evening
[Notes added by transcriber]
Pleasent [sic] started for [Geass?] Lake
with the pork did not get there
till afternoon Sold to George Lasel
for 10.80 a hundred the 4 hogs
1029 lbs one beef hide for 14 cts [cents]
and it weight 52 lbs. went
from there to Chelsea and
staid [stayed] all night at Mr
Davidson left my team at the
hotel