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April, Saturday 16
April, Wednesday 20
Cloudy and looks like a storm Mr
Mckender came this morning to
tag my sheep Commenced to plow
for oats in the forenoon Traded
horses with Mike Grimes got 5
dollars to boot it commenced
to rain before noon and snowed
the most of the afternoon
Rainey [sic] yet and keeps it up
every little while throug [sic] the
day Split a few rails before
dinner and afternoon wash
some wool and then went down
into the field and splite [sic]
sixty nine short rails and
brought up the sheep and lambs
April, Sunday17
April, Thursday 21
Cloudy and the ground is white
with snow the most of it went
off before noon Got ready to go
to meeting and Mr Cranes folks
came here so I did not go The
boys went over to the Catholic
Church in the forenoon and And
rew went to the school house in the afternoon
to meeting
Cloudy and looks some like rain
Went to Dansville Samantha went
with me Martha went home to see
to her things I went to Mason
and got a half tun [ton] of plaster
for 4, 25 cts [cents] per ½ tun [ton]
Samantha came down to Fathers with
John and then I went down there
after her and we came home in the
evening
April, Monday 18
Wind north and looks like rain went
to plowing this forenoon in the
afternoon it rained some not very
hard plowed some in the afternoon
but had to stop on account of the
rain Talk of going to Mason to
morrow [sic] after some plaster and
Samantha is going to Dansville to take
her carpet to the weavers and Martha
is going home to see to her things
April, Tuesday 19
Rained all night and some in the
morning in the middle of the day
looked like clearing off Turned
my sheep out to day [sic] Went over
to Squares in the afternoon
a visiting Went over to Fitch
burgh from there to get some
shugar [sugar] we stayed there till after
supper
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