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April, Friday 22
April, Tuesday 26
Pleasent [sic] and warm Went to [illegible]
Plaster and sowed till supper
and Alpha went to plowing
for oats and towards night
he could not make the horses
work so I had to work them
after supper
Pleasent [sic] built some fence and
finished plowing the oat ground
Wrote two letters to the boys
in Missouri Went to Dansville
in the afternoon to Martha home
got the horses shod Samantha went
up to Johns and Harriet came home
with us Mother Hopkins was here
when we came home
April, Saturday 23
Plesent [sic] finished sowing plaster
in the morning and then drew
some rails for the fence in
front of the house land laid
some of the fence in the after
noon went to quarterly meeting
in the afternoon Staid [stayed] at
Mr Burrells over night
April, Sunday 24
Pleasent [sic] and warm went to meet
-ing did not get there till after
meeting had comenced [sic] They took up
a contribution after sermon [illegible]
[illegible] to elven [eleven] dollars and twenty
two cts [cents] Came home after dinner
and Harriet started to came [sic]
with us and stoped [sic] at home
to make soap the next day
April, Monday 25
Warm and pleasent [sic] Went to
work on the road to fix the
bridge across Johns ditch
in the forenoon And when we
came home found one of the heifers
in the mud in the afternoon drew
some fence posts and some lumber
and set a few post for lane fence
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April, Wednesday 27
Pleasent [sic] commenced to sow oats
in the forenoon The boys took
out a hole of potatoes and in the
afternoon I went and took Saman
-tha down to Mr Bachelors came
home and drew the potatoes to the
barn and the boys unloaded
and then drew some rails down
to the road and then sowed more
oats after supper went after Samantha