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November, Tuesday 1
November, Saturday 5
Plesent [sic] finished sorting apples
to busy to day and have [91?]
bushels buried and eleven
barrels filled and twenty bushels down
cellar picked up twenty two
bushels of sweet apples for
cider to go to the cider mill
tomorrow
Cool and pleasent [sic] after the rain
Andrew went over to Fitchburgh to
take Mother Hopkins and Samantha
went with them Alpha and I cleaned
up the buckwheat while they were
and had four bushels and when
they came back the boys and I husked
a load of corn in the afternoon and
Samantha and I went up to Johns in
the evening after the mail
November, Wednesday 2
Warm and pleasent [sic] started early
for the cider mill they was not
ready to go to grinding when I
got there but soon went at it
They run mine through and
press it out and then Alpha
went up to Hirams after some
flour I had nine gallons over
two barrels came home and went to
boiling down had a thunder shower this
[written sideways in margin]: evening
November, Thursday 3
Rainy in the morning The boys
went to Leslie to take Elvira
home I went to boiling cider
Brother Warner and his wife came
down here a visiting and Mrs Poxson
came in the afternoon The boys
brought a set of chairs with them
which [Jamie?] let me have for some [illegible]
[illegible] that I let him have
November, Friday 4
Pleasent [sic] in the morning went to
work at the buckwheat drew up
a load in the forenoon begins to
look like rain after dinner went
to thrasing [sic] buckwheat got it done
and was going over to Fitchburgh
to take Mother Hopkins over there
and make a visit to Mr Parkers but it
rained
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