The Diary of James M. Sherburne

1859

James M. Sherburne lived on Sherburne Hill Road in Epsom. The house and land was originally Moses property, and passed through marriage into the Sherburne line. The diary is primarily what the weather is, day book information (that is items bought, sold and bartered), visitors to the house and who went to church on Sunday. Much of the daybook information is hard to understand, but the use of dr and cr for credit and debtor are used. There are some marriages and deaths included. During this time, there was no 'Gossville' or store, and the view from the hill would have been sparse compared to just a few years later. He mentions some of those who preached on Sunday, and refers to the Free Will Baptist Church as 'Willey' or 'Willer'. Anything in ( ) is not from the diary. Some items that could not be read were left out or a ___ added in its place. Most of the odd spellings were retained.

James M. Sherburn
Epsom 1859

Jan. Saturday 1
Fair & pleasant
Rode in evening
J.S. Cate came
D. Brown came

Sunday 2
Fair & cold
Lewis & Edwin to meeting

Monday 8
Fair & cold
Chorring in house
John C. Burnham Cr by cash 8.00

Jan. Tuesday 4
Cloudy & snow 2 ft
Settled with J. B. Cass
Due him & posted 9.54

Wednesday 5
Fair & pleasant
Breaking roads
S.D. Cass & D. Burrell

Thursday 6
Cloudy & cold
Dr George P. Haines 6
2 doz buttons 6
1 Almocouk (?)

Jan. Friday 7
Cloudy & rain & misty
1 ½ bush corn

Saturday 8
Fair & cold

Sunday 9
Fair & Cold
To meeting Lewis & Elizabeth
Willey

Jan. Monday 10
Snowy & Cold
Settled with James M. Clark Jr.
Due 1 cord hard wood 300
Horris Bickford came (Horace)

Tuesday 11
Cold & Cloudy & snow
Willy's Donation
Lewis & Edwin & Elizabeth went

Wednesday 12
Cloudy & snow
Jonathan Marden
Dr ½ cord wood
Cr by cash 150
David Brown came
2 meals

Jan. Thursday 13
Cloudy & cold
The Locks here painting 8 ½ hours
Boy & Elizabeth over J.S. Cates

Friday 14
Cloudy & snow
Cr Charles Gordon
By cash
To mill 4 bush Wheat
1 ½ corn

Saturday 15
Cloudy & rain & snow
Heifer cr 377 hides 66 lb.

Jan. Sunday 16
Fair & cold
Lewis & Edwin & Elizabeth to meeting

Monday 17
Cloudy & snow
2 hides 109 lb 7 ½
1 pair boots 450
½ linen (and other items)

Tuesday 18
Fair & pleasant
(gives Monday evenings company including S.A. Locke)

Jan. Wednesday 19
Fair & pleasant
Charles B. & Thomas A.L. & S.A. Locke & James Chesley & wife came in evening
James M. Clark Dr to one dollar return at 100

Thursday 20
Fair & pleasant
J.M. N
Down Shaker meeting

Friday 21
Cloudy & foggy, rain
Out to mill
Finish shingles
_ B. came

Jan. Saturday 22
Fair and warm
Bundling up shingles for David Sherburn

Sunday 23
Fair & cold
To Meeting Willey
Edwin & Elizabeth
Lewis to Webbers

Monday 24
Cold and four Concord
J.M. Blake dr 1 ½ 318
1 gosllin 55 3 doz eggs 72
(and other items)

Jan. Tuesday 25
Fair & pleasant
Pins, cotton, lemons, 1 pair gloves (and other items)
Jonathan Marden dr 2 cords wood $6.00
Cr by cash $3.00

Wednesday 26
Fair & pleasant
Lewis & Edwin & Elizabeth went up Mr. Cass
And back to mother Sherburns

Thursday 27
Fair & pleasant

Jan. Friday 28
Fair & cold

Saturday 29
Fair & cold

Sunday 30
Fair & cold
Mrs. Donnery Corn
David Brown, Corn

Jan. Monday 31
Fair & cold
John S. Cate & wife came Eve

Feb. Tuesday 1
Fair & comfortable
James M. Clark Jr. Cr by cash $3.00
Concord Depot burnt

Wednesday 2
Cloudy & cold
James M. Blake cr 12
Dr 4 ½ doz eggs
James M. Clark Jr Dr 1 cord wood 275

Feb. Thursday 3
Cloudy & snow
Cutting Road

Friday 4
Fair & pleasant
Cutting wood

Saturday 5
Fair & pleasant
Mis Doning & LbB
Charles Gorden Cr by cash 1.00

Feb. Sunday 6
Fair & cold
To Meeting Lewis, Edwin & Elizabeth, Loretta

Monday 7
Fair & pleasant
Joseph Marden Dr ½ cord wood 1.32
Cr by cash 1.32
In woods cutting wood

Tuesday 8
Fair & cloudy
In woods cutting

Feb. Wednesday 9
Rain

Thursday 10
Fair 7 cold
The woman here

Friday 11
Cold & fair
Richard Deck ? W. Goss __ horse sharp? Mending __
Dr by cash

Feb. Saturday 12
Fair & cold

Sunday 13
Fair & cold
To Meeting L & E Willey
Mis (Mrs.) Dearborn Batchelder died

Monday 14
Fair & cold
Down C.W.B.

Feb. Tuesday 15
Cloudy & snow
Lewis & Edwin ___ went to Concord

Wednesday 16
Fair & pleasant
Rec. cash 10
David Sherburne
2 thou ship 1 plow

Thursday 17
Fair & pleasant
David Brown

Feb. Friday 18
Cloudy & snow

Saturday 19
Fair & pleasant

Sunday 20
Cloudy & rain

Feb. Monday 21
Fair & windy
Charles Gorden Cr. By cash 2.00

Tuesday 22
Fair & windy
Charles Gorden Dr 1 cord wood
A.D. Hains Dr 1 cord wood 2.75

Wednesday 23
Fair & warm

Feb. Thursday 24
Snow & fair
Samuel W. Bickford departed this life at 5 of the clock in afternoon.

Friday 25
Fair & cold
Board stock hound
M.B. Critchett Dr 182
Tavern bought 15
Cr James M. Blake 1 1 lb. gr tea 60

Saturday 26
Cloudy & snow

Feb. Sunday 27
Fair & pleasant
To funeral of Samuel W. Bickford
Text Revel

Monday 28
Fair & cold
Over in woods chop wood

March Tuesday 1
Fair & cold
Lewis to mill
5 bush wheat
1 ½ corn
District Meeting

March Wednesday 2
Fair & cold
Lewis to mill
5 bush wheat
1 ½ corn

Thursday 3
Fair & warm
The Republicans meet at Center Schoolhouse

Friday 4
Cloudy & snow

March Saturday 5
Snow & fair
Almon Cate & Emma Cate & Lovno ? Cass came

Sunday 6
Fair & windy
To meeting Edwin & Elizabeth & Lewis
Willy

Monday 7
Fair & warm

March Tuesday 8
Rain & splashy
Town Meeting votes 3.39

Wednesday 9
Fair & pleasant
Up to mothers

Thursday 10
Fair & warm
Dr. George P. Hains cash 1.10
2 quarts oil
12 ½ __ blue paper 42

March Friday 11
Fair & pleasant

Saturday 12
Rainy & warm
Cutting out mill

Sunday 13
Fair & pleasant
Meeting
Lewis & Edwin
Elizabeth and Loretta

March Monday 14
Fair & warm
David Sherburne Dr to saw 570
Lathe 60
William Bickford Dr to saw 85

Tuesday 15
Rain & cold
Joseph J. Moses Dr

Wednesday 16
Fair & warm
James M. Clark Jr Cr to cash 2.00
Dr. to 1 cord wood

March Thursday 17
Fair & pleasant
Horris Bickford
Dr to sawing shingle

Friday 18
Cloudy & rain

Saturday 19
(no entry)

March Sunday 20
Fair & pleasant

Monday 21
Fair & cold
Charles Ames Dr to 5 thou shingle

Tuesday 22
Fair & snow
David Sherburn __

March Wednesday 23
Fair & pleasant
Sawing shingles

Thursday 24
Fair & rainy

Friday 25
Cloudy & rainy
William Goss Dr 12 thou shingle 12.00

March Saturday 26
Cloudy & squally
John Wallace Dr 97 eggs cash
A bag salt
Sugar
¼ cinnamon

Sunday 27
Pleasant
A good day to attend meeting

Monday 28
Fair & warm
Willy came
Sherman Marsh 1 day

March Tuesday 29
Cloudy & rain
Sherman Marsh 1 day on shingle

Wednesday 30
Fair & pleasant

Thursday 31
Fair & squally
William Gould & wife
Charles Ames 1 day

April Friday 1
Fair & cold
Aaron Marsh 1 day __ wood

Saturday 2
Fair and cold

Sunday 3
Cloudy & rain

April Monday 4
Fair & squally

Tuesday 5
Sherman Marsh 2 day in milk
Up to Fathers Blo..

Wednesday 6
Fair & cold

April Thursday 7
Fair & cold
To Meeting
To Mr. J.S. Cates

Friday 8
Fair & cold

Saturday 9
Fair & cold

April Sunday 10
Fair & warm

Monday 11
Cloudy & snow 6 in.
Jonathan Marden Jr Cr to cash 275
Dr 11 ft of wood 275

Tuesday 12
Fair & warm

April Wednesday 13
Fair & warm
William Goss Cr to one set shoes on 1 yoke oxen 1.75
Wm Bickford 1 day
T. Ames & W & Caroline
The frogs peep

Thursday 14
Cloudy & snow
William Goss Dr saw 247
Clapboards 1.00
Plowing for Wheat
Charles Ames on shingle

Friday 15
Cloudy & warm
Pearson Rand Dr 1 _ clapboards 120
Charles Ames Dr
___ 23 __ Clapboard $5.40

April Saturday 16
Rain & fair
William Goss Cr to cash $5.00
To repairing corn shed 33

Sunday 17
Fair & warm
To meeting

Monday 18
Fair & warm
Over to see George Goodhue

April Tuesday 19
Fair & cold
Morgans oil 1 oz 33
James M. Blake (various items)
½ lb tea paid

Wednesday 20
Cold
Bullock & Willis Dr 14 ½ doz eggs 2.17 cash

Thursday 21
Fair & pleasant
Sowing Wheat 3 bush

April Friday 22
(no entry)

Saturday 23
Cloudy & rain

Sunday 24
Fair & pleasant

April Monday 25
Perley Giles Cr by cash 6.00
John S. Cate Dr to cash for Willey 7.00

Tuesday 26
Cloudy & rain
To work in mill
John S. Cate dr sawing 2 thou shingle

Wednesday 27
Fair & pleasant
Sawing ___
John S. Cate to sawing ___

April Thursday 28
Fair & pleasant
J.S. Cate Cr 7 _ ___

Friday 29
Fair & pleasant
James M. Blake Cr to Sundry 4.00 by cash 6.68
Dr. 6 thou shingle 13.50
12 doz eggs 168
B.L. Locke wagon __

Saturday 30
Fair & warm
Plowing for corn
Horris Bickford Cr oxen & plow 1 day
B.L. Locke 1 _ ___

May Sunday 1
Fair & pleasant
To meeting
Webber, L.?,R

Monday 2
Fair & pleasant
Plowing for corn
Aunt Jane & girls went mothers

Tuesday 3
Fair & warm

May Wednesday 4
Fair & warm
Horris Bickford cr oxen 3 days
To mill Smith 1 bag __ 1 bush corn

Thursday 5
Fair & warm
Sowing 3 bus oats
Mrs. & I to mill
3 ½ bus wheat

Friday 6
Fair & warm
Fencing round pasture
Harrowing for corn

May Saturday 7
Very warm
The sheep to pasture
William Goss cr for selling shoes .33

Sunday 8
Fair & warm
Up to the Shakers to meeting

Monday 9
Cloudy & rain
Harrowing for corn

May Tuesday 10
Rain & cloudy & cold
G.P. Haines cr 117 doz eggs
Cr for pork
1 silk, 1 thread (and other items)

Wednesday 11
Cloudy & cold
Mother and Mary Ann came
Plowing for corn

Thursday 12
Cloudy & misty
Planting corn
Mother went ?
William Goss __

May Friday 13
Fair & warm
A.D. Haines Cr cash .93
Dr 10 ½ lb veal
Down B.L. Lockes in evening
Plowing for potatoes

Saturday 14
Fair & warm
John S. Cate cr pad cash 175
Dr to 7 bush potatoes 175

Sunday 15
Fair & cold
To meeting Baptist Silas Green

May Monday 16
Fair and cool
Plowing for potatoes
Aaron Lake came
Aunt Jane went up with him

Tuesday 17
Cloudy & misty
Planting potatoes

Wednesday 18
Cloudy & cool
D. Sherburne horse to Concord Lucinda Gould move over

May Thursday 19
Cloudy & fair
G.P Haines Dr cash 1.01

Friday 20
Cloudy & misty

Saturday 21
Cloudy & rainy
Drove over two yearlings J.S. Cates
Ruh Locke died 12 __

May Sunday 22
Cloudy & rain
Meeting
Lewis & Edwin, Elizabeth

Monday 23
Fair and warm
On the road myself & Lewis & Ed
4 oxen & took 10 hours each

May Wednesday 25
Fair & warm
To Meeting New Rye
Mother and Mary home

Thursday 26
Fair & warm
William Goss barn was burnt

Friday 27
Fair & warm
Planting beans
_ 11 pigs

May Saturday 28
Fair & warm
Ferrin Dr ½ lb cider paid by cash 1.00

Sunday 29
Fair & pleasant

Monday 30
Fair & cold
A.G. Estabrook Cr by cash of Morrill Bickford 2.00
M. Bickford Dr 7_

May Tuesday 31
Fair & cool
Went to Pittsfield
1 loin & rib 100
1 y print 140

June Wednesday 1
Cloudy & rain

Thursday 2
Cloudy
J.M. Blake Dr 12 _ butter
Cr 1 lb tea
½ " pepper 2 lb. sugar

June Friday 3
Cloudy & showery
William Goss 1 day

Saturday 4
Cloudy & rain
J.J. Moses & J.S. Cate
__

Sunday 5
Rain & cold __
Four to meeting
Charles & E came

June Monday 6
Fair & cold, frost and held corn
Wash the sheep
Isaac Towle & wife came

Tuesday 7
Fair & warm
William Goss 2/3 day
Alphonse Burnham & wife & daughter came

Wednesday 8
Cloudy & rain
Shearing sheep
Doctor Peabody 1 __
Mother Bickford ___

June Thursday 9
Cold & fair
Hoeing corn

Friday 10
Cold & showery
Wm Goss ½ day on __
J.J. Moses Cr

Saturday 11
Cold & fair
J.M. Blake 5.63
Munery 1 pr shoes
(other items)

June Sunday 12
Fair & warm
Martha Knowles was buried died 11
Gould & wife and Mother Sherburn

Monday 13
Fair & showery
Joseph J. Moses corn
Doctor Peabody came

Tuesday 14
Fair & warm
Dicky & mother D & move Aunt Morrison & Em & Mis Knowlton on
Aunt Locke & Sarah Came

June Wednesday 15
Fair & warm
John S. Cate & wife & Almon Eli came
S.D. Cass & Burrell
William Goss Cr by cash 250
Dr 1 bbl cider 250

Thursday 16
Fair & warm
Doiy? & company with the Grave stones for B.C.S. & E.P.S., Charles, Mary E. She & J. Moses.
(gravestones for first wife Betsey Chesley (Blake) Sherburne 1854; daughter Emeline Prescott Sherburne 1853; son Charles 1855; Mary Ester Sherburne 1853; and probably James Moses Jr.)

Friday 17
Cloudy & rainy
John Emery pigs

June Saturday 18
Fair & windy
G.P. Haines Dr 6 doz eggs
1 3 ½ lb butter
4 tin pans
Sundries

Sunday 19
Fair & windy
4 to meeting
__ & Leighton
Doct Peabody & Miss Goss & Miss Hains came

Monday 20
Fair & rain
Hoeing corn & chorring

June Tuesday 21
Cloudy & rain

Wednesday 22
Cloudy & warm
Aunt Morrison came

Thursday 23
Cloudy & fair
Aunt Morrison went home

June Friday 24
Cloudy & rain
Goerge Sanders Dr 2 pigs cash 3.00
Doctor Peabody, Chesley & wife & Aaron came

Saturday 25
Cloudy & fair
To mill 3 bush wheat, 2 bush corn
Sold 1 pig 1.50

Sunday 26
Fair & warm
To Meeting, 4 of us

June Monday 27
Fair & warm
Hoeing potatoes

Tuesday 28
Fair & warm
Mother Sherburn & Elizabeth & Abby came

Wednesday 29
Fair & very warm
Miss Chesley & John Chesley

June Thursday 30
Fair & windy
William Goss 1 day shingle on barn

July Friday 1
Fair & warm
Hoeing corn

Saturday 2
Cloudy & showery
William Goss Dr one day on barn shingling
Cr Oxen half __

July Sunday 3
Fair & showery
Downing & Charles C, T. Ames & David B, Chesley & wife came

Monday 4
Fair & windy
Dr Jonathan Marden 1 pig 1.75 cash 1.75
David Sherburn dr 1 pig
Ann Lovering (Locke) was married G. Lane

Tuesday 5
Fair & warm
Nathaniel Edmonds dr 1 bbl cider 300
Cr by cash 300
B.L. Locke Dr cash 1.75

July Wednesday 6
Fair & warm
Hoeing corn
The 2 time

Thursday 7
Fair & warm
Horris B. came
Thomas Cilley & Lidia Babb was married

Friday 8
Fair & warm
William Goss cr 1 horse? Set four ?

July Saturday 9
Fair & warm
J.M.B. dr cash 8.00 9 doz eggs 1.50
Cr 6 lb sugar, 6 lb coffee, 5 gal molasses, (and other items)

Sunday 10
Fair & warm
B.L. Locke & wife, James Chesley & wife, Aaron Lake & wife & D. Krown ? came

Monday 11
Fair & warm
Commenced haying

July Tuesday 12
Fair & warm, hot
1 load hay

Wednesday 13
Fair & showers, warm

Thursday 14
Fair & warm
1 load hay

July Friday 15
Fair & warm
3 loads hay

Saturday 16
Cloudy, Warm
1 load hay
Reuben White dr to 1 pig 2.00
David Brown came

Sunday 17
Fair & warm
To meeting

July Monday 18
Fair & warm

Tuesday 19
Fair & warm
E.H. Goodhue Dr to cash $5.89
2 loads hay

Wednesday 20
Fair & windy
2 loads hay

July Thursday 21
Fair & windy
William Ham Dr ½ lb cider 1.50
Cr by cash 1.00
2 loads hay

Friday 22
Fair & shower
Jonathan Chesley Dr 40 gallon cider 1.75 by cash 1.75
4 loads hay
Elijah Sanders cr by 1 calf skin

Saturday 23
Fair & cold
2 loads hay
Geo P. Haines dr 8 doz eggs 1.28, sundries
R. Locke cr cash 4.00

July Sunday 24
Fair & windy
To meeting

Monday 25
Cloudy & rain
Down to Horris B
Dr 3 hours haying
Capt Sanders & wife called

Tuesday 26
Foggy & showers
Horris Bickford
3 day

July Wednesday 27
Fair & cloudy
Down H Bickford
3 day haying

Thursday 28
Fair & windy, warm
1 load hay
Dr for P.C. Marden cr 1 day
William Goss cr 1 _ skin?

Friday 29
Fair & warm
3 loads hay
Clifford 6 lambs cash 184

July Saturday 30
Fair
G.P. Hains eggs, butter, wool, sugar, sheeting (and other items) 9.48

Sunday 31
Fair & warm
All to meeting except A M
T. Ames & W Bickford, Mr Downing & wife, H.B. came

August Monday 1
Fair & warm
2 loads hay

August Tuesday 2
Fair & shower
HB & JL & cr
David Brown
1 day haying

Wednesday 3
Fair & warm
HB 7 J Leo
1 day
David ½ day

Thursday 4
Fair & showers
James Blake & wife
JM Blake & wife
5 loads hay
Cr Edgerly cash $5.00

Aug Friday 5
Cloudy & warm
1 load hay

Saturday 6
Fair & cool
Cr Horris Bickford
& John Leo
David Brown
4 load hay

Sunday 7
Fair & warm
To meeting Willey
T. Ames & wife
& br C. Downing
A.L. & S. Lake came

Aug Monday 8
G.P. Haines Dr
13 ½ lbs butter
7 doz eggs
3 y flan cloth
Knife
6 lb rice
Raisins
Buttons (and other items)

Tuesday 9
Fair & warm
3 loads hay

Wednesday 10
Fair & warm
Horris Bickford
1 day haying
3 loads hay

Aug Thursday 11
Fair & warm
2 loads hay
1 load wheat

Friday 12
Fair & warm
2 loads hay
1 load wheat
Philbrick & wife came

Saturday 13
Cloudy & rain

Aug Sunday 14
G.P. Hains Dr to
13 ½ lbs butter
Cloth
Stick twist
Pen knife
6 lbs rice
Raisins
Sugar (and other items)

Monday 15
Fair & warm
Paid Smith
Henry Prescott & wife went to beach
1 load wheat

Tuesday 16
Fair & warm
1 load oats

Aug Wednesday 17
Fair & warm
1 load oats

Thursday 18
Fair & warm
Over to Allenstown for ordination
Up to father Blake

Friday 19
Fair & cloudy, rain
Lewis to mill
4 bush wheat
1 ½ bush corn

Aug Saturday 20
Fair & warm
Lewis & E & Elis to Concord
B & Willis Dr 9 doz eggs (and more)

Sunday 21
Fair & warm
To meeting
Anger

Monday 22
Fair & warm
William Goss cr
Selling 4 horses & two ox shoes

Aug Tuesday 23
Fair & warm
John Wallace Dr
Hauling some sticks .50
Down to Aunt Morrisons

Wednesday 24
Cloudy & warm
Called on Miss Knowlton

Thursday 25
Rain & cloudy

Aug Friday 26
Fair & warm
From Exeter to Hampton Beach
From there to Rye
Cash 125
50

Saturday 27
Fair & showery
From Rye to Portsmouth & home
Br cash 125
Dinner & horse 112
Bridge 5 for 10

Sunday 28
Fair & cool
To meeting
Welbee Sash Sermon
North Lights

Aug Monday 29
Fair & cold
The high schools commence
Picking rocks

Tuesday 30
Fair & warm
Picking rocks
Ann E. Bickford & E Bickford came

Wednesday 31
Fair & shower
Hauling mud
Blake Cass carding wool

Sept Thursday 1
Fair & warm
J.J. Moses 1 day 100 dr cash 100
D.S. Cass dr cr 200
John Griffin Jr dr cash 1.69
Miss Ber Sanborn (?) came

Friday 2
Fair & windy
Clifford dr 4 lambs $1200
Cr by cash $7.00
Pulled beans

Saturday 3
Fair & windy

Sept Sunday 4
Cloudy & fair
5 to meeting
Horris B & E.D. Bickford, T. Ames, W. Bickford
J. Emery came

Tuesday 6
Fair & windy
Pearson Rand 2 lambs p 375

Sept 7 Wednesday
Fair & frost
J.M. Blake dr 3 thous shingle
Cr 10 lb sugar
2 lb sugar
¼ nutmeg

Thursday 8
Fair & windy
William Goss cr
To selling 2 horse
__ __
J.S. Cate on visit
Miss W. Robinson died

Friday 9
George P. Haines
Dr 16 ¾ wool
1 chamber
1 gal molasses
4 bowls (and other items)

Sept Saturday 10
Fair & warm
Hauling stone
Horris Bickford came
Nathan Marden child buried
Fire at Concord

Sunday 11
Fair & windy
To meeting
Mr. Burton
Shower

Monday 12
Fair & warm
__ __ __
Jason Sherburn & Levi Cass child died
Miss Nathan Goss died

Sept Tuesday 13
Fair & rainy
Jon C S & H. B. came

Wednesday 14
Fair & windy
Paid J.B. Cass on bill 9.89
Dr 1 ½ bush corn
Horris Bickford came to swap con

Thursday 15
Fair & windy
Cr Charles Ames by cash $15.00
By note 29.00 from differ between cash
Shot 2 partridges

Sept Friday 16
Fair & windy
Plastering in chamber

Saturday 17
Cloudy & rainy

Sunday 18
Fair & warm
To meeting

Sept Monday 19
Fair & warm
Down H. Bickford thrashing
Plastering in the afternoon

Tuesday 20
Fair & pleasant
Chorring

Wednesday 21
Cloudy & rain
Wm Goss cr sharp & dull & __ bar
Dr cash
P.C. Marden shoes to __

Sept Thursday 22
Cloudy & rainy

Friday 23
Cloudy & rainy
Making shoes
Horris Bickford
18 ¾ lb mutton

Saturday 24
Cloudy & fair
P.C. Marden & making shoes
4 pairs

Sept Sunday 25
Fair & warm
To meeting Willey

Monday 26
Fair & warm
Cutting stalks
John Leo 1 ½ day

Tuesday 27
Fair & warm
G.D. Hains
2 ¾ butter
6 doz eggs
Yarn
Pins
Cotton (and other items)

Sept Wednesday 28
Fair & showers
John Leo 1 day

Thursday 29
Fair
Over P.C. Marden thrashing
D. Sherburn cr 5 ½ hrs thrashing
H. Bickford & John Leo
John Rand ½ day

Friday 30
Fair & warm
Chorring

Oct Saturday 1
Fair & warm
John Wallace dr 2 days
Jacob Howe departed this life

Sunday 2
(no entry)

Monday 3
Fair & windy
To funeral
Up father Blake
Oats 30 bush
Levi Brown died

Oct Thursday 4
Fair & warm
To mill 2 bush corn
3 bush wheat
Wm Goss cr 2 mend shoes on horse

Wednesday 5
Fair & warm
Cr William Goss to setting on oxen 5 new shoes
John S. Cate now making cider

Thursday 6
Fair & windy
Up James Blake after apples

Oct Friday 7
Fair & cold
To making cider for James Blake
3 bbl cider
Cr buy 3 bbl apples

Saturday 8
Rainy & cloudy
Lends went up with cider

Sunday 9
(no entry)

Oct Monday 10
Dr Henry Sanborn to making 3 bl cider
Cr by cash 75

Thursday 11
Fair & pleasant
Benj M. Towle dr 5 bbl cider .50

Wednesday 12
Fair & pleasant
Dr Daniel Bickford 2 bbl cider

Oct Thursday 13
Fair & warm
Digging potatoes

Friday 14
Fair & showers
Reuben White cr 1 day on potatoes

Saturday 15
Fair & warm
David Sherburn here to make cider 4 bbl

Oct Sunday 16
(no entry)

Monday 17
Fair & rain
Dr Wiggins to making cider
4 bl cider
Over P.C. Mardens

Tuesday 18
Rain & windy
William Bickford br ½ day
Down H. Bickford

Oct Wednesday 19
Fair & windy
Charles Prescott & wife came

Thursday 20
Fair & cold
David Sherburne 5 bbl cider
William Bickford cr 1 day
Marsh 1 gallon Mo 33
5 lb sugar ½ tea

Friday 21
Fair & cold
John Durgin 1 thousand __
Cr by cash 2.25
Cr William Bickford
½ day on corn

Oct Saturday 22
Fair & cold
Ab Locke & C Ames
Arthur Locke, Ms Bickford came
Cr Charles Ames on note $27.17
Horris Bickford ½ day

Sunday 23
Fair & pleasant
J.C. Sanders & wife

Monday 24
Fair & pleasant
Paid Willey 2.00
A Locke & C. Ames
4 bbl cider paid 4.00
Mother & Mary Ann
David came

Oct Tuesday 25
Fair & cold
James M. Blake dr 3 ½ thou shingle
Jones glass
Tobacco
Horris Bickford dr 1 day
Lewis

Wednesday 26
Fair & cold
A.D. Haines cr 4.00
Dr 1 ½ cord wood 4.50
Mother & Mary Ann Lucky down
Mo B (?)

Thursday 27
Fair & cold
Mother & Mary Ann went down B.L. Lockes
Dr Horris Bickford the oxen 2 ½ day

Oct Friday 28
Fair & cold
James M. Blake
Cr 6 gal mol
6 bush salt
Horris Bickford dr cash 7.28

Saturday 29
Fair & cold
Hauling oats
L.D. ? to Concord
William Goss Co the wagon to Concord, 3 trips

Sunday 30
Fair & cold
To meeting
Augustus Marden

Oct Monday 31
Cloudy & warm
James M. Blake dr 6 ¾ thou shingle
Cr 2.37 bb of flour
2 lb rasin
2 lb sugar (and more)

Nov Tuesday 1
Robinson cr 1 potatoes
2 pints
Dr to old iron
P.C. Marden dr bbl
Bush salt

Wednesday 2
Fair & warm
P. Giles dr __
William Goss dr 20
Cr to __ truck

Nov Thursday 3
Fair & warm
Horris Bickford cr
Oxen 2 day plowing

Friday 4
Fair & warm
William Ham dr
3 gallons vinegar 60
Cr by cash
D. Haines dr 6 thou shingle
1 gal vinegar

Saturday 5
Fair & warm
Horris Bickford
Cr oxen 1 ½ day
Plowing
Miss John Yeaton died

Nov. Sunday 6
Fair & cold
Meeting
Augustus Marden
David Marden was baptized

Monday 7
Fair & warm
Horris Bickford oxen 1 day
J.S. Cate dr 1 lamb
Miss John Yeaton was buried

Tuesday 8
Fair & warm
James M. Blake cr 1 lb tea
Butter (and more)
__Cilley __

Nov Wednesday 9
Fair & warm & cloudy & rain
Horris Bickford dr 1 ½ day oxen
1 ½ day pulling stone for wall

Thursday 10
Fair & rain pleasant
Horris Bickford dr 1 day & oxen 1 day

Friday 11
Fair & cold, windy

Nov Saturday 12
Cloudy & snow
Horace B. came
David Brown dr 1 __

Sunday 18
Cloudy & rain

Monday 14
Fair & cold
George P. Haines pd
To cash 1.16 (more)

Nov Tuesday 15
Fair & windy

Wednesday 16
Fair & warm
David Sherburn dr beef
J.C. Moses cr
J.S. Cate dr 50 lb beef

Thursday 17
Cloudy & fair
P.C. Marden dr 31 lb beef
Horace Bickford dr 18 lb beef

Nov. Friday 18
Fair & warm & cloudy
George Marden dr ½ bush apples
Cr bf cash 20
John Wallace dr 2 days hauling rocks

Saturday 19
Cloudy & rain
Mrs Gould came

Sunday 20
Fair & cold
To meeting

Nov Monday 21
Fair & cold
Horace Bickford dr 1 goose
Churchill br
Sheeting, bleach, 3 yd wool, 3 skeins silk

Tuesday 22
Cloudy & snow
Bullock & Pillis 1 ½ yar Lasting 9$
Churchill dr 24 lb butter (and more)
Cr W Goss sh hors 3$

Wednesday 23
Cloudy & snow
James M. Blake dr
Geese 53 lb, eggs, cloves, coffee
(and other items)

Nov Thursday 24
Fair & cool
Thanksgiving Day
Went to Mother

Friday 25
Fair & cool
Wiliam Cilley & wife came
John S. Cate sheep to Horace Leonard
DC B & HB & EB barns

Saturday 28
Snow & rain & fair
Bolting for __

Nov Sunday 27
Fair & warm
To meeting in slay

Monday 28
Fair & pleasant
Hauling to mill

Tuesday 29
Fair & cold
Up to mothers & J.L. Cass
Morse dr 4_

Nov Wednesday 30
Fair & cold
Mill 1 ½ corn
2 bush ears
Smith down Mother Bickford

Dec Thursday 1
Fair & cool

Friday 2
Fair & warm

Dec Saturday 3
Fair & warm

Sunday 4
Snow & rain

Monday 5
Cloudy & warm

Dec Tuesday 6
Cloudy & misty
Morse & __ dr cash 29
1 paper __
2 sticks rope (and more)

Wednesday 7
Cloudy & warm
Horace Leonard came

Thursday 8
Cloudy & snow
Moses Perkins came
Charles Bickford came

Dec. Friday 9
Fair & cold
Down mother Bickford to work in mill

Saturday 10
Fair & cold
J.S. Cass & wife, David Sherburn & wife, Will G Gould & wife,
Mary Ann came

Sunday 11
Fair & cold
Meeting
Eld Knowles

Dec. Monday 12
Fair & cold
Over in woods

Tuesday 13
Fair & cold
Over in woods

Wednesday 14
Fair & cold
Over in woods

Dec. Thursday 15
Cold & cloudy & snow
William Goss b 4 oxen shoe 219
Over P.C. Marden

Friday 16
Fair & cold

Saturday 17
Fair & cold

Sunday 18
Snowing

Monday 19
Fair & pleasant
Over in woods

Tuesday 20
Cloudy & snowing
Over in woods
Horace Bickford
Dr Lewis & oxen a day

Dec Wednesday 21
Fair & cool
Will Gould 4 bush oats settled cr by cash 100
E____ b cash 175 dr 2 pelts 175

Thursday 22
Fair & cool
James M. Blake dr 19 lb chickens 209
6 qt molasses 270
1 gos matches 22
2 brooms 44
10 ¾ sugar

Friday 23
Fair
(Cont from above)
9 lb sugar
1 lb tea
2 qts oil
1 lb raisin
(and more)

Dec Saturday 24
Fair & cool
(cont from above)
1 onions
6 lb fish
(and more)

Sunday 25
Fair & cold
Lew & Edwin to meeting
T Ames & William Bickford, Charles Bickford came

Monday 26
Cloudy & snowing
Up to father Blakes

Dec Tuesday 27
Fair & cold
Chorring

Wednesday 28
Fair & colder
Lewis Prescott & wife
Edward Langmade & wife
Came 7 to Blakes

Thursday 29
Fair & colder
John Emery here killed two hogs & pig & cow

Dec Friday 30
Snow & cloudy
The children went up to mothers

Saturday 31
Fair & cold W
Elijah Sanders dr to hids $8.72
Cr by cash 8.72